50 Fun Facts About Jacksepticeye

Jacksepticeye opens his videos with "Top of the morning to ya" followed by which word?

Laddies completes the greeting, which he chose as a deliberately stereotypical nod to his Irish identity. By 2023 he had decided to use it more sparingly.

Jacksepticeye's "septic eye" nickname recalls a childhood eye injury during a match of which sport?

Football left him with the injury that inspired "Jack Septic Eye". The Jack half is simply a common nickname in his home country for his real first name.

A 2013 shout-out from which YouTuber sent Jacksepticeye from 2,500 to 15,000 subscribers in four days?

PewDiePie mentioned him in a video, and the surge kept going: by May 2014 the channel had grown enough to become his full-time job.

With which American YouTuber did Jacksepticeye launch the gamer clothing brand Cloak in October 2018?

Markiplier created Cloak with him, and the brand gave a share of its sales to causes including The Trevor Project. Jack left the business in 2023.

Jacksepticeye's classic outro tells viewers to do what to the like button "in the face, like a boss"?

Punch it is the order: fans are told to "punch the like button in the face, like a boss!" The commentary before that sign-off is improvised rather than scripted.

Jacksepticeye plays himself, commentating on a video-game hero's exploits, in which Ryan Reynolds film?

Free Guy gave him a cameo in 2021, and he also advised director Shawn Levy on making the film feel true to video game culture.

Which instrument has Jacksepticeye, once of the band Raised to the Ground, played since he was young?

Drums have been his instrument since childhood. Raised to the Ground released the EP Risen from the Ashes in 2009, three years before his first YouTube upload.

In 2023 Jacksepticeye said which YouTuber had made the platform more about views and money than fun?

MrBeast first called the remarks "insanely disrespectful", then said the two had talked privately and there was no animosity between them.

Jacksepticeye founded a company called Top of The Mornin' in June 2020 to sell which product?

Coffee was the product, with pre-orders opening the day he announced it. The company also partnered with the Feya Foundation, a charity that works to combat hunger.

What is the name of the evil alter ego Jacksepticeye plays as a sinister presence on his own channel?

Antisepticeye began as an answer to a similar dark character dreamed up by another creator's fanbase, and he taunts viewers directly on social media.

Jack is a common Irish pet name for which first name, the one Jacksepticeye was given at birth?

Seán is his real first name, and he was often called Jack as a child, long before any channel existed. He grew up as the youngest child in a large family.

Which colour dominates Jacksepticeye's branding, most visibly in his eyeball logo Septic Eye Sam?

Green was chosen to represent his Irish heritage, the same reason he opens his videos with a stereotypically Irish greeting.

Which gesture does Jacksepticeye give the camera at the very start of his classic video intro?

A high five to the lens starts each classic intro. He has described his own content as an "assault on the senses" that people "either love or hate".

Which word fills the gap when Jacksepticeye calls himself the "most ... video-game commentator on YouTube"?

Energetic is his word, and he puts his success down to "an overall package" that also takes in honesty and consistency.

Jacksepticeye has said the more he does what in his videos, the better viewers seem to react?

Swearing is a key part of his success, by his own account. "The more you swear the better," he said, adding that people seem to react very positively to it.

Which style of hat did Jacksepticeye wear in his videos as a way of expressing his Irish identity?

Flat cap and catchphrase did the same job: he picked a stereotypical greeting for his intro so viewers would know where he came from.

What does Jacksepticeye call his annual December charity stream, first held in 2018 for Crisis Text Line?

Thankmas has raised more than $25 million in total, and the 2023 edition was presented live from the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles.

In 2018 Jacksepticeye signed a multi-year deal to make exclusive content for which livestreaming platform?

Twitch landed the deal, but by July 2022 he said he would probably stop streaming there to concentrate on his edited videos.

Which Dutch YouTuber has been named as Jacksepticeye's partner in a relationship that began in 2019?

Gab Smolders goes by a nickname: her first name is Evelien. The two got together the year after his previous relationship ended.

Which magazine called Jacksepticeye "Ireland's most popular YouTuber" when it honoured him on a 2020 list?

Forbes put him on its 2020 30 Under 30 list under Sports & Games, having already estimated him to be among the ten highest-paid YouTubers of 2018.

Jacksepticeye dated Danish influencer Signe Hansen from 2015 to 2018; under what online name is she known?

Wiishu and Jack confirmed what the BBC called an "emotional" split in October 2018, after around three years together.

As a child Jacksepticeye spent time in a neighbourhood treehouse playing which Nintendo handheld console?

Game Boy sessions in that treehouse stayed with him: he started gaming at seven and later said he found a sense of belonging in games.

Jacksepticeye became a fan of which music genre after his older brother introduced him to it?

Heavy metal took hold early, and music nearly became his career: he studied music technology and production at college before dropping out in the third year.

Jacksepticeye appears in which 2026 horror film set aboard a submarine in an ocean of blood?

Iron Lung was written, directed, edited and funded by its own leading man, a fellow YouTuber who had played the original game on his channel.

Jacksepticeye voices a former carnival strongman opposite Aaron Paul in which 2025 video game?

Dispatch, billed as a superhero workplace comedy, came from AdHoc Studio, which was formed in 2018 by developers who had worked at Telltale Games.

Jacksepticeye plays a factory worker seen on a blue VHS tape in Chapter 2 of which toy-factory horror game?

Poppy Playtime sends a former employee back to an abandoned factory whose staff vanished a decade earlier, and his tape offers a glimpse of its past.

Jacksepticeye voices toymaker Shawn Flynn in a horror game series named after which cartoon character?

Bendy and the Ink Machine even had a special Jacksepticeye Edition, which was given to him before the fifth chapter was released to the public.

Which three-word slogan does Jacksepticeye use in his videos, campaigns and merchandise?

Positive mental attitude is his rallying cry for an inclusive community. "One of the main things I wanted to do on YouTube is to keep people together," he has said.

Which streamer joined Jacksepticeye's brand Cloak as a third partner and creative director in June 2020?

Pokimane came aboard less than two years after launch, and the brand went on to release special collections with Minecraft Dungeons and Rhett & Link.

What title did Jacksepticeye give both his 2017–18 live tour and the 2022 documentary about his life?

How Did We Get Here retold his childhood and rise to fame on stage, with segments in which he played games with fans. The film used footage from the tour.

To which English seaside city did Jacksepticeye move from Ireland in 2017 after fans found his home?

Brighton appealed for its strong LGBTQ and vegan communities, as well as for the privacy he had lost in Athlone.

Which subject did Jacksepticeye study for his honours degree at Athlone Institute of Technology?

Hotel management was his second go at college: he had earlier walked away from a music technology course in its third year.

Before switching to gameplay, Jacksepticeye's first uploads in 2012 focused on what kind of content?

Voice impressions came first, and the funny voices never left: his improvised commentary still leans on them, along with plenty of humour.

In 2026 Jacksepticeye was named a co-producer of an R-rated animated film based on which FromSoftware game?

Bloodborne is a setting he knows from years of playing it for his audience, and he shares the producing credit with PlayStation Productions and Lyrical Animation.

What is the name of the podcast Jacksepticeye launched in April 2023 with fellow YouTuber Ethan Nestor?

Brain Leak is unscripted and unfiltered by design, and it was produced by the content studio QCODE with a YouTube channel of its own.

In February 2018 Jacksepticeye took questions from fans as a guest on which Irish TV programme?

The Late Late Show saw him comfort a 14-year-old fan who was overcome by nerves on live television, then sit her beside him on stage to ask her question.

Jacksepticeye co-hosted the 2016 Gaming Awards staged by which annual festival in Austin, Texas?

South by Southwest had him co-host its SXSW Gaming Awards less than two years after gaming videos became his full-time job.

Jacksepticeye toured the UK and Europe in late 2017 on the Ready Player 3 tour of which Let's Play channel?

Game Grumps took him across the Atlantic after he had opened his own stage production in the United States earlier that autumn.

In 2019 Jacksepticeye co-hosted a stream for SameYou, the charity of which Game of Thrones star?

Emilia Clarke launched SameYou after revealing that she had survived two aneurysms, and her live stream with Jack raised over £200,000.

Which award did Jacksepticeye win in March 2022 at the first ceremony founded by QTCinderella?

Best Philanthropic Streamer suited a creator whose charity drives had already raised over $6 million between 2017 and 2021.

Jacksepticeye's 2022 charity stream raised $10 million for which food-relief organisation?

World Central Kitchen, founded by chef José Andrés after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, was his chosen cause two years running: the 2023 stream raised a further $6 million.

Jacksepticeye's 2021 charity stream backed New Story, which builds houses for the homeless by which method?

3D printing homes was the eye-catching idea, and the campaign raised $7.6 million as other creators hosted streams of their own through Tiltify.

Jacksepticeye voices a raccoon pirate captain in which Netflix series based on a video game?

Sonic Prime introduced him in its seventh episode as Jack, the raccoon who takes over as captain of Knuckles the Dread's pirate crew, surprising viewers who recognised the Irish accent.

Which network signed Jacksepticeye among its first creators in January 2016, only to close in 2017?

Revelmode was fronted by a fellow gaming creator, and its members teamed up for a 2016 holiday charity stream that raised over $1.3 million.

In 2017 Jacksepticeye featured in Polaris: Player Select, part of the D|XP block on which TV channel?

Disney XD put him on television in the same year that an RTÉ documentary named him among the country's top earners under 30.

Jacksepticeye spent a year on a cancelled animated show based on which horror game?

Soma, a science fiction survival horror game from 2015, was the source, and he said the project's sudden collapse left him "quite upset".

Jacksepticeye was raised in Cloghan and later lived in Ballycumber, both in which Irish county?

Offaly is where his mother says he belongs: answering claims that he was from Athlone, she said Ballycumber is his hometown.

What is the title of Jacksepticeye's comic book series with publisher Bad Egg, first issued in December 2023?

Altrverse features characters from his own videos, and he picked the publisher after it released a comic with fellow YouTuber MoistCr1TiKaL.

Which former Saturday Night Live cast member co-hosted The Gamer and the Mouth with Jacksepticeye in 2023?

Chris Redd, an SNL cast member for five seasons until 2022, shared the stage at an event that mixed gaming creators with comedians.

What is the title of the moody short film about the pandemic that Jacksepticeye released in July 2021?

15 Months, in his own words, shares his "experience and feelings over the last year and a half"; he wrote, directed and produced the film himself.