Who Is Jake Paul And Why Did He Become Famous?

Jake Paul is a name I’m sure you’ve heard of before. Despite only being 21 years old (he was born on January 17th, 1997 – if you were keeping notes) he’s already built quite a career for himself that hasn’t been saved of controversy. The controversy is probably more related to his brother, Logan Paul, so we’ll try not to get into too much detail about that. I mean, we’ve all heard of that particular video and that particular story.

Jake started off on the seemingly ancient video service Vine. He posted loads of videos on it, as social media people do, and had about 2 million views in total by the time the app shut down. This jump-started his career and gave him a role on Disney’s Bizaardvark. It was all pretty tame up until 2017, when Jake Paul got to that weird “I’m over 18 so I can do what I want” age that all boys go through.