Shane Dawson, your fandom is problematic (YFIP)
My main issue with Shane Dawson is that I’ve been watching him since he made offensive skits back in the day, with yellow backgrounds to his thumbnails, Shane Dawson and Friends, etc. I grew to love him, his dark sense of humor and how real he could be on issues like eating disorders.
He went through a few rough patches. That’s fine, we all do. I’m not going to cover his food reviews or anything of the sort regarding what kind of content he uploads, rather, the subjects of the content and their effects on others. For example...
Look, maybe the kid makes content you dislike, you think he sold out to YouTube, and you miss his old content. However, no one can deny that the hate he’s recieved from Shane’s fan base is ongoing and unnecessary. Posts calling him a tweaker, poking fun at his ticks, saying he looks weird and creepy...and downvoting all of his newer content to shut, regardless of what the kid puts out.
Essentially, Shane used this kid to further his own career as a YouTube Saint, regardless of his initial intentions. He used the kid up, spit him out, and didn’t offer any public support when his fans continued to harass the kid, unless you count a few meager tweets.
Oh, but he bought Bobby a car, so he should just take the abuse.
Shane could have handled the entire issue a lot better.
Shane built the entire narrative around the fact that he was going to confront Tana, and fans were hyped. The one thing missing from this series was accountability, in regards to Tana. Michael, the CEO of Good Times, was not equally represented along with Tana.
He was represented as more of a side character, an antagonist to poor Tana, who had good intentions but didn’t think anything through :((( The last part of the series was just filled with her cutting him off, yelling like a child, and Shane didn’t reign her in. It was disgusting.
The comments section was fairly supportive of both parties, the negative ones saying that Tana was manipulating Shane, and Shane is simply a victim. This man is thirty years old, and knows what he’s doing.
Fans started to leave constructive criticism of what they’d want to see improved, or what could have been handled better, and Shane immediately shut down any forms of criticism. This is when things started to go downhill for me.
I don’t really care about the Jefree series
But what I really want to talk about is the fucking Jake Paul series.
First episode had my jaw to the floor. The demonization of sociopaths, or people who have ASPD was shocking to me. Shane cannot make a video like that without accepting the fact that he is providing false information on an already demonized disorder to 10 million fucking subscribers.
And instead of hiring someone who actually knew what they were doing, he brought in a friend of his, who referred to people with the disorder as icky, gross, and the like.
His twitter responses were lame, subpar, and apologized that people were offended, without recognizing or acknowledging that he fucked up. I stopped watching from there, but by the tweets I can only assume that he fell in love with Jake Paul and sees him as another Tana. Another problematic, unlikeable public figure that he’s ‘saved’
Alright, so my points have been pretty muddled and thrown around, but my main two issues are pretty simple. They lie with Shane, and the Fanbase.
Shane Dawson doesn’t take criticism well at all, he has a Savior Complex, and he doesn’t consider the collateral damage of his content. He’s preaching to millions of people. This man needs to take some damn accountability and be more aware of the fact that these videos are taken to heart by impressionable young fans. Accountability, somethig he and Tana both lack.
Shane’s fans will defend him for anything. He could kill someone and they’d still be writing nasty tweets to the judge who sentenced their ‘queen’. For instance, the girl who made a reddit post about Shane, after he left a negative reply to her well meaning tweet. She was forced to delete her account as changing her username and deleting the post didn’t deter the harassment. For more info on that, just search ‘My views on Shane reddit’- it’s just a nasty situation.
I’m tired of Shane, I’m done with his drama. He isn’t allowed to snap under the pressure that he put himself under.
Be more responsible with your fanbase. Be an example for other creators.
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