I have been interested in content creation of many mediums since I was 7, starting off doing little films in Microsoft 3D Movie Maker back in 2003, then eventually inheriting my grandfather’s old VHS camcorder in 2004, making small action movies that didn’t make sense. I started doing more skit-oriented things in 2005 as I have always enjoyed making people laugh. Those sketches eventually led to the creation of a series I started in 2008 called Jake & Jacob, a series inspired by Drake & Josh and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, two twin brothers separated at birth reuniting and finding out they couldn’t be more different from each other.

The sketch content bled into my first YouTube channel which I started in 2010. Jake6497 began as a way to show the masses as well as my family members my progress on guitar, having played for about a year and a half at the time I started the channel. I continued doing sketch content through the early 2010s, also opening up an alt YouTube account in 2011 called oOChainLynxOo. On that channel, I started making Let’s Play content in 2012, eventually becoming a multi-thousand subscriber channel that lasted until 2017. Also in 2012, I started JayKeePoo, a channel where I moved the sketch comedy to and continued making content for until 2016, phasing out Jake6497.

2017 saw the birth of uTonical, a channel born out of necessity for a more mature rebranding after my previous channels had more family-friendly language as my family would tune in every now and then. There, I started The Bootleg Game Series, a series where I reviewed and commentated on unlicensed and bootleg video games. I also started writing trollpastas and narrating them on that channel, much inspired by DaveTheUseless’ works. Some of the pastas I wrote were ‘The New Toy - A Lost Toy Story Beta Tape’, ‘Lost 90s Commercials’, and ‘The Grinch Movie Original Reel’. On uTonical, I also started Undercooked Creepypasta, a series with the premise of narrating poorly-written/flawed creepypastas and giving my critique on them as well as rating them.

After a few years, I grew tired of being pigeonholed in creepypasta content and experienced severe burnout. During this burnout period, I privated all of my videos and didn’t know what direction I wanted to go in, or if I even wanted to continue making YouTube videos. In the end, in late 2022, I deleted the uTonical and oOChainLynxOo YouTube channels after deciding to start over with a whole new persona, McTwistified, complete with a VTuber avatar that I created in VRoid Studio. I wasn’t very confident in my appearance at the time, yet I still wanted some visual articulation to my voice. At that point, to me, VTubing was the natural resolution to that problem. In the McTwistified era, I did gaming content, commentary, livestreaming, and even some tech content. I did VTubing for a few months, even joining a VRChat party with a few other VTubers for a friend’s birthday hangout and meeting some cool people in the community.

Eventually, it became apparent that VTubing wasn’t cut out for me and I grew to heavily dislike it. In early 2023, I retired McTwistified and rebranded to KafeJake, the current and permanent new chapter in my content creation endeavor, combining everything I enjoyed about my previous projects. Instead of making a new account, I just repurposed a previous channel that I was going to use for vlogs that I opened in 2013, the original name registered for KafeJake was JayKeeVlogs. Under KafeJake, I revived Undercooked Creepypasta as a seasonal series, revived The Bootleg Game Series, occasional tech videos, livestreams, and commentary on anything weird on the internet that intrigues me. I consider this channel to be uTonical 2.0, improving on what I did before and adding more.

Jake6497 is still around as a catch-all channel where I’ll post music-related content, vlogs, or rambling videos. Anything that doesn’t have to do with the Kafe’s already wide niche goes onto Jake6497. KafeJake Archive also exists as an archive for found videos mostly from the oOChainLynxOo and uTonical eras, a time capsule that stretches back over a decade.