“Back in My Day. You Just.”: YouTube Gamer Jacksepticeye Gives a Tribute to the Iconic Video Game That Made His and Pewdiepie’s Careers

One of the most prominent and influential gamers on YouTube, Jacksepticeye, gives a tribute to the game that started it all. Jack is one of the veteran gamers on YouTube, including his colleagues and close friends Markiplier and PewDiePie. These three individuals had a huge contribution to shaping the modern gaming environment on YouTube.

In the earlier days of their career, the “Big Three” of YouTube gaming had a very basic formula for content. Start up a game, play it with exaggerated expressions (screams), and put in some funny edits. This formula was and still is very effective, and the game that suited it perfectly back in the day was Happy Wheels. 

Jacksepticeye gives his tributes to Happy Wheels

Happy Wheels is a ragdoll physics-based platform game. It has wacky physics systems and hilariously grim character mutilation animations. Back in 2011-13, this game was the sweetheart of every YouTube let’s player. The crazy outcomes that the game’s physics used to create resulted in very entertaining content. 

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The videos were very successful and garnered high view counts. This is why Jack had made 100+ videos on the game. Pewds and Mark also created numerous videos on the game. Happy Wheel’s success gave a boost to these creators’ careers. Jacksepticeye posted his first Happy Wheels video back in 2013. 

The video was named, “THIS GAME IS MY B*TCH”. It was the early days of the channel. After 9 years of its publication, the video has over 21 Million views and 25k comments. And to give the fans a trip to the nostalgia lane, Jack recently uploaded his 103rd episode of Happy Wheels on his channel.

Almost every year-end, jack celebrates a nostalgia week on his channel. During this time, he plays old games that had a lot of significance in his career. On the 31st Night of December 2022, Jack uploaded the happy wheels video as the last of the Nostalgia week games. Other than Happy wheels, jack played Shadow of the Colossus, Sumotori Dreams, Inside, Plague Inc, Journey, and Flash Games. 

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What do you think about Jack’s Happy Wheel series? Do you think without this game these YouTubers wouldn’t have been this popular? Let us know in the comments below!