{{Short description|British filmmakers and YouTubers}} {{Infobox youtuber | name = Jack and Finn Harries | image = Jack & Finn Harries by Gage Skidmore.jpg | caption = Jack and Finn Harries in 2014 | birth_name = Jackson Frayn Harries<br/> Finnegan Charles Frayn Harries<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/finnharries/status/731116644081254400|title=Finn Harries on Twitter: "My mum knows the way to my heart.... "<!-- Bot generated title -->}}</ref> | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1993|5|13|df=y}} | birth_place = | alma_mater = The Harrodian School | occupation = {{horizontal list|YouTubers|filmmakers|climate activists}} | father = Andy Harries | mother = Rebecca Frayn | relatives = Michael Frayn (grandfather) | youtube_handle = JackHarries | youtube_display_name =
| youtube_years_active = 2011–2015, 2018–present | youtube_genre = Video blogs, documentary | youtube_subscribers = 3.62 million<!-- PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE WITHOUT UPDATING stats_update BELOW --> | youtube_views = 141.9 million<!-- PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE WITHOUT UPDATING stats_update BELOW --> | stats_update = 16 August 2025 }}
'''Jackson Frayn "Jack" Harries''' and '''Finnegan Charles Frayn "Finn" Harries''' (born 13 May 1993) are British filmmakers, YouTubers and climate activists. The identical twins' YouTube channel JacksGap was originally created by Jack Harries to document his gap year in mid-2011, the channel experienced a rapid increase in popularity after the addition of Finn Harries as a regular contributor. In February 2017 the Twitter and Instagram accounts for JacksGap were deleted, followed by the dissolution of the JacksGap brand.
==JacksGap== Jackson and Finnegan Harries are sons of Andy Harries, a film and television director and producer, and filmmaker and writer Rebecca Frayn. Their maternal grandfather is the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn (now married to biographer Claire Tomalin).<ref name="tatler.com">{{cite web|author=Sophia Money-Coutts |url=http://www.tatler.com/article/jack-and-finn-harries-interview |title=The ultimate twinset: Jack and Finn Harries! | Tatler Magazine |publisher=Tatler.com |date=2013-03-05 |access-date=2018-04-21}}</ref><ref name=Telegraph2012>{{cite news|last=Rainey |first=Sarah |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/9544479/YouTube-videos-funded-our-gap-year-travels.html |title=YouTube videos funded our gap year travels |work=The Telegraph |date=14 September 2012 |access-date=20 July 2014}}</ref> They attended The Harrodian School at Barnes, south-west London.<ref name="tatler.com"/>
JacksGap was originally launched in July 2011 by Jack Harries during his gap year after he had left school.<ref name=Telegraph2012 /> The main purpose of the channel was to document Jack's gap year. By September 2012 the site had 190,000 subscribers and the pay-per-click advertising revenue was enough to entirely finance the Harries' travels in Thailand.<ref name=Telegraph2012 /> After Finn joined the channel, the views nearly doubled. Jack Harries attended Bristol University, studying drama, but dropped out in 2013 after the first year to focus on YouTube.<ref name=Telegraph2012/><ref>{{cite web|author=The Tab |url=https://thetab.com/uk/bristol/2013/01/29/bristol-says-goodbye-to-internet-prodigy-3549 |title=Bristol Says Goodbye To Internet Prodigy |publisher=Thetab.com |date=2013-01-29 |access-date=2018-04-21}}</ref>
JacksGap attracted teenage girls in particular, with 88% of subscribers in this demographic.<ref name=Telegraph2012 />
In 2013 the twins began to create 15-minute-long episodes about their travels in India, funding the venture with £20,000 from Skype, Sony and MyDestination.<ref name=Guardian2014>{{cite news|author=Stuart Dredge |title=The secret to a successful YouTube video - by some of the site's stars |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/09/youtube-rhett-link-jacksgap-young-turks |work=theguardian.com |date=9 April 2014 |access-date=20 July 2014 }}</ref>
In January 2015, JacksGap posted a video called "Let's Talk About Mental Health" that was later referenced in an article on ''The Huffington Post'' in which he addresses the importance of starting an open conversation about mental health in order to reduce the stigma attached to it.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pittman|first1=Taylor|title=YouTuber Jack Harries Gets Serious About Mental Illness: 'We Sweep It Under The Rug'|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/28/jack-harries-mental-health_n_6565614.html|website=The Huffington Post|date=28 January 2015 |access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref>
In April 2015, JacksGap posted a video called "What Do You Believe In?" that announced Finn had moved to New York City earlier that year to study Design and Architecture for three and a half years at the Parsons School of Design, though he was still a part of JacksGap.{{citation needed|date=August 2025}}
==Environmental activism== Jack Harries traveled to Bhutan as a WWF ambassador in December 2018 and filmed a short film with his brother and a team of filmmakers called ''The Kingdom''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/kingdom-conservation-story|title='The Kingdom' – a conservation story|date=14 December 2018|website=WWF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250816111313/https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/kingdom-conservation-story|archive-date=16 August 2025|access-date=16 August 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> In February 2019, Jack Harries and eight other Extinction Rebellion activists were arrested for aggravated trespass and criminal damage after they glued themselves to the front of a hotel in London during a protest at an international petroleum conference.<ref name="Mansey""/><ref>{{Cite web|first1=Mattha|last1=Busby|first2=Matthew|last2=Taylor|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/27/extinction-rebellion-activists-arrested-outside-london-oil-conference|title=Extinction Rebellion activists arrested outside oil conference|date=27 February 2019|website=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250816113055/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/27/extinction-rebellion-activists-arrested-outside-london-oil-conference|archive-date=16 August 2025|access-date=16 August 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> In a BBC interview, Jack said it was worth it to bring awareness to the cause.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-47526985|title=YouTuber Jack Harries: 'Climate change protests were worth arrest'|date=11 March 2019|website=BBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250816090451/https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-47526985|archive-date=16 August 2025|access-date=16 August 2025|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Mansey""/> He was later acquitted of the charges.<ref name="Mansey"/> In 2020, the brothers and filmmaker Alice Aedy founded Earthrise Studio, a media company focused on climate change.<ref name="Mansey"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/15/the-green-influencers-targeting-the-tiktok-generation|title=The ‘green influencers’ targeting the TikTok generation|first=Tara|last=Conlan|date=15 June 2021|website=The Guardian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250816092024/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/15/the-green-influencers-targeting-the-tiktok-generation|archive-date=16 August 2025|access-date=16 August 2025|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2021, Jack hosted a web series called ''Seat at the Table'' in which he interviewed people such as Barack Obama and David Attenborough.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.obama.org/stories/president-obama-cop26/|title=President Obama meets with emerging leaders during COP26 in Glasgow|website=Obama Foundation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250816103452/https://www.obama.org/stories/president-obama-cop26/|archive-date=16 August 2025|access-date=16 August 2025|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/10/sir-david-attenborough-youtuber-jack-harries-team-climate-change/|title=Sir David Attenborough and YouTuber Jack Harries to team up on climate change project|first=Anita|last=Singh|date=10 December 2020|website=The Telegraph|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250816091948/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/10/sir-david-attenborough-youtuber-jack-harries-team-climate-change/|archive-date=16 August 2025|access-date=16 August 2025|url-access=subscription|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2025, Jack was included on The King's Foundation's "35 under 35" list of changemakers.<ref name="Mansey">{{Cite web|first=Kate|last=Mansey|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/kings-foundation-commends-former-extinction-rebellion-activist-h0wm69swg|title=King’s Foundation commends former Extinction Rebellion activist|date=11 May 2025|website=The Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250816090144/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/royal-family/article/kings-foundation-commends-former-extinction-rebellion-activist-h0wm69swg|archive-date=16 August 2025|access-date=16 August 2025|url-access=subscription|url-status=live}}</ref>
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