Jack Sullivan

Jack Sullivan (birth name/real name is Shawn Joseph Sullivan Jr) Though more commonly referred to as Xplodin Apple by fans is the leader of the Xplodin crew who currently runs, and hosts both the Xplodin Apple as well as the Xplodin Film channels.
Jack currently primarily focuses on the Xplodin Apple channel, used to upload gaming related content mainly in the form of Plants vs Zombies Battle for Neighborville, though in recent times has started to expand and explore into many other different types of games and genres in hopes to give the channel a more unique flow and more flavour to the channels name. This has also resulted in him moving away from pvz content, though he does come back to make a video about it every once in a while.

Jack had previously worked on a channel under the name of Jsullivan1998 where he made angry birds plush videos, though this has currently been changed and rebranded to Xplodin film, though his former content is still viewable on that channel to this very day, though comments can no longer be made on those videos, as they have been disabled to prevent people from constantly asking for the revival of ABCA, as well as allowing him to focus on newer film projects.

## Early Life

Jack Sullivan was born on September 3rd 1998 as an only child (meaning that he was the only child his parents ever had). He grew up in the United States of America and became good friends with Matt who lived next door at the age of 5 years old. Several years later in 2006 he discovered YouTube, and had began showing increasing amounts of fascinations with the site in wanting to make his own content thanks to his cousins showing various cat videos to him.

### Later on in life

3 years later in 2009, Jack along with a friend named Philip made their first ever video together called "Cute SpongeBob Revenge of Elmo", this video was heavily inspired by another creator under the name "MarioMario8989". Both Jack and Philip continued to make a handful of videos together until they stopped due to the two of them no longer seeing each other anymore. Despite this however, Jack still wanted to create videos on YouTube thanks to his growing interest in the platform, which would come later in the same year when he created his very own channel for the very first time, Jsullivan1998, the name of which consists of the first letter of his nickname, his surname, and the year he was born in.

## Jsullivan1998

The Jsullivan1998 channel was officially created on March 17th 2009, though no videos were uploaded onto the channel at all until August of 2011 (This was presumably in order to create/monitor a YouTube channel , you needed to be at least 13 years of age with a guardians permission in order to upload videos to YouTube) when he uploaded his first ever video titled "Real Life Angry Birds", which amassed a lot of views during its release, showing critical amounts of success. Whilst a sequel was made shortly afterwards, it did not unfortunately achieve as much success as its predecessor. Though regardless, both videos performed exceptionally well.

### Beginning of ABCA

The main success for the channel would start 3 months later with the pilot episode of Jack's new series "Angry Birds Craptastic Adventures: Baby Sitter" which has shown to be the second most popular episode out of the entire ABCA series excluding the 5-part movie, scoring a total of 2.5 million views with the top spot being taken by "Angry Birds Craptastic Adventures: Ice Bird's Nightmare" sitting at 3 million views. The series itself mainly consisted of the core Angry Birds crew as well as some hand puppets with the occasional actual person making an onscreen appearance do various activities within the series, from celebrating birthdays, to sharing a bed, to having new assistants. Each episode offered a new adventures even if slightly obscene for the birds to take action in.

### ABCA Movie & Sudden disappearance

In May 2012, Jack released the first teaser for the upcoming ABCA movie, with a second teaser later in the month, followed by a reveal trailer in June. Later in June the movie came out in 5 different parts spanning over 50 consecutive minutes long. The movie resolved around an all out war started by Sharkbutt who raged war against the Angry Birds through the use of the pigs of assistance as well as arming them with various equipment like spoons, forks, blunt knives etc. The war ultimately failed, resulting the birds victory. The movie showed to be a critical success, accomplishing a grand total of +4 million views over the 5 part movie.

After the movie, the series continued as normal, though Jack had managed to start applying custom thumbnails to his videos now, and whilst most were of already existing stock images, it gave a more professional look to the channel.

Jack continued to upload videos to the channel up until February 2013 with the release of "Angry Birds Craptastic Adventures: Shark Butt Strikes Back Part 2/2" being the last upload that he did before suddenly disappearing from the channel. Unknown to his fans at the time, the stress from making the videos as well as the videos being no longer fun to make, was growing more and more with each passing video. With the upload of the stated video above, he decided to take a sudden break, as to relieve the stress off his shoulders.

## Sudden disappearance

Whilst it was not known at the time, Jack had become rather stressed about how popular he was starting to get, and chose to back down from the series silently as to take a much needed breather. Due to the lack of and videos announcing this decision, many of his fans grew concerned and some assumed the worse had happened to him, assuming that he had passed away, and that no one was brave enough to break the news.

Jack did enjoy his time off from the series as well as making video’s as a whole, taking the time to relax and calm himself from the stress, though whilst Jack enjoyed this new found freedom and time to himself, come 2 and a half years later, in September of 2015, Jack decided that it was time to come back to youtube, though rather than simply coming back to his old channel right away, he decided to start a brand new channel, under a new name.

## Creation of Xplodin Apple and the rebranding of Jsullivan1998

Jack silently returned the YouTube on the 10th of September 2015 with the creation of his new gaming channel known as Xplodin Apple, at the time of its creation, none of the fans of Jsullivan1998 knew about the channels existence. The channel would not receive any content to it for just over 2 weeks before Jack began uploading to it, mainly in the form of Super Smash Bros Wii U with him playing against his friends John and Matt, often resulting in mild raging and lots of erratic laughter from them when skirmishes on the game would take place. Jack knew that at some point that he would have to inform people about his new channel on his former channel Jsullivan1998, knowing this, Jack began making a video explaining his sudden disappearance as well as where he currently is now.

The video explaining his sudden change was uploaded to the former channel on November 7th 2015, explaining to his fans about his decisions on why he suddenly left, and what was to happen to Jsullivan1998. Whilst he did say that the ABCA series had come to an end, he surprised his fans a week later with the trailer for the final chapter before releasing the hour long episode later that month, marking it as the official end to the ABCA series, as with them going up into higher education, they would not have had much spare time to work on it in the future, and decided to make it now and release to the fans as an official closure on the book of ABCA.

### 2016

2016 was the start of the growing success of the Xplodin Apple channel as well as the official rebranding of Jsullivan1998, changing the name into Xplodin Film. It was around this time that the Xplodin Apple channel had started to gain attention from former and new fans, with some joining him for occasional videos. It was around this time that the first official crew members started to join him, like Endermen295 as well as Toxic. Around 2016 was also when the channel was getting its footing on what type of content the channel should be known for, with Jack trying various different games from Minecraft story mode, to Overwatch before settling on the PVZ franchise with Garden Warfare 2.

### 2017

Whilst nothing major happened in 2017, this was where he started to update his editing style, moving away from the 30+ minute videos in favour of shorter ones with more fast paced edits similar to Wolfy Playz. Jack would go on to continue this style of content for many years to come. Around this time, was when his channel truly started to see the light of day within the pvz community, with it reaching several channel milestones, as well as gaining a lot of support and viewership.

### 2020

Onwards, Jack continues to upload pvz content for the next several years, slowly building up his channel as he collaborated with several other YouTubers such as Zero, Wolfy and Bob, often doing either live streams or videos together. He has since started to move away from the pvz franchise as a whole with how BFN is being treated.

2020 whilst the pandemic did offer quite a rough start for everyone including Jack. It meant that he could use the spare time to upload videos and concentrate more on the channel as a whole with how much time he had to spare. This has resulted in him steaming more often, making more high quality videos as well as eventually hiring a thumbnail artist to make specially thumbnails for his videos (though he will occasionally use fan art from one of his crew members as the thumbnail as well).

2020 also saw the channels beginning departure from the pvz franchise, as more than half the videos on the channel were dedicated to games within the pvz franchise. This decision was made due to how much BFN had made bad decisions on what to change, mainly in the removal of characters variants as well as minimal content + poor balancing. Whilst some were disappointed in this decision, many understood why, and gladly accepted him into looking into other genre’s for him to look at and play.

### 2021

Jack continued to experiment with the channel in 2021, with him uploading a mixture of gaming content as well as funny skits. He also further toned down the amount of content that was related to pvz, even if it meant a overall decline in viewership.

### Channel’s current state

As of August 2021, the Xplodin Apple channel currently has 40.7 thousand subscribers with over 12.82 million views across all his videos so far.

The Xplodin film Channel currently has 60.4 thousand subscribers with over 36 million views across all the videos made on the channel.

## Art gallery

Jack himself is able to draw simple black and white illustrations, some of which have not only been used for thumbnails within his videos, but also for some of his merchandise. He also used the drawings of his black and white portrait of his cartoon self to convert it into a plushie.

## Famous Quotes

Chaotic laughter in almost every video

”You guys owe me 50 dollars in anal” - said when his prediction was correct in team Torchwood vs Sasquatch

”I have more fun whipping my ass than playing boss turf take over” - said in a Twitter post

”That’s bullshit!” - usually said when finding/exploiting something that’s broken in a game

”How’d you enjoy spooky squashes lap dance?” - said to Irl.Skelo in response to seeing her getting flattened by the spooky squash

”He’s gonna blow me off” - said before realising and stating to not take it as a sex joke in his battle against dreadwood

”oh my god!” - usually said when something bullshit works or happens.

“Why are you taking a naps!?” - said when spectating Jdogg only to find him sat down doing nothing.

## Trivia

* Jack himself has been making content on YouTube for nearly 10 years. He himself has watched videos on the site for more than 10 years.
* He is commonly seen/associated with a top hat resting on his head.
* He edits his videos using Imovie.
* Jack provides the voice of Studder McStutter Pants and has done so for all of his appearances
* He has been friends with both Matt and John from a very young age
* He stars as the antagonist known as “Foodman“ in the Foodman trilogy
* He currently is the owner of a discord server
* Jack’s own mother supports him on patron (aww, how sweet)
* He once made rocks for dinner despite matts objections.
* Jack has a cat named Tom.
* He made an appearance on the brick wall, with one of his films also being showcased.
* Before changing the name to Xplodin Film, the channel Jsullivan1998 was named after Jack himself, as well as his year of birth, being 1998.
* Jack does plan on making plushies, though he hopes to find a place that will make them for a relatively cheap price, given that the 3 prototype’s he had made costed over 300 dollars to make.
* On a live stream dedicated to GW1, he advertised several games he planned on selling.
* He completely lost it when he played “getting over it”, screaming and yelling in rage at it.
* Jack once ate 100 apples (1-2 per day) in a single YouTube video. The whole project took about a year and a half to complete.

## Social Media

Twitter - Xplodin Apple

Primary channel - Xplodin Apple

Secondary channel - Xplodin Film

Xbox gt - XPLODIN APPLE

Discord server - Xplodin Hangout

**Crew members**