Alex Clark (born: February 1, 1985),[1] formerly It's Alex Clark, is an American YouTuber, comedy vlogger, former street performer, and animator who primarily uploads animations. His animations and the management of his channel are done by him, and his team. Clark is a self-taught animator, and an avid gamer. He created a channel called AlexClarkLive in 2014, where he flims vlogs and does livestreams where he draws future videos. Clark is a 2017 Streamy Awards nominee and the recipient of four People's Choice Awards. HuffPost once called his work "Brilliant",[2] and the Chicago Tribune called him "funny".
Content[]
He is mostly known for his animations, which usually consist of animated videos depicting moments from his life. His animations largely consists of vlog toons; an animated vlog hybrid that updates fans on his everyday life behind the camera. His most popular series and the series he is most known for are his animations on his babysitter series, in which he recounts his stories of dating his babysitter. He used to have a Saturday video series where he did challenges, animation challenges, collaborations, or unboxing videos. In his animation challenges, Clark animates the highest voted topic from his twitter polls. The results of the polls are revealed to him live, and he is then given a set time limit for him to complete his animation.
Inconsistencies[]
On December 13, 2017 Clark uploaded a video titled "My Secret Babysitter Relationship". Two minutes and 46 seconds into the video he says "there was a Nintendo DS in the bag" when describing how in middle school he visited his younger sister's babysitter's younger brother in the hospital. The Nintendo DS was released in 2004, and someone born in 1985 would be roughly 19 years old at that time. It is possible he meant the Game Boy Color, which was released in 1998 when someone born in 1985 would be 13 years old, which is how old Clark says he was when the relationship with the babysitter began.
Four and a half minutes into the same video, the babysitter refers to a "Stussy S". The Wikipedia article on this only dates back to 2017 although KnowYourMeme says it occurred in the 1980s. There is a reference to it as a Stussy S dating back to December 1st, 2010, but no known verbal reference to it like that from the 90s when Clark would have been in Middle School. It is possible that he was only paraphrasing and that she had called it something else like 'Superman S'. Despite all that, in part 4 Clark affirms he was still "in the seventh grade" during the story arc.
History[]
Clark began his entertainment career as a street performer in Boston, Massachusetts. He would perform for tourists outside the shops at Faneuil Hall. He created his channel on December 2, 2009, but didn't begin uploading videos until five days later. After several years of posting random content types including news videos, sketches, and parodies he decided to try doing animation in December, 2012.
Clark had done art and cartoons as a child and after seeing a few videos made by one of YouTube's first animators Swoozie. Clark felt inspired to try his hand at art again. Because of the success of his first cartoon post-Clark decided to transition his channel fully to animated content moving forward.
Some of the animated series on his channel include Pickle Dipper (A superhero who can summon weaponized pickles), Ben and Beans (two idiot best friends who haphazardly end up in trouble), and The Babysitter series (which chronicles the time in life when he dated his babysitter), and How I Met My Cute Wife (An animated episodic story of how he met and began to date his wife).
In April 2017, he deleted his 2016 VidCon and Disney day vlog. Because of this, many have speculated that he was the unspecified vloger mentioned in Jaiden’s “Why I Don’t Have a Face Reveal" video that initially agreed to show censored footage of her face, but later decided to use uncensored footage of her face despite her actively asking them not to do so. Many people asked if he was the vlogger that she was referring to, however, unlike many other YouTubers that were confronted by this question, he made no public response, which led to further speculation by the community that he was the unnamed vlogger.
He made a video regarding this incident on March 2023[3], where he stated that he had apologised to Jaiden in private when the incident happened, and that he didn't make a public statement previously as he struggled to address a sensitive and complex issue which involved another person's mental health and privacy. In his recollection, after stating he'd rather post the uncensored face since it looked silly, Jaiden conveyed to him that she wanted to do so since she was uncomfortable with her self-image. After this, he states he responded by attempting to support her and encouraged Jaiden to not blur her face as he thought it may help Jaiden overcome her self-confidence issues, he tried to convey to Jaiden that ultimately the decision to blur her was completely up to her. After which she agreed to it with her full consent. Unbeknownst to him, until he watched Jaiden's video, this action was mortifying to her and destroyed her.
Although she had said yes, in her face reveal video, Jaiden states that she's had disagreements with him in the past, and from what she understands, Alex is very adamant when he has their mind on something. His previous actions, and potentially the way his response was worded, may have contributed to the perception that his response was pushy, and likely contributed to her conclusion that she couldn't do anything to change his mind and made her feel pressured to let him post it. After watching the video Alex reflected that although his intentions were pure, his actions were incredibly insensitive, as he did not know the full extent of her issues and felt bad for letting her down, after this he deleted the video and apologised privately to Jaiden for any harm or embarrassment that he caused her.
On February 24, 2018, as part of his animation challenge series. He posted a "randomly generated twitter poll"[4], and asked his fanbase to suggest a topic he should do, and the person who he should animate. The person that won the poll was Jaiden Animations and the topic that won was cry-eating pizza due to there being pineapple on the pizza since that was the suggestion had the most votes. Before the topic was chosen, some commented on his twitter poll that it was an inappropriate topic to be chosen due to her former eating disorder, but it is likely did not see this before the animation was posted. Alex states that he considered not using her but decided to do so as it may help promote Jaiden's content and hopefully she'd see it and they could rebuild their relationship.[5]
A few days after posting the poll he posted the video. In this video, he animated Jaiden crying because there were pineapples on her pizza. However, many in the community commented that they did not think it was appropriate, with Jaiden herself commenting "This is rather insensitive to the past and what I've gone through, please don't". 2-3 hours later, he deleted the video and issued a statement on his YouTube community page, stating he removed the video because the community reminded him of her eating disorder[4]. This community posts comments received generally well reception by his fanbase. In a follow up to this he stated that neither himself nor anyone who saw the video before posting remembered that Jaiden had struggled with an eating disorder in the past[3].
On March 7, 2018, Clark published a video entitled "Guns Explained with Cats" , which took a light-hearted spin on the gun debate and puts it in the simple terms of cats. As the gun debate is a controversial topic, this video got more dislikes then his usual videos, however, his video received more traction compared to his other videos. A Huffington Post article called the video "Brilliant " and this article was later tweeted by X González,[6] a survivor of the February 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, and American activist for gun reform. It was also retweeted by Nick Offerman, Alyssa Milano, and featured by boredpanda.com and the American Public Health Association.[7]
In August 2018, Clark announced that he would like to take his act on tour through the USA and abroad. He did a test show in Fargo, North Dakota in which he took the entire audience to Five Guys after the show as a way to celebrate.[8] Because of the success of his first ticketed performance a full tour of the USA was later announced.
In October 2018, Clark announced tour dates for his 2019 tour. It includes stops in 21 cities across the USA and Canada with stops in more cities planned for the future. The initial cities included Washington DC, Richmond VA, Atlanta GA, Orlando FL, Columbus OH, Detroit MI, Pittsburgh PA, Indianapolis, IN, Chicago, IL San Antonio, TX, Dallas, TX, Phoenix AZ, Philadelphia, PA, NYC, Boston, Vancouver Canada, Seattle, WA, Portland OR, Denver CO, Sacramento CA. Los Angeles. CA. Tickets went sale on November 15.[9] In the announcement video Clark appears to have been "hacked" by Project Zorgo, a parody account of a hacker group that is currently attempting to "take over YouTube".
Clark also promised to announce additional dates to his tour that would make international stops across the world. In a video titled "I need to say sorry", posted on November 15, 2018 Clark apologized for not visiting enough places on his first tour. As a peace offering, Clark requested that his viewers suggest additional cities he should add to the tour in the comments. He then promised to pick one of the top requested cities and add it as an additional destination for the tour. Popular destinations were Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and Dwarahat India, Wakanda, and the sun.
On November 9, 2018, Clark challenged the animation YouTuber TheOdd1sOut to a chess boxing match. This was in response to an open invitation James made in his video Tabletop Games. In the video, James said he would be interested in participating in a chess boxing match if a YouTuber were to challenge him. A month after posting Clark replied that if no one was man enough to challenge him he himself would do it. James has responded to the request, saying "oh, you're on, dude".[10]
On July 11, 2019, Clark and James staged a chess-boxing match in Yorba Linda, California at the PYLUSD Performing Arts Center. The performance, which was one half comedy show and one half sporting event was not broadcast online. The description of the event read as follow:
- Alex "Big Head" Clark takes on James "The Human Marshmallow" Rallison in what can only be described as an attempt at "sports". These two animation titans will compete to see who truly is the Chess Boxing champion of the animation world. With zero training and a combined gym class grade of C+, these two are not only equally worthy competitors, but also the fiercest fighters of the animation world.
- One part comedy show, one part attempt at fighting, one part chess (or maybe checkers if we can't figure chess out...) Be there to see who reigns SUPREME (is that still a good thing?).
The boxing match later ended in a draw.
On December 19, 2019, he posted the finale episode to his popular Babysitter series. The series, which is what his channel is most known for, concluding with a two-part finale. Part one, titled "I Dated My Babysitter Movie" combined previous videos in the baby sitter series and included additional scenes. Part 2, titled "The Very Last Babysitter Episode", was a 13-minute video with an all-new story that wrapped up the series.
Controversy[]
Jaiden Animations[]
In July, 2016, Alex made a now-deleted Vlog of Vidcon 2016, the video contained JaidenAnimations's face, this was before she face revealed. Jaiden told Alex to give her the video, which she would censor her face out of and then send the video back, but after she censored it, Alex decided that he was going to post the video without censoring Jaiden's face. On April 6, 2017, Jaiden made a video titled, Why I Don't Have a "Face Reveal", in which she explained this situation at Vidcon 2016 without mentioning Alex by name, After this video gained traction, Alex quickly Deleted his Vidcon 2016 Vlog. On July 24, 2021, Jaiden had an Interview with Anthony Padilla, where she exlpained the entire situation, but this time stated Alex's name.[11] On March 5, 2023, Alex made an Apology video, where he said that another YouTuber IHasCupquake showed Jaiden's face in her now-deleted video[12] before Alex did. Alex also mentioned that in February, 2019, he made Art of 'Jaiden crying and eating pizza', with Alex apologizing for that and stating he didn't knew that Jaiden had an Eating Disorder at the time.[13]
Charity[]
Alex participated in Mr. Beasts Team Trees Charity event in 2019. Team trees was a collaborative effort to plant 20 million trees before the end of 2020. On December 5th, 2019 Alex posted a video titled the $1000 Gift where he donated $1000 dollars to the Team Trees Campaign. In total team trees raised over 21 million dollars promising to plant one tree for every dollar raised.
Characters[]
Dad[]
In his videos, Clark’s father (Scott) is shown as a notorious cheapskate and will do anything to save a buck.
Trudy Walker[]
In his videos Alex Clark's younger sister Trudy walker is shown as evil and usually appears to ruin Alex's perfect days
Mother[]
She has a grizzled voice and loves to cook.
The Babysitter[]
Clark's first girlfriend, a troublemaker and misfit, constantly getting Clark in over his head. She is the focal point of a series on the channel about dating his babysitter in the 7th grade.
Mrs. Haisley[]
Mrs. Haisley is a teacher in the Babysitter Series.
Darryl[]
Darryl is a bully of Alex Clark and the brother of the Alex's babysitter's ex-boyfriend.
Pam[]
Pam Is The Most Popular Woman In The Winx Group
Pam's roommate[]
Pam's roommate was the roommate of Pam and former girlfriend of Alex during college
Dorothy[]
Dorothy is a girl who give Alex his first kiss
Unnamed girl[]
The one who recommended art school (returns here)
Bobby and Billy[]
Bobby and Billy are friends of Alex Clark.
Arianna[]
Arianna is a sister to Alex Clark.
Trivia[]
- His YouTube channel was formerly called "It's Alex Clark"
- It's speculated among fans that Clark doesn't like pineapple pizza.
- Clark has a team to help him with his animations.
- Clark was born in Massachusetts, while his family originated from Romania.
- Clark and Pam married in October 26, 2019.[14]
- Despite Alex's claiming that many of his stories are based on real life experiences, some series may be faked due to inconsistencies in his story's.
- This was confirmed in a Video titled 'Celebrity Encounters (w/ BrodyAnimates & Infamous Swoosh)' by LukeOrSomething, where a story is proven to me mostly false and exaggerated.
- Some people have speculated that the series of him hooking up with his Babysitter is most likely fake as underage dating in an age gap of at least two years is illegal in many states. However this does not prove that it was fake as both parties may have just ignored the law or did not know of the laws existence
- On May 6, 2020, Alex announced his every own card game called Sugar Heist.[15]
Subscriber milestones[]
- 1 million subscribers: October 4, 2017.
- 2 million subscribers: January 20, 2018.
- 3 million subscribers: July 17, 2018.
- 4 million subscribers: March 15, 2019.
References[]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/itsalexclark/status/958753764227276800
- ↑ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/animator-brilliantly-explains-the-gun-control-debate-using-cats_n_5aa2bc71e4b01b9b0a3afb2e
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAD_EiyZCdo
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://www.youtube.com/post/UgzVUf2QBYuyzZ7YlXx4AaABCQ
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAD_EiyZCdo
- ↑ https://twitter.com/callmeX/status/972940112261763073
- ↑ https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/gun-violence
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJWqpiYecA
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YjwOkiBfyo
- ↑ https://youtu.be/dAqC07wsbOk?t=551
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxjl0sGro_8
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bYr791zclw
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAD_EiyZCdo
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/B5V_pzTpV5f/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZMEC10vzmw
