Jacksepticeye Unfollowed Markiplier

Overview

Jacksepticeye Unfollowed Markiplier refers to reports, posts and memes claiming that YouTuber Jacksepticeye unfollowed YouTuber and friend Markiplier on social media, along with the account for their joint clothing brand, Cloak, in May 2024. Notably, Markiplier did not unfollow Jacksepticeye. Late that month, social media users began making posts announcing the unfollow and speculating on it, while also posting memes about the situation, many of which people ironically overreact to the news.

Background

On May 28th, 2024, social media users began to post claims about Jacksepticeye unfollowing Markiplier on social media, including Instagram and X / Twitter. The earliest notable post about the unfollow was posted by X^[1] user @stevlmao that morning, writing, "babe wake up jacksepticeye unfollowed markiplier," garnering over 90,000 likes and 9,700 reposts in a day (shown below).

Jacksepticeye and Markiplier are both YouTubers who have worked together numerous times in the past and are often seen as friends, even running a joint clothing brand together called Cloak.

Jacksepticeye appeared to unfollow Markiplier, along with the Cloak social media pages, on both Instagram and X. Markiplier, however, still followed Jacksepticeye as of May 29th, 2024 (shown below).

Online Reactions

On May 28th, 2024, following the news that Jacksepticeye unfollowed Markiplier, social media users began making memes and posts about the incident, speculating on why Jacksepticeye may have unfollowed Markiplier and reacting to the event. On that day, TikTokers^[2][3] @heavymetaldummer and @autistically.autistic posted videos reacting with exaggerated shock to the story, garnering over 2.4 million views and 700,000 views, respectively, in a day (shown below, left and right).

Also on May 28th, X^[4] user @alphavsskibidi posted a Wolf Ripping Shirt meme, writing, "If the reason jacksepticeye unfollowed markiplier is because mark did something bad you will never hear from me again I'm deleting my account bro," garnering over 8,400 likes in a day (shown below).

On the same day, X^[5] user @chuuyaslesbo posted a meme, writing, "my inner child after seeing jacksepticeye and markiplier unfollow each other," garnering over 25,000 likes in a day (shown below, left). X^[6] user @venaefica then quote-reposted a piece of Markiplier x Jacksepticeye ship fan art, jokingly writing, "this image going around again is why jacksepticeye unfollowed markiplier," garnering over 30,000 likes in a similar timeframe (shown below, right).

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