Jacksepticeye

Seán William McLoughlin (born 7 February 1990), better known online as jacksepticeye, is an Irish YouTuber.

Much of McLoughlin's YouTube content centres around gaming and vlogs.

Seán William McLoughlin was born on 7 February 1990, the youngest of five children to John (c. 1936 – 27 January 2021) and Florrie McLoughlin.

He is primarily of Irish and British descent, and possibly with some Iberian heritage.

He was raised in Cloghan in County Offaly, Ireland and also lived for a time in Banagher.

His father worked for the ESB and his mother worked a number of jobs before becoming a carer for his grandmother.

McLoughlin began playing video games at the age of seven and as a child he spent time playing on the Nintendo Game Boy in a neighbourhood treehouse, later describing how he found a sense of belonging in the games.

He was given his nickname "Jack Septic Eye" after a childhood accident during a football match in which he injured his eye.

When he was 18, McLoughlin and his family moved to a cabin in Ballycumber.

McLoughlin studied music technology and production at Limerick Institute of Technology.

In the third year of the degree, McLoughlin decided to drop out and return home to Ballycumber.

He started uploading videos to YouTube in December 2012 and his channel grew rapidly in the following years, reaching a million subscribers in 2014 and 10 million by 2016.

McLoughlin started uploading videos to YouTube under the name "jacksepticeye" in December 2012, initially doing voice impressions before switching to making gameplay content.

In 2013, he was mentioned in a PewDiePie video, causing him to go from 2,500 subscribers to 15,000 in four days.

He then moved to an apartment in Athlone, County Westmeath, in 2014 where he studied hotel management at the Athlone Institute of Technology, earning a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree.

Due to the success of his channel, McLoughlin was able to make it his full-time job by May 2014.

That July, his channel had over 57 million views, having 800,000 subscribers at the time, and by August of the same year he had hit a million subscribers.

By February 2015, the channel had reached one billion views and 3.2 million subscribers.

The following year he gained another six million subscribers.

, his YouTube channel has accumulated 16.6 billion views and 30.6 million subscribers, making it the 2nd most-subscribed Irish channel on YouTube.

Raised in Cloghan, County Offaly in Ireland, McLoughlin played video games from a young age.

In January 2016, he was one of the initial YouTubers signed under PewDiePie's multi-channel network, Revelmode.

That year, he co-hosted South by Southwest's annual SXSW Gaming Awards, and appeared in the 2016 YouTube Rewind.

McLoughlin co-starred as the antagonist in the second season of the YouTube Red show Scare PewDiePie.

Throughout 2017, McLoughlin appeared on Disney XD and Irish national television before touring in Europe and the US in 2017 and 2018 for his How Did We Get Here tour and the Game Grumps ' Ready Player 3 tour.

He lived in Athlone until 2017 when he moved to Brighton, England.

Among the reasons for the move were the city's strong LGBTQ and vegan communities, and concerns about personal privacy after fans found his home in Athlone.

Initially planned to premiere on 9 March 2017, the season was cancelled prior to release due to controversy surrounding PewDiePie and the use of anti-semitic imagery on his channel.

Following the controversy, it was confirmed that the Revelmode network had been shut down by Disney.

Subsequently, McLoughlin was signed under the Disney Digital Network.

In June 2017, Polaris, a division of The Walt Disney Company, announced that McLoughlin would be featured in the series Polaris: Player Select on the television channel Disney XD as part of a new programming block for the channel called D | XP.

Later that year, McLoughlin was featured on the RTÉ 2 two-part documentary Ireland's Rich List as one of the "top 30 earners under the age of 30", leading to him receiving a wide coverage in the Irish media and a greater exposure to people in the country who had not seen his YouTube content.

McLoughlin toured throughout September–October 2017, in the US with his How Did We Get Here tour, and later in the UK and Europe with the Game Grumps on their Ready Player 3 tour.

In 2018, he began streaming exclusive content on Twitch as part of a multi-year deal with Disney Digital Network.

In February 2018, McLoughlin released dates for a US and Canada run of the How Did We Get Here tour.

He continued to create YouTube videos and appear in live events, including Summer Game Fest in 2020.

In 2021, McLoughlin appeared in the film Free Guy starring Ryan Reynolds.

The following year, he released a biographical documentary entitled How Did We Get Here? which featured footage from his tour of the same name.

McLoughlin is a co-founder of the clothing brand Cloak with fellow YouTuber Markiplier and the founder and owner of the Top of The Mornin' Coffee company.

He is also an active philanthropist, participating in multiple fundraisers that have raised tens of millions for charitable organizations, for which he has received awards from organisations such as Save the Children and Junior Chamber International.