John Patrick "Jack" Douglass (born June 30, 1988), better known as jacksfilms, is an American

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. Douglass began his online career in 2006. His

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channel initially consisted of

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parodies, sketches, and comedic music videos.

Personal and early life

Douglass was born in

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, on June 30, 1988, and is primarily of

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ancestry. He has two older sisters. During high school he started to develop a love for music, and he learned to play the

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and the

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. In May 2006, during his senior year of high school, he created short video sketches for a school assignment, leading him to decide to create films. The next month, he started using YouTube and uploading videos. After graduating from high school, Douglass attended

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, where he majored in film and minored in music theory. On January 1, 2017, Douglass became engaged to his longtime partner Erin Breslin. The couple married on April 21, 2018. Douglass owns three

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s; their names are Klondike,

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, and

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YouTube career

Douglass launched his main YouTube channel jacksfilms on June 26, 2006. He uploaded "The WTF Blanket (

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Parody)" on January 22, 2009, which is his most-viewed video as of September 2022, amassing 25.6 million views. Many of Douglass' early videos were parodies, often about

s, and

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phones. In June 2011, Douglass began the series ''Your Grammar Sucks'', mocking internet comments with excessive grammatical and spelling errors. On June 27, 2013, the jacksfilms channel reached 1 million subscribers; this sits at a combined 5.33 million across his YouTube channels as of September 2022. In 2014, Douglass' channel jacksfilms was listed on ''

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'' list of the top 100 YouTube channels, ranked at #54. On January 8, 2014, Douglass launched ''JackAsk'', a series in which he satirically answers viewers' questions. On February 3, 2015, Douglass launched ''Yesterday I Asked You'' (''YIAY''), a daily series in which he reads his favorite answers from the viewers of questions he previously asked. In 2016 and 2017, Douglass released a series of phone commercial parodies, on the first-generation iPhone SE,

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, and

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. These parodies received media attention from ''

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'' and ''

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''. On April 15, 2018, Douglass won the 2018

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for YouTuber of the Year. After Douglass made videos poking fun at ''

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,'' he received a package from the film's marketing team on July 20, 2017, thanking him for being "the

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fan of ''The Emoji Movie''". They invited him to the world premiere on July 23, and sent ''Emoji Movie–''related merchandise. On January 4, 2021, Douglass announced ''YIAY TIME: The Game Show'', a new

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show. It premiered the next day on January 5, 2021, for free on Douglass's YouTube channel.

Appearances in other media

Douglass played Intern 2 on ''

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'', a 2012 webseries funded by YouTube's $100 million original channel initiative. In 2014, Douglass voiced Jimmy in ''16-Bit High'', an animated series created by

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. In October 2015, Douglass played Pippen in the 2015 film '' Bob Thunder: Internet Assassin''. Douglass appeared in the

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and

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editions of ''

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''.

Awards

Notes

References

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External links

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

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