Shane Dawson addresses past YouTube videos after racism accusations Shane Dawson, YouTubeLongtime YouTuber Shane Dawson has come out with a video apologizing for his past content that many viewers have found offensive, including his use of blackface and caricatures parodying people of color. Shane Dawson is one of YouTube\u2019s OG content creators, having founded his channel back in 2008. His popularity skyrocketed due to his comedy sketches and skits, although he\u2019s now known for documenting the scandals surrounding other top YouTube personalities. However, Dawson\u2019s past on the site is littered with controversy, as he created a blackface character hat appears to parody Black people, as well as making comments that critics deemed to be inappropriate on a previous podcast. Having posted a lengthy Notes app statement regarding his involvement in the 2019 scandal surrounding James Charles, both Dawson and makeup mogul Jeffree Star have come under intense scrutiny from fans \u2014 and now, Shane has finally addressed the matter in full. Following Jenna Marbles\u2019 viral exodus from YouTube after confronting her own past on the platform, Dawson uploaded a twenty-minute-long video coming clean about his own past, opening with an admission of racist behavior in regard to his previous content. \u201cI was at least 20 when I started YouTube,\u201d 31-year-old Dawson explained. \u201cI made the decision to play stereotypes of Black people or Asian people or Mexicans\u2026 I said, \u2018Oh, this is funny,\u2019 and I put it on the internet.\u201d \u201cWhen I say I hate that person, I mean it in the most intense way possible,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat person was filled with sadness, filled with anger about their own issues, in the closet, constantly projecting on others. \u2026that person is someone I don\u2019t like seeing.\u201d Dawson also clarified that he\u2019d made his apology video to become \u201cpart of a change and not part of a problem,\u201d and went on to claim he would better educate himself and feature more people on his channel other than \u201cwhite people in trouble.\u201d He likewise addressed the drama surrounding James Charles \u2014 more specifically, his Notes post where he wrote that Charles deserved a \u201cslice of humble pie the size of the Empire State Building,\u201d calling it a comment he \u201cregrets more than anything in my life.\u201d \u201cThat note had so much anger in it, and it was just not good,\u201d he elaborated. \u201cI\u2019m sorry, James. I\u2019m really sorry. Nobody deserves what happened. The whole internet ganging up on someone\u2026 nobody deserves that.\u201d While Charles himself has yet to comment on Dawson\u2019s video at the time of writing, it doesn\u2019t look like Shane is leaving YouTube a la Jenna Marbles, instead promising his viewers that he will show them a \u201cbetter\u201d version of himself in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shane Dawson addresses past YouTube videos after racism accusations Shane Dawson, YouTubeLongtime YouTuber Shane Dawson has come out with a video apologizing for his past content that many viewers have found offensive, including his use of blackface and caricatures parodying people of color. Shane Dawson is one of YouTube\u2019s OG content creators, having founded his […]<\/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-58656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58656","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=58656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}