THE PROBLEM WITH SHANE DAWSON: a thread 
Who is Shane? Chances are, you probably know. He’s one of the biggest YouTubers out there. He started with skits over a decade ago and has slowly evolved into a conspiracy theory and “documentary” channel
The main issues with Shane are his poor attitude, racist tendencies, and terrible decisions that platform and promote other racists.
To start off, Shane’s early skits frequently featured a “ghetto” character called “Shanaynay.” Shanayay was an obvious stereotype that Shane played for laughs and it worked. People were big fans.
During his early days, he also did full on black face several times in skits.
He also used the n word. He has since apologized.
Flash forward to 2013. Shane created a podcast called “Shane and Friends” where he interviewed various media personalities alongside his cohost Jessie.
This podcast was REALLY bad for Shane. He frequently made super off color and offensive jokes, including jokes about p*doph*lia and be*sti*lity
Let us not forget the famous “Shane came on his cat” clip!!
https://twitter.com/magician_dragon/status/1107428577073598464?s=21
I don’t think Shane is a predator but these clips really show his poor judgement.
Luckily, the podcast did bless us with my single favorite piece of media of all time
In 2014 Shane released the movie “Not Cool.” It’s his only actual film and it was met with TERRIBLE reviews. Jokes included homeless men eating their own shit, men exposing themselves, homophobia, fat jokes, etc.
The reviews for this were AWFUL and cemented that Shane would never have a film career. The New York Times reviewed it saying “Everyone involved in this film should never work in movies again.”
Eventually Shane got into the conspiracy theory videos. These videos are AWFUL. Shane has promoted and platformed many problematic conspiracy theories and theorists, including 9/11 truthers
These conspiracy theories also actively harmed companies. For example, Chuck E. Cheese now has a reputation for messing with their pizza just because Shane said so
One of Shane’s early conspiracy collaboraters were The Psychic Twins. Shane pushed THE SHIT out of these girls. He made them a YouTube channel and got them several high profile collabs.
In one video, the twins with Shane claimed to channel the spirit of murdered six year old JonBenet Ramsey. They spoke as her and claimed to solve her murder. INCREDIBLY tasteless and disrespectful. This is a real child, not a conspiracy theory.
Shane got into documentaries in 2017/2018ish. It started with conversations with his abusive, absent father and honestly it was pretty good. The worst part was seeing how Shane pisses in bottles and leaves the bottles around the house 🤢
Shane’s next big documentary was with Bobby Burns. Bobby made a video about Shane and Shane decided to bring him on the channel to talk about the video. The video wasn’t hate as much as valid criticism, but Shane REALLY pushed Bobby as a hater.
Shane tried to Mr. Beast Bobby and gave him a weekly channel feature, a brand new car, and dozens of resources. However, Shane’s fans HATED Bobby because he was a “hater” and nothing like Shane. It was irresponsible of Shane to intergrate him and then drop him just as fast
Once Shane did his documentary with Graveyard Girl, his content changed. Shane felt like he helped “save” Bunny’s channel and decided this was his new direction, even though Bunny’s channel is still struggling
This is when we get into Shane platforming people who don’t deserve a platform. In 2018, Shane was a scheduled speaker at TanaCon. See my thread for how that went.
https://twitter.com/cacasmiddlename/status/1010188927955685376?s=21https://t.co/YH1TzbuIOy
What Shane’s Tanacon series shows is that he is a TERRIBLE interviewer. Because he’s her friend, he doesn’t ask any hard question and he believes everything she says. He makes no attempts as a journalist to prevent an unbiased and even view
Tana also has a long history of racism and problematic behavior. Because Shane also dealt with being “cancelled”, he LOVES to platform other people who have been called out for acting like pieces of shit
After Tana, Shane moved on to Jeffree. Jeffree is a violent racist who has made comments against black women for several decades. Shane made no attempts to challenge this and instead celebrates his friendship with Jeffree.
https://twitter.com/cacasmiddlename/status/1124080685206122497?s=21https://t.co/r8fVKNgXVX
We’ll get back to that god awful palette series soon.
Next series was Jake Paul. These videos were IRRESONSPIBLE and TERRIBLE. Shane says he “can’t diagnose” Jake as a sociopath, but implies it through out the entire series. He uses this “sociopath” label to justify the terrible things Jake has done.
In the series, Alissa Violet talks to Shane about how Jake physically abused her. Shane seems uninterested and doesn’t care. He never confronts Jake about what Alissa said and he very clearly took Jake’s side over Alissa’s
My other big gripe about this series is how bad Shane’s editing is. All the videos are almost an hour long and you don’t even see Jake Paul until the last few videos of the series. Shane can’t write/direct.
The next big Shane video was his collab with Eugenia Cooney. Both Shane and Eugenia have eating disorders and psychologists shamed this video for not speaking on the subject in a responsible way insider.com/shane-dawsons-…
And now we get to this Jeffree Star shit show. First of all, Shane has never worn makeup. The biggest makeup moments I’ve seen from Shane in over a decade of viewership is him drawing an extra eyebrow for Shanaynay
Shane decided to make a palette with Jeffree Star not because of his love for art or makeup, but because he saw big dollar signs. He even made a second channel for “Makeup videos” and never posted on it. youtube.com/channel/UCAVoj…
I also can’t emphasize how harmful it is to continue to promote and collaborate with Jeffree Star. These videos came after Jeffree’s drama with James Charles
Shane never even touched on the drama. He promoted the videos saying he was going to show Jeffree during that time and he never did.
Shane and Jeffree were also the ones who encouraged Tati to release the video and then LIED about not having prior knowledge to it. Shane was DIRECTLY involved in taking down James career even though he’s twice James age.
The “Conspiracy” and “Controversy” palette also show how Shane isn’t really apologetic for the shit he’s done. The names make fun of the fact he’s been involved in so many issues and “cancelled,” even though the reason he was cancelled was him talking about googling “naked baby”
Shane can’t stop talking about Jeffree, his palette, or promoting Jeffree and it’s because this palette has left a Shane rolling in cash. Nothing like two white cisgender men who have both treated people of color poorly sitting together and gossiping in their mansions
During this palette period, Shane also has never spoken about how Jeffree had a close relationship and defended a convicted p*doph*le, Dahvie Vanity, something that came to light within the past few months centennialbeauty.com/jeffree-star-d…
Why does Shane feel the need to defend Jeffree and all of his actions? Why does Shane think he needs to “fix” Jeffree’s public image? I gue$$ we’ll never know
Here’s how Shane responds when he’s called out for promoting racists. He feels nothing but sympathy towards people who say the n word and promote various harmful ideologies
Shane has just done so many things that would have DESTROYED the careers of any average celebrity but his fans are willing to blindly excuse his actions time and time again and he will continue making bank off the backs of racism for years to come
Also, forgot to mention earlier in the thread, during that Chuck E. Cheese video Shane kept jumping from an old Youtuber Brittani talking about how her husband abused her to the pizza stuff. Spousal abuse is not a conspiracy.
He made out with his dog :(
more disgusting older content. he was a fully grown man saying these things
shane’s actually made out with TWO dogs
shane “quitting” the beauty community before he’s done a single thing besides relea$e a palette is so on brand for him. just tell us you only wanted a check and go
Also saying that James deserved to be dragged for being a predator even though he doesn’t think James is a predator? fucked up
also, another classic Shane moment!
“He [Dawson] had young girls go onstage and impersonate black women using the words “chicken” and “ghetto.” Multiple times.…” youtubegazette.tumblr.com/post/263209775…
From his book: Margaret Cho isn’t considered a racist for making jokes about Asians and their stereotypes because it’s what she grew up with.” (155) Margaret Cho is Korean. ghostypeppers.tumblr.com/post/165872393…
MLK skit
He made a video of him stalking Taylor Swift and then making her kiss him, after he figures out there are no sparks he kills her and wears her face. Then he got upset because Taylor’s team got it removed 🥴
Shane got a lot of flack for outing Dan and Phil and making jokes about their sexuality
Here’s the “ghetto” video
Joey Graceffa’s boyfriend and Garrett, two of Shane’s former close friends and collaboraters, shading Shane
Shane was still selling Shanaynay merch as recently as last year
Shane acting a mess on the set of Not Cool. Zachary Quinto also talked about how Shane rejects all criticism and feedback so Quinto took his name off the movie hey idk if u wanna add this to ur thread this is willdddd
Shane pretending to jack off to a poster of Willow Smith from when she was 11
https://twitter.com/KRMGDN/status/1276116775466344449/video/1
Shane threatening extreme violence against Franchesca Ramsey on his podcast
Shane and Lisa telling a 12 year old how to use sex toys
https://twitter.com/Primink/status/1276316787068600320/video/1
Shane telling an a*t r*ght conspiracy theorist that he loves his work
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first clip is him making out with Kermit
girls speaking on their inappropriate experiences with Shane at a young age
https://twitter.com/misshemlock/status/1276728253177139202?s=21
https://twitter.com/mariavazquez236/status/1276728253177139202
Shane attempting to justify pedophilia
Shane being inappropriate on TinyCam with a bunch of kids
https://twitter.com/woacbofficial/status/1276902034944516096?s=21https://t.co/BVxLyhGTQd
Someone told Shane he had a 4 year old fan so he asked if the 4 year old even knew what pubic hair was
Shane’s creepy puppy videos
not talking shit on miss blue ivy
https://twitter.com/fentyybeyy/status/1276971433445535747/video/1
Shane doing a Fresh Prince sketch in blackface
Shane saying Trayvon Martin (murdered black 17 year old) wouldn’t have been outside if he had a job
https://twitter.com/stansposed/status/1277296294252417025/video/1
Calling a little black girls hair nasty
https://twitter.com/stansposed/status/1277298336068964355/video/1
Putting fake breasts and other weird sexual things on another 12 year old
Shane has deleted ALL of his old videos from his original channel because he’s trying to hide the sheer amount of horrible, racist, pedophilic content he’s made
Shane is trying to make a comeback on Instagram. Youtube next I’m sure
Summary from Reddit about what Trisha said about Shane being a shitty friend and picking J* over her
Shane’s last friends turning on him for spreading rumors about them behind the scenes. Second SS is joey Graceffa’s ex
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