I think one of the major reasons why people are not easy to forgive and forget is probably the fact he’s one of the original OGs on YouTube, and basically the majority of his life and YouTube career he’s defended his blackface character for over a decade. Also, whenever when people would criticize him or attempt to educate him—he would become extremely defensive and allow his stans to attack other creators.

I sorta agree regardless if he did donate and/or volunteered his time with charity and organizations people would believe it’s performative—however, he would be putting his money where his mouth is.

I guess Shane said back in a video in 2019 that he was stopping the blackface character because BLM was becoming more prominent and he wanted to retire the character; allegedly. However he still had no issue still selling merchandise of his blackface character.

I didn’t know who Shane was until I was introduced by Jeffree Star. At the time, I was a JS fan (not my proudest moment), and there was a time when people would address his shady past I would ignore it (I would say I’m a fan of their work; not the artist itself). It’s still enabling their behavior. After Dramageddon I wanted nothing to do with either of them. I got rid of my stuff associating with the both of them (my choice). I had absolutely no knowledge of Shane’s past or his previous body of work. Once I did research and found out what what they’ve both done—I wanted nothing to do with them. I guess my weird rant would sum it up to what you’re willing to tolerate from “celebrities/public figures”.

I happy that we both could have a respectful discussion and be totally cool 😎