Xplodin Apple

Xplodin Apple is the primary channel of the Xplodin channels, run by Jack Sullivan as well as several of his close friends and members from the Xplodin Crew who occasionally make appearances in videos. The channel was formerly known for mainly providing Plants vs. Zombies related content, but has in recent times, started to explore other games and genres from either sheer curiosity or viewer requests as the pvz genre in 2020 showed to be getting a lot of bad reputation with its release of BFN. The channel does often do live streams on both YouTube and occasionally on twitch.

The channel was created back around late-2015 and whilst it showed a slow start, around 2020 has shown critical amounts of growth and success, scoring thousands of views per video as well as a steady increase in its overall subscriber count.

## Event timeline (initial creation)

The Xplodin Apple channel was created on September 10th 2015 and was made as a way to start anew, with Jack claiming that the videos he used to make back on jsullivan1998 weren’t fun to make anymore and chose to make a gaming channel as well as several mini films and parodies. Whilst the channel was created silently, Jack wanted to inform his former fans on his other channel, and made a video early November describing his disappearance, why he took a break, as well as showing where he had moved to.

Throughout 2016 was when the channel started to get its footing together, with Jack trying out multiple different games to see what would fit, from Overwatch to Minecraft story mode before he settled on Garden Warfare 2 as he began making videos for it. It was around this time that the earliest crew members started to appear in his videos (Endermen, Toxic etc) with them either being there or sometimes even speaking alongside him. Around this time was slo when the channel itself began to grow, slowly gaining popularity, with it eventually reaching 1,000 subscribers, holding a live stream later for the celebration. During this year, Jack also had no exact schedule in his live streams, often streaming at random intervals and either on YouTube or on Twitch, with the former gaining more attention and attraction with it being more convenient to use.

## 2017 to now (channel growth and editing improvement)

2017 marked the start of Jack starting to improve the channel significantly, with him offering more commentary/face cam videos as well as starting to add a lot more humour to his videos, similar to the style of Wolfy Playz

Mid-way through the year, Jack released his first video with a significant amount of editing in it known as “Team Torchwood vs Sasquatch”, with the video having a lot of edits in a style reminiscent of Wolfy Playz, a YouTuber who did similar edits that inspired Jack to do so. The video itself was met with critical amounts of success, with it becoming the second most viewed video on Jack’s channel, reaching nearly 800,000 views. Later in the year, Jack also began uploading list videos that ranged from either yandere stories to scary stories either found on reddit or submitted by fans. Jack contained the team vs boss videos with the significant amount of editing in them, each of them showing a massive amount of success due to each of them having numerous commentary as well as several sex jokes/innuendos, though none scored as much as the original video. 2017 was also when Jack announced the official opening of his discord server, which has grown to huge success.

Later on in the year, Jack and Wolfy did a stream together with it marking the first time they played together, with Wolfy discovering Jack’s stream several weeks prior to their interaction. The two would then often stream together or make videos together in Garden Warfare 2.

In 2019, Jack begin making videos together with Wolfy, Bob Box and Zero, filming skits of their shenanigans in videos with each other’s commentary on them. This showed to have a lot of success with each other’s fan bases wanting them to do more videos together more often. Whilst this had continued for a while, it had slowed down, though Jack does still make videos together occasionally with Wolfy and Bob, though not as often as before.

2020 saw a significant amount of change for the channel in many positive ways despite the gloves situation. Not only had the channel managed to hit a grand total of 20,000 subscribers, but this was also around the time that Jack had started making custom thumbnails for his videos, though sometimes would use fan art from a friend as either a part of the thumbnail or as the thumbnail itself. 2020 was also the time where the channel started to move away from the pvz genre in hopes to move on from it and look for new games to try out and main for the channel, as Jack has stated that he does not want the channel to be entirely focused around pvz, and has since then, began exploring other games/genres.

This significantly spark of growth has continued into early 2021, though whilst it has slowed down slightly, the channel has still showed significantly growth. The changes content has also shown to have become more experimental in its uploads, with it uploading content around either reactions to various videos or other video games and franchises.

As of August 2021, the channel currently has 40.7K subscribers and has amassed a total of 12.81 million views in total.

In 2020, several streams based on the original pvz game, covering both it’s co-op and vs modes had a sudden surge in popularity, with the channel starting to explode in terms of both subscriber count as well as the number of viewers he obtains per stream, with them reaching well beyond 140 in recent times, as well as him gaining over 1,400 subscribers within the span of just a few days. Wether or not the covering of the original pvz game is unknown, though it might possibly be that due to the coincidence in the channel starting this accelerated growth are doing the time Jack chose to film the original pvz.

For exact information on when certain milestones were reached, see the Channel Milestones page for exact details.

## Most Popular videos

5 real life yandere horror stories - 950K views

Team Torchwood vs Sasquatch - 750K views

PvZ vs part 1- 900K views

The greatest plan - 400K views

Ranking EASIEST to HARDEST Elite Bosses in PVZ BFN - 650K views

## Patreon support

Since the channel has surpassed 3,000 subscribers back in late 2017, the channel has opened up a Patreon, allowing those to donate to the channel and support it, being given unique roles on his discord server as well as prioritisation to play with him whenever he streams. All patreons are mentioned at the end of Jack’s videos with him thanking them and saying their names.

Link to the official page dedicated to the patreons: Patreons

If you would like to support the channel and make a donation, the link to its Patreon is right here! Patreon - Xplodin Apple

## Discord server

As well as opening a Patreon on 3,000 subscribers, a discord server was also publicly revealed for fans to join. Whilst the server was created several weeks in advance prior to the servers reveal, it has since grown to a significant size, supporting nearly 700 people in the server with around 70 active on a daily basis.

The server is home to many activities such as bot’s music channels, general discussion, art museum, memes, stupid shit (actually a lot, of stupid shit), as well as a wholesomeness channel featuring mostly pictures of adorable animals.

If you wish to join the discord server, the link can be found below:

Xplodin Hangout

## Trivia

* The channel itself is nearly 6 years old, being created back in September 2015
* The channel has over a thousand videos uploaded onto the channel, with over half of those videos being related to pvz.
* On Valentine’s Day, Jack has uploaded a list of 5 real life yandere stories. This has since become a yearly tradition with the channel, with the thumbnail also being of a character from DDLC. This tradition was blocked in 2021
* The longest series to have ever run channel is his character series on Garden Warfare 2, spanning a grand total of 265 episodes long not counting videos of them generally screwing around. Most of the videos in the series are of him showcasing each of the games 100+ variants, both when reaching master rank, and then showcasing them at master rank.
* Early on in the channels life, Jack had uploaded a handful of reaction videos, though this had stopped long ago, probably due to various copyright reasons.
* Jack has animated a handful of videos himself, though has not done so in a long time. Why he stopped is unknown, though it was possible that the work load for making said animations, was too much for him to handle.
* Back during 2016 the channel used to consist of long videos showcasing characters from GW2, often in 2 parts, with one showcasing the base character, and another dedicated to the same character but at the max level. This has changed with him editing his videos more, adding in sound effects as well as more detailed thumbnails made by his personal hired thumbnail artist, and occasionally other crew members.
* Jack himself has stated that he might return to making videos on smash mods in the future.
* The channel itself has its own merch store, featuring designs on t-shirts from both himself as well as other crew members that are purchasable.
* Both the channel icon and banner were made by members of the Xplodin crew. The pixelated icon was made by Endermen295 as well as the current channel banner. The former channel banner was made by Toxic.

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