How Jerma became the shuffler

[@noelic6744]

As someone who actually didn't recognize Jerma's voice and didn't look at twitch chat I was genuinely surprised when Jerma came out.

[@cabbeille]

as soon as he spoke i immediately was like, how did doug get jerma’s permission to use his voice for an ai?

[@zjjohnson3827]

I got spoiled for it because I didn’t watch it live and saw the top comment on the video when I clicked on it and it spoiled that Jerma was the AI

[@trycilicbee0398]

i was a bit late to stream, and i was like 100% sure it was jerma. i felt so smart until i saw the video where all of chat also said it was jerma

[@hamtier]

i thought it was an ai until he went free mic using jokes. but as long as he was just using the pre-recorded voice clips i couldn't tell

[@masteroffire197]

here at 666 likes 💀

[@heheheiamasuperstarwarrior9281]

Honestly i had NO idea jerma had an actual soundboard, i really thought he was sentence mixing his voice on his own, like he did with the "small enemy spider" gag

[@amofro6612]

The production room shot of Jerma is actually waaayyy more intense than I imagined it omg that dude is insane

[@jstar3382]

I mean he wanted to be on a production team for a reason

[@theonlyron]

JEX moment

[@valkyrie-randgris]

RIGHT? That's actually impressive af.

[@BierBart12]

It IS much more insane than I imagined it. It's like he's singlehandedly directing a space mission Let's also appreciate how incredible it is that he remembered what all of those unlabeled buttons do.

[@fridgefreezer9529]

@@BierBart12 when adhd person really into a certain project, their adhd negative trait instantly vaporized.

[@mcgoldenblade4765]

Props to Doug for keeping Jerma inside that box for as long he was. It's important to keep Jerma contained, no matter how brief. Imagine the stuff he would've done if he WASN'T in the box.

[@ACEYGAMES]

As dough said, every moment Jerma wasnt in teh box he was off camera comiting crimes.

[@williamfalls]

Jerma, allegedly, played a major part of every world war. Some would even say that was his most tame accomplishments too.

[@whyiwakeup6460]

@@williamfalls Yes. It isn’t well known, but Hitler didn’t actually kill himself. It was Jerma getting rid of the competition

[@banrajanand7983]

Is Jerma a SCP?

[@mamaluigi6261]

​@@banrajanand7983 Yes

[@boopdoop2251]

Love the contrast between Jerma working his butt off behind the scenes, not even taking a break, and Parkzer eating snacks for an hour.

[@professoreisner1851]

i love how, the SECOND he says "I am GOING to shit inside YOU", chat either panics or starts laughing. Truly a Twitch Chat moment.

[@lizardqueen273]

The best part is that it's an actual moment from the stream, not something Doug said off the cuff, and I'm imagining not that many people who didn't watch Shufflemania decided to watch the stream about the behind the scenes of Shufflemania. So either chat is pretending to be shocked or the brain rot has lead to chat being unable to remember things from a few days ago.

[@professoreisner1851]

@@lizardqueen273 didn't chat already have short-term memory loss, as established in the Zoo Invasion? (/j)

[@lizardqueen273]

@@professoreisner1851 True. I just forgot on account of the memory loss

[@aboredguywithaninternetcon4663]

​@@lizardqueen273My memory loss is cured because I forgot about it

[@AlexPeter9582]

By the end there is a bit of every single idea. The Wizard of Oz outfit, the cartoon hacker soundboard rig and the absolute degenerate Jerma Box.

[@TwoDementedGuys]

Naughty streamers get put in the Jerma Box

[@Water_Connoisseur]

Where's the shot?

[@jacobrutzke691]

​@TwoDementedGuys it's the worst punishment imaginable there stuck with jerma.

[@Theology.101]

It’s less he became the Shuffler and more like the Shuffler was a natural evolution of Jerma

[@masteroffire197]

Doug is an absolute goat for theming his live show around ai and having literally 0 ai in it

[@nathanielkershner5904]

Common misconception, Doug is ACtually a human.

[@skeletonizer7512]

Jerma

[@SynthgirlBulge]

@@ckorp666also amazon stores lmao

[@smokestack_lightning_999]

Stop spreading Doug's conspiracy. The whole event was AI generated

[@nightowl6055]

I like to imagine that even though Jerma wasn't hiding in the box for the whole stream, Parkzer *was* standing outside for five whole hours, waiting for them to finish.

[@IBQ1]

Adding Jerma to your production automatically increases chance of success, he's like a rare gemstone in a JRPG

[@jakko_]

Jerma role-playing game

[@irecordwithaphone1856]

He’s insanely talented

[@cirgo4879]

Jermstone

[@benji2014]

Parkzer is actually a genius with the snacks/water bottle and stuff, i genuinely thought that jerma was in there for 5 hours after seeing that

[@TheLoxen_]

This Germa guy sounds like a pretty funny and skilled dude. He should take up streaming. Crazy that he is just an intern

[@kestrelynn]

Pretty sure he actually tried streaming once, it was pretty sad tho cause he only had like 3 viewers and he just kept insulting them and even threatening them. Honestly glad he's just an intern cause a PSYCHO like that shouldn't be given any more screentime than he got.

[@TheLoxen_]

@@kestrelynn Wow, he seemed a bit rude to Ludwig but I thought it was just banter between friends or something. Sad to hear, maybe he is jealous that the other guys are successful streamers then.

[@McBehrer]

As long as he doesn't start an evil science empire and ride around on a bunch of giant snails, anyway

[@NeXaSLvL]

this was my introduction to Jerma and it was probably the best way to be introduced to anyone ever

[@mouse2859]

That's amazing. Retroactively seeing jerma content and thinking 'huh, that's the shuffler' is hilarious

[@NeXaSLvL]

@@mouse2859 it really is, im currently watching the long edit of him playing you're in the movies, and he keeps changing form, so he is still the shuffler

[@tamhuy10]

My intro to him was dollhouse

[@NeXaSLvL]

@@tamhuy10 link?

[@Mystic-Midnight]

be sure to watch The Dollhouse and Carnival stream. Though chat is a bit :'( in the carnival stream with the clowns. The Baseball stream is great too, I still wonder how he fit all of them up there.

[@net-banshee]

I would actually love to see a behind the scenes of this whole thing, especially because it's still unclear if any of the players even registered jerma getting in the box

[@pandapotato5121]

This clip is from a stream where Doug just talked entirely about the show. There's no actual behind the scenes footage so that VOD would be the best if you haven't already seen it

[@ajlquantum9608]

So did the players know?

[@Tredenix]

I think I remember Doug mentioning that the players were told that Jerma being the Shuffler was the big surprise reveal at the end, just so that they would all act appropriately socked when he emerged from the box rather than any of them spotting him as he got in and inadvertently spoiling it. Of course, knowing that surprise twist meant they were expecting the _real_ surprise twist even less!

[@ajlquantum9608]

Fair enough@@Tredenix

[@LegendaryHewy]

I still quote "I... Love... MOVIE!" and "SUPER MARIO SIXTY-FOUR!"

[@DartzinhoV]

I cannot hear the word movie normally anymore

[@Anon13430]

Jerma in front of that control panel with all the stream dexks evokes the image of a moneky with a typewriter

[@tenderquirkydragon8643]

Despite the Shuffler being a nearly literal monkey pushing random buttons, the fact that the games swapped so seamlessly was genuinely impressive

[@WonderMotion]

I believe the game swaps were code Doug already had tested and used in his own streams?

[@jstar3382]

I'm pretty sure the actual shuffling was just code that Doug (probably had ChatGPT) made

[@noahb4399]

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the shuffler

[@reidj2226]

Are you IMPLYING Jerba is a hero? He's a psycho i tell you!

[@pikariocraftf2802]

Throughout the show I was like "That doesn't feel like an AI" but then afterwards it was like "Yeah thats probably just AI" and it kept switching between believable and "there's no way an AI would just ask for a smoke" it was perfect... I did think the voice was just Doug's but put through a filter though...

[@lunarlla]

this is all actually hilarious to learn lmao also HUGE props to jerma for being able to keep track of so many stream decks holy crap lol

[@15oClock]

"The Shuffler isn't real!" *thud* "The panel is stuck!"

[@TheOnePrinceMeatball]

“DOUGDOUG, DON’T LEAVE ME HERE…”

[@thomaslocke291]

as a performer the effort and creativity of this event alone makes me so extremely happy, this was such a cool thing to share

[@FlatFish_100]

We never got confirmation about parkzer standing outside so as far as I know he was just there for the whole duration

[@CreeperCombos]

On his website he had a post about how he mostly just watched the show with the production crew and only went outside near the end

[@m4rcyonstation93]

​@CreeperCombos HE HAS A WEBSITE???

[@Mystic-Midnight]

@@m4rcyonstation93 His website is actually fan made by a viewer that travels 6 inches behind him at all times

[@SplatBad]

now this is a jerma moment of 2023

[@StrengthOfADragon13]

Serious props to Jerma for performing so well, not an easy task to pull off. Low key one of the MVPs of the show

[@jstar3382]

Jerma really sat in the hackerman position for the entire time

[@Levinswords]

Jerma locked in a room with a soundboard sounds like the technology required to CREATE an Artificial Intelligence

[@noyz-anything]

You either die the puzzler or you live long enough to see yourself become the shuffler

[@TheOnePrinceMeatball]

Well technically he DID die the Puzzler, and still became the Shuffler…

[@jstar3382]

I never realized that the shuffler eyes were the pepper eyes

[@Bionic_B]

I love how Jerma985 just kicks his way out the box like the trashiest Dr. Who

[@_zealos_8213]

This is surprisingly more unplanned than i thought

[@DoesRocksFloat]

Doug’s production experience really shining through with the shuffler stream.

[@internettevarolanadam]

I just thought about an interaction with jerma and parkzer. I feel like they're at opposite end of the normalcy spectrum but its a horseshoe and they end up very similar.

[@fastmadcow]

That was one of the funniest 5 hours I've ever watched. Entertaining all the way to the end.

[@apollofulbright3484]

Does anyone know the source for the scene of Jerma as shuffler behind the scenes at 0:59

[@Emihana]

I also didn't recognize Jermas voice even though chat kept saying it, I had to go out of my way to find that out and I loved that. I'd love to see more content like this in the future.

[@Peepotan]

This Gjerma dude is such a great intern. Wizard of Oz would be proud of him.

[@WOOPAHsoup]

Jerma can be a slave if you do it for a collab?

[@overlorde7526]

Doug I’m not gonna lie I was the person you mentioned at 3:50 You got me

[@MSte21]

That hacker rig is insane.

[@mrself5824]

Jerma has the tendency to appear where you least expect him too

[@standard_limbo]

Jerma knocked it out of the park. The whole thing was hilarious and i was actually surprised at the end

[@IOwnKazakhstan]

For anyone who just found out about this guy and wanna know more, I would really recommend his "baseball stream".

[@TheOnePrinceMeatball]

A whole baseball huh?

[@gewase]

​​@@TheOnePrinceMeatballI stopped watching after the fourth, my laughter was waking up my entire family

[@windmorrower]

as a comp sci student now working in theater, the concept of shufflemania was really interesting when I heard about it! getting everyone together for, practically, a suped up dougdoug stream was a great conceit itself, but the idea of adding an ai into the mix as a sort of extra commentator was intriguing, if not a little perturbing, knowing what ai is capable of right now knowing what ai is capable of at the moment, however, broke the illusion the moment the shuffler started responding to everyone in the room lol

[@Luvilli]

The expressions doug makes when he says "the shuffler is not real" are perfect

[@DUALSCREENS-qv1ue]

I recognized Jerma's voice but I just assumed maybe the AI voice was trained on Jerma's voice and other streamers

[@PlagueBunny]

Parkzer continues to be funniest part of Doug Doug’s channel.

[@TNTspaz]

I feel like his voice probably need to be scrambled more. He's just too recognizable

[@irecordwithaphone1856]

Jerma is one of a kind. So insanely talented

[@timato234]

The longer Jerma is contained the more potential victims are safe

[@Mystic-Midnight]

theres only the illusion of safety though, we've all seen the clips of him breaching containment.

[@thecatinthefedora1201]

Replacing humans with AI is so yesterday. Jerma and Doug replaced AI with a human

[@forest-goddess]

this is SO COOL. i thought i recognised the voice for a lot of it but i couldn't tell, but then suddenly he just said a line that made me realise it was jerma like 3 hours in LOL

[@Megabot555]

Wasn’t there for the post-show Q&A, did Doug mention if all the contestants knew it was Jerma ahead of time?

[@solidpandacka5544]

yes they knew about Jerma but not the tennis event

[@peddr.o]

PLEASE SHOW THE VIDEO OF JERMA PRESSING SOUNDBOARD BUTTONS

[@BarginsGalore]

for the first half i thought it was someone backstage with tts. I only recognized Jermas voice when it went crazy

[@itbgmultimediastudios1815]

Dude this while thing is amazing. Mad respect for you guys. Love your stuff!!

[@lukedavis436]

I love the Set design... especially all those random PCBs inside the box

[@Taz_Olson]

wait, so everyone saw Jerma get into the box? I mean, sure they probably figured it out a while ago like chat did but I feel like there should have still been a reveal to them

[@CreeperCombos]

I think that them knowing that the reveal at the end was that the shuffler was Jerma helped them not suspect another reveal

[@theredhunter4997]

I think Jerma got into the box from below it from a trap door, so the players didn’t see him get in the box, so it was a surprise to the players and the audience

[@kestrelynn]

​@theredhunter4997 it wasn't a surprise to the players, doug said in this stream that he told the players how the stream would go and he was like "Yeah and the big reveal at the end is that jerma is actually the shuffler" to stop them suspecting the tennis match which he did actually put loads of effort into keeping secret from them

[@thehumanian634]

It’s literally one of those Disney world attractions, love it.

[@biggiewhezee6508]

now this is epic

[@whiteasian4990]

I was convinced for 3 hours that it was an actual AI until it started getting too wacky

[@mittycommitspizzatime92]

“Germa”

[@Copper_eater]

I remember clicking off the video because jerma wasn't in the video but now I feel stupid

[@__-be1gk]

If you had let Jerma stay in the box any longer he'd have started doing that thing he does into boxes

[@Cinnamowo]

Ludwig winning nothing is so funny and devilish on so many levels

[@AzaleaTFG]

i remember watching that and thinking, this can’t be ai, it seems too human!!

[@AzaleaTFG]

It’s surprising how human jerma sounds

[@TacComControl]

... Jerma literally came out of the vent

[@Minesteve07]

Merry Christmas Doug Doug Clips!! 🎄🎁

[@jacobmckenna8661]

I was listening to the audio and took my phone out to see Doug and Jerma playing tennis with Parker.

[@terepi]

production team my beloved ❤

[@shelbydont]

Awesome show, Doug!!

[@TheManWhoStoleTheShadows]

The twist was brilliantly entertaining.

[@MudakTheMultiplier]

I love the concept of Offbrand.

[@jsalinas00]

WE. WANT. MOVIE

[@Slingyman3]

I hope he doesnt actually stop the AI stuff, by far the hardest i've laughed is the ridiculous shit the ai comes up with and the random screaming lmao

[@Mystic-Midnight]

I like some of his Ai stuff like Napoleon just cause it is a character that he basically needs the ai to do but some ai stuff it's kinda meh I much prefer watching doug code for 4 hours to play a game

[@bellofbellmont8206]

It would be really funny to just see the behind the scenes for Jerma

[@Darknova67]

I know the reveal happened. But I want a sequel. Just shove jerma in the back as the ai. We don't have to think about it. It was just so funny I want more

[@starcultiniser]

the shuffler was so fkn good

[@qua_xor3348]

Cant believe dougsoug killed jerma. An all powerful god by accident. Thats my fucking youtuber!

[@holynder3181]

That was pretty convincing especially as someone who didn’t pay attention to the chat or recognize the voice, but I did think it sounded an awful lot like someone using a soundboard.

[@rage_2000]

Nice try Doug, but we know we just witnessed Jerma getting born from the shuffler

[@limb-o7180]

no one told him Jerma is an AI himself

[@eiya2003]

I love the ai stuff😂 the ai stuff is usually some of the funniest things doug posts on youtube

[@mr.pepper7641]

Ityped this with a fokrk

[@DonSMDT]

we should watch the movies for real

[@HezrouDhiaga]

Was easily the funniest shit all just to make a crack tennis match 😂

[@Nexidal]

So if I work with the right company then I get to have my own Jerma? Time to make a life-plan.

[@ShinyPM]

we love movie

[@Fridge_Fiend]

Jermas used to it He loves it

[@IceManiac501]

Merry christmas

[@心置貪食誘]

As someone who doesn't know who Jerma is i was surprised when i saw a random man come out of a box

[@akiraeatsguitarpicks491]

Bold of Doug to lie to us. We all know Jerma was the first AI

[@Diablo3364]

I'm confused how they got jerma in the box without the players noticing.

[@CrashOzzy1223]

6:33 oh, “cash” I heard,… ya know, the correctly spelled version of arse.

[@reubenbailey7491]

It's good to hear you being transparent about usage of ai in videos. A 50% 50% split definitely could be better but could be much worse!

[@MaoMaster69]

how does this man memorize 8 streamdeck layouts but when he plays a little to the left he shows every form of incompetency

[@CesarTheKingVA]

He literally made Jerma a Mechanical Turk.

[@bradencosier80]

I love your AI content, and the AI characters are so much fun. The thing is your AI content isn’t just AI, it’s a unique concept that utilizes AI to enhance the experience

[@timstarlord3659]

So every contestant saw Jerma getting in the box or what?