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Well, Jace had me fooled right from day one, back in 2012. I made the first anti-Jace video, and I have been a staunch opponent of the Ruseman Theory. I joined these forums solely because of Jace, and so for that I'm thankful, because this community is great.
I still maintain that even if Jan was trolling us all along, there's a point at which a line is crossed and where it's kind of sad that the trolling was so dedicated. IMO that was certainly the case with Parkourdude91. Sure, he had thousands of people fooled and made hundreds of hours of hilarious video footage, but at what cost?
I'd be eager to know how much DD420 knew - my guess is everything, right? - and to what extent Jan deliberately stoked the trolling and noise around himself. Did Jan start that first thread on /k/? Did Jan and his MDE buddies sockpuppet in the early days of Fuck Yeah Deagles? Did Jan think before he dropped some of my personal info online? I'm not pissed off, just intrigued.
Semper Fidelis, I guess.
Incoming really boring and unfunny post, do not read this if you don't want your immersion ruined
Hi Wacht. Out of all the replies to this thread I wanted to reply to you and answer some of those questions, hopefully make you feel a little bit more satisfied with the real answers than your own personal speculation, because your videos have been fantastic and really made me laugh, and you genuinely seem like an intelligent and cool guy who really "got it". So I owe you an explanation, if nothing else. You deserve it and I'm overjoyed you got some entertainment out of this ridiculous bullshit.
And yes, I'm Jan, I've been Jan all along - but I never posted that first thread on /k/; that was actually (awesome) coincidence. In truth I didn't even WANT for it to take off then; I hadn't finished building his "backstory" yet - I had originally intended Fuck Yeah Deagles to be like, an internet prescence Jace held for a while and went unnoticed by everybody (like a side story) and then after he was "established" original idea was to then make a few videos on the MDE channel as a far more ridiculous character. He was supposed to be obsessed with using parkour to do everything, thought of it as a "martial art", and said they were the "ultimate athlete" and a bunch of other ridiculous shit. Of course when I came up with this I was fat as fuck which was obviously going to add to the ridiculousness of his claims. But then /k/ found it, and unexpectedly everyone went crazy over it so I just ran with it as if he was a lolcow (and a real person) and not some absurd character. I never even intended the "idiot gets gun facts wrong" thing to be the main thrust of it, it just sort of happened. I CERTAINLY never imagined I'd be doing this shit for two years but the continuous attitude was "why not" and "it's funny"
I don't see it as "sad" myself, it was kind of more of a weird hobby than anything. I didn't put as much effort into it as most people think, to be honest, it was like 8-10 hours a week or less depending on how much free time I had, probably peaked at about 15 hrs/week when I was super "on" and doing really intense constant livestreams and videos.... Some people waste time building model train sets, creating fantasy football leagues, or gardening, or playing World of Warcraft, I waste my free time creating satire. It's just something I enjoy doing, and it seemed that after a while, other people unexpectedly enjoyed it too. So I kept doing it. There was no master plan, no "endgame", and I never wanted to get anything out of it than a few cheap laughs. I don't feel like I "lost" anything or it cost me anything at all, I don't really give a shit if my name is out there as some performance artist/GamerGate terrorist/whatever shit they're spinning now. I did it because I thought the character was funny and it made me laugh.
And the dox thing - that was shitty, I regretted it immediately after I realised the ramifications and I wish I could take it back now - the original, misguided, idea was to make it more "immersive" or convincing as like, that's totally something this paranoid, delusional man would do - I thought, "if Jace was real, he'd make these insane, highly detailed dossiers on all these people, but he'd get most of the essential facts dead wrong, because he's so delusional..." which eventually lead to the Hater Hitlist videos. When I said your name etc. I tried to sort of slur through it really incoherently so people wouldn't really be able to make any sense of it but hopefully you/some other people would see it and be like "jesus christ this dude is really fucked up" which I guess worked
Not everything I did was for the sake of being "funny" - ESPECIALLY in the first year or so - the humor in Jace was EXTREMELY deadpan and subtle up until about the Hater Hitlist which I would probably mark as the turning point where the funny ridiculous aspects of him became a lot more exaggerated. But he wasn't always 100% supposed to be "funny", I wanted to use Jace to explore other things that were interesting to me, one of which was the ramifications of severe mental illness, and the ramifications of someone who refused to grow up and was just completely immersed in shit-tier "cool guy badass" culture to the point where they could barely function. Jace is both tragic and hilarious because he's the embodiment of the most fucked up, dysfunctional person I could possibly imagine.
You can't have him as being "funny" all the time, because mentally ill people are not like that. Mentally ill people are often very scary, or more often, very very depressing stories, because while their behaviors may be really weird and funny (i.e. thinking the illuminati was sending homosexual wolf ghosts to kill their souls) they're still human beings under all that. So I tried to do things that would express a "darker" side of him every now and then, like the "doxxing" thing, or the crying on the Sims 3, not as some "artsy" statement and not to "make people think" but to make it more believable and to add another layer to the character so he wasn't just a one-dimensional strawman. With Jace, you were never supposed to be sure whether to laugh at him, cry for him, or be afraid of what he could do - that added to the "mystique" of the character because you never know what to expect, and that made him more "real". He is fundamentally unpredictable and it's very difficult to understand his motivations, which is what makes him compelling to watch.
Jace's stupid "cool guy" persona he built around himself was way funnier to me than "ITS A DIIIICK" could ever have been. I wanted to create something that was not just "funny" in the sense of a cheap joke, but a genuine, exhaustive depiction of Mountain Dew culture taken to it's most horrific and absurd possible extreme.
Semper Fidelis,
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