YouTube influencer Jenna Marbles quits her channel after blackface backlash

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YouTube influencer Jenna Marbles quits her channel after blackface backlash
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YouTube star Jenna Mourey, known by her channel name Jenna Marbles, announced Thursday she is leaving the platform amid a controversy over racially offensive videos.

"I feel like we're at a time where we are purging ourselves of anything and everything toxic," she said inMourey, who has more than 20 million subscribers, highlighted specific videos from 2011 and 2012 -- one in which she donnedto impersonate rapper Nicki Minaj, another featuring a rap song with a joke about Asians, and one video in which she slammed women who "slept around.

She added that the rap song, which included the lyric "Hey Ching Chong Wing Wong, shake your King Kong ding dong," was "inexcusable" and "shouldn't have existed." "For now, I just can't exist on this channel ... I think I'm just going to move on from this channel for now," Mourey said, visibly emotional. "I don't know how long it's going to be. I just want to make sure the things I'm putting in the world aren't hurting anyone ... so I need to be done with this channel, for now or for forever."

She is best known for her early comedy sketches and satirical how-to videos -- many of which have now been made private -- and more recently, lifestyle and DIY content.

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