Shane Dawson hints at YouTube return after long break following controversies YouTube: Shane DawsonYouTube OG Shane Dawson has been absent from the platform for nearly a year after undergoing intense criticism for his past content \u2014 but a recent community post may hint at his upcoming return. Shane Dawson was one of YouTube\u2019s first uber-popular content creators, best known for his comedic skits and later for his feature-length documentary series. However, in early 2020, Dawson found himself facing the ire of the internet over his older videos and podcast episodes. From telling a seriously weird story about his pet cat to making inappropriate comments about a young Willow Smith and coming up with racist caricatures for his skits, many of Dawson\u2019s past videos were put under the microscope, causing him to release a viral apology video addressing the matter. However, the outrage continued to rise after Tati Westbrook accused him of orchestrating the drama surrounding James Charles in summer 2019, leading Dawson to step away from the internet indefinitely. Nearly a year later, Dawson may have hinted at a comeback to content creation, as told in a March 24 community post on his secondary YouTube channel, Shane Glossin\u2019. \u201cSorry I haven\u2019t been online in a while,\u201d he wrote. \u201cJust been taking time for my mental health. But I\u2019ve been getting creative and editing again! It\u2019s been really fun. Check out Ryland\u2019s new video that I edited. I\u2019m really proud of it.\u201d This isn\u2019t the first time Dawson has teased a comeback; he appeared in fianc\u00e9 Ryland Adam\u2019s YouTube video in February, a month prior to his latest community post, where he laughingly said, \u201cI know that I\u2019m weird, and I know that my career\u2019s over.\u201d While Dawson has made the occasional social media post now and then in wake of the drama, this appears to be the first major stride he\u2019s taken toward a proper return, although the response to his comeback has been decidedly negative among commenters. For now, all users can do is wait and see if Dawson really does return to YouTube, or if the vehement response to his latest post will make him think twice about uploading content again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shane Dawson hints at YouTube return after long break following controversies YouTube: Shane DawsonYouTube OG Shane Dawson has been absent from the platform for nearly a year after undergoing intense criticism for his past content \u2014 but a recent community post may hint at his upcoming return. Shane Dawson was one of YouTube\u2019s first uber-popular […]<\/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-58678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58678","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=58678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}