John Patrick "Jack" Douglass (born June 30, 1988), also
known by his YouTube username jacksfilms, is an American internet
personality, musician 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 April 2016, Douglass has
uploaded over 730 videos and attracted over 650 million video views and
over 2 million subscribers.
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.
After graduating from Atholton High School, Douglass went to
American University, where he majored in film and minored in music
theory.
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, The WTF Blanket (Snuggie Parody), on
January 22, 2009. Many of Douglass' early videos were parodies, often
about infomercials and Apple products.
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. His Your
Grammar Sucks series has been featured on Huffington Post. In it, he
makes fun of incorrect grammar, spelling, and punctuation found in
comments that have been submitted by his fans. The 100th episode was
released on November 20, 2015, as a one-hour video with many fellow
YouTubers featuring throughout. The series is also noted for the origin
of Douglass addressing 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 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.
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.
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, to parody Q&A videos.
In 2014,
Douglass' YouTube channel "jacksfilms" was listed on New Media Rockstars
Top 100 Channels, ranked at #54.
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 the 28th episode of his weekly series "JackAsk", Twitter
user @TheNathanSweet asked Jack a question, but Jack instead tweeted the
same question to his fans. 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.
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. Later
that night, the Jacksfilms channel hit 2 million subscribers.
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.
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, Onision 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)". 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.
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.
Douglass is also known for playing the role of Intern 2 on MyMusic,
a show funded by YouTube's $100 million original channel initiative.
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.
In October 2015, Douglass portrayed "Pippen" in the movie
Bob Thunder: Internet Assassin.
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