Shane Dawson was accused of pedophilia by a YouTube channel called Pop Blast.
After it went viral, they made cryptic videos claiming that Logan Paul's
manager paid them to make it. Welcome back to What's Trending, I'm Ava Gordy. Be
sure to LIKE this video and SUBSCRIBE for more stories. Seat belts on everybody,
this is a wild one. It all started yesterday when a YouTube channel called
Pop Blast uploaded a video titled "Shane Dawson is a pedophile. here's the proof."
It featured audio clips from a 2013 episode of Shane's podcast, "Shane and
Friends." The video is now deleted, and I can't find it anywhere and I was real
sad about it, but basically it's a bunch of audio clips cut together that doesn't
really paint Shane in the best light. It included a quote like: "People have
fetishes about everything and there's websites on the Internet where they can
look at that weird creepy sh*t and jerk off to it. Okay, fine, everybody do your
thing. So why is it that when someone Google's, like, "naked baby" and jerks off
to it, they can get arrested? I don't understand that." I typed in "naked baby."
First of all, I don't understand why anybody would be turned on by that,
but... (that's the first good thing you said) but they were sexy. I'm kidding. Okay. Back
to the Instagram. But here's the thing. The video itself spliced together a
bunch of these audio clips without including context kind of like how I
just did just now. Multiple times during that episode he does say how disgusting
pedophilia is and how he would never do that and how it's just really gross like
he says that so many times and that he's just kidding.
After the video started to get a lot of attention, Shane addressed it in a video
on his channel. He starts off by playing the audio in question but includes the
surrounding comments to give context.
Let me just pretend, let me pretend like I'm
a pedophile for a sec. Okay, by the way, just for the record police. I have nothing to do with this.
I didn't know this. Like you can literally get arrested for saying this.
I know. Let me, let me finish.
He goes on to say that
he's shocked he even has to say that he's not a pedophile, but he does anyway,
and then he apologizes. I'm not gonna I'm... here's what I'm gonna do. I'm going to
apologize first. I am sorry that I used to make really sh*tty f*cking jokes. if
you were unaware, this is fortunately not the first time Shane has
seen backlash for making offensive jokes. He previously had a character named
Shanaynay that many deemed offensive.
You know what, Shanaynay? You have no right
to make fun of my weight. In fact, you should probably... Shh. Go to sleep b*tch. And has donned
blackface on multiple occasions. However, he did end up apologizing for those past
mistakes after being called out several times. After posting his most recent
video, he tweeted: "I grew up. I changed my content. I apologized
countless times for my sh*tty offensive jokes. Instead of dragging me down people
should use me as an example of a creator who can CHANGE and better themselves and
their content. I'm so proud of who I am today." Many people obviously started
taking sides on the matter and it even became a trending Twitter moment. On one
side the opinion was: "Shane Dawson's comments are repulsive. I don't care if
it's taken out of context, or a joke, or whatever other bullsh*t excuse he wants
to use. Pedophilia is never a joke. Hearing someone talk about it so
casually makes me sick to my stomach." And then there were people who saw his
growth saying: "Look, fam, I don't always agree with you but I don't think you're
a pedophile. I think it's wild that you're having to
say that. But as someone who's watched you since you began & has seen you mature,
I wanna just say that I believe you. Keep your head up." Regardless of the
heat that he was getting, this is Twitter and I personally assumed that it would
fizzle out within a few days. That was until Pop Blast's YouTube channel started
posting some really weird sh*t. First was a video titled "sorry shane," which was
actually a fan video posted to Twitter in response to all this. It featured a
mother and a child and the mother was telling the child, "say 'we know you're not
a pedophile Shane Dawson.'" It was stolen from that woman's Twitter and uploaded
on to their channel. The next was titled, "they made me do it."
111, 111, 100."
And next came "receipts."
116, 104, 101, 121, 032, 097, 100...
And finally came "final message."
Now these have all been re-uploaded on other channels because Pop Blast's YouTube
channel is no longer existent. Okay, so as you can hear there's a creepy child's
voice counting down some numbers, and the numbers in the final video were decoded
by many people just following along with this crazy spectacle. According to
multiple claims it says, "I'm returning the money. It was not worth it. I'm sorry."
After these videos Shane tweeted: "OF COURSE. So now the channel that made that
awful video is claiming that someone in Hollywood "made them make a slander video
about Shane Dawson" to get revenge on me for talking about pedophiles in
Hollywood. I can't make this sh*t up." But what were these images exactly?
Well, the name on the second video is Jeffrey Oscar Levin. With a quick Google
search, Jeffrey Oscar Levin is Logan Paul's manager. People on Twitter started
freaking out, of course, because this is crazy. This is one of the craziest things
I've seen on YouTube. Someone tweeted: "Conspiracy theory: Logan Paul's team /
manager paid 'Pop Blast' to start Shane Dawson drama to take the attention off
Logan." Wow. As I'm sure you're well aware, Logan Paul's name has been dragged
through heavy amounts of mud lately. This would be the most insane conspiracy that
YouTube's ever seen if Logan Paul's manager was like man I gotta cover this
up. I gotta get Logan Paul's name back to
like no one even talking about him by paying somebody to call Shane Dawson a
pedophile. Anyway, Shane addressed these ideas and
said: "I genuinely think someone was trying to make a conspiracy theory about
me in real time. Uploading clues, hints, etc. I don't believe Logan's people had
anything to do with it. It seems almost scripted. It's all very fascinating. Gotta
love the Internet!" Um, wow. This is wild, but I want to know what you think? Do you
think the conspiracy theory is real? Do you think Shane has changed? Let us know
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