The8BitDrummer

Jerod Collins (born: ), better known online as The8BitDrummer, is an American Twitch streamer and drummer. He would upload highlights of his streams to his YouTube channel daily.
==YouTube Career==
He launched his YouTube channel on September 3, 2006.
On March 26, 2009, Jerod uploaded his first video titled "GMOD Awesomeness" where he played Garry's Mod with his sister and his friend. This video has since been set as private.
His first drumming video was uploaded 6 years later, on August 5, 2015, titled "Halo 2 Soundtrack - Peril (Drum Cover) -- The8BitDrummer". His videos formerly used the template "[Soundtrack name] - [Song name] (Drum Cover)" but he switched to "[Source Material Name] - [Song Name] On Drums!" a while after upgrading his drum kit.
It was later until late November 2015 when he started to gain attention after uploading drum covers of Undertale soundtracks, and sooner other gaming soundtracks. Nowadays his covers are mainly game soundtracks and occasionally meme songs (typically bait-and-switch music tracks made by SiIvaGunner) requested by fans.
During April of 2021, he read through his article on this website on cast.
On October 20, 2023, Jerod had his first multistream, after Twitch changed its ToS regarding Simulcasting. He started streaming regulary on YouTube after this.
End of May 2024, Jerod introduced a second YouTube Channel, specifically sharing his "Shorts". The channel is named "The8BitDrummerClips".
==Personal Life==
Jerod has been playing the drums since 2008 and wanted to create a positive environment that people can come together, collaborate their ideas, and hang out with each other. Thus, he started streaming on May 31, 2015.
He is also a Nondenominational Christian and has played for different churches around his home town, in which he discovered his potential for playing drums after one church band needed a drummer.
Before streaming, he worked in retail and as an IT technician. He also used to own a computer repair business.
He is currently married to an another Twitch streamer Erika, who shares the same birthday as him (). She is better known online as Chatia (known as Chatia12 on Twitter).
==Nicknames==
Jerod has been given nicknames since his popularity on the internet. Most of his nicknames are created just for humor and were only used once, or were commonly used then and are no longer used now, so those nicknames are not on this list for conciseness. This list contains his commonly used nicknames. Nicknames written in Latin alphabet are sometimes written in all lowercase.
Nickname 	Used by 	Created by 	Note(s)
8-Bit 	
*Himself
*Majority of Jerod's Twitch and YouTube viewers 	Himself 	
Drummer Sans/Sans Drummer/The8BitSans 	
*Minority of Jerod's Twitch viewers 	Himself 	Inspired by the nickname of his wife Erika, "Goat Mom," which is a reference to Toriel, a character from the game Undertale. Erika's nickname was created by Jules Conroy, a famous internet personality who makes music covers and a friend of the married couple.
Strimmer 	Minority of Jerod's Twitch viewers (Nickname creators included)	Jerod's Twitch stream moderator delcake	
*A misspelling of the word "Streamer."
*Strimmer is also a British-Irish shortening of string trimmer, a tool that cuts grasses, small weeds and groundcover.
That Drummer Guy Who Always Thanks His Viewers	Minority of Jerod's Twitch viewers (Nickname creators included)	Jerod's Twitch stream moderator delcake	
Funny Drummer Man 	Minority of Jerod's Twitch viewers (Nickname creators included)	Twitch user DrowningInNostalgia 	
*A reference to the nickname "Funny Skeleton Man," which is given by the fans of the game Undertale to the game's character, Sans.
*Used by him once as a title for a YouTube video; but only written as "Drummer Man."
Drummerbro 	The Hololive Community 	The Hololive Community 	
*Originated from the word Drummerniki, a portmanteau of the words Drummer and the Japanese word for an elder brother, Aniki (兄貴).
**It can be written in Japanese as Doramāniki (ドラマーニキ) or Doramuniki (ドラムニキ). Doramāniki is commonly used by the Japanese audience.
*Originated from the community of Shirakami Fubuki, a Virtual YouTuber.
**She writes Drummerniki in Japanese as Doramuniki.
8bitドラマー (8bitDoramā) 	The Hololive Community 	The Hololive Community 	"8bitDrummer" in Japanese.
==Subscriber Milestones==
*55,000 subscribers: December 13, 2016
*100,000 subscribers: June 16, 2017
*200,000 subscribers: Mid-April, 2018
*263,000 subscribers: October 19, 2018
*300,000 subscribers: January 25, 2019
*400,000 subscribers: October 2, 2019
*500,000 subscribers: March 16, 2020
*600,000 subscribers: June 23, 2020
*700,000 subscribers: January 25, 2021
*1,000,000 subscribers: June 5, 2023
==References==
Category:Users who joined in 2008
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers