Now that we're pretty much done with this season, I think everyone reading this thread deserves to know who the man behind Xavier is. This is a short summary of how relevant he was to the history of Kiwifarms, it's safe to skip this post if you're already acquainted with Jace.
Before the conception of fishtank dot live, before Jet had his dick pics leaked on /r9k/, during a time when Vance was only starting to upload diet MDE sketches to YouTube and Letty had yet to get into deep trouble on Discord, there was one forum diligently cataloging the life of dear old Christian Weston Chandler. Autists of all walks of life gravitated towards it, some just average, others incredibly talented in the art of method acting.
This video gets really loud towards the end.
During that time, Jan Rankowski played a cow named Jace Connors for more than a year. Jace was a clueless Mountain Dew-swigging Xbox Live-loving autist who would stream recurrently while surrounded by commercialized 2000s masculinity. Jan's acting was so great that many were fully convinced that Jace was real, and a cult following quickly grew around him. Jan made a pseudonymous account on this very website,
@DeagleDad420, then "kept tabs" on Jace as if he were just one more user gawking at a cow. His involvement in the forum grew to the point where he became an administrator and many smileys feature Jace and co. He even called up Dear Sneeder in character as Jace:
Jace became a character so intricate and well thought out, enough to add other people and characters to his act, that Jan wrote an entire book named
Tiberius Rising as if Jace was its author. Eagle-eyed kiwis will notice a resemblance to Xavier's lorebook, on which he claimed to have spent "several weeks." It's quite likely that Jan really did give great care to this lore like he did to Tiberius.
At some point, Jan's act was close to being found out and blown wide open. He decided to lay all his cards on the table in one final livestream. The video below contains clips of
this stream, the unmasking of Jace. Josh was in the chat as KiwiNull. Jan even plays a message near the end of it by Sam Hyde himself, mentioning how he was a co-writer of How to BOMB the U.S. Govt., so they go at least this far back. Jan would go on to work alongside Sam in The Great War, and as Xavier Ravenblood in Season 2.5 of Fishtank.
Thanks, I didnt really like MDE's style of humor with some of the new shit so kinda broke off to do my own thing... my style is SIMILAR but different and distinct.. I did help with several MDE Skits though. I wrote Tactical Talk, look up MDE Tactical Talk.
Jan also mentions how fond he is of
Jesus Chatline in this stream, much like he enjoyed the idea of the Xetty Hotline earlier in this season, and he did in fact have callers interact with him as Jace while he wore those silly wraparound sunglasses and insisted that he was NOT gay to the fan on the other side of the phone.
Jan hasn't been a part of the Kiwifarms in many years. It's grown and aged and become notorious as time went on. I believe he sees his involvement as a product of his youth, which just so happened to bring to light his incredible ability to write and act. I still think it's at least a little funny that Jet hates our opinions so much, seeing how one of the most influential members of the site has saved the third season of his show.
I'm glossing over the entire
Gamergate debacle. For a much more thorough and accurate explanation of who Jan is to Josh, I really recommend the
Mad at the Internet episode concerning him.
Thank you Jan for giving us the best season of Fishtank thus far. Although this corner of the Internet may still idolize a decade-old character of yours, you've proven your versatility multiple times over in the last two weeks. Seeing you run yelling after Letty made me laugh myself hoarse, even if the camera did die ten seconds in.
Semper fidelis to all are armed forces.
