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Jake Paul: Everything You Didn’t Know About His Sh*tty Past

Hysteria | August 26, 2026



In our 46th episode of This F*cking Guy, Erin Ryan and Nina Parker break down the ball-tasering, clout-chasing manchild, Jake Paul. From his Vine and YouTube “prank” beginnings, to running a content sweatshop called Team 10, to scamming children via crypto pump-and-dumps and sham online “universities,” to gentrifying Puerto Rico and cozying up to Trump, to finally getting his jaw broken in two places by Anthony Joshua…this may just be our most exhaustingly f*ckboy yet!

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CHAPTERS
0:00 – Intro
1:12 – Childhood
2:54 – Jake and Logan Paulโ€™s First Video Channels
5:00 – Bizaardvark on Disney Channel
5:35 – Team 10 House
11:15 – Ad Break
14:26 – Fired By Disney and the End of Team 10
17:07 Jake Paul Boxing Career
20:00 – Logan Paulโ€™s Offensive Trip to Japan
25:00 – Jake Paul Controversies and Scams
29:34 – Ad Break
31:18 – Jake Paul Gets Into Crypto
34:27 – Jake Paulโ€™s Personal Care Line and More Failed Boxing
37:03 – Praising Donald Trump
39:38ย – Sexual Abuse Allegations
41:40ย – Putting Jake Paul on the Matrix

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Written by Hysteria

Comments

This post currently has 21 comments.

  1. @DJGNYC

    August 26, 2026 at 2:03 pm

    If you have to educate people on who Jake Paul is in 2026 then youโ€™ve already lost. This video is like 4-5 years too late. VERY Democrat-coded but it tracks. Why next youโ€™ll be telling us that DJT Jr. is a bad guy too! Shocking! The wheels must grind REAL slow at Crooked.

  2. @SchnauzerGal2500

    August 26, 2026 at 2:03 pm

    That whole Crypto section just sounded like the Peanuts teacher talking to me. I can't seem to wrap my head around how that stuff works and makes people (the scammers) gobs of money. And I think that's probably why more people aren't all up in arms about things like Trump's Crypto grifts- it feels impossible to understand how they're making real money with these things.

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