Shane Dawson, who has been active on YouTube for 12 years and whose main channel boasts 22.6 million subscribers, recently posted a video apologizing for, among other things, using blackface and using a racist term in his early videos
By now, the garden variety YouTube apology is an easily recognizable art form: Puffy eyes, a sparse background, a vague title -- and in the middle of it, a famous creator who's done something very, very wrong.
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YouTube star Jenna Marbles quits over past racist videos 01:21The latest star to tread this familiar road is also one of the platform's earliest success stories. Shane Dawson, who has been active on YouTube for 12 years and whose main channel boasts 22.6 million subscribers, recently posted a video apologizing for, among other things, using blackface and saying the N-word in his early videos.
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