How To Draw Like Jaiden Animations

"I have no thought what I'm doing"

— Channel Motto

Jaiden, born on September 27, 1997, known online equally Jaiden Animations, is an Arizona-built-in "animate-my-life" YouTuber, much like Domics, Katzun, Tabbes and TheOdd1sOut. She is also one of the biggest YouTube animators on the site.

Much like them, she covers stories from her life, likewise as general modest fun facts well-nigh herself and then animates them for a YouTube audience. Her videos comprehend a range of topics like stories about her parents, vacations, her fears, random thoughts she tends to accept and her experiences with instruments and reality TV. Along with that, she too does collaboration videos with other YouTubers like TheOdd1sOut and Draw with Jazza, has collaborated with Game Grumps in several multiplayer games and toured with in live drawing events (with Egoraptor and Ross O'Donovan in item), and has occasional vlogs with her pet bird Ari and has fifty-fifty fabricated a drove of "I Has Cupquake Animated" videos, which tin be seen on her aqueduct.

Jaiden'due south channel can be found here, Her Twitter can exist constitute hither and her DeviantArt can exist found here.

Not to be confused with Chinese studio Jade Animation.

Jaiden Animations provide examples of:

Actually Pretty Funny: Jaiden was genuinely impressed by a seemingly 13 yr onetime'south pickup line:
Kid: Volition y'all hold something for me?
Jaiden: O-Okay? What is it?
Kid: My hand.
("Careless Whisper" blares in the background)
Affectionate Parody: Jaiden and Alpharad'due south SoulLink Nuzlocke names the rival character after Jan of "Pokémon Challenges", who had been making critiques of their Nuzlockes, with Jaiden making information technology clear that she had no intention of offending him with it. Jan himself reacted to the video subsequently and found it Actually Pretty Funny (with his one quibble beingness that Jaiden mispronounced his name).
Alternating Character Interpretation: In-universe; in her Ruby Nuzlocke video, Jaiden (somewhat jokingly) interprets Steven Rock's Armaldo every bit her Anorith having joined up to get revenge for being relegated to the box.
Alternating Universe: Invoked in the Platinum Nuzlocke video to explain the elite four practise-over after an extremely unlucky bad catastrophe as an "alternate Jaiden" created by Giratina in the Distortion World.
An Aesop:
- "Things nigh Relationships I wish someone told me near" drops the lesson "y'all're not responsible for someone else's happiness." If someone'south distressing or depressed, it's on them to correct this behavior. Besides, define your boundaries, and don't allow anyone make you suspension them; if they do, they're causing emotional abuse, and they're non worth your time. Toxic people will oftentimes fish for compliments, resort to emotional corruption (gaslighting, guilt tripping, etc.), and threaten to hurt y'all or themselves to go what they want from you instead of ever admit that how they human action is wrong. Y'all aren't responsible for making them happy at the cost of your own happiness, and if they aren't willing to alter and meliorate themselves, then cut them loose before they drag y'all down with them.
- Her "Getting into Fitness and Health" video drops a few lessons about society'southward unhealthy obsession with losing weight (or edifice muscle) as the exist-all end-goal of "health and fitness," especially at the expense of giving your body the nutrients and exercise it needs to feel expert and office well.
Annoying Laugh: At least Jaiden herself thinks and so anyways.
Animal Motif: Justified considering of her love of birds and there are plenty of references to birds in her videos; as shown by her pet conures, Ari and Tofu. In her Pokémon videos, she's shown to possess bird-themed Pokémon. In some videos; you can see three small bird tattoos on her right forearm.
Blitheness Crash-land: A modest one in her video "My Opinion on Airports", every bit information technology was given by a guest animator. When explaining that moving sidewalks would exist a practiced replacement for cars and roads, she says that you could just run to get to where you want to go extra quick. This is shown with an over the top action shot of Jaiden bursting into a sprint. This follows into her other videos, where the animation can be much more than fluid and expressive in some parts; the dance Ranger!Jaiden does to Team Dim Sun's battle theme is a good example.
Animesque: The scene in "The History of my Pilus" where Jaiden's hairs accident away in the wind is a parody of an anime scene, with scarlet bloom petals floating in the air and Jaiden getting large anime optics.
Arch-Enemy: In her Animal Crossing video, a snooty villager named Sue E. becomes Jaiden'due south nemesis due to her rudeness.
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the HeartGold/SoulSilver randomized SoulLink, Jacob has to face Lance'due south Porygon-Z, Rampardos, Lickilicky, Zapdos... and Plusle.
Art Shift: "Why I Don't Have a Confront Reveal" is washed in a much less fluid style, with few colors and a more sketch-similar experience to it.
Ascended Actress: Along with other animators, Jaiden got bumped up from the end credits to the main video for Rewind 2022... while too sneaking in PewDiePie's chair for her segment. Notation the smug wink to the camera.
Awesome McCoolname: Downplayed, Jaiden and Jaxon (Jax)
Bait-and-Switch Comment: In "Exhaustion & Overworking Yourself", a hypothetical friend tells Jaiden that they're going to run 50 miles, and won't eat, sleep, or take care of themselves until they're finished. Jaiden responds that such a affair is a terrible thought... because the person would need sunscreen first.
Berserk Button: Jaiden has some strong opinions on impersonators and people who utilise "KYS" as an insult.
Jaiden: Don't impersonate people.... Okay, I was going to end this video past saying "Don't impersonate people, and f*ck off" just I couldn't bring myself to practise it.
Bestiality Is Depraved: This substitution.
Fan: Am I baka for having a beat on Ari? >.< Me no baka, chuu~!
[shell]
Jaiden: Yikes.
All-time Served Cold: During a horrendous group project, the girls she was working with concluded up giving her a day to finish considering of their laziness, and to boot the sound went fashion over the time limit and perhaps had to exist candy beyond abridging it, resulting in her spending eight hours working herself half to decease. Ane of the girls checked on the video half an hr before it was due and gave an ungrateful respond when Jaiden confirmed it was finished, and Jaiden was too exhausted for a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, prompting her to create terminate credits for the video crediting herself for everything except the other girls' narration, plain including "pain & suffering", as a grade of passive-aggressive revenge.
Beware the Squeamish Ones: When a Strawman starts acting up, Jaiden pulls out a scalpel and cheerfully asks him what kind of incision he thinks the blade will create on his head.
Big Piffling Brother: Her younger brother Jaxon is depicted as existence taller than Jaiden.
Bilingual Bonus:
- According to the subtitles, the Japanese kid in "How to Make Life More Interesting" said:
- From "What my trip to Japan was like", when Jaiden's dad tries to ask for directions from a local:
Birthday Episode: When it'due south Ari's birthday, she publishes videos celebrating this.
Bloodshot Ending: Her Pokémon Platinum Nuzlocke video ends this manner. In-universe, Jaiden realizes she'southward in an alternating timeline created later on Giratina split up her in two in the Distortion World; in the original timeline, she wiped out against the Elite Iv before she even made information technology to Cynthia, with her entire team getting killed ^note In reality, Jaiden gave up after she lost half her squad in the first two fights confronting Aaron and Bertha, since the remainder of her team was weak against Burn down-types and didn't have a chance against Fire specialist Flintstone. Simply she and her chat agreed that since it was a birthday stream, she should endeavor again. In this timeline, Jaiden wins and becomes the new Champion, only loses half her team to Cynthia's Garchomp in the procedure. And with the knowledge of both timelines and another version of her losing so horribly, Jaiden is and then overwhelmed with guilt that she finds the victory hollow and doesn't believe she deserves it.
Born Lucky: Jaiden jokes nearly this of her SoulSilver Nuzlocke partner, Jacob Alpharad, a Running Gag carrying over from his ain aqueduct(s). She not only starts the video highlighting his l/l Pokémon Nuzlocke winning streak, but describes how he nearly always gets favorable Pokémon encounters, gift Pokémon, and easy battles. Meanwhile, Jaiden tends to get lackluster Pokémon and VERY hard battles.
Brick Joke: At the beginning of the SoulSilver Nuzlocke, Jaiden and Jacob go along running into Palkia, who Google says is vulnerable to Salamence. The two proceed to, in her words, bully Palkia by repeatedly commenting that they wish they had a Salamence. Fastforward to the final boxing, and Lance has a Palkia on his squad for Jaiden. Cue Jaiden proverb, "I could really apply a Salamence right about now..."
Censored for Comedy: She hardly ever swears. And if she does, it'll either be a Curse Cut Short or this. In "Things almost Relationships I wish someone told me most," she says that one must occasionally look in the mirror and wonder "Am I being an asshole?" Not but is the word censored as "a**hole" in the captions, merely the showtime office of the word is bleeped out by a loud bass tone, with an image of Ari covering the speaker'south mouth every bit they say it.
Grapheme Evolution:
Chekhov'southward Gun: When Jaiden starts grooming Zipzapzop in her Pokémon Ruby Nuzlocke video, she makes a huge rant about the sheer number of Marills she had to kill in society to get Zipzapzop up to par with the rest of the party. While she doesn't explain this (and might non have fifty-fifty realized it at the time), it was the HP EVs from those Marills that gave Zipzapzop enough HP to afterwards only barely tank that quadruple-effective earthquake attack with simply 2 HP to spare.
Cloudcuckoolander: Jaiden had a Pirates of the Caribbean-obsessed Keet for a high schoolhouse art teacher, who often blared random POTC soundtrack remixes to his students' chagrin, randomly challenged students to duels, and at ane point, ran into the room dressed equally a pirate and ran effectually like a lunatic, causing Jaiden to driblet his form. He was as well a lawn tennis teacher, and one twenty-four hours inexplicably tried to jump over the net, causing him to faceplant when his foot was defenseless on the net and giving him ii black eyes. If his ex-wife's reaction to this latter incident is whatsoever indication, he had injured himself prior to this.
Color Motif: Purple. Many of her thumbnails feature the colour imperial in some caste, and her toon avatar is typically drawn with a purple shirt in fanart.
Companion Cube: Compares her teacher to Oscar the Grouch'south hypothetical pet lemon.
Composite Character: In her HeartGold/SoulSilver SoulLink Nuzlocke, due to Jaiden playing as the male child and Alpharad playing as the girl, Jaiden combines the NPC versions of Lyra and Ethan into a single, unnamed character. Jaiden but calls them "neighbor".
Crazy Jealous Guy: Described Ari as beingness very jealous of anyone who is friendly with her. Especially her mom.
Crouching Moron, Subconscious Badass: Jasmine turns out to be this in I Attempted a Two Player Nuzlocke. The entire time, she acts like a Moe to attempt and get Jaiden and Jacob to get Amphy's medicine in Cianwood City, but they aren't having whatsoever of information technology, since they about died trying to climb Olivine Lighthouse. In one case they exercise the work she's supposed to do, her advantage for them is having Jaiden fight her Lugia and Deoxys, still acting as absentmindedly beautiful as ever, all while Jaiden is bashing her face into a back up beam in acrimony.
Cutting the Knot: In her first ii Pokémon Nuzlocke videos, Jaiden encounters powerful Legendary Pokémon blocking her way. Since contesting them would likely issue in her losing team members, she just uses the Master Ball on Groudon and Giratina to immediately catch them and comport on with the game.
Jaiden: So I went in there, walked up to Groudon... and Master Balled him immediately. There'due south no mode I'm gonna fight Groudon!
Daddy Issues: Averted. In the early days of her aqueduct, some very curious fans were wondering why Jaiden never brought upwardly her father, assuming that something happened that made Jaiden not include him (similar divorce or abuse). Turns out Jaiden just hadn't animated anything that involved him yet, which Jaiden lampshaded when she first brought up her dad in a video.invoked
Death past De-crumbling: Discussed/averted in Random Thoughts (Part two Edition). Jaiden theorizes that if you sit down in the Fountain of Youth for too long, y'all eventually turn into your ain parents.
Denser and Wackier: Not that she wasn't funny earlier, but a lot of her earlier videos were fairly straightforward storytime animations with most of the humour coming from "Non Making This Upwards" Disclaimer too as Jaiden's very endearing awkwardness. Past at present, her videos are all much more cartoonish with exaggerations of actual events, snarky comments, and Jaiden herself moving past her soft-spoken nature to go a Big Ham on occasion.
Department of Redundancy Department: In her "Random Thoughts" video, she realizes she wrote down "one-half popped popcorn" downward twice.
Jaiden: I gauge past Jaiden felt really compelled to talk virtually half-popped popcorn. It is really skillful, though.
The Illness That Shall Not Be Named: The eating disorder Jaiden had sounds a lot like bulimia, with excessive fasting and "purging" existence the main indicators, but it's never named in any video in which she discusses it.
Dissonant Quiet: She recalls in her "Substitute Teachers" video where one just looked at a girl choking on a carrot... doing nothing while a child did the Heimlich.
The Door Slams You: At one point in quaternary grade, Jaiden was nearly whacked in the confront past a bathroom stall door due to an incredibly stupid and inconsiderate girl deciding to kick the door open. The only reason Jaiden was but "nearly" hit in the face is considering karate reflexes immune her to block the door with her arm. She notes that any other passerby probably wouldn't have been able to protect herself.
Dramatic Current of air: In "The History of my Hair", strands of Jaiden's hair fly away, "like burs in the wind," illustrated with pieces of Jaiden's hair dramatically flying abroad in a stream of flower petels and Jaiden, now with big anime eyes, watching them bladder.
Early Installment Weirdness:
- In videos from the early years of Jaiden's channel, her hair was drawn in a ponytail, and can still exist seen during end cards. Her pilus has since been drawn permit downwards in future installments, even in stories taking place in college, when she still would've had the ponytail.
- Jaiden also used draw herself with a bigger head when she wasn't drawn on purpose as a chibi.
Exact Words: In "My Childhood Obsession with Animals", Jaiden talks well-nigh the time she desperately wanted a mouse. She thought that she could force her parents to get her ane past writing information technology on her Christmas wishlist. Her parents did get her a mouse... just information technology was a computer mouse.
Face–Heel Turn: Implied with her Anorith Gary in her Pokémon Ruby-red Nuzlocke.
Jaiden: Steven'south last Pokémon was Armaldo — Gary's last revenge for getting booted from the team.
Felony Misdemeanor: When she was younger, Jaiden went out to walk her dog without telling her parents. For reasons unknown even to her, the sight of some reasonably concerned police officers freaked her out and caused her to volume it back home with the cruiser close behind.
Flat "What": Her female parent when Jaiden jokingly tells her she'south a grandmother (to Ari).
Freeze-Frame Bonus:
- While searching for "Most Abrasive Girl Names" to give to her grouping project classmates, one of Google'due south pinnacle resulting lists includes... "Jayden."
- invoked There are several Easter eggs on her shelf in her contribution to Rewind, which includes a Smash alphabetic character, a Japanese bonsai tree in reference to the infamous Logan Paul suicide wood video, a battle trophy based on Logan Paul vs KSI, a "Sociopaths 101" book in reference to Jake Paul, "Submarine 2 PewDiePie", a squirrel in reference to iDubbbzTV, a basin of spaghetti (actually a reference to "Somebody touch on my spaghet!" and non "Bitch Lasagna" like many assumed) and Ugandan Knuckles.
- In her "I Attempted a Pokemon Platinum Nuzlocke" video, right near the stop, during all of the glitchy animations showing her failed original endeavour at the Aristocracy Four, there's one frame where her Togekiss can be seen impaled on some rock spikes right earlier Aaron'due south fight.
- When she and Alpharad release the Legendary Beasts in "I Attempted a Ii Player Nuzlocke", Suicune is slumped over unconscious on Entei's back instead of running similar the other two as a nod to how Alpharad killed one by accident earlier in the video.
Freudian Alibi Is No Alibi: In her video well-nigh toxic relationships, she states that toxic people fish for compliments rather than take responsibility for what went wrong in their life. You have no responsibility for making them happy and you'll bulldoze yourself crazy justifying their deportment. If they can't use those experiences constructively or move on from them, then go out.
From Bad to Worse:
- Jaiden gets an Uber driver to pick her up afterward her trip to Japan, but cheers to vague directions, he drops her off at the wrong house. Jaiden pretends to go inside, hoping the owners don't meet her every bit she hides behind the house, waiting for the driver to go out. Subsequently he does, Jaiden crosses the street, tries to get inside her house... and the door is locked. Her roommate is gone, meaning Jaiden has to wait three hours for her to come up home. Unwilling to slumber outside the house to pass the time, she ends up catching another Uber to hang out with her roommate, merely because she wasn't able to sleep on the plane, she'due south too tired to fifty-fifty function, let lonely enjoy the trip out.
- During one ski trip when she was x, Jaiden's dad accidentally brings her and Jax upward a double black diamond trail (aptly described past Jaiden as "you will Die if y'all continue here every bit a child"), and by the fourth dimension he realizes his mistake, it's too late. Equally he tries to retrieve of what to practice, gravity takes Jax and he speeds down the mountain. When he falls to interruption speed per their dad'due south pedagogy, he ends up doing a screaming starfish ^annotation a crash where yous cartwheel downward a slope. As people go to help him later he finally manages to stop, Jaiden is freaking out; her only way down is a slope she but watched her little blood brother collapse downward, and she doesn't know if he made information technology there fifty-fifty vaguely okayish. Luckily, a kind snowboarder helps her downward, but that means a slow, terrifying trip sliding inch-by-inch on her barrel downwardly a slope she describes every bit "almost vertical downward decease with a bunch of moguls". The poor daughter is traumatized and aroused by the time she gets down, and judging by her refusal to purchase a souvenir, the entire trip is ruined for her.
- Her debilitating example of hives ane year when she visited her family for Christmas. Each flair-up was worse than the final, and just when she idea she'd experienced the worst, an fifty-fifty more intense example sucker-punched her. It got to the bespeak that she was cherry-red and itchy and experiencing such intense pain/discomfort all over that she couldn't move, as even the slightest brush to her skin sent shockwaves of pain across her system. Thankfully, a medico who was also a family friend managed to go her the right medication and diagnosis that kept information technology from coming dorsum.
Gag Haircut: Jaiden discusses how important a good haircut is in "The History of my Pilus" because a bad haircut gives off a first impression that you make terrible decisions. This is illustrated past a horrified woman meeting someone with hideously-cut yellow, greenish, and pink pilus.
Gender-Blender Name: In "I Attempted my First Pokemon Nuzlocke", Jaiden names a Machop "Republic of chad" even though information technology'due south female person.
What, yous're a female? Trounce DID I STUTTER?
Gonky Femme: As a Machop/Machoke, Chad looks like a muscular man, but is drawn with feminine mannerisms and accessories such every bit a flower behind her ear or a mourning veil.
Gosh Dang Information technology to Heck!: She inappreciably e'er swears. She's either used a different discussion, cut herself off before proverb the whole word, or just apartment-out censored it altogether. Though, in her video "Flirting & My Stories," she said the discussion "douchebag" uncensored. Some other time in "What my trip to Japan was similar" she says "bowwow" uncensored twice, though she was referring to PewDiePie's "Bitch Lasagna" in both cases, so it wasn't really her sentiment.
Grand Finale: Her SoulLink Randomized Nuzlocke with Alpharad is this to her Nuzlocke serial, as revealed in the end credits. Manifestly, information technology'due south not this to her videos on the whole.
Grievous Damage with a Trunk: Her Pokémon Nuzlockes humorously describe early on battles as picking up her Pokémon and using them to bludgeon the opponent'due south Pokémon.
Hard Truth Aesop: In the video about toxic relationships, Jaiden explains that yous shouldn't stay with someone who chooses to wallow in self-pity and grief instead of take responsibleness for their own lives. If someone chooses to make you responsible for making them happy, y'all should leave because you may not accept the appropriate skills and qualifications to gear up them and you can't ignore your own problems for their sake.
Hate at Outset Sight: Jaiden jokes about this in her "I Attempted a Ii Role player Nuzlocke" video, as many Trainer, Gym Leader, and Aristocracy Four battles involve her having to fight Legendaries, while her buddy Jacob gets much easier opponents. Jacob as well gets three fully-evolved Pokemon as starter choices from Professor Elm; Jaiden gets the useless Wynaut, the Com Mon Ariados, and the Delicate Speedster Mankey.
Hates Being Touched: Inverted. She's less afraid of beingness touched and more than afraid of her touching someone and freaking them out with how cold her hand naturally is.
Hell Is That Noise: Considers loud toilet flushing noises to exist this.
Heroic Mime: In "I Attempted a Two Histrion Nuzlocke", Alpharad is this, being quiet in the animations 99% of the time, his voice only being heard in the gameplay segments, and the one line he has is said by Jaiden herself.
Heroic RRoD: Describes getting hives like this. Thanks to an apparent combination of stress and overexertion, Jaiden got hives in December 2022. Eventually, she was itching and so badly and in so much pain that she could hardly move, to the betoken of starting to cry from the pain. She describes it as the worst thing that's ever happened to her.
Heroic Sacrifice:
- In her Ruby Nuzlocke video, she frames Zipzapzop the Magneton'south death as this, pushing Sin the Duskull out of the mode of a Solrock'due south Flamethrower.
- In her Platinum Nuzlocke video, Failure the Shinx takes a fatal attack from a Hail-empowered Froslass so Jaiden can buy fourth dimension to heal up Squoop the Gastrodon and fix Rain Trip the light fantastic to negate the Hail.
Loftier Heel Injure: Jaiden dislikes wearing heels, though not because they injure, rather because she's clumsy when wearing them.
Holding Hands: She and James did a video doing this on Twitter later on seeing a petition.
Promise Spot: In "The Worst Affair That'south Ever Happened to Me", Jaiden appears to have finally gotten rid of hives, merely it kept coming dorsum worse than e'er before it was finally cured.
Affliction Blanket: In "Injuries and Beingness Sick", all the sick people in the video are drawn wrapped in blankets if they're non in bed.
Inherently Funny Words:
- Jaiden's Nuzlocke videos explain the nicknaming requirement of the challenge by using Pokemon with goofy names as examples. The get-go video has the relatively tame Mayo the Jigglypuff, only the latter two have Fubby Juice the Pikachu and Spagooblio the Furret.
- In her randomized SoulLink Nuzlocke, Jaiden and Jacob decide to make naming their new double Pokémon acquisitions easier on themselves (since they take to requite both Pokémon the same nickname) past combining the Pokémon's names. Jaiden takes total comedic reward of this by giving them featherbrained names similar "Plapp" for Piplup and Flaaffy, "Dillydoo" for Cradily and Silcoon, and "Dodei" for Entei and Doduo.
Inside Joke: When she was younger, Jaiden spoke with a noticeable lisp and would request her Trademark Favorite Food at the time as "Pathta with No Thauthe". As a consequence all the style into her adult life, her family would occasionally tease her past reminding her of this Verbal Tic.
Instant Adept: She's very skilful at playing musical instruments. She played the flute for a while because, despite being told that it was hard to play the flute, Jaiden got a note out of the flute on her first endeavor.
Information technology Seemed Like a Adept Thought at the Time: When Jaiden was in fourth grade, another girl at her school inexplicably decided to kicking a bathroom stall door open with no regard for passersby... while Jaiden was walking past. Luckily, Jaiden was able to shield herself because she had fast reflexes from karate lessons and the idiot loudly announced "I'thou gonna kick the door open!", alerting her to what was about to happen. However, Jaiden got a nasty bruise on her arm, and she notes that had it been anyone else passing past, the poor girl would have taken the full burden of the door and probably been seriously injured.
Jerkass: When recounting run-ins with impersonators, she encountered i item one on Twitter with a Hair-Trigger Temper and tried pulling a Wounded Gazelle Gambit on her and James (albeit 1 that exaggerated the harassment Jaiden was trying to repent over). They even went as far as calling their constabulary due to what is implied to be serious harassment. Albeit Jaiden thought her fanbase telling them to kill themselves as their Internet Counter Attack was going way likewise far.
Kid-anova: In "Childhood Stories", Jaiden mentions having a run in with a kid who seemed to be xiii when she was effectually xvi. She was quite impressed with his pickup line.
Kid: Will you agree something for me?
Jaiden: O-Okay? What is it?
Kid: My manus.
Knows a Guy Who Knows a Guy: Jaiden'southward mom has a network of friends in a multifariousness of occupations. Luckily, one such friend was an accountant who helped Jaiden and her family go the certification they needed to fly out of Minneapolis to Canada subsequently their passports had expired.
- This trope comes to her rescue again when she visits her family for Christmas, and is aggress with a debilitating instance of hives. Afterward several doctors can't effigy out how to keep them at bay for more than a few hours, a family friend who's a doctor not simply gives her the correct medication to go on them gone for good, but seems to correctly diagnose the cause (stress coupled with a glitch in the allowed arrangement) and Jaiden has remained hives-free always since.
Dear to Hate: In-Universe, Jaiden loves that Brute Crossing NPCs had a lot of snarky jerks that were merely fun to detest, particularly Sue E..
Malicious Compliance: In "Beast Crossing used to be so much darker...", Sue E. commanded Jaiden to modify the town tune. Despite not unremarkably being a "big town tune-changer", she proceeds to do and then, irresolute it to the highest-pitched note possible existence played fifteen times, followed by the "?" note that comes later that.
Jaiden: Is that amend, Sue E.? Y'all similar that?
"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: "My Experience with Sports" includes home video and photos of her participating in described sports, including one where Jaiden kept pushing a phase fright-ridden girl to the side during a trip the light fantastic toe recital.
Out-of-Genre Experience: "Empty", a full-diddled Music Video with Boyinaband about their struggles with eating disorders.
Out of Focus: Probable due to the pandemic acquired by the Coronavirus, Jaiden starting from mid 2022, has shifted to almost exclusively gaming-related animations and collabs with other Youtubers. As a result, nigh of the events that defined her reputation as ane of the nearly well known storytime animators likewise as staples such as Ari and her family unit accept been put bated in terms of screentime.
Overly Long Gag: In the "Samurai Buyer" video, with each email to Misaki, she adds additional redundant signatures—starting with merely "Jaiden, JaidenAnimations" and eventually extending to "Jaiden, JaidenAnimation, JaidenAnimations, Maiden Animations, Jaiden Animation, Jaiden Animates, Jaiden Draws."
Overly Narrow Superlative: Jaiden once held the World Record for an all Gold Medals Speedrun of Cooking Mama two: Dinner With Friends...namely cause, she was besides the but person to actually practise an all Gold Medals Speed Run of the Game, at the fourth dimension!
Pants-Free: Unlike her May cosplay in her Pokémon Scarlet Nuzlocke and her Ethan cosplay in her Pokémon SoulSilver Nuzlocke, Jaiden's cosplay of Dawn in her Pokémon Platinum Nuzlocke has a visible lack of pants or underwear. This leads to her butt cheeks existence shown off a couple of times.
A Hog Named "Porkchop": A variation in Jaiden's Nuzlocke playthrough of Pokémon Ruby, where she names her Torchic (a Pokémon based off a babe chicken) "Teriyaki," as a joke on teriyaki craven.
Precision F-Strike: Subverted. In the end of her video on impersonation, she mentions that she wanted to say "don't impersonate people and f*ck off" as an ironic twist, but couldn't bring herself to swear uncensored.
- In "Living With Ari", she plays the first line of iDubbbzTV'southward RiceGum disstrack, which contains the word "fucked", completely uncensored. This was either done because she figured that since the vocal wasn't her content, censoring it would seem inappropriate or she forgot to censor it while editing.
- Played direct, but not in one of her own videos. In the Behind the Scenes video of her music video for Empty, she curses, completely uncensored, when messing upwardly a line. Granted though, this is because information technology wasn't on her own channel and it may have been due to the content of the line causing a Tongue Twister incident.
- Jaiden calls her two project partners "twats" in My Horrible Nightmare Group Project due to them being The Load during said project. She later elaborates on this in another video when maxim she doesn't swear, stating that the word was never considered a swear in her household and so she only considers it a normal word.
Race Against the Clock:
- One of Jaiden's fears is that she can't stand up time limits in video games, going as far that she could not get by level 2 of a SpongeBob game she owned equally a kid because of a section of the game where she had only 20 seconds to become to each checkpoint.
  "Our lives are a time limit if you think almost it..."
- "I tried to go to Canada just got stuck in Minneapolis" has this equally Jaiden, her mom, and her brother accept an ever expanding list of things they demand to achieve in order to renew the kids' passports and get to the airport in fourth dimension to catch their flight to Canada. Hilarity Ensues every bit things proceed happening to make things more than and more complicated, though the end of the video shows Jaiden and her family managed to but barely brand it on their flight in fourth dimension.
- In college, she had a project due at 6pm and the teacher strictly merely allowed them to be ten minutes late at near. She gets done early and lets a friend borrow her laptop to get her own project done. Due to them not paying attention to the time, they of a sudden realize it'south five:45 and they accept to get to the schoolhouse reckoner lab, impress off their assignments, and mitt them in. And Jaiden's friend wasn't washed her project yet. Cue them both freaking out, her friend beingness forced to cut corners, Jaiden having to scour her room for a title folio to be stapled to the front, and them booking information technology to the lab (and for added stress, Jaiden'southward friend was having computer problem when Jaiden herself got there). They get their projects handed in literally at the buzzer, to the point where the professor, upon seeing Jaiden enter the room to hand her assignment in, simply said "Run."
- Some what Played With in "I Attempted a Speedrun (and got a world record)", While Jaiden is trying to go the fastest time she can, considering that there is no precedent for a speed run fourth dimension , she was able to be more than relaxed with her run.
Random Events Plot: The whole nature of her "Random Thoughts" videos is to make video on a slew of completely unrelated and even bizarre contemplations she had ane day.
Real Dreams Are Weirder: Jaiden'south scariest nightmare is this. She was backed up in the corner of a pitch blackness room, as Nuance from The Incredibles, and a shark would periodically try to bite her.
Jaiden: It sounds and so dumb when I say it out loud.
Refuge in Audacity: Jaiden managed to sneak a reference to Pewdiepie in one of the animations she fabricated for Youtube Rewind 2022. This is noteworthy given that YouTube seems to be trying to altitude themselves from him in spite of his popularity post-obit several nasty PR incidents of his, and the curt segment would probably non take fabricated the cut had it been whatsoever more than obvious. However, Jaiden has received praise, with some comments going every bit far as to say it's 1 of the few redeeming moments of the whole Rewind.
Ridiculously Beautiful Critter: Ari, Jaiden's adorable green-cheeked conure.
Running Gag:
- "Burnout & Overworking Yourself" has Jaiden come up up with diverse analogies to make her indicate virtually overworking, with the gag being that the subject of all the analogies remark that they actually are in the professions she's referring to.
  Jaiden: NO I ASKED YOU!
- Her mom hyperventilating every fourth dimension something new pops upwards to trouble her during the stay at Minneapolis.
- Her Starter killing a Pokémon she was virtually to grab, which happens at to the lowest degree twice in every Nuzlocke video.
- In "I Attempted a Two Player Nuzlocke", the running gag that her partner Jacob gets amazing randomized Pokémon encounters (legendaries, fully evolved Pokémon, etc.) while Jaiden herself often gets Com Mons. Then Jacob accidentally kills said amazing encounters before he tin catch them.
- Also in her Two Player Nuzlocke, NPCs highly favoring Jacob past giving him both absurdly powerful gift Pokémon and absurdly easy battle opponents, while those same NPCs seem to have Hate at Commencement Sight against Jaiden and gift her Com Mons against obscenely powerful battle opponants.
Sadist Teacher: As told in her "Crazy Substitute Teachers" video, Jaiden had one teacher who was closer to a war machine officeholder and then a substitute teacher, going every bit far as to scold Jaiden for non correcting him when he pronounced her name incorrect.
Second Place Is for Losers: Inverted. She actually prefers to be in second than in first because of the pressure and judgement of being first.
Security Coating: She's mentioned that she loves stuffed animals, and has a hard fourth dimension going to sleep without i.
Self-Imposed Challenge: In late 2022, Jaiden completed a Nuzlocke run of Pokémon Ruby and blithe the story.
Shamu Fu: At ane point in her video well-nigh Fossil Fighters, Jaiden fights a grouping of enemies by hitting them with a pliosaur.
Shout-Out:
- When recounting a childhood story about a crazy lady calling her Mabel, presumably confusing her with her own girl, Jaiden speculates what might've happened to the real Mabel considering how the lady believed she was traveling with a stranger (really Jaiden'southward dad). Who is represented by Mabel from Gravity Falls.
- In "Injuries and Being Sick", the school nurse is shown as Nurse Joy.
- She plays iDubbbzTV's Ricegum Disstrack over Ari dancing.
- In her fear video, she plays a SpongeBob SquarePants game.
- In the video nigh the grumpy teacher, she calls the teacher "Mr. Notwithstanding-to-be-Thrown-Out Lemon" because she says that his personality is like that of a rotten lemon that hasn't been thrown out by Oscar the Grouch.
- When talking about apples, she mentions that "braeburn" is a character from My Piddling Pony: Friendship Is Magic, showing the character of Braeburn looking at a braeburn apple.
- In "Things about Relationships I wish someone told me near" Jaiden mentions that most people don't wake up and say "Haha! I'm gonna be super manipulative today" with the stand in grapheme saying this highly resembling Himiko Toga possessing both her fangs and iconic, messy blonde twin buns hairstyle.
- In "My Childhood Obsession with Animals", Jaiden talks nigh how she got obsessed with birds and portrayed her character continuing in front of a bird cage. The birds are clearly based on the characters from Homestar Runner.
- In "Things that Happened While I Grew Upwardly", a pile of spaghetti boxes rains down from out of nowhere. Papyrus'south face is visible at the tiptop of the pile.
- In "I Attempted a Speedrun (and got a world tape)", which involves doing a Speed Run on Cooking Mama, she begs for forgiveness from Mama, Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima.
- In "What my trip to Nihon was like", she mentioned her dad wasn't taken out by the Japanese mafia and showed him waving happily next to both Dabi and Shigaraki.
- In the now-removed "I tried to trounce Minecraft with CallMeCarson", she mentions the moment she learned that YouTube was more than merely silly clips to share with your friends to make them laugh, and how the site has "channels, and subscriptions, and most importantly people played Minecraft on information technology." During this segment several pop YouTubers are shown, including Arlo, Scott the Woz, Life of Boris, Gaijin Goombah, and Domics, the latter of which she points out as beingness the first storytime animator she watched.
- In her video on ''Amazing Isle," the opening lines of the Oingo Boingo Brothers' end credits vocal appear in a Wall of Text Jaiden is quickly mashing through.
  - From the aforementioned video, towards the cease, Jaiden and her creations are seen doing the Canzoni Preferite dance.
Sick Episode: "Injuries and Being Ill" was nigh sickness. Jaiden was sick while making it, although she got improve for the end card.
The Snack Is More Interesting: Deconstructed in the SoulLink Nuzlocke. Jacob isn't paying attending to his fight in the Goldenrod Radio Belfry considering he's busy eating a chicken sandwich, which causes Obamatar, his Pupitar, to get killed by a Golem's Earthquake, resulting in Jaiden's Abomasnow getting killed, also. The gravestone says it all.
Sorry I got distracted by chicken sandwich, friend :(
Soup Is Medicine: In "Injuries and Existence Sick", she illustrates people beingness sympathetic for sick people but worrying about contagion with an animation of her giving a sick man a bowl of soup with a stick.
Spaghetti Osculation: Lampshaded but ultimately subverted when Jaiden threw Ari his tertiary altogether—Ari had made some other bird friend named Baby Jim and the two had a playdate for the political party. At one point, both birds kickoff eating the aforementioned strand of spaghetti and Jaiden immediately acknowledges the resemblance to Lady and the Tramp. Then, Ari takes the residual of the spaghetti and flies off.
Spell My Name with an "S": Ever since she was a child, Jaiden had a stuffed mouse toy named "Raul" but since she didn't know how to spell Raul at the time, it's spelt as "Raoole".
Strong Family Resemblance: She draws her parents as older clones of herself and her blood brother.
Take That!:
- Gives one to SoFloAntonio (and Facebook altogether) in her video on Impersonation.
  SoFloAntonio: I won't lie, this is definitely me when I'grand—
  Jaiden: [dubbing over] Stealing all your hard work, ya bimbo!
- "My Nightmare Group Projection" is a large one towards two unhelpful classmates she had to deal with. Though Jaiden did all of the work, her group totally didn't capeesh it, and Jaiden was too wearied to telephone call them out on it at the fourth dimension.
- In "Crazy Substitute Teachers", she remarks that a substitute teacher who failed to react to a girl choking on a carrot should commencement a reaction channel since he'd fit right in.
- In Jaiden's Pokémom Ranger Video, when Team Dim-Sun detonates a bomb, the bomb resembles a Wii U!
- After the release of "The Mind of Jake Paul," Jaiden has a lot of fun referring to Jake as a sociopath.
Taught past Television: In "What my trip to Japan was like", she mentions how her family unit went to a shrine in Kyoto with many statues of Shinto gods, and she said she already knew well-nigh Raijin "because it was the inspiration behind Thundurus."
Tempting Fate: Her parents warned her to tie her shoelaces and so they didn't get caught in her bike'southward wheels and brand her fall over. Immature!Jaiden scoffed at the notion...and so got her shoelaces caught in her bike'due south wheels and she fell over.
Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: In Jaiden's Pokémon Ruby Nuzlocke, she first encounters her Machop picking and wearing flowers. It'due south a quick indication that the Machop is female person.
That Came Out Incorrect: In "The worst matter that's e'er happened to me," Jaiden describes how wonderful she felt after getting an EpiPen for hives that she hopes the viewer almost dies from an allergic reaction too just so they can experience the glorious magic of an EpiPen. She then opens her optics to find a crowd of audience stand up-ins glaring at her.
Jaiden: I mean... I hope you never virtually-die... I'thou just sayin'... if you do...
Tertiary Heart: In "What my trip to Japan was like", Jaiden mentions she drank from a waterfall that was supposed to grant people wisdom if they drank from it, and she represents this by drawing herself with a tertiary eye on her forehead.
Toilet Humor: A decent part of "Ari's Birthday! (again)" talks about Ari's "Morning time Poops".
Translation Trainwreck: Jaiden downloaded an app designed to translate strange text through a smartphone camera for her trip to Nippon. Unfortunately, when she tried to use information technology, it seemingly translated each word individually and even translated textures, resulting in consummate gibberish.
Jaiden: I don't speak Japanese, merely I'm pretty sure they weren't selling a "surprised egg topping was the first fourth dimension the first time in fabric... this married woman".
Unexpectedly Dark Episode:
- "Why I Don't Have a Face Reveal," which deals with Jaiden's struggles with anorexia and cocky-esteem issues. It'south quite different from many of her previous works. She even lampshades this in the following video, acknowledging that many of her followers but concentrate on the fun stuff and aren't really into her talking about personal things.
- "I Attempted a Pokemon Platinum Nuzlocke" is too much less cheerful than her first Pokémon Crimson Nuzlocke. Role of this is due to the game having a much darker tone, part of it is because in Real Life, she lost her first run confronting the Elite 4, yet felt and then guilty nearly trying again that she wove it into the story. In-Universe, Jaiden becomes overwhelmed with guilt and existential doubt due to seeing flashes in a parallel universe of all her Pokémon dying horribly and her quest catastrophe in failure, so she can't enjoy her Pyrrhic Victory.
Unexplained Recovery: At the start of the SoulLink Nuzlocke, Jacob ends upwards killing Suicune, and in one case he and Jaiden caput into the Burned Tower, Entei is seen conveying Suicune's corpse on its back. Suicune somehow comes back to life and Jacob catches it in the Ice Cave, prancing with him and his Azelf.
Unluckily Lucky: In her SoulSilver Nuzlocke, Jaiden jokes near how she oftentimes gets Com Mons, which she has to apply in ridiculously imbalanced matches against Legendary Pokémon... withal manages to hold her own by the skin of her teeth.
Vomit Indiscretion Shot: In "I Attempted my First Pokemon Nuzlocke", Jaiden vomits on-screen after defeating Winona.
We Named the Monkey "Jack": In her Cherry-red Nuzlocke video, she named her Taillow afterward Ari partly because it'due south a small bird and mostly because its PokéDex entry described it equally "aggressive and screams when hungry".
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Jaiden is agape of loud-flushing toilets, her own easily being cold, and video games with fourth dimension limits.
Workaholic: By Jaiden'southward own access, she works style also much. Brought to a Deconstruction in "Burnout & Overworking."
- Jaiden expresses that working hard can be admirable, but admiring them and pushing yourself likewise difficult are very unhealthy things to do. She makes the comparison that you can admire someone who runs 50 miles, just if that same runner was going to run fifty miles without stopping for anything, even their own health, you should not merely not admire that, but try to intervene before they hurt themselves.
- She once described a typical piece of work day to a therapist, detailing how she wakes upwardly at eight in the morning, goes to bed at 1 AM, and leaves very fiddling fourth dimension in betwixt that for anything else also work. As soon as she describes her schedule, Jaiden remarks that she can see what the problem is.
You All Wait Familiar: At the fourth dimension she was well-nigh to end her Cooking Mama 2 speedrun, she had been and then invested in the run that everything effectually her, from YouTube, to her jiff, to her brain neurons, to every atom in the universe, begun to expect exactly similar Mama.