YMMV / Jacksfilms

• Awesome Music:
  • Dubstep Solves Everything. All three of them.
  • Any of the YGS raps.
  • For your consideration, Ayo Boi.
  • He turned Taylor Swift's angry declaration against the people into an upbeat song set to a happy piano. It's been widely seen as better than the original.
  • For the entirety of 2019, Jack posted "Twitter for Android", which was him writing exactly that, took a screencap of it, and repeated the process, adding onto each screencap with the previous Tweets. Eventually he'd change it up and write other words, which would then be the basis for a song that he wrote. After an entire year of, in his own words, a giant shitpost, he releases Twitter for Android, and it is glorious.
• Broken Base:
  • "Reacting to an awful react channel" split the base, due to Jack watching a reaction video of YGS #99 ^note in which the reactor didn't do anything and just watched the entire video on camera, which leads Jack to sarcastically comment "I really liked the part where you played the video in its entirety... and then didn't really react to it, just kinda sat there...", with some feeling that Jack was a little harsh and others feeling that he had a valid point in calling said channel out. Things have calmed down a bit since, with Jack clarifying in an interview that he had nothing against Jinx personally and liked him, but disapproved of said channel's methods.
  • YIAY has gradually become one, with some fans finding it low effort and just a way to get quick videos out, and saying it distracts from his other series. The fact that it has over 500 episodes while JackAsk and YGS are nowhere close to that doesn't help. Jack eventually acknowledged this in his "Burnout" video.
  • The "blind" format for the main three series (where the submissions are selected by a "council" so when Jack reacts to them on camera, that's his live reaction) introduced in 2020 has been controversial with fans. Some find the live reaction funnier, enjoy the new jokes that the council's existence brings, and are glad that Jack found a way to spice up series that he felt were getting stale. Others dislike the increased amount of Corpsing and the fact that Jack has less involvement in these series as he doesn't even choose the audience submissions anymore.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The amount of people that cannot spell "rapper" is disturbing and funny.
  • "If you don't like Christmas, you're probably a Jew / And I don't want nothing to do with you..."
  • His $10,000 Dog vs. $1 Dog video in the style of Buzzfeed involves a hefty helping of implied animal abuse. It really crosses the line when he claims he was sponsored by PETA.
  • i'm super sorry starts out as a Stealth Parody of Logan Paul's apology, but it quickly escalates in both absurdity and offensiveness of his "stunts" eventually culminating in him apologizing for killing Santa Claus so he could become the next Santa and poisoning the Gotham City water supply, taking it from a subtle parody to a scathingly and irreverently hilarious satire of celebrity ego and the undeserved forgiveness they'll get from their following.
  • From his Disney Channel audition: "Ruh-roh, which one will she pick? Sophie's Choice will be right back, here on the Disney Channel!"
• Fan Nickname: Episodes of YIAY (Yesterday I Asked You) post-Artifact Title are sometimes nicknamed TODIAY (The Other Day I Asked You), which was actually referred to as such on YIAY #34.
• Fandom Rivalry: Hilariously enough, with a Vocal Minority of PewDiePie fans who've accused Jack of copying Felix for making LWIAY, even though LWIAY was a parody of YIAY in the first place. Jack has done some tongue-in-cheek jokes towards Felix "plagiarizing" him, but says that he finds the rivalry itself stupid, and even dedicated an episode of YGS to the specific vocal minority accusing him.
• Growing the Beard: Jack's third channel, JJJacksfilms, started out as a Stealth Parody of reaction YouTuber SSSniperwolf making fun of her low-effort Captain Obvious style of reacting. However, since each episode was (deliberately) way, WAY too long, sometimes over 45 minutes to an hour of Jack giving the most banal commentary imaginable, the videos did very poorly. When the channel moved into a more straightforward satire and appraisal of SSSniperwolf's content thievery, it vastly surged in popularity, especially with the videos being much more bite-sized at around eight to ten minutes. As a whole, the channel finally settled into its identity after the "SSSniperwolf Bingo" concept was introduced, which makes the streams fun and the stream highlights fun to watch, as well as maintaining the channel's original intent by showing that SSSniperwolf's reactions are so predictable and cookie-cutter that Jack and his stream chat can play bingo off of them.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • All of Jack's fakey-douchey behavior towards Kristen, now that they've broken up (though it was supposedly on good terms). This also applies to the fake breakup videos, such as "Jackbuscus".
  • "Take Off Your Clothes (Like Scarlett Johansson)" sees Jack and other YouTubers making fun of Scarlett Johansson's nude leaks, going so far as to blame her for it for various reasons. Then people's nudes getting leaked to the internet became a major problem for people across the country.
  • In YGS 20, one of the episodes featuring Tobuscus, one of the comments is "Toby is an awesome raper", which played off of the neverending "raping/rapping" Running Gag. Bit hard to rewatch considering the rape allegations that Toby has gotten himself into nowadays.
  • Similarly, in YOUR GRAMMAR SUCKS #60, Jack reads a Toby hate comment to Toby, and part of it is: "he never touchd any grills".
  • In the very first Fix Your Bios YIAY, Jack thinks that Anthony Padilla's bio should say that he is Smosh and carries Ian... a year before Anthony left Smosh. Migitated since he returned in 2023.
  • In his parody apology video made after Logan Paul infamously filmed a dead body in a Japanese suicide forest and then apologized in a way many felt was insincere, Jack portrays a YouTuber who keeps apologizing the same way after making awful mistakes over and over. When Logan Paul got into hot water again for a video where he messed around with animal corpses, barely over a month after the suicide forest incident, Jack's video started to seem less exaggerated. Jack was not unaware of the comparisons.
  • A few of the quotes from the Avengers: Infinity War quotes YIAY count knowing what really happens in the movie. One standout is Jack saying, "That one hurts cuz you know it's real" to the quote "The Avengers will return in Infinity War: Part Two" when the actual teaser ended up being "Thanos will return."
  • One of the gifts from the "worst Christmas gifts of 2018" YIAY was some Grumpy Cat pajamas, with Jack sarcastically commenting that Grumpy Cat is still a very relevant meme. Grumpy Cat would become relevant the following year... due to her death.
  • In the "How do we fix YouTube?" YIAY at the beginning of 2017, Jack criticizes Vidme for being full of gaming videos and not standing out from YouTube. Vidme shut down at the end of 2017.
  • "Vine won't last forever" is right, Jack. It closed down on January 17, 2017, a whole three years after the video was made.
  • The "Make me and my son laugh" YIAY, sponsored by the war-themed game World of Tanks, was uploaded on the exact day Russia made their first military advance on Ukraine.
  • Many of the jokes pertaining to stalking or doxxing another person (especially Jack himself) are hard to ignore after Jack himself got doxxed by fellow YouTuber SSSniperwolf.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!: YIAY 139, YIAY 276, Top 10 WORST Flags in the World are infamous for Jack's bashing on Nepal's flag. These caused outrage to most of his Nepalese subscribers. A Nepalese user made a response video in light of the controversy. In Jack's defense of his videos, he made them just for satirical purposes and later apologized.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Jack often used "Damn, that's almost 100!" as a Brick Joke in various YGS sketches. Nowadays, the series has over a hundred episodes.
  • He took suggestions about what to do if he won Shorty Award for YouTuber of the Year, and the one he decided upon was to wear a fursuit during his speech. Then he made it to the finals, so he had to buy the fursuit (which was really just a Garfield costume from a Halloween costume website). Then the Awards happened and he won the award. And he did follow through on his promise.
  • The recurring Alexander Hamilton videos, basically puns personified, lead up to Jack claiming he'll make a part 4 "if Lin-Manuel Miranda's in". Which seems even more likely after Miranda was roped into the "Two Goats on a Boat" viral video, which has a similar premise.
  • One of the articles in "Fake News 2" promises an all-male remake of Ghostbusters (2016)^note mislabeled as Ghostbusters 2017 in the video. A new Ghostbusters movie was announced in 2019, set in the original universe, not the 2016 one.
    • Another one in "Fake News" says "Minions 2 confirmed (English subtitles too!)." Five years later, we've got Minions: The Rise of Gru.
  • At the beginning of "Better CIVIL WAR posters (YIAY #263)", there's a blooper where Jack coughs when he says, “Yesterday, I asked you,” and the “Y” that appears onscreen breaks into pieces and blows away, leading to comments about him predicting Infinity War. The fact that the video was Marvel related adds to the hilarious in hindsight-ness of it all. A similar thing occurs in YIAY #333, in which Jack asks for viewer submissions of getting rid of his forehead, and two submissions have them disintegrate into the void, which also lead to similar comments.
  • In "Royalty Free Christmas Songs 5," Jack makes fun of the controversy where Fortnite was accused of stealing other people's dances for emotes in their game, and offers them some "royalty free dances" that won't get them sued. Half a year later, Jack discovered an emote in Fortnite that suspiciously resembled his "Deep Dab" video very closely, despite Fortnite never contacting him about using the move, and cracked up about it (he did make a creator code for the emote to make a bit of profit).
  • In his "Auditioning for Jake Paul's role on Disney" video, Jack makes a joke about Family Guy airing on Disney Channel. Comments on the video pointed out how Disney later bought the rights to Family Guy through their purchase of Fox two years later, with at least one Disney channel (Freeform) airing the show with a Content Warning about how the show is not family appropriate. As of 2020, the show is even on Disney Plus internationally.
  • In YIAY #591, in which fans edited the infamous Garfield "pipe" strip, Jack laughs at an edit that replaces Garfield with Chris Pratt dressed up as Mario (a reference to his role in Illumination's The Super Mario Bros. Movie), remarking "Let's make Chris Pratt the new voice of Garfield. Would that fix it? I hope I never find out." Mere days after that video dropped, The Garfield Movie was announced... with Chris Pratt as the titular role! Jack was not happy about it.
  • In the "Fix YouTube in four words" YIAY from 2017, one answer suggests getting rid of dislikes. As Jack himself noted, four years later, YouTube changed the display so you can only see a video's likes.
• Ho Yay:
  • A bit in YGS #51, where he and his guest are drinking while repeatedly staring at each other in the eye, and at one point receiving a drink by having it go from the guest's mouth into his. Played for Laughs.
  • In #50, Jack gives a kiss to one of his male guests on the cheek, and a few times PewDiePie gets a bit close to him. Again, Played for Laughs to the point that the latter's the source of several outtakes because neither Jack nor Felix could keep a straight face.
  • Christmas Miracle, which features an all-male pillow fight, among other things.
  • Is he skateboarding still? WHO CARES. He's rich enough to get off his really tight ass and just make some more Tony Hawk vidya gamez.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • A light switch.
  • "Me me big boy" and other variants became a meme after Jack posted a video of the same name of him answering an advertising phone call by only saying the phrase.
  • The Emoji Movie and constantly mentioning its release date, as part of Jack’s ironic love for the film. This extends to the Just Dance app (which is now available for Android and iOS, if you didn't know) after Jack acknowledged some extremely subtle Product Placement in his Emoji Movie review.
  • I don't believe in X, I'm waiting until marriage.
  • ANTS ANTS ANTS ANTS ^ExplanationDue to an entry for his "YIAY Outros" video, which looped the first syllable of the word "answers"; is frequently quoted in comments.
  • YGS every Friday, guys! ^Explanation After YGS 100, YGS uploads became few and far between. This lead to Jack and his fans joking about this compared to his old schedule.
  • "Isn't America basically the planet?" ^note A quote from Erin in a JackAsk video, in response to Jack calling her out on mixing up Captain America and Captain Planet. Fans found it amusing.
  • After Jack's Hamilton parody song, where every lyric ended with making a rhyme or pun out of Hamilton's name (i.e, "Elton John's his favorite artist / Alexander Candle Wind"), it caught on, with fans making so many of their own verses, he had to make two more videos.
  • "Hey guys, very excited about today's video!"^Explanation The intro to the very panned "Jack to the Future", which became a meme for being associated with one of Jack's lowest rated videos, spurred by Jack himself.
    • "The first [x] with Tango!" ^ExplanationAnother quote from "Jack to the Future," often used in tandem with the above to poke fun at the Product Placement in said video.
• More Popular Spin-Off: Jack first included YIAY as a segment in his JackAsk videos, where instead of the fans asking Jack questions, Jack asked the fans questions and recorded his favorite answers. He liked the idea so much that he created a separate video series based on it. YIAY soon became the staple series of the channel, overshadowing JackAsk and all of Jack's other projects, to the point where YIAY continued with over 500 episodes, a live show on Twitch, and a live touring production based around the idea.
• Narm: Most of the comments in the YGS would be heartwarming, deliberately funny, sad or downright scary... but they contain so many misspellings that they just become laughable.
• Shallow Parody: Deliberately done so with the "Alexander Hamilton" videos. The character in the videos is "A guy dressed up as Alexander Hamilton who hasn't seen the show Hamilton but thinks he knows one of the songs... but totally doesn't, but just goes with it." The video and its YIAY sequels are each just a Hurricane of Puns rap that have very little to do with Hamilton, either as a real person or in the context of the musical, besides the period costume, a few odd references, and a short sample from the opening song of the musical.
• Spiritual Adaptation: There are some comments on how YIAY is basically "World's Worst" or "Scenes from a Hat" from Whose Line Is It Anyway?, especially when they're like this.
• Squick:
  • Jack points out that the amount of people who can't spell "rapper" and instead type "raper" is rather worrying. It truly falls into this trope, however, when people make this mistake with things which would otherwise be innocent and heartwarming. One of the worst examples would be that of a picture of a child being wrapped up, with the tagline "I raped my sister so she will be quiet". To put this in context, this happened so often that Jack had material to write a song about it.
  • A few younger users show that their age is partly to blame, if it's any consolation; at least a few times the named and shamed have their age typed. For example "I'm a rap(p)er and I'm 8 peace".
• Tear Jerker:
  • YGS #99. At the start, we learn that this will be the last song in the series and it is implied that number 100 will be the final episode.^note YIAY #98 revealed this to be false, but the emotion is still there. Jack then treats us to a medley of all previous songs in the series, evoking nostalgic feels. And for his final act, Jack sings a melancholy, heartfelt reprise of the outro jingle. The video ends on a white background with the caption, "See you at 100." Millions of biches cried immediately.
  • YGS 100, while mostly an example of a different kind of moment, his reveal that it would be the last special YGS is this. It could also qualify as a Bittersweet Ending, because it means he'll have more time to work on PMS.
  • After Sammy, Jack's dog, appeared in many of his earlier videos, this video definitely counts as one.
  • The Last JackAsk. It seems like it might be a joke, but then Jack starts being very serious about how this will be the final episode of one of his most beloved series, and that he only has 5 more episodes of YGS left in him, and it veers into Tear Jerker territory fast. He concludes the series with a somber, heartfelt piano reprise of his outro, and like YGS 99, millions of biches cried immediately. And then he brought it back with the new "blind" format.
  • In YIAY 463, one of the responses was of a memorial video of the posters dead dog. Jack, who joked around before and for the rest of the video, took it seriously.

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