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I might be kind of JSE retired now but I thought I’d hop into the revival @jacksoopticboop started and do another giveaway!

The prize is my 6" felted youtooz doll!

Rules’n’shit

-Your Top-Secret Location: You will need to be okay giving me an address to ship to. If you’re under 18, you need a parent/guardian’s permission, as I suspect no parent very much likes having things randomly sent to their tender younglings by mysterious strangers. I will not share your address with anyone for any reason, and won’t be retaining it after mailing.

-How to Enter: Your reblog equals your entry, no need to follow (although I do appreciate it). Only one entry per person.

-How Long: Raffle ends Monday, Jan 4th at 10am

-Winner: Will be chosen via random name picker, and I’ll message you to let you know and get your address. If I don’t get a reply within two days, I’ll draw for a new recipient.

I’m paying for shipping (yay!)

I will ship outside the US! (yay!)

I can’t replace anything that gets lost in the mail. (boo!)

PS If you wanna reblog but not enter, just pop a comment or tag to that effect, and thanks. :)

pellmelproductions

Felt Sam Giveaway!

I kept meaning to do another giveaway, it’s been a hot while :D This is for one needle felted Sam, just the right size to fit cozily in the palm of the hand, with a wire tail long to wrap around a finger or small fixture.

Rules’n’shit

-How to Enter: Your reblog equals your entry, no need to follow (although I do appreciate it). Only one entry per person.

-How Long: Raffle ends Tues, Feb 25, at 5:00 pm EST.

-Winner: Will be chosen via random name picker, and I’ll message you to let you know and get your address. If I don’t get a reply within two days, I’ll draw for a new recipient.

I’m paying for shipping (yay!)

I will ship outside the US! (yay!)

I can’t replace anything that gets lost in the mail. (boo!)

-Keep in mind I’m doing this freely because I want to do it, so don’t be a stinker, and that I can change or cancel any of this for any reason. If you have any questions about the giveaway or need clarification etc. feel free to comment or message me.

PS If you wanna reblog but not enter, just pop a comment or tag to that effect, and thanks. :)

therealjacksepticeye

I'm sorry, I know you probably thought it was a funny haha game about jerking off, and I don't fault you for that! But even though I really really hope that your intentions were perfectly innocent, seeing a game with such overtly homophobic and transphobic messages up on the channel has made several queer people here feel unsafe around you, and I really hope you can rectify the situation, cause it sucks. Have a good night.

I’ve taken down the video. Wasn’t aware just HOW bad it was and especially didn’t know how shitty and awful the developers were outside of the game. Some of it seemed like dumb teenager edgy humour but I didn’t realise that it stemmed from the devs having pretty awful mentalities IRL too. That recontextualises a lot of it and isn’t something I want to endorse.

I’m sorry that this happened at all.I don’t want people to think that I align with that behaviour and think it’s “cool”

dnpstardust

Please help if you can, Australia has been burning for about six months now, all the links are in Seán’s tweets!

therealjacksepticeye

Linking the sites here so it’s easier to click instead of having to go to Twitter

https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/news-and-media/general-news/featured/support-for-firefighter-families

https://www.redcross.org.au/campaigns/disaster-relief-and-recovery-donate?gclid=Cj0KCQiA6IHwBRCJARIsALNjViWSLY9wlC52xWdlnc-Gt5KqmDuu10_Sz7Gbs-AuJ8dJt262maqsbNgaAmCcEALw_wcB

https://www.rspcansw.org.au/bushfire-appeal/

http://www.givit.org.au/

therealjacksepticeye

November Charity Stream

Hey gang!

I know everyone’s curious when the stream for November will be but I have decided I won’t be doing one. The last 2 months have been pretty big in regards to fundraising and next months stream is going be a HUGE Christmas one again so I don’t want to ask too much of you guys. I want to make sure the December one is a BIG event so I’d kindly ask you to save up for that one so we can make it a really crazy month of giving for Christmas.

I will still be doing a pin for November (I’m waiting on designs that should have been done already but thanksgiving slowed people down) and proceeds from the pin will be going to the Movember foundation. So keep an eye out for that one.

I’m really excited for the Christmas one again this year. I think it’s going to be special.

therealjacksepticeye

Adressing The Community

There has been a growing negativity in this community lately, specifically here on Tumblr that I think needs addressing. I’m tired of seeing the community at each other’s throats and my lack of communication on it isn’t helping.

What was once people posting criticism and feedback has now turned into extremely harsh judgment, personal opinions and outright nasty name calling. That shit is NOT ok. That’s not criticism, it’s unfiltered judgement and hate. You can talk about how I make videos and my job but trying to dictate how I live my personal life and who is in it is crossing a very big line. As soon as you start telling people what to do because of how YOU feel, that’s a really big red flag. My personal life and my relationships in it are not entertainment and shouldn’t be treated as some sort of reality TV. You don’t have to like it and that’s perfectly fine too. I know I’m not perfect and I’ve never pretended to be but sometimes it feels like people put such huge expectations and stanards on my behaviour that it was always bound to let you down at some point. I used to share a lot about myself with you guys. I was incredibly open and talked about everything that was on my mind. This led to more people opening up to me and relating to me heavily which was great, for a while. Eventually I started getting burdened by other people’s mentalities and problems and being the type of person that I am I empathised a lot and tried to help. Not to invalidate what those people were going through but it’s hard to take on other people’s thoughts everyday when I struggled with my own already. Eventually this mentally burned me out and affected my life more than I’d like to admit. I’ve since gotten to a better balance and have closed off more of myself. Not because I care less or don’t want to interact with the community but it’s better for me mentally and that’s always been priority no.1 as it should be with all of you too.

I’ve seen people say that I have less energy in videos now and that must mean I’m depressed and hate my job but it’s really just me growing up and out of that version of myself. I’m stil positive and I’m still energetic, I just don’t go to 100% all the time anymore because I don’t need to. I’ve matured and I’ve grown a lot and I’m almost 30, of course I’m not going to have the exact same energy I did when I started making vids. I’m not trying to prove myself constantly anymore. That’s either something you come to terms with and grow/mature with me or there’s plenty of other youtubers out there that will likely fit what you want out of them. Sticking around and trying to force me back to that place or destroying the community because you don’t like it is NOT ok.

I’ve also seen the claim that I repeat jokes too much now and they go on too long but this is feels really misinformed because my channel has always had running jokes that went on a long time. Happy Wheels and Turbo Dismount were both series that had like 5 jokes each repeated for a VERY long time. Now is no different.

I used to blame myself heavily for the rift that happened in the community but it’s not all on me. I’m just one person and I can point you in the right direction but I shouldn’t have to come back every few months to make posts like this just to make sure people stop arguing and causing drama. There is some really childish and petty behaviour at play that I have never endorsed or encouraged. I shouldn’t have to be here babysitting the community all the time. I’m sorry that I haven’t spoken up sooner and I know this post will likely make some of the more toxic parts of the community flare up even more but I’m tired of feeling like absolute shit because of this stuff. Life’s too short for this shit. I want to have fun with you guys again, not get bogged down in all the tiny details of everything that’s happening.

This community means a LOT to me and I will defend it to the end

into-the-stratosphere

YouTube PSA

In case you haven’t seen anything about it yet, DON’T SPAM CHATS IN LIVE-STREAMS ON YOUTUBE RIGHT NOW!

This isn’t about a “don’t clog the chat” issue, but a genuine logistical issue with YouTube’s banning system.

During one of Markiplier’s live-streams this past week he had viewers use emotes (especially channel members, who have special emotes) to vote on choices in the stream, and THOUSANDS of people have had their ENTIRE account suspended because of it.

And not just their YouTube account, but their ENTIRE GOOGLE ACCOUNT. This means gmail, google docs, google slides, on top of their YouTube accounts. And it was completely without warning.

Here’s Mark’s video on the issue.

So until YouTube fixes this issue, DON’T SPAM CHATS IN YOUTUBE LIVE-STREAMS. Maybe even don’t watch any live-streams on YouTube right now to be safe, and if you do want to watch one, maybe sign out of your account and watch as a guest to not risk losing your entire google account, or watch an archived version later when the stream has ended.

FOR THE SAFETY OF YOUR ENTIRE GOOGLE ACCOUNT (Gmail, google docs, YouTube account, etc) DON’T SPAM YOUTUBE LIVESTREAM CHATS. THEIR AUTOMATIC SYSTEM IS SUSPENDING ACCOUNTS WITHOUT WARNING AND YOUTUBE ISN’T DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW.

therealjacksepticeye

Funnily enough this is happening RIGHT after they announced deals with youtubers to livestream on their platform more. They’re trying to make a big push for streaming after Mixer snatched a bunch of Twitch people.

This is the exact kind of completely stupid shit they do when they try and “fix” things, they end up breaking them more and innocent viewers get hit by it. I’ve gotten used to YT fucking creators over but this is a new low.

I hope you all get your accounts unbanned and as people with direct lines with youtube we will do our best to make your grievances heard.

markiplier

I emailed YouTube about the suspensions

Obviously that’s bullshit so I emailed my contact and will follow up with them ASAP. I will work to get this corrected because it’s moronic that people would get their entire account suspended for spamming in chat.

Will let you know.

markiplier

ANYONE WHO GOT SUSPENDED

Please reply to this post with your YouTube username. Need to send some examples to Ops.

therealjacksepticeye

Addressing Concerns About My Editor

Hey everyone.

I want to talk about the discourse recently regarding my new editor. This has nothing to do with Robin so please keep him out of it and leave him be.

Some context for those not in the know. Recently I hired someone new to help edit the IRL/Non Gaming content on my channel. Main reasons being that it was a lot for Robin to take on alone and also Robin isn’t up to date on meme culture or actively partakes in it so I brought on someone who is. I also just wanted to create more content and having one person edit all of it is a huge strain, especially with an occasional ramp up into 2 vids a day again when I could.

I will admit my screening process for this person was none at all, that’s on me and I should have done better. People went to their twitter and found a bunch of bad tweets, some were edgy jokes while others were “jokes” that I vehemently disagreed with. I brought this up with the person and they agreed that they were bad and deleted them. They were about 16 when they wrote them which normally I would let slide cos God knows I was a fucking idiot at that age but I think that’s a poor excuse in such a connected and social media driven world we’re in now. I had a huge internal struggle about what to do, I took about a week and ultimately told them that I would keep them on but it could absolutely never happen again. They agreed and showed genuine remorse for the tweets and it was clear that that’s not what they actually believe and agreed they were dumb. I wanted to give them a second chance and prove that they could learn and grow and I wanted to be mature and adult about it. Not just cut and run when things got bad.

However I have ultimately decided to let this person go and not work with them again. Not because of hyper critical nay sayers and “haters” but because some people in this community were genuinely upset about it. They lost faith in me and felt like they couldn’t trust me anymore because it flew in the face of everything I had morally stood for and preached about before and they were absolutely right. I can reason out everything and debate it back and forth all day but at the end of the day if some honestly great people in this communtiy were genuinely hurt by this, then it’s not worth it. I want my channel and this community to feel like a safe place for you to feel like you can be your true self and connect with other people who feel the same. To build each other up and treat each other with respect and have fun and me hiring this person went against all that. So I wanted to give a genuine,honest apology and say that I am very very sorry. No excuses or anything like that,I was wrong and I fucked up. I want people, especially those in the LGBTQ+ community to know that I truly stand with you, now and alwaty.I’m so very sorry if you lost faith and trust in me over this.

I haven’t been myself lately and coming here these days or most social media honestly fills me with an incredible amount of stress and anxiety. Hiring someone to help with the load was supposed to ease all that but in the end made things a LOT worse. I hear your concerns,I get it. I also miss the older days of the channel when things were nicer and I didn’t have to worry about things as much. The community was nicer and more connected and every day was an absolute pleasure. I promise that I will work harder to get us and the community back to a better place. I’m not a perfect person but I feel like some people, including myself sometimes, expect me to be and that level of pressure and expectation is sometimes too much to meet. I will try my best to find that magic again to create and bring the channel back to a place you’re all proud to watch and be part of. I will need some help along the way so I hope you can permit me some missteps along that journey but here’s to a better time in 2020.

markiplier

TODAY I WILL BE REBLOGGING HEIST MEMES

There will be many spoilers but I’ve held off as long as I possibly could! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!

markiplier

LET’S. ROB. A. MUSEUM.

Get it we’re going ROBBIN’!! Click literally all of this (yes literally anywhere) to go on this crime spree with me! Hold on to your butts ladies and gentlemen and everything in between because WE’ZE ABOUT TO DO A CRIME