Just when you think you’ve heard it all…
Popular YouTuber Shane Dawson is in serious damage control mode right now after an old podcast recording resurfaced over the weekend in which he made some VERY disgusting claims.
Dawson, who is one of the biggest YouTube stars in the world with more than 21 million subscribers, said in the 2015 taping of his “Shane and Friends” podcast: “The things I’ve done to my poor animals, they will never love me. I’ve done terrible things.”
He then went on to describe how he dry humped his cat before ejaculating on it.
“I laid my cat down on her back. I didn’t penetrate,” he said. “I laid the cat down on her back and I moved her little chicken legs, you know, spread apart. If I just hump, like, on her tummy, that’s not weird so I humped and I humped and I kept going and I came all over the cat. It was, like, my first sexual experience. I was also, like, 19.”
Dawson was 26 years old at the time of the podcast. He’s now 30.
I found the audio!! Shane Dawson came on his cat! WTF!!!!! This was on his podcast pic.twitter.com/6slFQRxIeE
— Sandwich Ruler (@magician_dragon) March 17, 2019
After the audio was brought back to the forefront on social media, Dawson’s name became a trending topic on Twitter, which forced him to issue an apology saying that the whole thing was a joke and he never really had sex with or ejaculated on his cat.
“I didnt f**k my cat. I didn’t c*m on my cat. I didn’t put my d**k anywhere near my cat. I’ve never done anything weird with my cats,” the controversial social media star said.
He continued: “That story was fake and was based on a dumb awful sketch idea I had years ago that I never made (THANK GOD) and when the opportunity came up for a funny moment in the podcast I told it as if it was a real story which was DISGUSTING and VERY VERY DUMB.”
VERY VERY DUMB indeed.
Read his full statement below:
i didnt fuck my cat. i didnt cum on my cat. i didnt put my dick anywhere near my cat. Ive never done anything weird with my cats. I promised myself i wasnt going to make apology videos after last years thing so im just trying to be as short and honest with this as possible. (1/?)
— Shane Dawson (@shanedawson) March 18, 2019
ive apologized many times for all the dumb shit ive said in videos and podcasts over the years. ive learned my lesson over and over again and im more confident now in my ability to be entertaining by just being myself and not being so shocking for laughs.(2/?)
— Shane Dawson (@shanedawson) March 18, 2019
that story was fake and was based on a dumb awful sketch idea I had years ago that i never made (THANK GOD) and when the opportunity came up for a funny moment in the podcast I told it as if it was a real story which was DISGUSTING and VERY VERY DUMB (3/?)
— Shane Dawson (@shanedawson) March 18, 2019
my goal with the podcast and with my videos years ago was to tell shocking stories that would make people laugh and scream "OMG NO U DIDNT!!" and think i was "soooo crazy". its embarrassing and i fucking hate myself for it. (4/?)
— Shane Dawson (@shanedawson) March 18, 2019
now that im making stuff i love and im being myself it feels so much better and i finally feel like im putting stuff out into the world that means something. im not saying i hate everything ive made over the years (5/?)
— Shane Dawson (@shanedawson) March 18, 2019
theres so many things im so proud of. but all of my offensive jokes, over the top stories, and insensitive jokes are something that still haunt me and something I have to be faced with everyday on the internet. and it never gets easier. (6/?)
— Shane Dawson (@shanedawson) March 18, 2019
so im sorry for what i said about my cat, im sorry for what i said about anything or anyone that was offensive, and im sorry for being someone who thought being super offensive and shocking all the time was funny. im sorry for my past. but im really to make it right and (7/?)
— Shane Dawson (@shanedawson) March 18, 2019
i feel like without my past i wouldnt be who I am today and i wouldnt be able to grow & spend my energy on things that actually mean something. this has been the best 2 years of my life & its because ive been able to drop the act & be myself. and im sorry for not doing it sooner
— Shane Dawson (@shanedawson) March 18, 2019
Since joining YouTube in 2008, Dawson has had to apologize countless times for making a number of inappropriate “jokes,” including comments on trans people, his use of the n-word and previously doing blackface to portray Wendy Williams, Raven Symone and Chris Brown in his videos.
In one particular controversy, which dates back to a 2014 podcast episode, Shane joked about a “sexy” 6-year-old girl and admitted to Googling child porn, which led people to label him as a pedophile.
Shane addressed the comments in a YouTube video last year.
“I am not a f**king pedophile,” he said. “It’s disgusting that people are saying I’m a f**king pedophile because of some sh**ty ass f**king jokes from six years ago on a podcast.”
With the controversy picking up steam again, he recently re-promoted that video on his Twitter account.
for those who missed this a year ago. here ya go. k going back to editing now ?????????? https://t.co/o6FPwbINYh
— Shane Dawson (@shanedawson) March 17, 2019
And now, Shane Dawson’s detractors are sharing footage of him making out with dogs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt-U3ZZQD7o?start=78
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go throw up now.
