Jack Sullivan

Xplodin Apple, is a YouTube content creator that is known for primarily making Plants vs Zombies content, mainly focusing on the shooter games, consisting of Garden Warfare, Garden Warfare 2, and Battle for Neighborville, though in recent times he has started to explore different genres and games in hopes to expand the channels content.

Jack previously worked on a YouTube channel called "jsullivan1998," but was now changed to what was known today as Xplodin Film after the announcement of the rebranding to Xplodin Apple.

## Early life

Jack was born on September 3rd 1998 as an only child (meaning just one child from the couple). In 2006 he discovered YouTube was fascinated by the content he saw being created on the site thanks to his cousins showing various cat videos to him. In 2009, Jack made his first video called “Cute Spongebob Revenge of Elmo”, which was inspired by ‘MarioMario8989’ of which was made together with a friend called Philip. The two had made a handful of videos for a while before they stopped due to them no longer seeing each other. Despite this however, Jack still wanted to make videos as his interest grew, of which later in the same year, he created his own channel under the name ‘Jsullivan1998’.

## Jsullivan1998

Jack’s first own youtube channel created back on March 17th 2009, though no videos were uploaded to the channel until late-2011 where he finally began uploading content to the channel, mainly consisting of his series ‘Angry Birds Craptastic Adventure’s’, which during the time, showed critical amounts of success and were made rapidly with it being something that Jack enjoyed doing. He worked on the series alongside John and matt playing as the other birds or as on occasional human appearance.

In May 2012, Jack released a teaser for the ABCA movie, with another teaser later than month. After the final trailer released in June, the movie came in 5 different parts later that month, with the movie scoring critical acclaim and success, gaining a total of nearly 4 million views over its duration. It was also around this time that Jack had figured out how to make thumbnails for his videos, though most if not all of the thumbnails for the episodes that took place after the movie were pre-existing images.

Jack continued to make the ABCA series up until February 2013 where the last episode of the series would be uploaded for a long time, where he suddenly disappeared.

Whilst it was not known at the time, Jack had become stressed with the amount of popularity he was gaining around this time, and chose to back down from the series silently as to take a break. Many of his fans were concerned for his disappearance during that time, with some thinking the worst had happened and that no one was brave enough to break the news. 2 and a half years after his departure, Jack decided it was time to come back.

## Xplodin Apple and rebranding Jsullivan1998

Jack returned to YouTube silently on September 10th 2015 with the creation of his new gaming channel known as Xplodin Apple, and began uploading content to the channel just over 2 weeks later in the form of Super Smash Bros wii U playing with his friends, often playing against eachother, making rage and funny moments out of their skirmishes on the game. Jack knew he had to use his former channel to inform the fans about his new channel that he planned on using, so he began making a video explaining his decision, as well as what happened during that 30 month break,

On November 7th 2015, Jack uploaded the video explaining to his fans about the changes to the Jsullivan1998 as well as marking the end for the ABCA series, though just a week later, he began uploading Teasers to the final chapter of ABCA, before releasing it later that month. The final chapter of ABCA was confirmed to be the last official episode of the series, as with them planning on going up into higher education at the time, they would not have time to record and make videos of the series anymore, so they decided to give the fans a finale as well as closing the book on the series.

2016 came with a lot of success to the Xplodin Apple channel, with it not only starting to gain a lot of attraction not only from former fans of Jsullivan1998, but also from people that discovered his content by themselves. 2016 also saw the start of the Xplodin crew with the introduction of Endermen295, Toxic as well as Fizzy. The crew started to grow alongside the channel, with more members to soon join him such as HappyFunChomper, Jdogg, Bosshunt as well as many others. Around 2016 was when he started exploring other game franchises from Overwatch, to Minecraft story mode before settling on the pvz franchise with GW2.

As of March 2021, the Xplodin Apple channel currently sits at a grand total of 35.8K subscribers, with significant achievements also coming in around this time, such as getting custom made thumbnails for videos as well as sponsors that have started supporting him for the last several months.

## Appearance

Jack is a relatively tall male, with genitals above the average size who occasionally wears a large, black top hat in most of his videos. He is commonly seen as the leader of the Xplodin Crew. Towards people, he is kind and caring to those around him and online, trying to see the best in people.

## Trivia

* Prior to making videos of what he does now on his Xplodin Apple alias, on his jsullivan1998 channel (now Xplodin Film), he primarily posts Angry Birds videos under the series Angry Birds Craptastic Adventures with voice overs.
* He has been making videos on YouTube for nearly 10 years
* He is commonly seen with either a tophat or any kind of hat on his head in videos.
* He has a discord server and Twitter account which are linked in the description of the videos showcaed on his YouTube channel