Jason Ethier

Jason Matthew Ethier (born February 14, 1990 in Ottawa, Ontario), better known as JayStation (also ImJayStation), is a Canadian YouTuber and vlogger who garnered controversy for his fake "3 A.M." and prank videos on the video-sharing website YouTube.

Contents

 * 1Career
 * 2Controversies
 * 2.1Contacting dead celebrities
 * 2.2Walt Disney World arrest
 * 2.3Assault and fake death of girlfriend
 * 3Hiatus from YouTube
 * 4References

Career[edit]
Beginning in 2015, he deleted his YouTube account after it went into demonetization after his arrest on five accounts of trespassing by Ottawa police. On November 24, 2016, Ethier then restarted on YouTube under the channel name ImJayStation, re-uploading all of his content except the ones relating to his trespassing.

Contacting dead celebrities[edit]
Ethier gained notoriety within the YouTube community over his attempts to contact dead celebrities through paranormal activities (notably ouija boards and 'spirit boxes') late at night (known as "3 a.m. challenges"), namely XXXTentacion and Mac Miller. On June 26, 2019, following the death of Etika in that month, Ethier uploaded a video using a similar clickbait title to his previous videos. However, in this video, he apologizes for the content of his past ouija board and celebrity death videos.

Walt Disney World arrest[edit]
At around 6:30 p.m. on March 24, 2019, Ethier was arrested at Florida's Walt Disney World on charges of trespassing and resisting arrest. He claims that he and a fellow YouTuber were in Florida filming haunted vlogs for future content.

Security had been called on Ethier after he became agitated at the fact that his bag had been accidentally taken by another guest at the park. According to staff, Ethier became agitated after being told to check lost and found or guest claims, instead opting to berate the managers. He was asked to leave the filmed baggage check (which Disney said in an arrest affidavit was a violation of company policy) and was subsequently jailed on a $1,200 bond where he was later released.

On Twitter and YouTube, Ethier called for his followers to boycott Disney World, threatened legal action against Disney, saying that his camera was stolen by Disney security guards and the Orlando Police Department, the latter of which has no jurisdiction over Disney property.

Assault and fake death of girlfriend[edit]
In January 2020, Ethier falsely claimed to his YouTube audience that his girlfriend at the time, fellow YouTuber Alexia Marano, had been killed by a drunk driver in Toronto, Canada. Subsequent videos – originally presented as genuine by Ethier – show him visiting a makeshift memorial and attempting to contact her from the grave by using an ouija board. Due to the outlandish and incredulous nature of the claims made by Ethier in other videos in the past (such as claiming to have bought children and slaves off the dark web, summoned dead animals, and become decapitated using a voodoo doll), many viewers and fellow YouTubers were suspect of the claims.

He later admitted that the whole situation was a complete fabrication and hoax which was intended to increase his subscriber and viewer count and that he had planned to resurrect Marano in a later video. Marano ended her relationship with Ethier after the controversy and has since deleted her YouTube page.

In a video posted on January 26, 2020, Ethier claimed Marano had been in on the scam from the beginning. He said Marano had left him and took her belongings with her, and that police arrived at his home to notify Ethier that Marano had accused him of assault and assault with a weapon. Marano said on Twitter that she was "just a little girl caught in the crossfire". Toronto Police confirmed that a warrant for Ethier's arrest was issued on February 3, that Ethier had been arrested and charged, and that he would appear in court on March 16 in Toronto's Old City Hall on charges of assault and assault with a weapon. It is unclear if the charges relate to the hoax.

Hiatus from YouTube[edit]
On February 25, 2020, following the demonetization of his videos by YouTube and criticism from the YouTube community for his death prank video, Ethier apologized for his past errors and announced his departure from the platform in a 13-minute-long video uploaded to his main channel called 'Goodbye...'. In the video, Ethier detailed his regrets from his YouTube career, from his paranormal vlogs faking communication with dead celebrities to his homophobic videos in which he drinks a "gay potion". YouTube also confirmed to Insider that Ethier's channel had been demonetized one week before Ethier quit his channel, meaning that he could no longer derive income from his YouTube videos. In April 2020, Ethier returned to YouTube in a video with his former girlfriend Marano, and the two claimed to have resolved their differences.