- Hi, I'm Jacksepticeye
and this is the "WIRED Autocomplete Interview."
[upbeat music]
A lot of people
have a lot of very wrong information about me,
but believe it anyway 'cause it's on the internet forever.
"Why Jacksepticeye?" A question many people have asked.
I have no idea.
Why the [bleep] Jacksepticeye, should be the real question.
Am I allowed to swear here?
"Why is Jacksepticeye famous?" I don't know. [laughs]
The fact that all of you are Googling this
proves that as well.
None of us know. It's an enigma.
I uploaded videos. For some reason, people start watching.
I'm very grateful for it, but I have no idea.
An Irish accent goes a long way.
"Why does Jacksepticeye not drive?"
Come on. What is this?
I don't drive
because I don't wanna conform to the rest of you sheep.
I grew up in a small town,
I didn't need to drive to get anywhere.
I live in Brighton, now, in England,
public transport is amazing.
You people in America should really try it out.
I'll do it eventually.
I'll make like a whole documentary about it
and sell it to somebody.
"Why did Jacksepticeye change his name?"
What did I change my name from?
I mean, I'm Sean McLoughlin,
Sean is interchangeable with Jack in Ireland.
When I was in school, I got hit in the eye
and it cut open and it bled, and then it got infected,
and my friend called me Jacksepticeye.
I'll hold for applause.
"Why are Jacksepticeye's nails black?"
I know I haven't cleaned them in a while, but.
Don't get that on camera.
I painted my nails black once in a couple of videos
and everyone freaked out about it
and wondered why my nails were black.
I don't know. Am I allowed to throw this at somebody?
[board clattering]
"What is Jacksepticeye accent?"
Irish, from the county of Offaly in the Midlands of Ireland,
where a bunch of nobody's go and everyone lives in the bog.
"What does Jacksepticeye say in his intro?"
Top of the morning to ya, laddies,
but it's more of a, top of the morning to ya, laddies.
Sorry.
"What time does Jacksepticeye upload?"
Whenever I feel like it,
it's usually around 5:00 PM my time.
I went for five years,
when I started off my YouTube channel,
uploading twice a day, every single day,
without missing a single upload.
"What is Jacksepticeye's least viewed video?"
That's a good question. I don't know.
It's probably something really early on,
like "Crysis 3" Multiplayer Gameplay,
or something like that.
I have no idea.
"What breed is Jacksepticeye's cat BB?"
He's a stray cat from Japan
that my girlfriend, Evelien, found,
and he's just a mix of so many different breeds.
One part good boy, two parts shit-head,
but he's a great cat and he's lovely.
"What does Jacksepticeye's tattoo mean?"
Which one? Sort of an aficionado.
This one is from "Shadow of the Colossus"
which was my favorite game growing up.
It was the first game I played
that changed my opinion of games.
But then I got this one, which is now my favorite game,
which is "Bloodborne."
I have this one as well, which is from "Arrival."
A lot of people think it's a coffee stain
'cause I have a coffee company, but it's not.
"Jacksepticeye, who is he?"
I feel like we're all Jacksepticeye, it's a state of mind.
I am a loud-mouthed Irishman from the middle of nowhere
that no one ever knows where it's from.
I got very lucky and uploaded my voice to the internet
and people start listening.
It's probably the swearing and the accent though.
"Who does Jacksepticeye play as in 'Free Guy?'"
Thank you for putting "Free Guy" on this
and making me feel like a big time actor.
Thank you.
I play myself in "Free Guy."
When I talked to Shawn Levy about the role,
he wanted YouTubers and streamers and creators in it
who play video games, and I got to be in it as myself,
and you see my name written in it.
Funny story.
If you look at the URL, when I show up on screen,
Jacksepticeye is spelled wrong.
"Who does Jacksepticeye play 'Among Us?'"
That doesn't make any sense.
I just play "Among Us."
I'm bad at it but I play it with a lot of different people,
or have played.
Does anyone play "Among Us" anymore?
I'll switch it up. Keep you on your toes.
"Who inspired Jacksepticeye?"
I think I got inspired by a lot of people.
I've always watched movies and stuff growing up as a kid,
and when I was at home, when I was a child,
I was the youngest in a family of seven people
so I was always cracking jokes
and I was always making people laugh,
and trying to cut the tension.
But when it came to YouTube stuff,
I think the people who were all doing it back then,
like Smosh, Ryan Higa, Markiplier had just started,
I was watching some of his stuff.
Just all the greats who were starting it at that point.
The person who really made me do it,
is a YouTuber called LevelCapGaming
who did YouTube videos around "Battlefield."
He was the first person I saw, who I heard did it as a job
and I thought that that was the craziest thing ever,
and I was like, I wanna try this out.
"When did Jacksepticeye start his channel?"
I started the channel, technically, in 2007,
it's been up since then
but that was just to comment on stuff, and like stuff,
and watch the stuff that I really enjoyed.
I started making videos end of 2012.
Ever since then I've just been uploading,
but it was 2013 when I started uploading properly.
"When did Jacksepticeye blow up?"
Everyone thinks it's the shout-out
was when the channel blew up and made the whole channel,
but that is a misconception.
When the shout-out happened,
it got, I think it was 15 K subs,
or 20 K subs in the first two days
and then it just stopped dead,
but I think 2016 was when I had the biggest boom
in my whole career.
"When will Jacksepticeye upload again?"
I uploaded today, go watch it.
"When did Jacksepticeye dye his hair?"
I think that was 2016.
Mark was doing a sort of charity event
and he was talking about dyeing his hair blue,
and I was like, okay, pussy, do it.
I'll dye my hair green if you do it.
I've had my hair brown longer than I've had it green,
but for some reason
people think my hair has been green forever.
There's far more gray in it than I would like to admit
but it's natural.
You see that? Fake hair doesn't move like that.
"How do I contact Jacksepticeye?"
You put up a million dollars, I'll do anything for you.
If you find out where I live, I'm going to move.
"How to make a Jacksepticeye?"
When one person from a bog loves another person from a bog,
they get together in a swamp and make a sewer child
and that grows up to be a loudmouthed eejit.
"How many movies has Jacksepticeye been in?"
Just the one.
I've been in a couple of games and I've done some voices
for a couple of things here and there,
but for movies, I've only ever been in one.
"How to build Jacksepticeye's castle in 'Minecraft?'"
I don't even know how I built that.
I built it and then somebody immediately, an hour later,
uploaded a video of them building a better one,
so, poorly.
"How is Jacksepticeye."
You could have just ended there. No one ever asks that.
"How is Jacksepticeye doing?" Whoo.
I'm so sorry. I'm doing good.
I'm here doing a "WIRED Autocomplete Interview",
it's amazing.
Thank you very much.
"Is Jacksepticeye." I thought I said a methhead.
"Is Jacksepticeye a metalhead?" Yes I am.
I grew up listening to heavy metal because of my brother,
and then I start playing drums
and I've since done many, many things with metal,
and Tool are my favorite band.
"Is Jacksepticeye coffee good?"
Jacksepticeye coffee, good. Very good drink.
"Is Jacksepticeye called Jack?"
Yeah.
"Is Jacksepticeye in human resources?"
[board clattering]
Guys, there's so much on the internet that you can look up.
If you're Googling if I'm in human resources,
we need to have a talk with your parents
'cause they're not raising you properly.
"Is Jacksepticeye coming to South Africa?"
I don't have any plans.
I apologize to all of my South African fans,
I'll have to look up the analytics later
to see how many of you there are. It's probably like 12.
"Where was Jacksepticeye born and raised?"
I was born and raised
in a small town in County Offaly, called Cloghan,
which only had like 600 people in it,
and then I moved to a town near that called Banagher,
and then I moved
to a tiny, tiny, tiny town called Ballycumber.
I had no friends and nobody around me,
and that's when I lived in the log cabin.
"Where does Jacksepticeye live, Google maps?"
You trying to triangulate my location?
This is causing severe anxiety to build up in me,
all of a sudden.
Don't find me.
"Where is Jacksepticeye 2020?"
I'm very curious why anybody's Googling that.
Yeah, I took a bunch of breaks.
I realized that doing YouTube all day, every day,
and working yourself to the bone and into dust
is not healthy.
"Where is Jacksepticeye 2021?"
I've been where I've always been, on YouTube, making videos.
People are probably asking this one
because in 2021 was the year my dad passed away,
so right after that I took a lot of time off
to just grieve, first of all,
but also kind of like figure out myself.
"What is Jacksepticeye's favorite game?"
I talked about it a little bit.
Used to be "Shadow of the Colossus",
it's a very close second, now.
It was so emotionally attached to me,
and I was a depressed 16 year old when I played it,
but "Bloodborne" is now my favorite game
because it's the one that I go back to.
It used to be once a year
and now I play it like six times a year.
"What languages can Jacksepticeye speak?"
I barely speak English on the best of days.
I wish I spoke Irish,
not many people in Ireland where I was from
actually speak Gaelic Irish,
so I just never had a chance to practice it.
"What music does Jacksepticeye listen to?"
When I was a teenager it was that snobby behavior
of, I'm into heavy metal.
And I had a high and mighty attitude about music
'cause I played drums
so I thought I have better taste than everybody else.
I listen to everything,
but my main genre that I listen to is heavy metal.
"What is Jacksepticeye like in real life?"
I make a lot of jokes in real life,
so obnoxious is probably the answer
that I'm boiling this down to.
Last one. "Does Jacksepticeye watch anime?"
Hell yeah. Who doesn't?
I love voice acting, first of all,
it's one of my favorite things and it's one of the things
that got me into video games when I was a kid,
and I think anime is some of the upper echelon
of voice acting.
"Does Jacksepticeye have grey hair?"
Yes. I've had grey hair since I was 16.
I've been trying to figure out why
and I realized life is difficult,
and from a very young age, I understood that,
and the stresses of life kicked in quick.
"Does Jacksepticeye have a podcast?"
No, but I've always wanted to do one,
maybe a narrative-driven thing.
I have like a ton of ideas for a podcast
that maybe I could do,
so if people are Googling it, that means they want it.
"Can Jacksepticeye sing dance,"
be a lover, boyfriend, husband?
"Play drums?" Oh, that's much different.
Yeah, I can.
I'm not nearly as good as I used to be,
but my feet can fly, they're fast boys.
Last question, guys. Give it up for last question.
Lot of pressure on this one.
"Can Jacksepticeye age?" [board clattering]
You age all the time.
You're growing, evolving, your cells are dividing,
yet they can only do it a certain amount of times
and we're all gonna die eventually.
Thanks for having me guys.
- [Interviewer] What did you think about those searches?
Were any of them a surprise to you?
- A lot of them are dumber than I thought they would be.
Come on guys, we're better than that.
I thought we got past all this. [laughs]