- The YouTuber Jacksfilms said he has felt unsafe since a fellow creator doxxed him.
- He said he and his wife were "scared to leave" their home and were considering moving house.
Jack Douglass, better known as the YouTuber Jacksfilms, said he has felt unsafe since a fellow creator doxxed him.
Douglass, a well-known creator who has been on YouTube since June 2006 and has nearly 5 million subscribers, has been critical of the streamer Alia Shelesh, better known as SSSniperwolf.
Shelesh has more than 34 million YouTube subscribers and has been feuding with Douglass for some time.
Douglass accused Shelesh of not properly crediting the content she used in her videos, while Shelesh said Douglass had been "harassing" her "for months" with his videos.
The clash came to a head in October when Shelesh went to Douglass' house and encouraged him to come outside and "talk like adults." She posted several photos of his home to her Instagram story.
Douglass called Shelesh's behavior "creepy, gross," and "violating" in a post on X and accused her of stalking.
He also said coming to his house and taking photos was a form of doxxing — a term for when someone leaks someone else's personal information online.
In a later video, Douglass said the last few weeks had been "pretty rough to say the least."
He said he and his wife, Erin, were "in this weird limbo of scared to leave our home and strongly considering moving."
"So it hasn't been great," he said. "But we both want to thank you all for your incredible support during this time. We've read your messages and I can't begin to tell you just how much we truly appreciate them. So thank you all so, so much."
Douglass said there was a lot of "uncertainty" as to the future of his content — particularly on his other channel, JJJacksfilms.
"I can't stress how off things have been since the incident," he said. "But this is my literal job. I have to do something with this channel."
He also encouraged his fans to send in their work so he could critique and review it.
When Douglass spoke out about Shelesh on X, she at first doubled down and said he was playing the "victim."
"Saying I threatened him when I just wanted to talk to him," she wrote on Instagram. "I have no ill intentions. it's so sad when people have to constantly create drama to pay their bills."
But on October 20, she shifted her tone and apologized for her "recent actions" in a statement on X, saying doxxing Douglass was "inexcusable."
"I'm sorry to Jacksfilm, YouTube, the entire creator community, and my incredible fans for not being a better example for appropriate conflict resolution," she wrote.
She added that she should have tried to resolve the issue in private and been a better role model to her followers.
Shelesh's apology followed a statement by YouTube's TeamYouTube account on X, where the team confirmed she had received a "temporary monetization suspension."
"Off platform actions that put others' personal safety at risk harm our community & the behavior on both sides isn't what we want on YT," it read. "Hoping everyone helps move this convo to a better place."
Users have previously criticized the platform over its perceived inaction to the situation since its terms of service prohibit harmful behaviors, which include "threats or doxxing."
Several days passed without any comment from YouTube, which only intensified the calls for the platform to act against Shelesh.
YouTube's X account also posted something on October 18 that many considered a thinly veiled joke about the whole situation: "Would it be too meta to do a reaction video to a reaction video," the post reads, which users interpreted as a reference to Shelesh's controversial "reaction" content.