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He was a small boy from Maine, well, not really a small boy with him towering at 6 feet 5 inches tall, at the young age of 16. According to the people around him, he was a small boy who didn't deserve to be there, who always did something wrong when all Jackson Barrette ever really did was walk around quietly wanted to be left alone. High school for him passed as a bloody and painful war that came to a graceful end. It wasn't the classes of high school that he hated, it was the people and how they treated him like he was dirt while they walked all over him.

During his high school years, his parents were often times drunk and ready to swing at him whenever they got the chance to. He worked multiple jobs to help pay things around the house, as his parents got drunk off of whatever money they could find around the house and off of whatever was in their savings. Jackson attempted to take care of them through all of there stages, but it didn't turn out so well. They began getting drunk was he was 12 years old, leaving him incapable of doing a lot of things. He grew up fast and had to learn things at 12/13 that even most 18-year-olds did not even understand in the slightest.

He was alone to pay the bills with the money he hid in spots around the house nobody would ever think of looking. To figure out something to get more money to help pay the bills, he got a job where he didn't really need to talk. After a couple years he was able to pay all of the bills with extra spending money, so he chose to do something that he loved and enjoyed doing. He bought a couple of desktops, a film camera, a mic, and a pair of headphones. Jackson bought editing software and recording software for what he wanted to do with the time being. He was never interested in going to school for any reason, no real further expansion on his education, so he put those things to some use.

By now, he was 18 years old and his parents have been sent to an addiction facility for their alcoholism, so it has just been Jackson in a small 2-bedroom, one bath home. Jackson's parents disowned him the day he turned 18, just alongside getting sent to the facility only a few days before.

Jackson was talkative to himself but not much so to other people. he never really had any confidence but he noticed that he could record him talking to himself about whatever the world may offer, and he was okay with it, as it was not directly having a conversation with anybody particularly.

With the click of a couple of buttons, soon his desktop and camera were recording.

"Tis I, ya boy, Jackson and welcome to a channel where- I honestly don't even know what's gonna happen," he started a channel on a website called "YouTube" and has decided to upload videos to it. For him, it was easier to do than to actually talk to people in real life. It was talking to a camera and he had always thought that nobody would watch his videos so he just did them for fun.

"Today I will be doing- what I have heard people call them- a "Let's Play" of 'DreadOut', now I have heard that it's a decent horror game but I myself have never played it so I'm actually curious into what this can be? Wow, I sound really formal, that isn't going to last long," Jackson filmed the video and spent hours editing it, making sure it was a right thing and perfect for his first video.