Jaden & Jada Pinkett Smith slam Shane Dawson over \u2018disgusting\u2019 clip Twitter, @jaden \/ Twitter, @shanedawson[jwplayer ftb8P7Xy]Popular YouTuber Shane Dawson continues to be condemned for problematic content, most recently by Jaden Smith following a recently resurfaced clip sexualizing Willow Smith. On June 26, Dawson addressed controversy surrounding older YouTube videos, and apologized for having offended anyone with his past content. In a particularly egregious example, a 23-year-old Dawson pretended to pleasure himself to a Willow Smith Radio Disney poster. She was 11 years old at the time and her brother, Jaden, has now publicly denounced the content creator. https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaden\/status\/1276988488785657857 \u201cI AM DISGUSTED BY YOU. YOU SEXUALIZING AN 11 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO HAPPENS TO BE MY SISTER IS THE FURTHEST THING FROM FUNNY,\u201d he tweeted. Jaden\u2019s reaction comes just a day after Dawson uploaded a 20-minute-long video apologizing for the problematic substance found in the content he has built a livelihood off of. In Dawson\u2019s apology, he notes that his videos often included blackface as well as \u201cstereotypes of Black people or Asian people or Mexicans.\u201d While spending most of it focused on racial insensitivity and his drama with James Charles and Tati Westbrook, he does also touch on the inappropriate jokes made involving children\u2014content which was not limited to the Willow clip. \u201cI swear on my life \u2026 I would never talk about a child in any way that was inappropriate. That is disgusting, that is gross, it is not something I would ever do. It is something I did for shock value or because I thought it was funny \u2026 It\u2019s all gross,\u201d he said. While Dawson acknowledges his impropriety for the sake of entertainment value, he seems aware that an apology does not excuse past behavior: \u201cYou can apologize, but you can\u2019t expect the other person to just forgive you.\u201d In a followup Tweet, Jaden noted Dawson\u2019s extensive use of blackface in a call for the youth to instead \u201csupport creators who support us and our morals.\u201d Similarly, Jaden and Willow\u2019s mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, took to Twitter to explain that she was \u201cdone with the excuses.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaden\/status\/1276991250474758144 The YouTuber\u2019s apology comes amidst a wave of accountability from content creators. His video follows directly after Jenna Marbles addressed her own allegations and decided to put her channel on an indefinite hiatus. In his video, he professes that his behavior has changed, and that he will showcase more non-white people on his platform. As of yet, it is unclear whether that will be enough to elicit absolution from the Smith family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jaden & Jada Pinkett Smith slam Shane Dawson over \u2018disgusting\u2019 clip Twitter, @jaden \/ Twitter, @shanedawson[jwplayer ftb8P7Xy]Popular YouTuber Shane Dawson continues to be condemned for problematic content, most recently by Jaden Smith following a recently resurfaced clip sexualizing Willow Smith. On June 26, Dawson addressed controversy surrounding older YouTube videos, and apologized for having offended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}