Welcome to Psych IRL.
My name is Donna and this is YouTuber Comedy.
Story time! So I was at the cheesecake factory with a couple of friends and then I...
If you couldn’t tell, that was my attempt at recreating how Jack Douglas makes fun of
a certain topic.
But please spare me the harsh reviews.
When something becomes popular to the masses, it’s bound to be made fun of.
And there are only a few comedic youtubers that do this in an entertaining way.
You've been asking me to make this video for a very long time and today's video is going
to be about JacksFilms.
Ummm...
Oh oh ok.
My bad.
Before we like do it, do you want to get the video over there?
The boats?
Yeah.
No.
Why?
I get sea sick.
Do a video on JacksFilms this is the second time I'm asking!!!! lol ya jack is da best
he deserves more subs.
So, here’s the thing.
I’ve only recently started watching JacksFilms, so to understand his past better I asked my
friend Josh who is a fan.
Jack also wears his watch on his right hand.
I don't understand how he does that.
to explain Mr. Jack Douglas’s origin.
So when Jack was leaving high school, he first discovered that he was really into doing film.
So, that's what he decided to go to college for.
A couple of his friends were uploading some stuff on YouTube so he bought himself a digital
camera and started making his own parodies at the time.
He did a lot of infomercial parodies and on June 26th of 2006 he uploaded his first video
and he kept uploading parodies whenever he could.
That was pretty much what he did with his spare time throughout college.
In 2009 he uploaded what is still to this day his most popular video the WTF blanket
which is a parody of the snuggie.
The WTF blanket will turn you into a complete shut in that never leaves the house.
The video now has over 23 million views and from there his channel slowly started to build
until when he left college he moved out to LA.
He's been slowly building up a fan base, I believe now he's somewhere above 4 million
subscribers.
I could be wrong he could be at 5 million by now and even though compared to like some
huge youtubers that seems kind of small, he's worked with almost everybody who has been
a decent person and has mattered on YouTube.
Even though he's not by any stretch the largest youtuber, he's been around since the beginning.
He's really good while being authentic and himself, integrating that into his brand,
a business that he's building slowly over time and has been able to maintain that as
his job for over 10 years now.
Jack’s first videos are a true reflection of his current content.
Essentially they can be best described as him making fun of everything because he is
too afraid to confront reality.
No really, that’s how he describes himself.
Wasn't that fun? I guess
I think there are different ways to make fun of things, but I think JacksFilms does it the best
To better understand this, let’s look at how the YouTube community criticized Logan
Paul’s behavior where he documents him and his friends finding a body in Japan’s forest
The first type of criticism is the most common and mostly void of humor, where you state
the facts.
The video he ended up posting was titled "We found a D body in the Japanese forest..."
interpret the events.
It's not like this was an original idea from Logan Paul.
People on the internet go to the extremes, the weird, the horrible.
Obviously Logan Paul is the only one out of these videos that did feature a body
so I understand still the outrage. and then give your own judgement of the event.
What he did is infuriating, dehumanizing.
I don't know whether to be more shocked that he doesn't have enough people around him to
go that's a bad idea or the fact that he didn't have the emotional intelligence to realize
what he was doing was horrendous.
An interesting type of criticism to look at is in the world of comedy where the objective
may not necessarily be criticism, but humor.
Most creators use “insult comedy” as a form of critique.
It’s definition is exactly what you think it means.
I haven't actually watched Logan Paul's sorry video because most youtube sorry videos are
just cheesy.
Oh I'm sorry.
I know I messed up.
Almost all the time, every sorry video.
They always end it like this.
This type of comedy is often used at “Roasts”.
Notable comedians of insult comedy are Don Rickles, Ricky Gervais, and Seth Macfarlane.
In the commentary community, this type of humor is popular in getting a point across.
I uh.
I want to thank all the other comics here who have done an amazing job raising awareness
about themselves.
You guys have...
You come out here and just work your B material for cancer and we can't appreciate...
We can't appreciate it more than we do.
Where most creators use this kind of comedy to convey a point, Jack takes a different approach
What makes his critiques special is that, they fall into the realm of parody and anti-humor.
I had a severe lapse in judgement and I need to apologize.
I need to apologize for what I did.
I am sorry for saying "You can't see me" while at a school for the blind.
Yes, a lot of creators make parody videos, but I’d argue that many don’t do it as
well as Jack.
The genre was a very trendy topic for most creators to do, but many have quit once it
became saturated because it became hard to succeed at.
Jack has been one of the longest lasting creators that still continues to create parodies today,
and it can easily be explained by, he does it right.
In the early days of parody on YouTube, creators often just replaced words in a song and called
that a parody.
Technically, that is a parody but in my opinion, good parodies are recreations of the original
work, that show exaggerated features for comic effect.
Jack does this brilliantly.
Parodies are NOT just being able to replace every word in a song.
Jack also has an air of anti-comedy or anti-humor in his videos, where the viewer expects a
punch line and it’s flipped on its head.
Jack portrays this with his supposed “hate” for Jenna Marbles dogs.
Would you let Jenna come?
Uh I would.
I would, but only if she goes on stage to drown her dogs.
Nothing is safe from Jack’s antiques.
He’s made fun of his own wedding, Fortnite, the emoji movie (and somehow still getting
invited to the premier), and overall anything that trends on the internet.
Even with his series “Yesterday I Asked You”, the answers he chooses, also exaggerate
a feature for comic effect and has the element of anti-humor.
Parody seems like an art most beginning YouTubers are afraid to start because well it requires
more effort.
It’s easier to start a vlog than to compete with Jon Cozart’s After Ever After Disney Parody
And that’s unfortunate because this type of critique leaves the viewer with a different
feeling compared to that of “insult comedy” on YouTube.
I do think there is a place for insult comedy on the platform, but sometimes the jokes don’t
land because a critical part of insult comedy is missing, audience interaction.
Joseph Gordon Levit.
The only three words more boring than gluten free cracker.
Thanks for dressing up, Joseph.
You look like a on the way to prom.
Because that interaction is missing, insult comedy is sometimes mistaken as pure insult.
Wonder why ADD is on the rise faster than 4G LTE, but get a load of this.
Get a load of this.
F- I see so much!
Why doesn't everyone see what I see?
Is my collar up?
I see ahhhhh.
Is my collar okay?
He looks fly though.
Now, this feeling is dependent on the viewer but whenever I view a commentary video using
insult comedy I’m left with negative feelings against whoever they’re critiquing.
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing especially when the events needed reprimand, but when
a number of the community uses this as their form of critique it can be refreshing to see
criticism presented in a different way, in the style of parody.
I for example am an avid viewer of Philip Defranco, and when Jack uploaded a video poking
fun of his show, I didn’t have any negative feelings that I normally do when I watch criticism
in the form of comical insults.
Next up.
We have one of the most requested stories of the day today.
I'm actually dreading this one because it's about a close personal friend of mine.
I don't want to report this.
But let's just jump into it.
In fact, it just seemed like a friend making fun of another friend in a fun way.
It reminded me of how I treat my actual friends.
Being able to banter and poke fun of each other is a sign of close friendship.
This is the feeling I get from Jack’s videos.Yes, he does express annoyance at certain topics
through his videos.
But he does this through friendly banter.
There doesn’t seem to be ill will or personal vendetta, and that’s what separates his
channel from a lot of other creators.
It is undeniable that JacksFilms is good at what he does.
With the rise of negative commentary channels, it is rare to find creators who can throw
jabs at internet culture that have the criticized also laughing at their own actions
except Jake Paul.
Jack’s message is simple.
Instead of letting the annoyances in trending topics, controversial personalities, and ourselves,
over power us, learn to laugh at them.
Comedy is everywhere.
Even in the Emoji movie
Kachow!
Hey Everyone! I hope you liked that video.
I actually filmed this a while ago and it's been a long time coming since you asked this.
So, if you ever want updates on anything follow me on Twitter, on Instagram, and yeah.
We'll see you next time.
Stay Psyched.
Are you too close? Do you want me to move to the side?
Yeah move to the side more
Are you scared? Yes
I don't know why we're doing this and filming at the same time.
This might be a bad idea.
Oh my god! I have to steer.
We're going to go in between a bunch of people right now.
Hold up. Hold up.