Shane Dawson explains how getting \u2018canceled\u2019 was actually a good thing INSTAGRAM: SHANEDAWSONShane Dawson has opened up about being infamously \u2018canceled\u2019 by the internet in 2020, after old problematic videos came to light. Dawson apologized in 2020 for his old and offensive content, which included blackface, racism, and jokes about pedophilia. However, social media users were not forgiving, as he lost over 400,000 subscribers following the apology video. This led him to take a 1-year social media break, after claiming that his career was \u201cover.\u201d He returned to posting YouTube content again in 2021, although he\u2019s not as active as he used to be. Although he lost many fans due to his problematic past and drama, Dawson has recently revealed that being \u2018canceled\u2019 has its positive perks. Shane Dawson glad that he was \u2018canceled\u2019 During a recent podcast episode with Perez Hilton, the YouTuber explained: \u201cI really think the universe and God, or whatever, really planned it this way because I was at a point before I got canceled where I didn\u2019t wanna be around anymore. I was so burnt out.\u201d Dawson added: \u201cI started therapy for an eating disorder and all the other stuff and then oddly enough, two months maybe even sooner, I started therapy, I got canceled and it was like, \u2018Oh.\u2019 That felt very designed to me by something.\u201d He revealed that after having enough time to reflect, he\u2019s now able to create content that he likes, and focus on his podcast \u2018The Shane Dawson Podcast.\u2019 \u201cNow I can see what the bigger purpose is, and I do, and I\u2019m so grateful to be where I am, and for my family, and to not be freaking out every f**king day, like, \u2018What am I going to make? \u2018What am I going to make? How am I going to top it? Are people going to be mad?\u2019 It really was never ending.\u201d Despite losing some of his fanbase due to past controversies, Dawson\u2019s new videos continue to amass millions of views on YouTube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shane Dawson explains how getting \u2018canceled\u2019 was actually a good thing INSTAGRAM: SHANEDAWSONShane Dawson has opened up about being infamously \u2018canceled\u2019 by the internet in 2020, after old problematic videos came to light. Dawson apologized in 2020 for his old and offensive content, which included blackface, racism, and jokes about pedophilia. However, social media users […]<\/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-58682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58682","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=58682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}