Yes, but all these things have been going on for over a decade now. Sure, they have gotten much worse and some things have only started to escalate in recent years but he really is not ok.AnniaDrama wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:43 amI'd have much more respect for Shane if:ballamyblue wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2019 7:50 pmI'm honestly indifferent towards Garret. I wouldn't label him problematic though. At least not in a way that he needs to be "canceled." It's one thing to be overly quirky for the camera, it's another thing to be overly quirky and take advantage of people like Shane does. His fake tears and all that come along with it.
Shane legit needs to be called out and not be able to hide behind 12 year olds and adults with low self-esteem. He legitimately is pretending that 10 years worth of things didn't happen. It isn't even like the stuff that he should be hiding from. It's stuff like he has been poor up until a week ago or that he he has never had brand deals or merch in stores.
I very much doubt that he was ever diagnosed with body dysmorphia or any form of anxiety. They just sounded nice in his head once he read them because he could get away with saying it and used it too appease to his idiot fans.
- He truly admitted and addressed his past problematic behavior (basically his whole youtube career up until now) but showed he's genuinely changed
- Used his money and influence for something actually positive
- Stopped making suicide and pills jokes or using mental illness as a way of being quirky and relatable
- Stopped playing the victim every time someone doesn't kiss the ground he steps on
- Admitted he's been a millionaire for years with merch and books sold out years ago instead of trying to erase his past success for sympathy. Admitted that and that he wanted to earn more money and thought that this partnership with Joffrey would be economically profitable for him. Also that he never had interest for makeup but he saw this as a profitable business venture. It's not that deep to admit it's about the money, I don't get why he has to pretend that it's about his "passion" for makeup or that it's not about money when his own video series shows it was... he'd sellout anyway
- Either leave youtube for good or stick to the upload schedule promises he makes to his fans
- Admit that he filmed everything he could without a plan or direction, chose the scenes and edited all last minute according to the feedback he was getting
If he dropped this fake "I'm Oprah of youtube, depressed and poor and has the chance of a lifetime of being helped by Joffrey to fulfill my dreams with my (1 year or less) passion for makeup" act and was real he'd still sell out his products and at least he'd be more respected. It must be exhausting putting up such an act for so long.
I can't understand how his fans don't understand that he has had merch in stores, he has has 2(3?) books (terribly written) in major book stores and Amazon. I remember seeing that god awful open mouth picture in Barnes and Noble years ago. Even back then he was a chronic liar. When the first book was released, he claimed that he was the FIRST YouTuber to get a book deal and everyone else was piggybacking off of him. Ignoring the fact that almost every other damn YouTuber by then had already released their own book first.
He did admit to being a millionaire in one of the recent videos but he also claims that his net worth isn't accurate. I'm sure that it isn't completely accurate but he definitely has at least a million dollars and can afford to live in that very expensive house that is fives times that of something in the Midwest.
With the past series he clearly had a vision in mind or at least Andrew did. This one was basically "I'm getting paid a shit ton of money and people will watch anything." Which is very accurate. As pissed off as people are about the lack of a drama episode, people have forgiven him for all his misdeeds once again because they have content. Youtube fans are very easy to satisfy. Give them something to watch and they forget the fact that you were MIA for the sake of being lazy for over a year and also finally got called out for fucking a cat a decade ago (and possibly recurrently).