Shane Dawson apologizes for racism, jokes about pedophilia, and saying James Charles deserved to be canceled.
Shane Dawson was one of the earliest stars to come out of YouTube, with a career of 15 years that has moved from sketch comedy to reaction videos to documentary content. Some of Dawson’s early content was built on edgy humor that involved characters with blaccents and blackface and jokes involving racism and pedophilia. This problematic portfolio of content was unearthed and brought to the forefront during the June 2020 protests after the police killing of George Floyd. In his apology video, Dawson kind of apologizes while kind of explaining away the accusations, all while babbling for 20 minutes the way one might do to their therapist.
