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I want to talk about how now is the time to stop supporting celebs who are problematic/racist but I want to do it through my own experience and explain why and how I finally took action to do the right thing and stop supporting celebs with racist pasts this will be controversial.
I used to be a shane dawson fan and a jefree star fan up until a few months ago! I even bought their collab pallette. I was mainly a shane fan and had only seen a few vid here and there of jeffree before their original collab, as strange as it may seem I saw shane a like a -
Trusted pillar in the youtube community, it wasn& #39;t till much later that I really understood the characters he had created were racist, this was because I grew up watching things with my family like shows with chris liley who had similar characters, I thought it was just comedy I
Didn& #39;t understand the impact things like that have in reinforcing stereotypes until I watched shows with more diverse casts and learned in my film degree about the role media plays in creating archetypes for characters based off of race. Since many people learn from media this
Imbeds itself into the brain quickly and often without even realising you have developed a racist generalised view of what someone might be based on race. By the time I was learning this stuff Shane& #39;s videos were very different and the old stuff swept under the rug. It was only
The last year or so I started to see that stuff pop up once again, I felt it was terrible but I wrongly accepted the apologies given, same with the Jefree stuff I only really was exposed to the few incidents and accepted the apology and I think willingly didn& #39;t dig too much into
His past and other behaviours. When the pallette launched I decided I would buy it, I remember tweeting on launch day feeling nervous that I would get nasty tweets(that& #39;s important) and I only got the one but it truly stuck with me, whoever you were thank you for that because it
Was something I was never able to get out of my head, I bought the pallette but I began feeling guilty quite quickly. When I first saw the comment I was upset and felt attacked I thought & #39;why go to the effort to be mean& #39; but then I really started to consider why would someone do
That unless they felt so very passionate about it, this made me look more into what jefree and shane had done over time, and as I learned from the twitter threads I started to be appauled and the way they had joked about the & #39;controversy& #39; in their video. They had apologised but
It felt like the whole name, all the videos were a joke about things that had really affected people. I couldn& #39;t imagine being a fan of either and then finding that shit out, only to then have them laugh it off when they were being held accountable. I& #39;m aware they both apologised
But something about the way they were having this & #39;fuck it& #39; attitude didn& #39;t sit right, I knew if I had EVER done anything so upsetting to people so blatantly racist, I would be full of apologies, but they could only moan about people who were upset about the things they& #39;d done
So I gave away my Jeffree products and unfollowed /unsubbed on all platforms, but I suddenly found this huge problem that these people would still be pushed on to my timeline, they have such a wide influence and a circle of other influencers that follow them that it becomes -
Impossible to escape, I can& #39;t imagine what this is like for black people who are finding content they enjoy only to be disappointed by the persons enabling of those who have done such upsetting things. This thread is way too long but basically please follow your gut, if you feel
