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Jack Black spent the first weeks of 2020 mocking every fitness resolution video on the internet, including his own.

On February 7, 2020, Jack Black uploaded “Getting Ripped in 2020!!” to JablinskiGames, the YouTube channel he launched in December 2018 with his sons. The video promises a fitness transformation and delivers exactly the opposite — a lo-fi, deadpan send-up of New Year’s resolution culture built around Black swinging weights around with zero regard for form and mugging for the camera the entire time.

• Published February 7, 2020 on JablinskiGames, the channel Black co-runs with his sons, which had already pulled in millions of subscribers on the strength of comedic sketches and gaming content.
• “Getting Ripped in 2020!!” swaps out any real workout programming for unconventional weight-swinging bits and physical comedy shot in Black’s signature vlog style.
• The video plays directly off the New Year’s fitness-resolution trend, using the “getting ripped” premise as a setup for a joke rather than actual instruction.

A Resolution Video With No Interest in Actually Working

Black doesn’t pretend to be a fitness authority for a second. There’s no trainer cameo, no diet breakdown, no talk of macros — just Black hoisting weights in a manner that would get anyone thrown out of a real gym, narrating his own antics with the same manic energy he’s brought to characters like Dewey Finn in School of Rock. The bit works because it’s recognizable: every January, timelines fill up with earnest “new year, new me” workout videos, and Black’s version is the mirror-universe answer to all of them.

The comedy leans on contrast. Viewers expect the structure of an instructional clip — goals, sets, reps — and instead get Black treating the whole exercise like a prop comedy sketch. It’s the same instinct that’s powered JablinskiGames since it went live in December 2018, where casual gaming clips sit next to sketches that poke fun at whatever internet trend is currently inescapable.

The video promises viewers a transformation and instead delivers a masterclass in swinging weights around for laughs.

JablinskiGames Strategies for Audience Growth

Since Black started the channel with his sons in late 2018, JablinskiGames has leaned on a formula that mixes gaming footage with tongue-in-cheek lifestyle bits, and it’s a formula that scaled fast — the channel amassed millions of subscribers well before this particular resolution-season upload. “Getting Ripped in 2020!!” fits squarely into that lane: it’s not trying to be a fitness tutorial competing with the glut of legitimate workout channels, it’s trying to be the joke about that glut.

That distinction matters for how the video should be read. Fans who click expecting squat form tips or a meal plan are getting punked in the same spirit as the physical-comedy clips that populate other corners of the internet’s viral-video ecosystem — the kind of self-aware bit that plays well alongside other actors going off the rails for a laugh rather than a lesson.

The Bigger Joke About Resolution Season

Black’s timing wasn’t an accident. Early February still sits inside the window when gyms are packed with resolution crowds and fitness content floods every feed, and “Getting Ripped in 2020!!” is aimed squarely at that saturation point. Rather than adding one more genuine how-to into the pile, Black turns the tropes themselves — the dramatic weight swings, the intense stare into the camera, the promise of a “new you” — into the punchline.

It’s the same satirical instinct that’s made comedic internet formats like overconfident guest segments on shows such as “Hot Ones” resonate: audiences enjoy watching a familiar format get subverted by someone who clearly isn’t taking it seriously. Black’s weight-swinging routine is the fitness-vlog equivalent, filmed with just enough sincerity in the delivery to make the bit land.

Black never breaks character long enough to explain the joke, which is the point — “Getting Ripped in 2020!!” runs its full length as a straight-faced parody, and JablinskiGames moved on to its next mix of gaming clips and sketches without ever circling back to check if anyone actually got ripped.