If you thought the Epstein files rabbit hole couldn’t get any deeper, think again. A developer just launched JeffTube, a fully functional YouTube clone that hosts nothing but the surveillance footage and videos released by the Department of Justice from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
Matheus, a full-stack developer who works at Midjourney, announced the project on February 6. The site went live at jefftube.net and immediately had hundreds and thousands of people reacting. Right now, the post on X has over 1.3 million views.
The first thing you’ll notice is how polished it appears to be, almost as if it were an official YouTube page (which is the goal). You can watch videos, leave comments, hit the like button, and even browse through a shorts feed if scrolling through hours of prison cell footage is your thing.
The platform now hosts 1083 videos (at the time of this writing) organized into playlists. There’s Person Cam showing Ghislaine Maxwell’s cell (64+ hours), Cell Cam with 37 hours of footage, Elevator Cam packing 173 videos across 173 hours, and Lobby Cam with another 29 hours. Most of this content comes from the Metropolitan Correctional Center where Epstein died in August 2019.
Just today, the Jmail team confirmed that Matheus’ JeffTub is now live on the Jmail platform too. This vibe-coded suite of Epstein-themed app clones transforms the massive DOJ document dump into accessible formats.
We previously covered this suite of apps in December, which includes Jmail (a Gmail clone for Epstein’s emails), JPhotos, JDrive, and even Jamazon, showing his purchase history.
Just days before JeffTube’s integration, the Jmail team also launched Jikipedia, a Wikipedia-style resource that compiles email data into detailed reports on key figures in the scandal. The wiki tracks estate visits, potential legal violations, and knowledge of Epstein’s activities. The announcement pulled in 8.2 million views within two days.
Later, though, the team renamed it to Jwiki.
The DOJ released over 3.5 million pages of Epstein files on January 31, 2026, which included more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images. This followed an initial December 2025 drop of more than 13,000 files. The releases include surveillance footage, victim interviews, flight logs, and handwritten notes from the investigation.
So you can see why this suite of apps has become increasingly popular. And this shows in the numbers too. Jmail itself recently hit 450 million views, with Vercel’s CEO stepping in to cover server costs due to the massive traffic spike.
The whole project is open source on GitHub. When someone tried raising money for him, Matheus shut it down fast, saying this wasn’t about money.
We’re excited to see what the next clone will be.
Dwayne Cubbins
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