In 2010, Forbes magazine named him their 25th most famous web celebrity. In November 2009, Dawson was featured on Attack of the Show!. Shane often collaborates with other YouTubers or appears in their videos, such as Joey Graceffa, BrittaniLouiseTaylor, TheFineBros, Trisha Paytas, iJustine (real name Justine Ezarik), Tyler Oakley, Miranda Sings (a character created by YouTuber, comedian, singer and actress Colleen Ballinger), Sawyer Hartman, Drew Monson and others. His third and main YouTube channel, Shane, is where he previously posted vlogs, and now posts original content Mondays through Fridays. ĭawson occasionally posts new videos on his channel "ShaneDawsonTV" (mainly short web films, music video parodies, film trailer parodies, and original music) and formerly posted other videos on his second channel "ShaneDawsonTV2", now called "Human Emoji" however the use of this channel has mostly been discontinued as of 2012. During this time, Shane performed as a number of "drug-addled, often drunk, cultural stereotype characters" in his skits, including: " ghetto girl" Shanaynay, Ned the Nerd, gangster S-Deezy, Barb the Lesbian, Guadalupe/Fruit Lupe (a Mexican with stereotyped chola accent). In September, he uploaded a video called " Fred is Dead!", which has since received over 25 million views.
His mother, brother and about six other coworkers who appeared in the video also were fired after the company saw the video. When he first began making videos, he worked at Jenny Craig along with his mother and brother, but was fired in August 2008 after he uploaded a video of himself pole dancing in the building he worked in and, while showing before-and-after photos of clients, saying that "all these people gain their weight back." The video also included clips of his co-workers reading inappropriate passages of a book by Jenny Craig spokesperson Valerie Bertinelli. The earliest video that remains on the channel, "Kermit the Frog and Me" was uploaded about 4 months later. On March 10, 2008, Dawson made his YouTube channel, called "ShaneDawsonTV". Careerĭawson at the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards in 2010 2008–2010: YouTube, ShaneDawsonTV
Dawson grew up in a low income household to a single mother, Teresa Yaw. He first became interested in making videos when he would turn in videos as school projects with his friends in high school. The siblings had a close relationship, and helped Dawson during these times. He has two older brothers, Jacob Yaw (born 1980) and Jerid Yaw (born 1985). As a teenager, Dawson was bullied for his weight in school. 2.3 2013–2016: Shane and Friends, The Chair, and booksĭawson grew up in Long Beach, California, and he graduated from Lakewood High School in 2006.2.2 2010–13: Television pilots and music career.He returned to YouTube on October 7, 2021. On June 30, 2020, YouTube indefinitely suspended monetization on all three of Dawson's channels following a public backlash over his past controversial comments. Since 2017, he maintains one active channel, shane, with 20 million subscribers and over 4 billion views. Īs of 2018, Dawson has released two New York Times best-selling books, I Hate Myselfie (2015) and It Gets Worse (2016), and his three YouTube channels have accumulated over 4.5 billion views. His most viewed docu-series are about Jake Paul, Jeffree Star, and TanaCon. From 2019 to 2020, Dawson created and appeared in The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star, a docu-series that follows the life of Jeffree Star, which garnered over 130 million views.
In late 2017, he released his first docu-series on YouTube, in which he reconciled with his absent father.
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In 2015, Dawson began his show on YouTube about conspiracy theories, which includes his 2019 web series Conspiracy Series with Shane Dawson. He has also appeared in the films Smiley (2012) and Internet Famous (2016). The following year, Dawson released his first and only feature film, Not Cool, and appeared on an accompanying 10 episode docu-series The Chair. In 2013, he launched his podcast, Shane and Friends, which ran for four years and produced 140 episodes. Some of these impressions later drew criticism for their offensive content, including racial stereotypes.ĭuring this time, Dawson also had a short-lived music career, releasing six original songs such as " Superluv!" and numerous parodies of popular music videos. Most of his early work consisted of sketch comedy videos, where he would play original characters, impersonate celebrities and make light of popular culture. In 2008, at age 19, Dawson began making videos on YouTube and garnered over half a billion views by 2010. He became one of the first people to rise to fame on the video-sharing platform YouTube. Shane Lee Yaw (born July 19, 1988), known professionally as Shane Dawson, is an American YouTuber.
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