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7John Patrick "Jack" Douglass (b. June 30, 1988) is an American Website/YouTube personality, comedian, entertainer, and musician who runs the Website/YouTube channel Jacksfilms, which has become the home of several of his series.
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9His best-known series used to be a weekly {{Long Runner|s}} called ''Your Grammar Sucks'', where he reads aloud grammatically painful and typo-laden comments left on Website/YouTube and Website/{{Facebook}}. Amongst regular episodes, the series contained specials including skits and songs made entirely out of badly-written comments. The first "season" of ''YGS'' ended on November 20th, 2015 with its hundredth episode, a huge hour-long special.
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11While ''YGS'' was in the later episodes of its first season, Jack started a series called ''Jackask'' wherein his fans asks him all sorts of questions. It also infrequently featured him asking his fans questions, which eventually became its own series ''Yesterday I Asked You'', or ''YIAY''. This series started on his second channel, but he brought it over to his main channel, where it has become wildly successful ever since. In essence, from ''Your Grammar Sucks'', to ''Jackask'', to ''YIAY'', AudienceParticipation fuels these kinds of series.
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13His series are as follows:
14* ''[[FunWithAcronyms PMS]]'' ('''P'''arodies, '''M'''usic Videos, '''S'''ketches), which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
15** ''WebVideo/{{GamerGod88}}'', an occasional LetsPlay-parody series revolving around a fictional gamer.
16* ''YGS'' ('''Y'''our '''G'''rammar '''S'''ucks), a series poking fun at grammatically inept Internet comments, and his second most well-known series to date. During its first season, it premiered [[{{Tagline}} every damn Friday]].
17* ''[=JackAsk=]'', a sarcastic Q&A show which was retired in October 2020 until it was [[UnCancelled brought back]] in May 2021.
18* ''YIAY'' ('''Y'''esterday '''I''' '''A'''sked '''Y'''ou), previously a daily show, now broadcasted on Tuesdays and Thursdays, where Jack reads aloud fan-submitted answers to questions he poses to them. Is unique since it's his only series to start on his second channel and continue on his main channel (after 13 episodes). It is also his most well-known series to date, and is perhaps more widely recognized as the source of inspiration for LetsPlay/PewDiePie's ''LWIAY'' ('''L'''ast '''W'''eek '''I''' '''A'''sked '''Y'''ou), a less-than-subtle copy of Jack's series albeit with a different format[[note]]reviewing Website/{{Reddit}} submissions rather than answers to a question[[/note]]. It has over 500 episodes, putting it ahead of most of Jack's other series, and has spun off other series such as ''Fake Facts'' and ''Fix Your Pics.''
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20Jack's main Website/YouTube channel can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/jacksfilms here]], along with his [[https://www.youtube.com/user/jackisanerd second channel]], his [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMUyG01MXNeiTykIlvWwIRQ third channel]][[note]]Which is an ongoing TakeThat toward reaction [=YouTuber=] [=SSSniperwolf=][[/note]], and two old, unused [[https://www.youtube.com/user/shutupdennis behind-the-scenes]] [[https://www.youtube.com/user/featuredfridays channels]].
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22His (parodic) channel trailer can be watched [[https://youtu.be/eKs5k9KB63g here]], and a slightly-outdated one can be seen [[https://youtu.be/EnhZgSDV1sQ here]].
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24He has also done acting, namely playing Intern 2 on the web series ''WebVideo/MyMusic''.
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26He and his wife Erin began a weekly (later changed to monthly) podcast in 2021 titled ''[[https://podlink.to/ErinIsTheFunnyOne Erin Is The Funny One]]''. He also made a SpiritualSuccessor to his ''YIAY'' series in the form of a video game adaptation titled ''VideoGame/BeFunnyNow'', which can be played on [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.galvanicgames.befunnynow Android]], iOS and [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1644990/Be_Funny_Now/ Steam]].
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34* ActuallyAGoodIdea: In YIAY #580, one of the suggestions for the final fighter in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' is the pink girl from ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution''. Jack admits that that idea actually makes a lot of sense, and insists that Nintendo get on it.
35* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
36** Jack occasionally cracks up at comments on ''Your Grammar Sucks'' that are so-bad-they're-funny, but of special note are his drinking episodes where he has to take a swig ''every time'' he messes up or laughs (which, of course, he does).
37** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp5d3wzZraw YGS 84]]'' was a regular episode that happened to have such a high concentration of baffling & terrible comments that it gave Jack nearly-uncontrollable fits of laughter multiple times throughout it. This combination has made it multiple viewers' favorite episode.
38---> '''Jack:''' I'm glad this isn't the drinking episode.
39* AdamWesting: In "50 Facts You Can't Even", WebVideo/MatthewSantoro stars {{as himself}}, parodying his own "50 Amazing Facts To Blow Your Mind" videos.
40* AffectionateParody: [[https://youtu.be/hmwme8DtAFY His parody]] of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' gained some controversy from viewers who thought he was disrespecting the series. Jack replied that it was "a parody FROM a fan TO the fans", and that making a parody couldn't pay it any higher praise.
41* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Chad's antics make frat boys look like teetotalers by comparison.
42* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[invoked]] {{Exaggerated|Trope}}. He interprets [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]] as a surly, bitter, drunken schoolteacher with frequent fantasies of violence who is in a very unhappy marriage with Miss Piggy.
43* AlterEgoActing: Jack plays Chad "Broseph" Huntington, the backwards-cap double-popped-collar-wearing drinkin' fool.
44%%* AmbiguouslyEvil
45* {{Angrish}}: The comments in [[CapsLock ALL CAPS]] in ''Your Grammar Sucks'' are always interpreted this way.
46* TheArtifact: As of 2021, the YIAY theme song, which goes "Leave your answers in the comments below, I'll pick my favorites in the next episode of YIAY." It still plays at the end of YIAY episodes despite Jack almost never asking viewers new YIAY questions in the YIAY videos themselves anymore (he instead asks questions and collects answers via the community tab) and no longer choosing the best answers himself (he outsources the answer selection to his "creative council" so he can be surprised on camera).
47* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In his [=SSSniperwolf=] exposee video, he criticizes a number of her actions before saying the other primary reason he's making the video is that she [[BaldnessMockery made fun of his hairline]].
48-->'''Jack:''' Now that's something only my wife, friends, family and viewers get to do. Not you, [=SSSniperwolf=]. Never you.
49* ArtifactTitle: The questions in ''Yesterday I Asked You'' aren't asked the day before the episode any more. They are now asked about a week beforehand so that Jack can stockpile episodes.
50* AudienceParticipation: His channel basically ''thrives'' on this.
51** Most, if not all, of YGS' material comes from user-submitted comment screencaps, with YGS #50 and #60 being particularly notable for being the first to include fan submissions.
52** All questions in ''[=JackAsk=]'' come directly from fans.
53** YIAY (Yesterday I Asked You) where he asks his fans certain questions and features the best and funniest of their answers in his videos.
54* AutoTune: Parodied in [[https://youtu.be/vygiNAk8d9Y&t=105 Dubstep Solves Everything 3]] when "Auto-tune Jesus" is called upon.
55* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[https://youtu.be/MO0zP-SB5hk In Fixing Your Flags]], one user smugly challenged Jack to fix the Australian flag. So how does Jack fix it? [[TakeThat Turning it into the British Flag]].
56* BerserkButton:
57** Jack tends to react badly when particularly bad comments get a high amount of likes. It's taken to its logical conclusion in YGS 57, where his reaction to a particularly bad comment getting an absurd amount of likes is to angrily lunge at the camera.
58** He is also not a fan of WebVideo/RayWilliamJohnson, although he has made it clear that he respects Ray's ability to get people such as Robin Williams into his videos, and would also try to keep conversation polite despite not liking his work.
59** One made apparent by ''[=JackAsk=]'' is when people submit incredibly random questions in attempts to sound funny, citing the rule that "RANDOM doesn't always equal FUNNY"- especially made clear in ''[=JackAsk #10=]''.
60* BilingualBonus: The YGS comments in Spanish and Portuguese, which he'll read in a hokey Latin accent, while pronouncing laughter ("jajaja") with the English J.
61* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In "When is something no longer cool?" (YIAY #287):
62-->'''Comment 1''': When Hillary Clinton does it.\
63'''Comment 2''': When it's on [[Creator/EllenDeGeneres The Ellen Show]].\
64'''Jack''': How about when Hillary Clinton does it ''on'' The Ellen Show? Oof, that is a ''dead'' meme. That is ''super'' dead.
65* BreadEggsMilkSquick:
66** His list of curse words in ''[=JackAsk=] #8''.
67--->DANGIT\
68DANGUS\
69DANG\
70DARN\
71DERN\
72GOAT-FUCKER
73** The list of songs in ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'':
74--->I Love Rock and Roll\
75Rolling Stones\
76Pebble For Your Thoughts\
77Elsa's Dead Parents
78** One answer for THE MEANING OF LIFE (in four words):
79--->Live, laugh, love, arson
80* BrickJoke:
81** In "Escape the Friendzone" (YIAY #89), one commenter leaves an answer to the question from YIAY #88 (superhero names and powers) instead:
82--->Name: Internet Explorer\
83Superpower: Too late to post a comment.
84** Jack uploaded a video on jackisanerd called [[https://youtu.be/Uy3ls4FA6go My shot glass collection (part 1 of 2)]] which was used for [[https://youtu.be/0FAPvS1L3Ww Every Leafyishere video ever]], in which WebVideo/{{GamerGod88}} briefly mentioned that it will have a part 2.[[spoiler: That part 2 is the majority of his 1000th video special]]
85** Throughout 2019, Jack had posted the phrase "Twitter for Android" on his Twitter, while interspersing the tweets with seemingly unrelated phrases on certain days. One year and three days later, Jack uploaded [[https://youtu.be/ujZcM-DSamA Twitter for Android]], a song that turns the unrelated words into a piano piece.
86** In "Fix Your Pix #4," Jack struggles to fix a picture of a man in a trenchcoat and a fedora, other than putting a sign in his hand saying, "One at a time, ladies." He notes that they'll come back to the trenchcoat guy in a little bit. Sure enough, a few images later, he "fixes" a picture of a woman who said her husband pointed out cross-eyes in her photo. Jack instead gives the girl FishEyes...and adds an image of the trenchcoat guy, declaring that it's the girl's husband coming back, and photoshopping his sign to say "HOORAY! You're no longer cross-eyed! I love you now!"
87* BrokenRecord: The candy cane song ("''stab x16''"). Even more so when he re-sang the song in a promo video for his [=YouNow=] chat that he was doing that day, when the aforementioned "stab" part is looped extensively to the point where people in the comments report hearing an entirely new word.
88* ButtMonkey:
89** Kristen. Even retroactively, in YGS #48 when the line "i thinking now on my girlfriend" brings up a picture of ''Jack himself in drag'' rather than Kristen. Although this is justified by them having broken up by then.
90** Thanks to the fan submissions, Olga Kay has repeatedly been mentioned on YGS for her struggle with grammar. [[RunningGag OH OLGA.]] She's appeared in special skit episodes of YGS, though, showing she has a sense of humor about it.
91** "Billy" ([[MaliciousMisnaming whose real name is Jason]]) in the Kermit animations, whom Kermit picks on more than any of the other students.
92** Jack himself tends to take this role in YIAY and [=JackAsk=] videos, where commenters frequently make fun of him in their answers. Examples of how this plays out include making fun of his forehead, implying that his marriage is fake or that he's holding his wife captive, and claiming that [=YouTube=] isn't a real job or that he isn't funny.
93* CallBack:
94** In "Scary Stories with Kermit", Kermit uses the line "shut up, sh-shut up," in reference to ''WebVideo/GamerGod88''[='=]s first Dark Souls 2 video.
95** For a ''YIAY'' video about the best place to hide a body, Jack re-donned the ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' getup that he had worn four years prior in a ''Dexter'' parody sketch.
96* TheCameo:
97** Jack appears briefly in the music video of Music/NinjaSexParty's "Cookies!", only surviving for a good five or so seconds before Ninja Brian breaks his neck.
98** Jack appeared with [[WebVideo/ScottTheWoz Scott The Woz]] in ''[[https://youtu.be/mhbVUf3yyB0 Borderline Forever]]'' as Hector Andfriends, host of [[TalkShow Throats For Thought]].
99* CarpetOfVirility: Despite his boyish face, he has a surprisingly hairy chest. Enough to [[https://youtu.be/m2430TdH62A shave]] into a [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Nolan!Batman symbol!]]
100* CatchPhrase:
101** Since [[https://youtu.be/gsecDcTpVmw Your Grammar Sucks #1]], he's used the word "biches" to refer to his fans. In fact, a lot of his Catch Phrases originated from [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA6687CF25DE17420 Your Grammar Sucks.]] Quite a few of them also double as RunningGags.
102** "That's almost a hundred..."[[labelnote:Explanation:]] At various points throughout YGS' history, he's said something along the lines of "Episode X? That's almost a hundred!" Becomes an IronicEcho when Jack does it in YGS '''#99'''.[[/labelnote]]
103** ":a what a fucke?!" [[labelnote:Explanation]] Ever since [[http://youtu.be/el5rMq0TMUM?t=39s this]] entry from episode 21, he's used this sound bit/video clip/quote whenever he comes across a particularly baffling comment. [[http://youtu.be/IDmz7K385Qw?t=16m43s Behold,]] [[http://youtu.be/DS_zQw61PQE?t=11m22s all of them.]][[/labelnote]]
104** "Oh, Olga!" [[labelnote:Explanation]] Fellow [=YouTuber=]/IRL friend Olga Kay, of Russian descent, has some trouble with the English language in written form (she's fluent in speech) despite having lived in the U.S. for quite a few years, and Jack features one of her comments every once in a while in an episode of YGS, followed by him exclaiming "Oh, Olga!"[[/labelnote]]
105** "Help me clean up [=YouTube=]! If you see an amazingly bad comment on the Internet, take a screencap of it and send it my way either via Twitter or my Facebook fanpage." [[labelnote:Explanation]] His plug at the end of every episode for sending him possible YGS entries. He eventually turned it into a jingle.[[/labelnote]]
106** When he gets two contradicting comments in ''YIAY'' (ex: "fuck bitches get money", "get bitches fuck money"), he'll say "Which one do I believe?"
107** "Me Me Big Boy!" was coined when Jack trolled a telemarketer by constantly repeating the phrase. Now it's become a mainstay of his channel, with Jack even putting the phrase on a shirt.
108%%** "Let me know if I nailed it or failed it."
109%%** "Cool cool" has become one as of late, mainly through ''YIAY''.
110%%** Nowadays he ends episodes of ''YIAY'' with "Godspeed."
111%%** "Nailed it."
112* ClipShow: [[https://youtu.be/IDmz7K385Qw Every]] [[https://youtu.be/DS_zQw61PQE one]] [[https://youtu.be/F-N2XKqapug of]] [[https://youtu.be/bin54qdtEcY the]] ''Your Grammar Sucks'' specials.
113* ClickbaitGag:
114** The video "[[https://youtu.be/TduUs_DVIB0 I Have Something To Tell You]]" has a thumbnail with Jack on the verge of tears and opens with him struggling to speak as he tries to admit something... before he says he created the video title and faked crying to emotionally manipulate the viewer into clicking the video. [[AWildRapperAppears And then he raps about it.]]
115** "[[https://youtu.be/YcwGLjl2W_s The CLICKBAIT Game]]" has Jack list all of his fans attempts to make clickbait titles out of everyday situations like "I ate Chinese food." From prompts like that, we get divine listicles like "DOES CHINESE FOOD MAKE YOU GAY?", "MY BEARD GOT DRUNK (THREESOME!?)", and "why im shutting down my channel (not clickbait)."
116** "[[https://youtu.be/K-wIguaX97I YIAY #354]]" features fan-made thumbnails for the YIAY video, most of which exaggerate Clickbait staples, such as light nudity, giant red arrows, promises of face reveals, guilt-tripping, and the obligatory (not clickbait) text. The thumbnail that he loves the most is one that says "Youtube DELETING THUMBNAILS?", which he would've used for the video, but he didn't want to be sadistically manipulative. He instead used one he showed earlier in the video where his head is changed to a thumb; he admitted in the video that he'll probably end up using it for the episode instead of the manipulative one, but it was up to Jack in the future to determine if he'll use the manipulative one or be branded a coward:
117---> '''Jack:''' "I will end up using this one as the thumbnail, or, if I'm brave, I'll use the last one in this video. Eeeh, we'll see how cowardly I feel."
118** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2tO4sH1Apc Taking accountability]]" was named as such as part of the video's gimmick -- a YIAY episode where the fans named the episode. Not only was "Taking accountability" the very first submission Jack reads out, but they found it so funny and such a good answer that [[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure every other submission was compared to it]]. Jack went ahead and used it, along with a serious thumbnail, which at the time, had no sign that it was a YIAY episode until the viewer clicked on it (it has since been amended with the normal YIAY suffix and episode number, but the thumbnail has remained the same).
119* ClusterFBomb[=/=]ClusterBleepBomb: When Justin Bieber searches up puberty and then [[ItMakesSenseInContext super puberty]] in [[https://youtu.be/LuiNcI2RMTk this video]].
120* CockFight: The plot of [[https://youtu.be/vygiNAk8d9Y Dubstep Solves Everything 3]].
121* ColbertBump: [[invoked]] This is the concept behind the revamped [=JJJacksfilms=] "Creator Bingo", which has Jack react to and shout out smaller creators who send their work in for him to play bingo to. This process is supposed to mirror and satirize a common claim that internet content thieves make about how they're giving smaller creators more exposure, but in a way that actually credits the creators that Jack reacts to which (hopefully) allows them to actually get an increase in their channel numbers.
122* ConfusingMultipleNegatives: A YGS episode has a VoiceClipSong based around "there's never not not nothin".
123* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: A yearly tradition is a YIAY episode called "The Worst Christmas Gifts", which has been done every year since 2016, and Jack showcases submissions of horrible Christmas gifts that his audience have gotten. Contenders include Christmas decorations or Christmas-themed clothes (which are useless until the following year), gamer quote T-shirts, unofficial video game novels, "make a meme" card games, calendars for the same year they were received (eg. a 2020 calendar received on Christmas 2020), and a drawing book of pooping animals.
124* TheCoverChangesTheMeaning: [[https://youtu.be/W4Kenluneho His ballad-esque cover of Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy With It"]].
125* CrappyHolidays: "The Thanksgiving Song" is about how much Thanksgiving sucks, especially compared to Halloween and Christmas.
126%%* CurseCutShort: Often used in ''YIAY'' or ''Jackask''.
127* CuttingBackToReality: The main gag of the "DUBSTEP SOLVES EVERYTHING" trilogy is that Jack is performing dubstep in real life. We get scenes of him dancing to dubstep music...only for it to cut to the other character's perspectives, in which he's just flailing around and making the sounds with his mouth.
128* DarkReprise: At the end of YGS #99, Jack sings a very melancholic, ballad-y reprise of the series's cheery outro jingle. [[TearJerker It hits HARD.]]
129* DisappearedDad:
130** Referenced in Jackask #38, where most of the answers to his Twitter question (what do you want for Christmas?) are along the lines of "a dad"/"my dad to come home".
131--->'''Jack''': So I asked you all on Twitter, "what do you want for Christmas?" Here are your best answers: "a dad", "A dad", "a dad", "a dad", "your Mum.", "my dad", "My dad to come back", "my dad to come back", "my dad to come back from the store"-''aw'', is that what he told you?-, "[[WellDoneSonGuy my dad to finally call me son]]". [[BlackComedy Dark.]]
132** Gets a CallBack in the following week's PMS, "9 New Christmas Songs".
133--->"Christmas Dad": ''(singing):'' I wish I had a dad for Christmas... ''[{{Beat}}] (talking over the backing track):'' He told me he was going to the store... ''[{{Beat}}]'' I don't think he did.
134** And in "Top 10 Top 10 Lists'", when one of the "top 10 words from 2014 that should stay in 2014" is 'dad', and Jack adding "dads aren't even real".
135** One YIAY question asked of fans was "How do you be a good dad?". Overuse of this trope in responses caused Jack to [[https://youtu.be/MygwdRvknj8 scrap the episode altogether]].
136* DontExplainTheJoke: In "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB1yclKts-Y I made your terrible video ideas]]," one request was for Jack to give "an obnoxious and redundant explination ''[sic]'' of the previous sketch." Cut to a "Jacksfilms Director Commentary" in which Jack explains all the jokes in the previous sketch, with the camera zooming in creepily on him as he does.
137* DrinkingGame:
138** The "Chad" episodes of ''Your Grammar Sucks'', where Chad has to knock one back every time he corpses or otherwise flubs the reading.
139** "YIAY 500" features a drinking game with Jack and his friends, where they all have read YIAY answers and take a shot if someone laughs.
140* DudeNotFunny:
141** Jack's reaction to serious comments in ''YIAY'' will actually be more of a [[InvertedTrope "dude, not UNfunny"]] sort of thing, since Jack will seem very shocked by the comment and might even tell the commenter to calm down, stating that ''YIAY'' is a ''comedy'' show.
142** In one episode of ''YIAY'', Jack read off some answers that viewers gave him of book sequels they'd like to see. [[https://youtu.be/lA5Hpo72r0Y?t=68 One answer was]] ''[[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl The Diary of Anne Frank]]: Anne Goes to Hollywood''. Jack reacts with, "That's awful," though he does hide a smile.
143* DullSurprise: Jack gives a major announcement at the end of Jackask #24, but only gives it a single sentence at the end of the video.
144--> '''Jack''': New "[=JackAsk=]" every Wednesday. ''[...]'' "New "Your Grammar Sucks" every Friday, and a new "PMS" every Monday. WebVideo/{{GamerGod88}} is coming back every Saturday, ''[Jack cringes]'' Oh God.
145* EarlyBirdCameo: A bizarre comment in YGS 67, expressed with each word swapping letters out for symbols or incorrect letters and which Jack dubbed the "greatest comment ever" for the ride it took him on, actually made a brief appearance three years before in YGS 18, where he only showed it in silent, head-shaking disapproval due to its visibly obnoxious writing style. He evidently found it rewarding in a sense to actually read it out for it to gain the title it did in YGS 67.
146* EdibleThemeNaming: Jack names all his toy American Eskimo dogs after frozen treats featuring vanilla ice cream: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_bar Klondike]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundae Sundae]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipwich Chipwich]].
147* EntitledToHaveYou: The (parodied) message of "Dubstep Solves Everything 3" is that, because Jack wins a fight over the girl, he gets to have her, regardless of her wishes.
148* EpicFail:
149** He once tried to prank call Toby Turner and say that his girlfriend was pregnant, with him not knowing what to do. Toby was ''watching the livestream he was doing this on'', and Jack didn't bother checking to see if he could.
150** Jack once spent five days attempting to recreate a Reddit stunt on Website/YouTube by writing over 700 comments for [[https://youtu.be/eIDMXnLkPvo one of his own videos]]... and never once realized that most of them would get buried after a few minutes, thus ruining the joke. He laments this in [[https://youtu.be/cIHOI2NHrQ4 his next video.]]
151** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IscvX2IUKqw Guess the Wikihow Article]] is basically Jack doing one long string of incorrect wikihow article guesses from out-of-context images from genuine articles. Of the 36 his council picked for him to read, he got 13 right (four of which were close enough to the real answers the editor let them have the point).
152* EvenTheSubtitlerIsStumped: Averted with one a fan who sent in a book of sheet music for all of Jack's songs. As it turns out, it [[https://youtu.be/hGRsNjaCLIE?t=168 even has lyrics for the Dubstep song]].
153* ExactWords: In "Fix Your Pix #4," somebody asks for Jack to photoshop some "hot chicks" into the image. Jack responds by putting in photographs of baby chickens that he supposedly heated up in a microwave.
154%% * FlippingTheBird: At the end of his first ''[=JackAsk=]''.
155* FreezeFrameBonus: In YIAY #565, he talks about Music/OliviaRodrigo's "good 4 u" being a hit on [=TikTok=], showing the Musical.ly logo onscreen. For a split second, you can see the logo change to the Website/{{Vine}} logo.
156* TheFunInFuneral: [[https://youtu.be/-rLluHH-bSo YIAY #572]] has the audience requesting absurd things at their funeral such as having restaurant employees sing the birthday song after the eulogy.
157* FunWithAcronyms:
158** The mainline content is classified as ''P''arody, ''M''usic Videos and ''S''ketches. What's the grab-all term for them? '''PMS'''.
159** His advertisements at the end of the Jackask videos and some of the PMS episodes use this as a RunningGag, making a company's name (most commonly Audible's) into an acronym. Finally lampshaded and defied in #38:
160--->'''Jack''': "Audible" stands for... nothing. Because it's not an acronym, it's the name of a cool company that has thousands of audiobooks from which to choose from, ''it's not that hard to get!''
161** One video's premise was meant to be the opposite of YGS, "Your Grammar's Awesome", or "YGA". On its own, "YGA" doesn't mean anything, but he deliberately made the logo loop continuously around the backdrop of the video, running together into "G AY".
162* GilliganCut: This one in "''Fix Your Pix''" #3, when someone asks Jack to give a cat with the missing right eye in the picture an eye:
163-->'''Jack:''' ''[after giving the cat an eye]'' See? I told you I would. What, you thought I was gonna do some messed-up shit—\
164''[cuts to a CNN article with a picture of the same cat, this time with multiple eyes scattered around its face]''[[AC:Neither science nor God can explain foul abomination found in gutter.]]''"'Burn it. Burn it. Burn it till it's dead and keep burning,' shrieked both [[UsefulNotes/ThePope the Pope]] and UsefulNotes/NeilDeGrasseTyson in unison."''
165* GlassWeapon: Made fun of with one entry of the "WORST INVENTIONS" YIAY being "a glass hammer".
166* AGoodNameForARockBand: One comment that was featured on a ''Your Grammar Sucks'' episode was "Abortion sucks and should be [[RougeAnglesOfSatin band]]" - Jack agreed that Abortion ''should'' be a band.
167* GrammarNazi: Jack's ''Your Grammar Sucks'' series showcases the worst mangling of the English language found in comments across the Internet. He admits that his strictness comes from having studied English.
168* GrandFinale: YGS #60 was played up to be this, [[BaitAndSwitch but it ends up being averted]]. It was then said for a while after that YGS #100 would be the finale of the series, and was hyped up as such for months, only for Jack to reveal in a YIAY that the series would continue afterwards.
169* HalloweenSongs: "Razors In Your Apple" parodies the common scare about bad things being in Trick-Or-Treat candy by insisting "all of your candy's got to go".
170* HereWeGoAgain: In "Tube News", when Jack sees some drama on Twitter and proceeds to have what appears to be a mix between a seizure and an orgasm in the middle of an interview.
171-->'''LetsPlay/PewDiePie:''' ''(in the background)'' Not this shit again!
172* HitlerAteSugar: "If you don't subscribe, that's fine. You know who else didn't subscribe? ''Hitler."''
173* HopeSpot: At the end of YGS #100, it appears as though Jack has finally managed to clean up [=YouTube=], only for yet another bad, bad comment to show up.
174* HurricaneOfPuns: This instance from "Strokemeister" combines this trope with AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle.
175-->'''Chad''': Hey America! Wanna look ''ab''tastic? Then quit choking down the cheeseburgers and start stroking your way to an ''ab''normally ''ab''stract ''ab''yss. You wanna know my ''ab''pinion? Check yourself into reh''ab'' if you don't h''ab''pen to get the re''ab''tions you want!
176** Exaggerated in "WTF Blanket 3: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Awful Pun Overload]]".
177* HypocriticalHumor:
178** [[https://youtu.be/0a6bS6s2UUo A MESSAGE TO ALL YOUTUBERS]] involves Jack advising them to keep their endings short. Most of the video itself is taken up by him plugging the Gatorade drink.
179** "You don't have to end every sentence with 'tho' tho."
180** In "Fix Your Pix", expect Jack to say "I hate watermarks", then delete the watermark of the requested image, then insert his own.
181* ImAHumanitarian: In the [[https://youtu.be/hmwme8DtAFY Sherlock parody]], Sherlock sees a dab of ketchup on Watson's mouth, a half-eaten burger, and a bottle of ketchup. What does he assume? [[spoiler:Watson killed and cooked someone into that burger.]]
182* ImprobablyPredictable: [=SSSniperwolf=] is so predictable in her video reactions that the [=SSSniperwolf=] Bingo board is full of incredibly specific reaction events that always pop up, such as calling somebody "bro" or narrating the video's description herself. After a certain point, Jack even added a "Jack predicts what [=SSSniperwolf=] says" bingo space because he kept guessing out loud what surface-level observation she would make next and getting it right, sometimes ''word-for-word''.
183* IncrediblyLongNote: From one of his ''[=JackAsk=]'' videos: [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 "Do you wanna build a snowmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa--"]]
184* InhumanEyeConcealers: A common gag in "Fix Your Pix" videos is that he'll "remove" hair or glasses that are hiding someone's eyes to get a better look at them...only to discover they're not at all human. Then he'll promptly close them again.
185* IntentionallyAwkwardTitle:
186** In 2008, there was a video made in which two Jacks played pool against each other. What did he decide to name the video? [[https://youtu.be/y2TJ1ABXt1I "Playing]] with [[{{Pun}} Myself".]]
187** In 2014, he released a video titled [[https://youtu.be/6dQBTdUlT18 "50 Amazing Facts that will Blow You]][[labelnote:note]]away"[[/labelnote]].
188* ItMakesSenseInContext:
189** [[https://youtu.be/EiM8HRefY3k Invoked]] by [[https://youtu.be/ujzfv5Mg47c any]] sketch episode, by attempting to build context for the horrific comments in sketch style. The result is an {{homage}} to ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' or ''WebVideo/AMVHell''.
190** [[http://youtu.be/el5rMq0TMUM?t=39s The "A what a fucke?"]] comments, when Jack himself has no idea what the context could possibly be.
191* ItsTheJourneyThatCounts: Jack, in YIAY #256: "It's not just a mobile game, it also fosters relationships between friends and family. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Now if only it could get rid of this zit.]]"
192* JokeAndReceive: In YIAY #530, Jack uses a program that animates still photos. He receives a photo of a guy with an odd beard and remarks on how hurtful it'll be when the program can't detect a face. The program actually can't detect the face, surprising Jack as he was just joking.
193* JumpScare: At the end of "'LYMPIC GAMES, 'LYMPIC GAMES", Jack runs into his green screen and it suddenly cuts to his bloody face screaming at the viewer.
194* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Many of the grammar and spelling errors Jack mocks end up with someone saying something dirtier than what they intended, like "Huskies are the most genital dogs ever" or "I feel an asshole".
195* TheLancer: Cyr. Sean Klitzner, Roomie, Tobuscus, Olga, and Erin have all have filled in this role as well depending on the particular video.
196* LargeHam: At points.
197* [[LongSpeechTeatime Long Note Teatime]]: Towards the end of [[https://youtu.be/DXtXHkgalwM the Valentine's Day song]]. It's not even that long.
198* MadnessMantra:
199** [[https://youtu.be/SabcO9j09GE TOP 10 YOUTUBERS]] quickly devolves into Jack chanting "THEY'RE ALL PEWDIEPIE" while he slowly becomes a crazed fan.
200** Jack repeats the question "[[https://youtu.be/oRbRNWFr1dc?t=28s How many hours do you spend to edit videos?]]" twice on his computer while saying it in real-life as he turns towards the camera.
201* MicrowaveMisuse: In a BlackComedy example, the video "punishing my terrible dog" has Jack care for his dog, Klondike, whilst doing the ''Film/BirdBox'' challenge [[note]]doing normal activities blindfolded[[/note]]. At the end, he mistakes the microwave for her crate and puts her [[note]]really an obviously fake dog[[/note]] inside, and turns it on thinking he's locking her in for the night.
202* MistakenForGay: Several ''[=JackAsk=]'' questions, especially in [[https://youtu.be/37zQdiwqQr4 the first one]], involve whether or not he is gay.
203* MoodWhiplash: Jack often uses these tropes to comedic effect, often overlapping with BreadEggsMilkSquick:
204** In ''YGS'':
205*** [[http://youtu.be/fyKxp5e9Lf4?t=2m53s This]] expletive-filled, ranting YGS entry inexplicably ends with the words "I like that", and Jack reads it accordingly.
206*** YGS #88's final comment has this, lampshaded by Jack:
207---->'''Jack''': "It's pretty bad that people wait an entire year before bringing something special back up. I'm not only talking about 9/11 but also Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentines day... You have 365 days to tell your parents you love them. You have 365 days to tell your significant other you love them and appreciate them. And you all have 365 days to remember 9/11... So why do you only choose one day out of the year to remember? I'm sorry but it seems to me that [[spoiler:some people use it as an excuse to be more racist than normal]]." ''Where did that come from?!''
208** In ''PMS'':
209*** "Website/YouTube Is Not a Job" has Jack defending his channel as a legitimate career choice to his family before they agree to watch a video of his to convince them that he does more than just "make cat videos". Cue Jack's supposed latest video, [[spoiler:"Top Ten Farts"]].
210*** From "#[=ChristmasMiracle=]", ''"We'll cuddle by the Christmas tree/[[spoiler:Doesn't matter if you're not 18!]]"''
211*** In "Christmas is my favorite freaking holiday", the songs becomes intentionally offensive[[note]]Intentionally so because it is being sung to Sean, a Jew[[/note]], but then...
212---->''Christmas is my favorite freaking holiday!''\
213''It's not like any other freaking holiday!''\
214''[[MoodWhiplash If you don't like Christmas, you're probably a Jew]]''\
215''[[CrossesTheLineTwice And I don't want nothing to do with you]]''\
216''Bum bum, bum bum, bum bum ba-dum bum bum''
217** Used near-constantly in the Kermit animations.
218--->'''Kermit''': ''Ghosts aren't real, but my lust for blood is.''
219** From "9 New Christmas Songs": ''Candy canes, candy canes, lick 'em in a spear and kill your enemies! Stab (x16)-'', and later, when ending the video:
220--->'''Jack''': They sound like Christmas songs you know, but they're not, it's all an illusion, life isn't real, happy boxing day!
221** "Top 10 Top 10 Lists" has a few instances of this: 'Top 10 Songs' is comprised mostly of both real and fictitious pop songs from modern artists, before abruptly ending with #1 being [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX "At Zanarkand" by Nobuo Uematsu]]. 'Top 10 Shades of Grey' ends with #1 being "my soul". And probably the biggest use comes from 'Top 10 words from 2014 that should stay in 2014', when the background music even cuts out when Jack reveals the number one word to be [[spoiler:'ebola']].
222--->'''Jack''': And the number one word from 2014 that should stay in 2014... [[spoiler:'ebola']].
223** Jack uses this trope in almost every episode of ''YIAY'', ending with a somewhat thoughtful comment, immediately followed by a joke one. Sometimes, he just ends the video on the serious comment, although this trope is still in play.
224* MotorMouth: ''Alexander Hamilton 3'' has an incredibly fast rap section that only lasts 8 seconds:
225-->'''Jack''': My name is Alexander Hamilton, I hammer all my haters\
226With an avalanche and cavalcade of proof that they don't stand to win.\
227It's sad that you don't see it, you need bifocals and glasses man.\
228Imagine that, you're damaged, and your friends have all disbanded. DAMN!
229* MundaneMadeAwesome: ''Dubstep Solves Everything'', where Jack tries talking to his parents or winning a girl's heart through dancing to dubstep...although occasional cuts back to reality show that the concept is ''way'' cooler in his head.
230* MyEyesAreUpHere: Said by Chad in ''Get Pumped with Chad'' after the camera focuses on his pecs.
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233[[folder:N-Z]]
234* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer:
235** The gag of [[https://youtu.be/SCfA1hbowcw "Things Trump Said (YIAY #184)"]] is that the supposedly fake quotes that people have sent Jack are actually '''genuine''' things Trump has said in public. Every time this happens, he puts a screenshot of the quote from an article for proof. Lampshaded by Jack by pointing out that [[DidntThinkThisThrough "he's starting to sense a pattern" in the submissions.]]
236---> Comment: "We'll build a giant wall, and make the Mexicans pay for it"
237---> Jack: "I'm...uh...starting to sense a pattern here..."
238** One submission in "Movies in Haikus (YIAY #193)" is about a movie with Franchise/ScoobyDoo and Wrestling/JohnCena in it. Jack assures the viewers that [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWrestleManiaMystery the movie in question]] is indeed real.
239* OhWaitThisIsMyGroceryList: One person decided to be clever when [[https://youtu.be/2J5us5gukkc?t=58s making an acronym for the word "vote".]] Jack doesn't take too kindly, as usual.
240* TheOner: In July 2023, Jack's PC broke, preventing him from editing videos. He responded by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAan3Zd9GI4 doing a YIAY episode entirely in one take]].
241* OverlyLongGag:
242** The first ''[=JackAsk=]'' in its entirety only consists of one question: "Are you gay?"
243** Similarly, [[https://youtu.be/CrpJQEXY0mI "JACKASK #23"]] consists entirely of people criticizing his [[PornStache mustache]].
244** Nepal's flag gets this unwanted treatment [[https://youtu.be/7Aiyi77M_vI in one YIAY]] after angry Nepali viewers critically disliked "Top 10 Worst Flags in the World", an entirely tongue-in-cheek video that mocked several other flags as well.
245* ParallelPornTitles:
246** One YGS video has a comment misspelling ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' as "Mass Erect," which Jack notes should be the name of the porn parody.
247** In [[https://youtu.be/Rpf-JKKXj-A the 2021 iPhone conference parody]], "Tim Apple" notes that you could use the iPhone to make a porn parody of ''Film/KnivesOut'' called ''Thighs Out.''
248* {{Parody}}: Jack specializes in critically mocking things that he finds ridiculous.
249** Boybands are a recurring thing - "Christmas Sex" is a style parody of the Music/BackstreetBoys, and a Music/OneDirection spoof called "Paperbag" has been done.
250** And of course, there are his ever-present {{infomercial}} parodies.
251** ''And'' his series of {{Literature/Twilight}} "in a minute" videos.
252** And whenever a new Apple product is announced, expect a Jacksfilms parody soon afterward.
253** There's also the series of parody commercials for the [[https://youtu.be/h05ZQ7WHw8Y Snuggie]].
254%%* PetTheDog: Some of the Your Grammar Sucks comments earn a SlowClap from Jack.
255* PleaseSubscribeToOurChannel: At the end of every episode of YGS, Jackask, YIAY, and its spinoffs, Jack asks the viewers, "Please subscribe for more [[[CouchGag thing related to the episode]]]" and directs them to the previous episode.
256** Inverted in "WTF is Jacksfilms":
257-->SUBSCRIBE TO [[LetsPlay/PewDiePie PEWDIEPIE]] INSTEAD
258* PoesLaw: Inverted. At least one intentionally bad comment has gotten onto Your Grammar Sucks.
259* ThePointsMeanNothing: In 2021, Jack introduced "YIAY Tokens", an imaginary virtual currency that he sometimes gives to or takes away from his fans based on how good or bad their YIAY submissions are. They're awarded and deducted completely arbitrarily, hold no practical value, and very obviously aren't meant to be taken seriously, but that hasn't stopped [[https://twitter.com/TokenYiay one dedicated fan]] from creating [[https://yiaytokenleaderboard.com a YIAY Token Leaderboard]].
260* PokeThePoodle: In Jackask #97, when asked what Jack would do during Film/ThePurge, where all crime is legal for 24 hours, Jack menacingly replies, "I would upload full episodes of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' straight to [=YouTube!=]"
261* PreciousPuppy: Jack owns three adorable toy American Eskimo dogs named Klondike, Sundae, and Chipwich, and loves to show them off for the sake of cuteness. Klondike was introduced in the 59th ''YGS'' episode (in September 2013), Sundae was introduced in the 230th ''YIAY'' episode (at the start of 2016), and Chipwich was introduced in the 501st ''YIAY'' episode (near the end of May 2020). As a fun fact, as stated by Jack, Sundae and Chipwich are biologically sisters - this is because Sundae's mom and dad[[note]]named Chloe and Glacier respectively[[/note]] had a second litter. Before this, Jack had Sammy in his earlier videos.
262* PrecisionFStrike:
263** In "Dubstep Solves Everything 2":
264---> '''Jack's mom''': What is dubstep?\
265'''Jack''': That's a good ''fucking'' question!
266** Another in his ''Drama is More Popular Than Content'' video. "We're in the thick of it. And I'm ''goddamn motherfucking'' sick of it."
267** In YIAY #473, Jack boasts that he is "the first [=YouTuber=] to sell a fucking straw." [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes,]] [[https://crowdmade.com/collections/jacksfilms/products/jacksfilms-mystraw it's real]].
268* ProductPlacement: "Jack to the Future" is sponsored by the Lenovo phone, which Jack used to make the higher-budget video. He uses the phone several times in the video to show off its features.
269* RacistGrandma: One of the songs in the fifth installment of "Royalty Free Christmas Songs" has Jack excited to visit his (fictional) grandma for the holidays, but her immediate response to seeing him is to ask if he's still "seeing that colored girl." Jack stands in silence for a second, then silently decides to leave her house.
270%% * RecurringRiff: [[UsefulNotes/SuperBowl Super Bowl. Super Bowl. Gotta have me my Super Bowl]]...or [[UsefulNotes/OlympicGames 'Lympic Games]].
271* RedundantParody: The ''Franchise/{{Shrek}} 5'' story YIAY has some gags comparing Puss in Boots to ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}, including a line where Puss says, "I hate Mondays". Puss had already said this in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2''.
272* RevealingContinuityLapse: PlayedForLaughs in "Your Editing Lacks Continuity". Jack is having a dinner with his family as they critique his videos having continuity errors. Of course, that video is full of outrageous mistakes as the conversation is happening, from everyone's clothing and food changing, to the television in the background being turned on and off between shots, even his father turns into a dog briefly, all the while Jack tries to defend his continuity abilities.
273* RosesAreRedVioletsAreBlue: [[RhymesOnADime Done seven times so far, in Yesterday I Asked You.]]
274* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Obviously parodied quite a lot in Your Grammar Sucks and some of his PMS videos. For example...
275** [[http://youtu.be/fyKxp5e9Lf4?t=1m6s Mixing up "Gentle" and Genital"]] (whoopsie daisy).
276** A double offender: "[[http://youtu.be/R7HcBngM4Ko?t=5s This is Evan worse then 9/11]]".
277** Jack reading comments that have "defiantly" in place of "definitely" [[http://youtu.be/DS_zQw61PQE?t=18m12s is fairly common,]] and it's become a RunningGag for Jack to use the [[UpperClassTwit Sophisticated Man voice]] whenever he comes across one with it in it. Similarly for whenever [[http://youtu.be/IDmz7K385Qw?t=2m32s somebody mistakes "Collage" for "College".]]
278** The infamous [[http://youtu.be/DS_zQw61PQE?t=14m33s Rapping/Raping Rapper/Raper]] thing. Jack even had to make [[https://youtu.be/NARxgXEdlzs a damn song]] out of it.
279** "Top 10 Top 10 Lists" features Jack (intentionally) misreading ''Film/AirBuddies'' as ''Film/AirBud Dies''.
280* RuleOfThree: YGS 15, 25, and 99 each end in the same two comments:
281-->''thumbs up and copy+ paste in every''
282-->''this is the best song every :)''
283** Similarly, "theres never not not nuttin" shows up in YGS 10, 50, and 99.
284* SanitySlippage: The Narrator in the "Royalty Free Christmas Songs" series starts out as a mere happy-go-lucky pitchman but in later installments, his sanity goes out the window as he gets arrested for [[NoodleIncident an undisclosed crime]] and claims to be the servant of an [[SdrawkcabSpeech unpronouncable]] eldritch entity.
285* SarcasmBlind: Jack makes fun of the people who take offense to satire. Particularly the "Top 10 WORST Flags" video and the fake feud he had with Pewdiepie over ''LWIAY''.
286* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Jack's reaction to how the last comment got 214 likes in ''Your Grammar Sucks #43''.
287* ScrewYourself: At one point in "Royalty Free Christmas Songs 9", Jack falls in love with his own clone, and somehow manages to conceive a child with him.
288* SelfDeprecation:
289** Approximately 80% of comments featured in ''YIAY'' are direct insults to him. At least one of those was by his parents.
290** Olga Kay showed up in person in YGS #40 to acknowledge her poor grammar skills.
291** In his "acceptance speech" ''YIAY'' episode, one commenter stated that they would thank Jacksgap for being the only successful Youtuber named Jack. Jack himself then disproves this... by stating that there's also WebVideo/JackSepticEye.
292** Jack lists a group of fellow [=YouTubers=] who could beat him up, and they include [[WebVideo/RhettAndLink Link]], Tyler Oakley, and [[WebVideo/CutiePieMarzia Marzia]].
293** At the YIAY Live Show, Jack gives out copies of his book as prizes.
294--> '''Jack''': And the most underselling [=YouTuber=] book in history... this is more proof [=YouTubers=] shouldn't write.\
295'''Jack''': You get a poster! And a 25-cent book!
296* {{Sequelitis}}: InUniverse, he sings a song lamenting the declining quality of the two ''Film/TheSantaClause'' sequels, in the fifth installment of Royalty Free Christmas Songs.
297* SerialEscalation: [[https://youtu.be/nC9OX4pfjjE YGS #60]]. Despite being just 10 eps after #50, they crank the guest stars and the fan submissions ever further.
298* SexWithTheEx: Stated by one comment in ''[[https://youtu.be/nIdhjVbC5yA?t=26s YIAY #116]]''.
299* SherlockScan: Parodied in his [[https://youtu.be/hmwme8DtAFY Sherlock parody]], where Sherlock assumes that Watson [[spoiler:killed someone and cooked them into the burger that he was eating.]]
300* ShoehornedAcronym: A common gag involves turning words into acronyms, most notably as a RunningGag for Audible sponsorships. Very rarely do they ever make sense; words are misspelled to fit the scheme, sometimes only the first few letters are utilized, and they almost never have anything to do with the actual word the acronym is for.
301--> ''AUDIBLE stands for...'''A'''nchovies, '''U'''hhhhh, '''D'''ill Pickles, '''I'''iiiiiiiii, '''B'''acon, '''L'''ettuce, '''E'''verything.''
302* ShoutOut:
303** One comment in ''Your Grammar Sucks #48'' is most certainly a reference to ''My Music''.
304** Another one in #49 attempts to sum up ''Series/DoctorWho'', which works as well as you'd expect.
305** In [[https://youtu.be/TG6LeucT_5Y Jack's "dream interpreting" episode of YIAY]], he came across a comment that described a dream where a satellite came down and crashed on someone's house. Jack gave two explanations: they had Instagram haters, or they've been watching ''Film/DonnieDarko''.
306** Another dream was that someone was a dragon who got hungry and ate their own family. Jack explained that this represented the dreamer's Music/{{appetite for destruction}}..."which is the best Music/GunsNRoses album".
307** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2OzROHNrjY The single best answer from every YIAY ever]] has the number of the episode be in a different logo style every 100 episodes; such as a parody of DC Comics's circle and stars.
308** "$10,000 DOG VS. $1 DOG" has a segment where Jack attempts to test the dogs' ability to play fetch titled "Will It Fetch?", an obvious parody of ''Advertising/WillItBlend''
309** To Website/ThisVeryWiki when [[https://youtu.be/5_lzDNtLfAM?t=130 showing]] a well-known trope of [[DisappearedDad disappearing dads]].
310* ShowerOfAngst: At one user's request, Jack did a sketch where he turns on the shower and starts crying for no reason.
311* SlasherSmile: Jack's signature "creeper face" with a big creepy smile, which was his Website/YouTube channel picture until 2020.
312* SmallReferencePools:
313** A comment in Music/OneDirection fanspeak slipped clean past the ''Your Grammar Sucks'' radar.
314** As did a ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' reference in YGS #12. ("I am your density.")
315** This frequently happens to Jack's wife, Erin, who is self-described as "basic" and has almost no knowledge of video games and anime.
316** A Webcomic/{{Polandball}} reference flies over his head in YGS #105.
317* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Whenever his wife Erin appears on [=JackAsk=]. The two of them lob insults at the questions and at each other, and they're equally matched.
318* SpeakInUnison: Parodied and subverted in [[https://youtu.be/SB1yclKts-Y?t=419 one YIAY]] where Jack plays a set of twins that speak in unison except for the last word of every sentence.
319-->'''Twin Jacks''': The best movie in the ''Shrek'' franchise is ''Shrek (2/3).'' ''[turn to each other]'' What? Ew! You're wrong, (simp/cuck).
320* SpecialGuest: Including Creator/GraceHelbig (Idol from WebVideo/MyMusic), Brock Baker, Sean Klitzner, Music/TayZonday, Creator/{{Tobuscus}}, [[Creator/TheFineBrothers Benny and Rafi Fine]], and [[SelfDeprecation Olga Kay]].
321** YGS #50 adds Jesse and Jeana of ''Prank vs Prank'', WebVideo/ShaneDawson, {{WebVideo/Smosh}}, [[WebVideo/MyMusic Indie]], Chester See, [=MysteryGuitarMan=] and LetsPlay/PewDiePie!
322** YGS #60 adds WebVideo/RhettAndLink, [[WebVideo/EpicMealTime Harley Morenstein]], Tyler Oakley, the couple from [=CTFxC=], the remaining cast of ''My Music'' (including News Newsman!) and [[WebVideo/{{Paint}} Jon Cozart]].
323** ''50 Facts You Can't Even'', an AffectionateParody of WebVideo/MatthewSantoro's 50 Amazing Facts videos, brings us WebVideo/MatthewSantoro himself.
324* StayInTheKitchen: PlayedForLaughs at the end of [[https://youtu.be/cF7xZdE9YrY this video]].
325* StressVomit: In the "Dubstep Solves Everything" video, Jack's convulsing to his own dubstep noises makes the girl he's coming onto puke in distress and creeped-out-ness.
326* SynchroVox:
327** Sometimes Jack will impose his mouth (color-graded white) over his dogs' mouth in an attempt to make it look like they're talking. [[https://youtu.be/dK_-9L2exT0?si=2BCdDF8GsjZIwgRL It's equal parts]] [[StylisticSuck hilarious]] and [[UncannyValley terrifying.]]
328** In the Kermit animations, Kermit's animation abruptly shifts into this whenever he decides to berate the aformentioned "[[ButtMonkey Billy]]".
329* {{Tagline}}: For a while, YGS had the tagline "Every [[PrecisionFStrike Damn]] Friday," reflecting its usual upload schedule. The series eventually fell into [[invoked]]ScheduleSlip, making it redundant.
330* TakeThat:
331** A ''merciless'' [[https://youtu.be/RE6AccjLG1s parody]] of Music/TaylorSwift's songs basically has sad groaning as lyrics and the actress playing Taylor making pained expressions in the video.
332** From ''Bro 90 X'':
333--->'''Chad''': You'll lose pounds faster than BP[[note]]A British oil and gas company responsible for multiple environmental and safety violations[[/note]] is losing credibility.
334--->(topical burn)
335** In his WebVideo/{{Vsauce}} parody, he discusses a unit of measurement in music that our bodies reject once we listen to it. He calls the unit "[[Music/JustinBieber biebs]]". He also says that Music/{{Nickelback}} songs have many, many biebs, and that is why people who listen to them feel like committing suicide.
336** In one of his ''[=JackAsk=]'' videos, he says that everyone has listened to Music/LinkinPark at some time in their life, but then something clicks in their mind and they say, "Wow. What the fuck am I doing?"
337** His video, [[https://youtu.be/xsTRTzN0MH8 I NEED TO HOST =3]]. "But what if it were funny?"
338** [[https://youtu.be/AEFlMz2huNk&list=UUPcFg7aBbaVzXoIKSNqwaww This episode]] of [=JackAsk=] has a particularly sharp dig at Sam Pepper, a [=YouTuber=] who was at the time being investigated for sexual abuse. Subsequent episodes also took sharp digs at him.
339** [[https://youtu.be/jkPKVeE1r0w TubeNews]] is essentially a giant one to Drama Alert and Keemstar's desire to milk drama for all it's worth on Website/YouTube.
340** [[https://youtu.be/ySJpMyLiLRU He parodies]] Logan Paul's infamous apology video after he found and filmed the dead body of a Japanese man who hanged himself in a forest known for being a site of suicides, where Jack apologizes to his audience for doing increasingly weird and criminal things.
341** [[https://youtu.be/r5bu3RFna2Y Loud YouTubers]] has Jack be on a fake reaction show listening to loud [=YouTuber=] intros, with wind blowing into him when the intros start.
342** "$10,000 DOG VS. $1 DOG", which sees Jack pretending to treat his dogs as if they're electronic gadgets, including shaking them inside their boxes and poking a knife into one of the boxes, has Jack proclaim at the end that the video is sponsored by [[AnimalWrongsGroup PETA]].
343%%** To homophobic people in general.
344** Particularly savage YIAY submissions get accompanied by a stock crowd roar sound effect, airhorns going off, and similar. Example: [[https://youtu.be/2MNT13t5Eqk?t=179 This answer at the end of YIAY #525.]]
345* ThatCameOutWrong: In "Fix Your Tinder Bios," Jack remarks that he knows what women want, adding, "I'm [[Film/WhatWomenWant just like]] Creator/MelGibson!" Cue a beat and Jack going "Wait--" as he remembers Gibson's infamy.
346* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Implied in "9 New Christmas Songs".
347-->''Candy canes, candy canes''\
348''Lick them in a spear and kill your enemies''\
349''Stab (x16)''
350** In "Fix Your Avatars," Jack edits a furry avatar by putting it behind bars, then sending it to Alcatraz so it can't escape, then sending Alcatraz to the moon, then nuking the moon.
351* ThisJustIn: There's an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAfhlW_oxiU entire YIAY]] of this.
352* TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket:
353** The [[https://youtu.be/huo7h53G0IM trope namer]] gets parodied in [[https://youtu.be/tBL0RUJx7-I WTF Blanket 4: Failure Pants]].
354--> '''Narrator''': If you don't know how to operate a blanket... chances are you're a few chromosomes shorts of human.
355** Also parodied in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsTLUSMOgas The Jesus Christ Sponge]] because people are apparently too dumb to operate a sponge.
356* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: In "Royalty Free Christmas Songs 8", the announcer says he got kicked out of Hell for being "too cringe".
357* TheUnfavorite: Sundae is treated this way compared to Klondike, most notably in "$10,000 DOG VS. $1 DOG" where Jack pretends to abuse her and berates her for being stupider than Klondike.
358* TheUnsmile: Sundae, who has, as Jack himself has described it, a [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker Joker]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/jacksfilms/images/c/cd/EC_bzmmUEAEVdWw.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20220304064223 smile.]]
359* UnusualEuphemism: The song "Jingle My Bells" is built around one of these. The extended version adds two more: "Mistle my toes" and "Deck my halls".
360* VegetarianForADay: Variant; he [[https://youtu.be/-o-tIptdvJI went vegan for an hour]], having a plated burger directly in front of him and having to consciously abstain from eating it, only eating ice and toothpaste. He essentially portrayed it as mild torture, and practically tore the burger apart once the hour was up.
361* VitriolicBestBuds: With Tobuscus/Toby Turner; the two prank one another on a near-constant basis, including in their respective videos. Regardless, the two are good friends and regularly collaborate. The same goes for Sean Klitzner, who has jokingly said that Jack is his archnemesis and constantly tries pranking him, and for Olga Kay, although his ribbing on her is more one-sided.
362* VomitDiscretionShot: Implied in ''[[https://youtu.be/IL7RpV_-1YY Your Grammar Sucks #31]]'' as Chad, where the scene quickly cuts to him holding a bucket, shortly after declaring that he may or may not need it.
363* VomitIndiscretionShot:
364** At the end of "DUBSTEP SOLVES EVERYTHING". The girl whom Jack tries to flirt with via singing dubstep becomes so disgusted by him ends up vomiting slightly.
365** He also (fake) vomits in many other videos, to the extent that it's practically a running gag. An image of him vomiting was even used for [[https://shortyawards.com/10th/jacksfilms his vote page]] on the Shorty Awards website in 2018.
366%%* WalkingShirtlessScene: Chad, more often than not.
367* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: The premise of the ''Dubstep Solves Everything'' trilogy is using dubstep to solve mundane problems. Subverted, as said problems do not get solved, and CuttingBackToReality reveals that the "dubstep" is just really bad and awkward beatboxing.
368%%* AWildRapperAppears: Tobuscus in "Take Off Your Clothes (Like Creator/ScarlettJohansson)".
369%%** Jack himself for YGS #45, except it starts before the midpoint of the video and pretty much takes over.
370* YouKeepUsingThatWord: "[[https://youtu.be/ljWcpj8N6ws Literally]]", which is a collection of tweets that misuse the eponymous word. The ending card reads "Friends don't let friends misuse the word 'literally'. If not, you're [[GodwinsLaw literally Hitler]]".
371* YouTuberApologyParody:
372** In "[[https://youtu.be/NZMIc3w-Llc My Apology]]", he apologizes for producing content and he gets annoyed when the video constantly fades to black.
373** In response to Creator/LoganPaul's apology video, he made "[[https://youtu.be/ySJpMyLiLRU i'm super sorry]]", where he repeatedly apologizes for doing increasingly offensive stuff.
374** For Halloween 2018, he made his own [[https://youtu.be/QDynXopke8E apology video costume]], which a kid later wore as a [[https://youtu.be/27qYM2ooqtU cosplay costume at VidCon 2019]].
375** In 2020, he made a Choose Your Own Adventure style game called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg6RVbqhfK4 "Choose Your Own Apology Video"]], with the goal to either get the absolute best or absolute worst reaction on the hypothetical video.
376** For [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E3JWTvya1g YIAY #555]], he asked his fans to write an apology video one line at a time, and then read the script (which was produced by the moderators of his Discord) blindly. Said script, where he insincerely apologizes for [[BurnTheOrphanage setting fire to an orphan]], includes healthy doses of [[NeverMyFault blameshifting]], several plugs to his merch store and padding of the runtime to reach the 10-minute mark.
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