Jake Paul doesn’t half ass anything. If he’s going to taunt someone, he will use his words to try and rip their soul out. If he’s going to start boxing, he will abandon everything else in his life and train incessantly. He will brag about his accomplishments and compare himself with the greatest. And if he’s going to wish himself a happy birthday, you better believe it’ll be one of the most shamelessly outrageous and doubletake worthy pictures ever dropped on Instagram.
Jake Paul posted the over the top photo to celebrate his 25th birthday earlier today, and it’s gaudy in all the best and worst ways, even by his own standards. His naked appearance is partially covered by Julia Rose, his model girlfriend. She is wearing a micro bikini and socks with tennis shoes. The background is filled with cars, and the caption gives five goals for next year. These range from helping children to going to space. The following is a link to the Instagram post below…
This is not Jake Paul’s most Jake Paul-ed thing. Instagram is full of people who love creating authentic Instagram photos. They’ll choose angles or expressions that make the viewer wonder how they were captured so perfectly. This image, on the contrary, seems to involve a rented warehouse, several luxury cars, a professional photograph, highly coordinated lighting conditions and very specific angles to make it Instagram-friendly. It’s an unapologetic and ostentatious display of wealth and success.
And that’s why I think Jake Paul is so fascinating to so many different people. It’s all a show but there’s never any pretense it’s not a show. It’s like every situation he finds himself in, he challenges himself to try and push it further. What do I need for my next fight? Let’s rent a fire truck and push it in a quiet suburb. Conor McGregor is going to be mad and want to fight me. Let’s insult his wife to the point where my own brother tells me I need to cool it. He doesn’t know how to quit.
As for what else Jake Paul might do in the next year, he’s assumedly going to step in the ring again. After his devastating knockout of Tyron Whiteley, the social media star has gained a lot of momentum. He has many options to choose from for his next fight. I would expect a pretty big name to take him up on the offer, whether it be an aging boxer like Julio Cesar Chavez Jr or one of the bigger MMA guys he has been eyeing, though that’ll be complicated with his feud with Dana White still pushing forward. Whatever he does, you can expect lots of people to watch, which is what he wants.