Jacksfilms
Jacksfilms | |
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.jpg) Jack Douglass at VidCon 2012 | |
| Born | John Patrick Douglass June 30, 1988 |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Jack, Intern 2, Chad "Broseph" Huntington, Dennis, Jank Dingus, GamerGod88 |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Known for | The WTF Blanket, Your Grammar Sucks |
| Notable work | "Your Grammar Sucks", "Dubstep Solves Everything" |
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| Website | jacksfilms |
John Patrick "Jack" Douglass (born Columbia, Maryland, June 30, 1988), also known by his YouTube username jacksfilms, is an American internet personality and comedian on YouTube, known for his parodies of infomercials, skits and the Your Grammar Sucks series. Outside of his channel, he has also starred on MyMusic as Intern 2. Douglass' jacksfilms channel has over 1 million subscribers.[1]
Early life
Jack went to American University.[2] He majored in film and minored in music.[3]
Jacksfilms
| External videos | |
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 The WTF Blanket (Snuggie Parody) | |
| Your Grammar Sucks | |
| VidCon 2012 "Sideburns" Live Performance |
Jack launched his main YouTube channel, Jacksfilms, on June 26, 2006. He regularly uploads new videos to the channel. He has over 159 million video views and over 230 video uploads (as of July 9, 2013). The first video he uploaded was a commercial for the Handy Pen. The video featured Jack's family members. He later uploaded his most popular video,[4] The WTF Blanket (Snuggie Parody), on January 22, 2009.[2][5][6][7] As of May 8, 2013, the video has earned over 20.8 million views.[8] On July 1, 2012, Jacksfilms achieved 100 million video views. On June 27, 2013, the channel reached 1 million subscribers.[9]
Many of Jack's films are parodies, often about Apple products[10][11] and infomercials,[12] and his Your Grammar Sucks series, which has been featured on Huffington Post[13] in which he makes fun of incorrect uses of grammar, spelling and punctuation in YouTube and Facebook comments.[14][15] The most popular episode, which includes cameos by Sean Klitzner and Toby Turner, has garnered over 1 million views. Douglass addresses his fans as "biches", a misspelling of "bitches", which first appeared on the first Your Grammar Sucks. His most successful videos are either parodies, music videos, or sketches; bringing about a new series of videos, abbreviated as 'PMS'. Jack is also known for his Chad series which revolves around a "Delta Sig Delta" frat boy named Chad "Broseph" Huntington. Videos featuring Chad usually features the character giving a review of a movie, while having a buzzword or Chad giving work out advice. His channel also includes a mini-series called "DUBSTEP SOLVES EVERYTHING," a show currently consisting of 3 episodes that make fun of Dubstep music.
On December 16, 2012, the Fine Brothers released a video titled Teens React To Jacksfilms. Douglass saw a rapid rise in subscribers gaining almost 100,000 in the following week.
On February 28, 2013, Jack appeared in an episode of the Fine Brothers show "YouTubers React" called "YouTubers React to Rickroll". He has since appeared in three more recent "Youtubers React" videos, titled "YouTubers React to Japanese Commercials" as well as "YouTubers React to Fresh Prince Reunion" and "Youtubers React to K-pop".
Additional Channels
Jack also has four other channels, dubbed Jackisanerd, featuredfridays, SHUTUPDENNIS. He also has a secret channel called "catlvr6969",[16] which has been featured in some main channel videos. The Jacksisanerd channel is mainly used for video blogs and as of February 4, 2013, it has earned over 5 million video views and over 90,000 subscribers. Across his 5 channels, he has over 400 videos. Featured Fridays was originally a series on Jack's main channel before having its own channel for a brief period. The channel has been inactive since March 11, 2011. The channel "SHUTUPDENNIS" has been deemed inactive.
Collaborations
Jack's relocation to Los Angeles from Maryland offered opportunities to collaborate with fellow YouTube users and expand his audience. The success of his collaborations with Toby Turner and Sean Klitzner led to the trio being nicknamed "The Sideburns Crew" by their fans. Jack also filmed videos for Los Angeles-based YouTube partner Olga Karavaeva, more commonly referred to as Olga Kay. He has also collaborated with Shane Dawson; and more frequently with Vincent Cyr and Stefan Li among others. Jack was also featured as a voice guest on Thomas Ridgewell's animation asdfmovie4. On September 26, 2011, Jack uploaded Take Off Your Clothes (Like Scarlett Johansson),[17] on July 23, 2012, he uploaded The Ray William Johnson Song which featured ten other YouTube stars including Olga Kay, Felix Kjellberg and Steve Kardynal, and on September 23, 2012, he uploaded Your Grammar Sucks #40 which featured YouTube stars including the Fine Brothers and Brock Baker. On April 19, 2013, Jack uploaded "Your Grammar Sucks #50", which featured many popular YouTubers, such as Anthony Padilla & Ian Hecox of Smosh, Grace Helbig and Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie.
Events
In June 2011, Douglass visited E3 to help Toby Turner film footage for an E3 Video, Then in 2012 Douglass attended E3, this time to promote GREE. Later that month, during VidCon 2012, Douglass performed a live edition of his Your Grammar Sucks series. Douglass, alongside Toby Turner and Sean Klitzner performed a live version of their iconic Sideburns Song at VidCon 2012 as well.
MyMusic
Jack is also known for playing the role of Intern 2 on MyMusic, a show funded by YouTube's $100 million original channel initiative.[18] MyMusic has over 420,000 subscribers and 31 million video views as of August 25, 2013.
References
- ^ Sam Gutelle (July 18, 2013). "YouTube Millionaires: Jacksfilms Now Has Over One Million 'Biches'". Tubefilter. Retrieved August 25, 2013.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b "Cashing in big on viral videos". The Washington Times. Nov 11, 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
- ^ "ATV News - Jack Douglass". ATV News. Retrieved Jun 16, 2012.
- ^ Brookes May (Oct 25, 2009). "Student strikes YouTube gold". The Eagle. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
- ^ Ben Popken (Jan 31, 2009). "You Say Snuggie, I Say WTF Blanket". The Consumerist. Retrieved Jun 29, 2012.
- ^ "The WTF Blanket". CollegeHumor. Jan 26, 2009. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
- ^ Tim Nudd (Feb 12, 2009). "Be an utter tool, order the WTF Blanket now". Adweek. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
- ^ "Jacksfilms". Retrieved May 24, 2012.
- ^ Jack Douglass (June 27, 2013). "1 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS!!!". Retrieved August 25, 2013.
- ^ Joe Miragliotta (Oct 5, 2011). "THE NEW IPHONE 4S (PARODY) BY JACKSFILMS". Joe's Daily. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
- ^ "The Magical iPad(parody)". MMGN Apple. Dec 9, 2010. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
- ^ Lukas Kaiser. "The Commercial Parodies of Jacks Films". About Web Humor. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
- ^ "'Your Grammar Sucks': Jack Reads YouTube Comments (VIDEO)". Huffington Post. Jul 11, 2011. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
- ^ Julie Gerstein (January 28, 2013). "Be My Boyfriend: JacksFilms Dude Is The Ultimate Grammarian". The Frisky. Retrieved February 3, 2013.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Hank Moody (Jan 12, 2012). "YOUR GRAMMAR SUCKS!". News Flask. Retrieved May 24, 2012.
- ^ "catlvr6969's channel". YouTube. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
- ^ Joe Miragliotta (Sep 26, 2011). "TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES (LIKE SCARLETT JOHANSSON)". Joe's Daily. Retrieved Jun 29, 2012.
- ^ Connor Livingston (October 29, 2011). "YouTube expands its exclusive-content drive with 100 new video channels". Techi. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
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External links
- Jack Douglass' GET JACK'D live chat series on Vokle
- Douglass' iTunes account
- asdfmovie4, an extremely viral video which featured Jack as a guest voice actor