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Everyone’s Mad At This YouTuber Who Faked His Girlfriend’s Death To Get More Subscribers

While "crying" about Alexia's death, ImJayStation plugged his second channel claiming that "her dream was just to get a million subscribers."

by Michelle Rennex  30 January 2020
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A popular Canadian YouTuber is facing backlash after admitting he lied about his girlfriend dying in numerous videos.

Jason Ethier, or ImJayStation as he’s better known, posted three now-deleted videos throughout the week that claimed that his partner, Alexia Marano, had died. His channel, which has over 5.4 million subscribers, rose to fame from his 24-hour challenge, 3AM, ouija board and exploration videos and vlogs.

So, it’s no surprise that his “grieving” process included a death announcement, a mourning vlog, and a 3am ouija board challenge.

The Death “Prank”

First, Jason uploaded a video titled “My Girlfriend Alexia Died… *Rest in Paradise*“.

In this monetised video, Jason began fake-crying in his bedroom with a backwards cap on. Sitting in front of a fake sarcophagus, Jason plugged his second YouTube channel while explaining that Alexia had died while buying supplies for something they were filming.

“Last night we lost Alexia to a drunk driver, guys,” Jason pretended to sob. “She was on the way to pick up something for our video we were making on our second channel, Dream Team, she got hit guys. She’s gone.”

“As you guys probably know, we had a channel together called Dream Team where we had just hit 300,000 subscribers,” he continued. “Her dream was just to get a million subscribers and we were so close to doing that.”

At the end of the video, Jason told his fans that he was probably not going post on his channel for a while as he mourned the woman that “meant everything” to him. However, the next day Jason uploaded a vlog visiting Alexia’s alleged “memorial space” in a video titled: “Saying Goodbye To My Girlfriend Alexia (Rest In Paradise)“.

A few days later, Jason went all out and uploaded the “Dead Girlfriend Ouija Board Challenge At 3AM!! (Gone Wrong)” video. The 20-minute video featured Jason and a friend accidentally summoning a “demon” instead of Alexia, hence “gone wrong” in the title. At the end of the video, with a fake ghost kiss from Alexia on his cheek, Jason again begged his subscribers to follow Dream Team, the couples second channel.

“Her dream was to get one million subscribers guys, and she was gonna get it until she passed away, guys,” he desperately pleased. “Could we make her dream come true, guys?”

The Truth About Alexia

A day after the ouija board challenge was uploaded, Jason deleted all three videos and admitted that he had lied.

The “Alexia Marano *The Truth About Her*” video even opened with Alexia helping Jason set up the now-infamous ouija board video. Jason even took a moment to note that “Alexia was ok with the videos we made to promote the Dream Team channel and helped me produce them.”

Blaming his questionable actions on past bullies and unhappiness, Jason finally admitted that he made this plan to boost the Dream Team subscriber count. He claimed that Alexia was fully involved in the plan and that the next scheduled video would’ve be a successful resurrection video.

In the 25-minute video, Jason also took the opportunity to blame Alexia for trying to ruin his life. After filming the ouija board video, Jason said that Alexia disappeared and he was approached by police for charges for “assault with a weapon”.

Jason continued: “Alexia is trying to ruin my life because of videos that she helped me make. I fell in love with this girl, I tried helping her become famous on Youtube. She left me without notice and tried to ruin my life.”

But the Ottawa Police told Newsweek that there are no warrants out for Jason Ethier, and confirmed on Twitter that the “officers” in the video are, unsurprisingly, not real. This suggests that Jason may again be lying for views and overdramatising the the situation for attention.

However Jason claimed that the charges are “100% real” and released an “exposing” video after his attempts to get back with Alexia failed.

In response to the terrible, fake videos, people highlighted that Jason has always made terrible, problematic content, and called for Youtube to ban the creator from the platform. Prior to faking his girlfriend’s death for views and subscribers, Jason had previously made a video about “buying a black slave” and even lied about being robbed at gunpoint.

After his very public break-up with his definitely alive girlfriend, Jason deleted all Dream Team videos and has vowed to keep the channel alive on his own. “I’m not gonna let it die, we’re going to keep on going,” Jason said. “Dream Team is going to get to that one million mark… I won’t let you down, guys. We’re gonna blow this channel up.”

Junkee has reached out to Jason Ethier for comment.