TikTok Hottie Jack Innanen Is Making the Pivot to TV. He’s Still Blasting Chief Keef.

Jack Innanen is having a moment. Oh, and he’s hot. The Toronto native got his start on TikTok with skit comedy videos that would have done crazy numbers in the Vine era, amassing an internet fortune of over 3 million followers. Now, he’s made the leap from social media to the small screen as part of the ensemble cast of Adults, an FX sitcom about 20-somethings trying to make it in New York (an experience he’s pretty familiar with). As billboards of Innanen pop up all over the city and friends continue asking if I’ve seen “that hot guy,” it seems like his transition from online fame to mainstream success is a foregone conclusion. But before he steps out from behind the phone with the show’s May 28th release, Innanen slid into our DMs for this week’s Search History, where we talked about sleeping in the nude, the millennial redemption arc, and who should play Patrick Bateman in the American Psycho remake. His pick? “Any looksmaxxer TikToker.”

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EMMA STOUT: Ready to get started?

JACK INNANEN: Born ready, Emma.

STOUT: A/S/L?

INNANEN: 26/male/NYC.

STOUT: What’s your sign? I’m guessing Pisces…

INNANEN: Ooohhh, curious about your reasoning. But it’s Aries, April baby.

STOUT: Pisces are sweethearts! Maybe it’s the mustache.

INNANEN: I will absolutely take that. Mustache being associated with sweetheartism is a fascinating take.

STOUT: Can we get a mustache selfie?

INNANEN: Yes, but don’t sell it. This is a raw one here, let me go find a good one.

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STOUT: What’s the first thing you do when you wake up?

INNANEN: Panic. Then chug some water and pee (modern day Sisyphus). Then consume a hundred 3 to 5 second videos to get the day started right.

STOUT: How do you think millennials wake up? Probably singing Ke$ha and making French press coffee, but definitely happier than us.

INNANEN: Oh, 100% happier. Blissful even. Just Harry Potter pjs ON, Disney trip BOOKED, don’t talk to me before my coffee 😑🫱 I have really come to love millennials.

STOUT: I think everyone needs two millennial friends.

INNANEN: I have befriended many millennials as of late. I think they’re unaware of a loooot of the horrible internet stuff we consume . I was going to say they wake up in their polycule but I think that’s more our thing, so I’ll stick with Harry Potter Disney take.

STOUT: Do you have Harry Potter pajamas too?

INNANEN: Big PJ guy, but sweatpants or PJ bottoms and then shirt probably 75/25. I don’t get naked sleepers because A) everything is too loose and B) I’m not fighting an intruder with my junk out.

STOUT: Unless you have like 800 thread Egyptian cotton sheets.

INNANEN: Okay, damn. Flex on me.

STOUT: Canada and the US are beefing, right? Pick a side.

INNANEN: Oh, Canada forever. Never a question. Very proud Canadian. 

STOUT: What were your last 3 Google searches?

INNANEN: Let me look. This is the most guy shit. Stocks, pronunciation, and flight radar. I looooove flight radar.

STOUT: Real mustachioed man interests. What goes down on flight radar?

INNANEN: Oh, let me put you on. It tracks all live aircrafts in the air right now around the world. I guess I’m not really putting you on, but I like to look out my window and see where the planes crossing over Manhattan are headed. Some 70-year-old man shit. Just being nosy.

STOUT: That’s beautiful, actually, because everyone has their own lives happening at the exact moment that you have your own.

INNANEN: What a beautiful takeaway. I always try to guess how many people are pooping on the plane I’m looking at.

STOUT: How many people have Harry Potter pajamas in their carry-on?

INNANEN: How many are on their way to Disney? How many polycules on their first Epcot outing? This world is beautiful. Godspeed.

STOUT: How many unread texts do you have?

INNANEN: Technically 0 because I can’t stand the notification. All have been opened but most have not been read.

STOUT: Read receipts: on or off then?

INNANEN: On. It’’s a power play.

STOUT: Ur insane.

INNANEN: No, of course they’re off. Read receipts on in 2025 is insane. Unless you’re my dad. Do you???

STOUT: NEVER! Unless I want a guy to know I’m ignoring him.

INNANEN: Ahhh so girls do that. Still holding out hope 🤞

STOUT: Do you have a crush right now?

INNANEN: I got a crush on my lovely girlfriend, tbh.

STOUT: What’s your stalking platform of choice?

INNANEN: Find My Friends. I just pull up her location and watch it for a few hours. Like flight radar but for her. She’s the goat though, my forever crush. Gotta stop calling her the goat probably, eh. Grown man.

STOUT: “Bae” is more age-appropriate. What’s the craziest DM you’ve gotten?

INNANEN: Besides all of the horrific creepy stuff, the craziest for me was my buddy out of the blue letting me know how much he likes wings. Just a guy letting another guy know how much he loves wings, unprompted. Stopped me in my tracks. Also, the Empire State Building hit me up recently and got kinda flirtatious so they are in read jail rn.

STOUT: Now that you’re making your acting debut, I wanna know who you think should play Patrick Bateman in the American Psycho remake. Yourself is a valid answer.

INNANEN: I’m honored and offended. I think any looksmaxxer Tiktoker. Like some 20-year-old making videos about canthral tilt and potassiummaxxing while selling his course is living and breathing the role right now. That’s the modern day Bateman.

STOUT: No method acting required. Ur genius. Can you send a fit pic?

INNANEN: Nothing crazy right now. And I will add in this other one because I really like the shirt.

STOUT: Headphones ON!

INNANEN: ALWAYS. New York is LOUD and overstimulating. Chief Keef full volume if I have to bike or walk through Time Square.

STOUT: Sosa keeps the demons at bay!

INNANEN: Shit he brings mine out 😈🤞💯

STOUT: Last question: what’s your password?

INNANEN: That’s going to my deathbed. Might put it in the will, who knows? I’ll leave you one of my Minecraft accounts if you’re down tho.