Jack Douglass

Jack Douglass
Douglass at VidCon in 2012.
Personal information
Born	John Patrick Douglass (1988-06-30) June 30, 1988 Columbia, Maryland, United States
Height	5'10"
Nationality	American
Occupation	Comedian musician
YouTube information
Years active	2006-present
Genre	Comedy
Subscribers	2 million (jacksfilms) 330,000 (jackisanerd)
Total views	600 million (jacksfilms) 24 million (jackisanerd)
Network	Fullscreen
Associated acts	Vincent Cyr, Toby Turner, Brock Baker, Sean Klitzner, Olga Kay, Shane Dawson, PewDiePie, Fine Brothers, Roomie
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John Patrick "Jack" Douglass (born 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. His series JackAsk involves him taking questions from viewers and answering them humorously. Most recently, he began a series called Yesterday I Asked You (YIAY), which is based on a bit Douglass did in JackAsk, in which he asks his viewers questions and reads the best and funniest answers the following day. Outside of his channel, he has also starred on MyMusic as Intern 2, later known as Flowchart. He has also voiced the character Jimmy on Smosh's web series, 16-Bit High. As of February 7, 2016, Douglass has uploaded over 690 videos and attracted over 600 million video views and over 2 million subscribers.

Early life

Jack Douglass was born in Columbia, Maryland on June 30, 1988. He has two older sisters. Douglass went to elementary school and middle school in Maryland. He had come to find a childhood love with mathematics and English during attendance. Douglass stated in his Draw My Life video that his love for English was the inspiration for his creation of the Your Grammar Sucks series. During high school, he started to develop a love for music. He then began to play the French horn as well as the piano. In May 2006, during his senior year of high school, he was given the task of making a video about all the books he had read during the year. He and his friends decided to film a series of short sketches that made fun of books such as Beowulf and All the King's Men. After making these sketches, he decided that he wanted to make films to a greater extent. By the next month, he had begun using YouTube and had started to upload videos.^[1]

After graduating from Atholton High School, Douglass went to American University, where he majored in film and minored in music theory.^[2]

Jacksfilms

External video

The WTF Blanket (Snuggie Parody)

Your Grammar Sucks

VidCon 2012 "Sideburns" Live Performance

Douglass launched his main YouTube channel, Jacksfilms, on June 26, 2006, and he regularly uploads new videos to the channel. The first video he uploaded was a commercial for a device Douglass invented, called the Handy Pen, which featured his family members. He later uploaded his most popular video,^[3] The WTF Blanket (Snuggie Parody), on January 22, 2009.^[2][4][5][6] As of February 3, 2016, the video has received over 22.3 million views.^[7] On July 1, 2012, Jacksfilms reached 100 million total video views and, almost a year later, on June 27, 2013, the channel reached 1 million subscribers.^[8][9]

Many of Douglass's films are parodies, often about infomercials^[10] and Apple products.^[11][12] His Your Grammar Sucks series has been featured on Huffington Post.^[13] In it, he makes fun of incorrect grammar, spelling, and punctuation found in comments that have been submitted by his fans.^[14][15] The most popular episode of the series, #50, which includes cameos by over 25 other YouTubers - including PewDiePie, Toby Turner, Smosh, and others - has garnered over 5.39 million views. Douglass addresses his fans as "biches", a misspelling of "bitches" that first appeared on the first Your Grammar Sucks. His most successful videos are either parodies, music videos, or sketches; this brought about a new series of videos, abbreviated as 'PMS'. Douglass is also known for his "Chad" videos, which revolve around a "Delta Sig Delta" frat boy named Chad "Broseph" Huntington. Videos featuring Huntington usually feature the character giving a review of a movie, while having a buzzword or Huntington giving workout advice. His channel also includes a mini-series called "Dubstep Solves Everything", a show currently consisting of 3 episodes that parodies dubstep music.

On December 16, 2012, the Fine Brothers released a video titled "Teens React to Jacksfilms".^[16] Douglass saw a rapid rise in subscribers, gaining almost 100,000 in the following week.

In 2014, Douglass began having a higher frequency of uploads. He originally intended to release the 100th episode of Your Grammar Sucks in late 2014, but it was released in November 2015. On January 8, 2014, Douglass launched a new series entitled JackAsk where he answers viewers' questions in a comedic way.

In 2014, Douglass' YouTube channel jacksfilms was listed on New Media Rockstars Top 100 Channels, ranked at #54.^[17]

On May 6, 2015, Douglass uploaded his 500th video on the "jacksfilms" channel, which was a "Yesterday I Asked You" episode.

On November 20, 2015, Douglass uploaded the video "Your Grammar Sucks #100," which was an hour-long special including guest appearances from 52 different YouTubers.^[18] Later that night, the Jacksfilms channel hit 2 million subscribers. The video has over 2 million views so far.

PMS

In November 2011, Douglass announced that he would begin a new series under the name PMS (an acronym of Parody, Music video, Sketch). In it, Douglass would create a parody, a music video, and a sketch all in one video.^[19] The series began in March the following year.^[20] Eventually, Douglass only released one of the three types of video every Monday.

Your Grammar Sucks

Douglass's most popular series is named "Your Grammar Sucks". It began in June 2011, when one of Douglass's fans requested he make a video "making fun of YouTube comments." By popular demand, a second and third episode of "Your Grammar Sucks" were created, and it eventually became a series. Douglass has released 105 official episodes as of February 3, 2016, with extras such as two "YGS Live" episodes and four "Best of YGS" episodes. Most episodes are simply Douglass reading online posts out loud, typically ones that use notably bad grammar and spelling. In addition to the original format, there were some YGS formats that occur frequently until Douglass announced that they would end after the 100th episode:

• Episodes ending in a '1', starting with 21 (The United States drinking age) (21, 31, 41, etc.) are "drinking episodes" in which Douglass (portraying Chad) would take a drink every time he made a mistake or laughed while reading a comment, except for 91, in which Douglass (as himself) could not consume alcohol due to a diet.
• Episodes ending in a '5', Douglass would sing/rap to the comments.
• Episodes ending with a '0' would often feature a skit or several skits with other YouTubers.

The 100th episode was released on November 20, 2015, as a one-hour video with 52 guest stars. In the weeks leading up to it, Douglass released special YGS-themed videos to his channel, including the official trailer for YGS 100, "Best of YGS 4", and one six-hour-long video containing every "Your Grammar Sucks" episode at that point. The video contains: Jack Douglass, Sean Klitzner, Toby Turner, Vsauce, Markiplier, Ninja Sex Party, Charles Trippy, Grace Helbig, Michael Buckley, Jacksepticeye, Shane Dawson, Flula, Olga Kay, Douglass's girlfriend Erin, Peter Gilroy, Steve Zaragoza, Ryan Higa, Joey Graceffa, Jenna Marbles, Vsauce3, HowToBasic, PewDiePie, Superwoman, Maddox, Peter Hollens, TomSka, Vsauce2, Greg Benson, and Wheezy Waiter.

JackAsk

In early 2014, Douglass released a video titled "JackAsk" to parody Q&A videos. He then turned it into a weekly series in which he (and, in every episode ending with the number 6 (i.e. 26, 36, 46), his girlfriend Erin) answers fan-submitted questions in a humorous or sarcastic way. Episodes of "JackAsk" are released every Wednesday. Douglass has released 61 episodes of "JackAsk" as of February 3, 2016.

Let's Not Play

In 2014, Douglass began a new series titled "Let's Not Play" in which he pretends to play video games under the name "GamerGod88". The purpose of the "Let's Not Play" series is to parody gaming videos. Let's Not Play videos were originally released every day. This series went on hiatus briefly and returned with videos being released every Saturday. However, due to unknown reasons, Douglass discontinued this series, the last "Let's Not Play" video being uploaded on October 25, 2014, and as of February 3, 2016, Douglass has released a total of 15 "Let's Not Play" videos.

Yesterday I Asked You

In February 2015, Douglass started a daily series on his secondary channel jackisanerd titled "Yesterday I Asked You" (commonly abbreviated to "YIAY") in which he asks his viewers a question and reads the most humorous answers out loud. Its origins are in a September 2014 episode of his weekly series "JackAsk". He began to do it every episode until finally turning it into its own series. Within a week of starting the series, jackisanerd gained over 30,000 subscribers. Two weeks later, he began uploading the videos to his main channel. Jack's devotion to this series (as well as work on YGS 100) has caused the jacksfilms channel to be largely dominated by "YIAY" videos; other video series (Your Grammar Sucks, GamerGod88, PMS, etc.) have been uploaded less frequently. As of February 3, 2016, Douglass has created and uploaded more than 230 episodes of "YIAY". As of February 3, 2016, his most viewed YIAY video is #14 "Insults without cursing".

Jack Talks Trailers

On November 20, 2015, Douglass started a new series on the Regal Cinemas YouTube channel named "Jack Talks Trailers," in which he gives a brief recap of new movie trailers that are released within the past week. At the end of each episode, Douglass reads the opinions of people's thoughts about a specific trailer shown in the episode.^[21][22] As of February 3, 2016, there have been 10 episodes of "Jack Talks Trailers".

Short Shorts

On January 25, 2016, Douglass began a series called Short Shorts. This show consists of small cartoons and skits starring fellow YouTubers and animators. As of February 13, 2016, there has only been one episode, starring RageNineteen, Brock Baker, and Syphon.

Additional Channels

Douglass also has three other channels, dubbed jackisanerd, featuredfridays and SHUTUPDENNIS. The jackisanerd channel is mainly used for video blogs. It has earned over 24 million video views and over 330,000 subscribers as of February 3, 2016. Across his four channels, he has over 860 videos. Featured Fridays was originally a series on Douglass'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 also been deemed inactive.^[23]

Collaborations

Douglass performing with Toby Turner at VidCon 2012.

Douglass'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. Douglass 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, Vincent Cyr, and Stefan Li among others. Douglass was featured as a voice guest on Thomas Ridgewell's animation. On September 26, 2011, Douglass uploaded "Take Off Your Clothes (Like Scarlett Johansson)".^[24] 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. On September 23, 2012, he uploaded "Your Grammar Sucks #40", which featured YouTube performers including the Fine Brothers and Brock Baker.

On February 28, 2013, Douglass appeared in an episode of the Fine Brothers' show YouTubers React called "YouTubers React to Rickroll". He has since appeared in five additional episodes.

On April 19, 2013, Douglass uploaded "Your Grammar Sucks #50", which featured YouTubers such as Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox of Smosh, Grace Helbig, and Felix Kjellberg.

On November 20, 2015, Jacksfilms released "Your Grammar Sucks #100". It included many collaborations with over 50 YouTubers, including YouTubers such as Alex Wassabi of Wassabi Productions, nigahiga, Joey Graceffa, Jenna Marbles, HowToBasic, Shane Dawson, and several others.

Events

In June 2011, Douglass visited E3 to help Toby Turner film footage for an E3 video. 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 Sideburns Song at VidCon 2012 as well.^[25]

Outside Jacksfilms

Douglass as Intern 2 at VidCon 2012

Douglass is also known for playing the role of Intern 2 on MyMusic,^[26] a show funded by YouTube's $100 million original channel initiative.^[27] MyMusic has over 492,000 subscribers and over 44.6 million video views as of December 30, 2014.

In 2014, Douglass began voicing Jimmy, the protagonist in 16-Bit High, an animated series launched by Smosh Games.^[28]

In early 2015, Douglass starred in the Bart Baker parody of "Uptown Funk", portraying Mark Ronson.

In April 2015, Douglass starred again in a Bart Baker parody, playing the role of Harry Styles. In October 2015 he reprised his role in another Taylor Swift parody.

In the same month, Douglass portrayed "Pippen" in the movie Bob Thunder: Internet Assassin.^[29]

Discography

References

External links

• Jack Douglass' GET JACK'D live chat series on Vokle
• Douglass' music on iTunes