Jse Dictionary

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1. (v.)  To make the spontaneous sounds and movements of the face and body that are the instinctive expressions of lively amusement and sometimes also of contempt or derision.

2. (n.) The act of laughing.

3. (n.) A command issued by Jack once his elves have found videos for him to watch for his amusement.

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If you’ve ever followed my YouTube channel, you might remember that about a year ago, I released a video called Fanfiction As A Genre. It was a brief study in the history and importance of fanfiction to the literary community as a whole.

Well, since then, I’ve been expanding on the idea, and currently, I am in the process of researching for a much bigger project on the topic of fandoms and fan culture as a whole. It’s going to be my first nonfiction book, and I’m incredibly excited to dive deeper into a world that I am happily already a part of.

But I need your help.

I remember Mark talking about not knowing the artist on WIRED’s Google’s autocomplete interview, so this came mind!

She is yungdenpa on Deviantart - here is the link to the art on DA ⬇️⬇️⬇️

She also made a speed paint on youtube (uploaded in 2013, man, such a long time) ⬇️⬇️

Spread a word about this artist, and let’s give credit to the person who created the icon that’s been with us for so long!

Hi again guys! So I made a survey for the community (I’ll reblog this again with a link, just bc I want this to show up in the tag and IDK if links do) out of curiosity, inspired by @kenmarlenn‘s Markiplier Community Survey. Here’s what our community looks like based on the 421 responses I’ve gotten so far!

About 73% of responders were female, followed by 7% transgender folks, 6% agender/bigender folks, 3% male folks, and the remaining 11% being the “Other” option (mostly nonbinary, sorry for forgetting to add that option!). The majority of these people were between 11 and 20 years old (66%), followed by people between 21 and 30 years old (31%), and a couple of folks who were 31-40 years old (2%). We had a total of 2 people respond who were older than 40, which is cool! Most of these responses came from people who were white (80%), but there was a fair amount of representation for Hispanic folks (9%), Asian folks (5%), Black folks (4%), and some Native American peeps (~3%).  There were also a lot of write-in answers for the remaining percentage (lots of mixed people, which is neat!). There were also a loooot of people from the US and the UK, with a good smattering of Canadians, Australians, Frenchmen, and Germans. The Netherlands had quite a few folks, as well!

Most people have been watching Jack for between 1 and 3 years (49%), and found him via youtube’s recommendations (47%). People love longer series (84%) and interactive series (70%) and Power Hours (70%). Also, the most prominent form of creation in the community is creating visual art (47%), but most people just enjoy what others create (~79%). More than 50% of people have donated to charity streams, and 10% of people have met Jack at some point. 

Also, I left a section where people could leave comments for the community to read and holy shit-

Y’ALL ARE ADORABLE

YOU ROCK!!