UPDATE 8:15 P.M. EST: Shane has now released a full apology video. While passionately declaring he is not a pedophile, he does apologize for ever joking about the subject and making insensitive comments that, “comedy” or not, made a lot of people highly uncomfortable. Watch and learn more HERE.
YouTube is officially getting out of hand…
On Wednesday, an edited video went viral featuring Shane Dawson‘s comments about pedophilia from a 2013 Shane and Friends podcast.
In the shocking clip (which has since been deleted), the social media personality discusses meeting a six-year-old girl with 125,000 Instagram followers, and then calls her “sexy” and “little big dick.” While the fan-made video shows Alabama Luella Barker‘s face, it is unclear if Travis Barker‘s daughter is the girl in question. The 29-year-old then explains his “justification for pedophilia” where he compares the psychiatric disorder to a sexual fetish. He then admits to googling “naked babies” to “pretend like [he is] a pedophile,” and remarks “they were sexy.” (Update: Later, in his apology video, he says he never actually did the Google search and was just joking.)
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That same day, Dawson responded to the controversy saying the video was edited in a way where his “jokes” were “taken out of context,” as his “punchlines” were removed. He wrote:
no. that video is all jokes taken out of context and has all the punchlines removed. it also is illegal to claim someone is a pedofile and use 6 year old jokes as “proof”.
— Shane Dawson (@shanedawson) January 10, 2018
In the podcast (which can be heard in its entirety HERE), Shane does say “having sex with children or touching children or anything of that nature is terrible and you should not do it.”
Additionally, the video leaves out the part where Shane says he “didn’t want to see child porn” during his Google search, and that he is “kidding” when he calls the babies “sexy.”
Either way, the audio is absolutely disturbing, disgusting, and uncomfortable to sit through.
When word spread, some fans blasted Dawson for his sick comments, while others defended him for his “dark humor” and slammed the video’s misleading editing. See all the reactions (below):
shane dawson has the darkest sense of human dont come for him jesus christ literally everything that comes out of his mouth is a joke and he would never mean to offend any one he’s literally an angel
— ell🌌 (@clxudhxrry) January 10, 2018
“I’m kidding” “having sex with or touching kids is disgusting” – Shane Dawson in the same podcast that is being targeted
— hey mom say who want lasagna (@ifeelsoattacked) January 10, 2018
yes, what shane dawson joked about is wrong but in the EXACT SAME PODCAST he says it’s wrong to touch kids and he talks about how gross hollywood molestation is. do your research 🙂
— halia ♡ (@aloha_moonlight) January 10, 2018
Just saw everyone is trying to make out that Shane Dawson is a pedophile, honestly people on social media are SO desperate to ruin people’s careers. Anyone who listens to his podcast knows this was taken out of context and he makes sick jokes all the time. I really don’t care.
— connor⛧ (@ConnorLeigh_x) January 10, 2018
shane dawson uses dark humor. thats his thing. accusing him of PEDOPHILIA is a very large accusation, and if it the statement actually made people concerned, it wouldnt only be brought up as he is becoming more relevant
— hey mom say who want lasagna (@ifeelsoattacked) January 10, 2018
YIKES that shane dawson thing is really disappointing considering he was one of the first people i ever loved watching on yt, but its still absolutely disgusting and theres no justification for his actions. even if he was joking, its still fucked up & wrong
— 4 (@tozster) January 10, 2018
SHANE DAWSON IS NOT A PEDO SHANE DAWSON IS NOT A PEDO SHANE DAWSON IS NOT A PEDO SHANE DAWSON IS NOT A PEDO SHANE DAWSON IS NOT A PEDO SHANE DAWSON IS NOT A PEDO SHANE DAWSON IS NOT A PEDO SHANE DAWSON IS NOT A PEDO SHANE DAWSON IS NOT A PEDO SHANE DAWSON IS NOT A PEDO
— DANI (@alostboii) January 10, 2018
Logan Paul: Disrespects the japanese culture, films a dead body
Logan Paul: I‘m so sorry guys
People: EVERYONES MAKING MISTAKES
Shane Dawson: Apologizes for past behaviour
Shane Dawson: Spoils people, tries to help others
People: OMG THAT ONE THING SHANE SAID 6 YEARS AGO
— Mimzy🌙™@ABITUR, WHY (@Komahoeda) January 10, 2018
[Image via Shane Dawson/Instagram.]
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