Overall, McLoughlin states, "You can still be friends with someone but not agree with something they do. In it, he clarified that although he had tweeted in support of PewDiePie, he did not condone his actions and believed that he should have been more apologetic in response to the controversy. On 18 February 2017, McLoughlin released a video called "Let's Talk!" to his YouTube channel, which discussed PewDiePie being cut from Maker Studios as a result of the controversy. 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. McLoughlin co-starred as the antagonist in the second season of the YouTube Red show Scare PewDiePie. That year, he co-hosted South by Southwest's annual SXSW Gaming Awards. In January 2016, he was one of the initial YouTubers signed under PewDiePie's multi-channel network, Revelmode. By February 2015, the channel had reached one billion views and 3.2 million subscribers. That July, his channel gained over 57 million views, having 800,000 subscribers at the time.
Due to the success of his channel, McLoughlin was able to make it his full-time job by May 2014. In 2013, he was mentioned in a PewDiePie video, causing him to go from 2,500 subscribers to 15,000 in four days. McLoughlin started uploading videos under the name "jacksepticeye" to YouTube in December 2012, initially doing voice impressions before switching to making gameplay content. He lived in Athlone until 2017, when he moved to Brighton, England. He then moved to an apartment in Athlone, County Westmeath, where he studied hotel management at Athlone Institute of Technology, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree. During this time, he was the drummer for a melodic death metal-influenced metalcore band called Raised to the Ground, with whom he released one EP titled Risen from the Ashes in 2009. He studied music technology and production at Limerick Institute of Technology before dropping out and returning home.
During his childhood, he was given the nickname "Jack Septic Eye" after an accident during a football match in which he injured his eye. 1936 – 27 January 2021) and Florrie McLoughlin. Seán William McLoughlin was born on 7 February 1990 in County Offaly, Ireland, the youngest of five children to John (c.