Shane Dawson

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Shane Dawson (2012)

Shane Dawson (* 19 July 1988 in Long Beach , California as Shane Lee Yaw ) is an American comedian and actor , who through its channels on the video portal YouTube has been known.

Life

Shane Dawson grew up in a California household with two brothers and his mother. While he was in high school , Dawson began making short films with friends that proved popular with his classmates and teachers. In 2008 he started posting his videos on YouTube. In 2010 Forbes magazine listed him as one of the 25 most famous internet stars.

According to an extrapolation from the American news site Business Insider in August 2010 , he is said to have been the highest - earning YouTube star at 315,000  US dollars a year, but this has been questioned by other sources.

With more than 8.4 million subscribers and over 1.2 billion views, its main channel Shane Dawson TV was the 102nd most-subscribed YouTube channel in 2019. His second channel, shane, with more than 23.1 million subscribers and over 5.1 billion views, was ranked 84th in the top 500 channels.

Dawson was diagnosed with dysmorphophobia and came out bisexual in a video on his main channel in July 2015 . Dawson was dating the YouTube personality Lisa Schwartz until mid-2015. This announced the separation in a video on July 9, 2015. Since March 2016 Shane Dawson has been with his friend, Youtuber Ryland Adams, with whom he lives in Hollywood , California , together with his dog Uno, his cat Cheeto and his third husky Honey .

His closest friends, who appear in almost every one of his videos, include Youtubers Garrett Watts, Ryland's sister Morgan Adams, as well as Drew Monson and Andrew Siwicki. Andrew is also Shane's cameraman.

YouTube channels

ShaneDawsonTV

On his main channel ShaneDawsonTV you mainly see short films, which are often on a specific theme and in which recurring characters appear. Dawson usually plays all the roles himself and is also a screenwriter, director, makeup artist and cameraman rolled into one. Sometimes he also works in his videos with other well-known YouTube personalities such as "Brittani Louise Taylor", "Joe Nation", "The Fine Bros" or "ijustine". He likes to dress up and has his own characters that he uses very often. These include Shananay, who is supposed to portray a “ghetto bitch”, Ned, who is supposed to portray a nerd or nerd, S-Deezy a “gangster rapper”, his mother, his aunt Hilda and a parody of Paris Hilton who poke at him and often refer to him as gay. There are also a few supporting characters that appear more often in videos.

ShaneDawsonTV2

The “Ask Shane (on Mondays)” section has been developed on ShaneDawsonTV2 . Here, the YouTube star responds to questions from his fans once a week while visiting a location suggested by them. Often on this channel you can also see the “Behind the Scenes” - recordings that are recorded during the breaks in the shooting of his videos, which he publishes on the main channel (ShaneDawsonTV).

shane

Dawson uses the shane channel to put videos that he shoots with his iPhone directly online. He shows himself here from a very private side and lets the audience participate in his family life and activities with friends.

Podcast "Shane and Friends"

On June 5, 2013, Dawson published a podcast with Jessica Buttafuoco under the name Shane and Friends . In this weekly podcast, mostly YouTube personalities, but also celebrities outside the online community such as Tara Reid or Jennette McCurdy , are interviewed. Since April 2016, the podcast has also been recorded in a television studio in cooperation with the fullscreen streaming platform and, unlike the audio version, is therefore not available free of charge.

Motion picture

In 2014, Dawson announced in a YouTube video that he had produced his own film. Dawson is both a director and one of the main actors. In the film took, among other Cherami Leigh and Kurt Angle rolls. The film was shot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on a budget of nearly $ 1 million. The film Not Cool was released in American cinemas in 2014.

style

The media historian Robert J. Thompson of Syracuse University, called Dawson in 2010 as a kind of mixture of Ernie Kovacs and to expressing the most vulgar eighth graders. He would develop a new style of comedy that is unique to the internet. His favorite subjects range from weight loss (he has lost quite a bit of weight himself) to masturbation and his anger over Twilight . He also likes to pull on certain people, with his favorite targets being Justin Bieber , Miley Cyrus and his Youtube competitor Fred .

At the end of 2017, Shane announced that it would change the content and quality of the videos on his channel. Following this statement, an emotional, but above all personal series of videos began. At the beginning of the new series, he met people from his past. Among other things, he took up contact with his father again, with whom he had not had a good relationship for a long time. In spring 2018 the series changed in a slightly different direction. Shane started helping other people with their life or career. He invited, among others, the Youtuber Sophie Pecora and the Youtuber Bobby Burns to his home. Both of them got a lot of attention from the videos with Shane.

criticism

Shane Dawson was the target of racism allegations in 2018 when old videos of him became known in which he wore blackface , i.e. imitating black people .

Dawson has also been criticized on social media platforms for telling niggers in a previous video what is taboo for white people in the United States .

He had to apologize in January 2018 after videos surfaced of him joking about pedophilia , suggesting he was looking for pictures of children and saying that pedophilia is a fetish and should not be punished for it.

Discography

Singles

year title Chart placements album
IE UK UK indie
2010 F ** king Double Rainbow (feat. Dalvee) - - - -
2011 Hey, Suup !? (feat. Eric Stuff Production) - - -
2012 SUPERLUV! 87 163 16
The Vacation Song - - -
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together (Spoof) [feat. Wendy McColm] - - -
Maybe This Christmas - - -
High School: The Rap - - -
F ** k up - 44 -
2013 The Christmas Life - 17th -

Awards

Web links

Commons : Shane Dawson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David M. Ewalt: The Web Celeb 25. In: Forbes. February 2, 2010, accessed April 17, 2010 .
  2. ↑ William Wei: Meet The YouTube Stars Making $ 100,000 Plus Per Year. In: Business Insider. August 19, 2010, accessed August 24, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Youtube: Use top earner statistics with caution. In: buissness-panorama.de. August 23, 2010. Retrieved August 24, 2010 .
  4. ↑ Shane Dawson TV. In: YouTube. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Most Subscribed YouTube Channels - WatchinToday . Retrieved April 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ shane. On Watchin.Today, accessed September 25, 2019.
  7. ↑ Video: My Body Dismorphia Disorder
  8. ↑ ibtimes.com
  9. ↑ Video: I'm Bisexual
  10. ^ Explaining My Breakup , youtube.com, July 9, 2015, accessed October 19, 2015.
  11. ↑ Shane Dawson on February 19, 2014 on his Twitter account
  12. ↑ Shane Dawson. Twitter.com; Retrieved April 12, 2014
  13. ↑ a b Austin Considne: Shane Dawson, YouTube's comic for the under-30 set. In: New York Times. June 2, 2010, accessed August 24, 2010 .
  14. ↑ Hafsa Quraishi: YouTuber Shane Dawson came under fire in 2014 for using blackface in his impersonations of TV host Wendy Williams. In: National Public Radio. NPR Inc, February 13, 2019, accessed April 22, 2019 (the document appears later in the article).
  15. ↑ Alex Felix: Shane Dawson says the N word. August 4, 2018, accessed April 22, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Andrew Griffin: SHANE DAWSON: YOUTUBE STAR SAYS SORRY FOR SUGGESTING HE HAD SEARCHED FOR PAEDOPHILIA ONLINE. In: The Independent. The Independent, January 11, 2018, accessed April 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Dawson, Shane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yaw, Shane Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comedian and actor
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Long Beach , California