He said that he knew it was "disgusting" for him to convey the story in a way that implied it took place. Dawson did reference the podcast briefly in his video, highlighting that it was a source of "so many regrets. His reel of controversies proceeded in YouTube demonetizing all three of his accounts last year , a move it said was warranted given his past actions. Culture Youtube Celebrity Influencers.
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In several apology videos scattered throughout his career, Dawson has apologized for his past and said he no longer recognizes the person in the old footage that periodically resurfaces. But this time an apology hasn't cut it. The difference is that now Dawson is something of a mainstream celebrity. While in he and other online creators like Jenna Marbles were christened as "Rising stars" you've never heard of in Variety magazine , Gen Z and certain breeds of very-online millennials have made them into household names in the years since.
YouTube culture has steadily trickled through the wall between online and mainstream entertainment over the last decade, but it was Dramageddon 2, and the fallout between Westbrook and Charles , that bulldozed its way through. Even those asking, "Who are these people? Even Jada Pinkett Smith knows who Dawson is.
Her damning indictment on Twitter that she was "done with the excuses" when an old video showed Dawson pretending to masturbate over a poster of her daughter Willow, who was 11 at the time, was perhaps what sealed his fate.
The combination of Dawson's newfound notoriety, his badly timed letter to the beauty community, and "manipulative" label was finally what tipped Dawson's career and reputation over the edge. This time, the canceling seems to have stuck, and he doesn't know what to do about it. For whatever reason people are now just becoming upset about his past actions when they've been there all along and they now want answers.
Dawson's continued partnership with Star who is periodically called out for his own controversies also didn't help his case. Dawson's pursuit of being a good guy on YouTube may be why his crash has been so terminal. Or it could be for the negative too the horn effect , like that person did this one sy thing, so everything about them is bad.
It's kind of this black and white thinking. If someone in our minds is all good and they end up in a scandal, it can feel uncomfortable and threatening that our reality has changed. Before he got into his whole docuseries thing, he was raising up small creators. So when we see that bad thing, it screws up what we expected of that person. Star, on the other hand, may be uncancelable for this very reason. His fanbase is so desensitized to his problematic behavior and supervillain persona that they accept it, even though he's "been through more controversies than I've had hot dinners," said Relph.
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