I know I didn't want to see child porn, but I just wanted to be like, Okay, let me just pretend.

Let me pretend like I'm a pedophile first.

Okay, by the way, just for the record, police.

I have nothing to do this.

I didn't know this.

Like you can literally get arrested for sight.

So I typed in naked baby.

First of all, I don't understand why anybody would be turned on by that, but that's the first good thing you said.

But there were 60.

I'm kidding.

Okay, back to the instagram.

So I look at this.

Hi.

I wanted to play that clip in full.

I mean, that moment, especially in full, just for context, because that seems to be missing.

Uh, nowadays, I cannot believe that I am having to make this video.

I cannot believe that this is happening.

I ah, I'm gonna start by saying I am not a fucking pedophile.

I Shane yaw my real name.

Go on record saying I am not a fucking pedophile.

Got it.

Great.

Here's my statement.

Somebody saying Shane make a statement.

There's my statement.

I'm not a fucking pedophile.

It's disgusting that people are saying I'm a fucking pedophile because of some shitty ass fucking jokes from six years ago on a podcast.

Now, let me explain a little bit more.

Um, I'm not gonna.

Here's what I'm gonna do.

I'm going to apologize first.

I am sorry that I used to make really shitty fucking jokes.

I am sorry that I was so bucking like, insecure and life playing this character, this guy who's like crazy and will say anything and tries to make people laugh by shocking them.

That was my thing.

That was what I did on YouTube.

A lot of people now don't know that if you started watching my videos more recently, you might not know that.

But back in the day 2000 2008 to 2012 ish, maybe 2013 that was my thing.

I I thought it was so I loved the feeling of making somebody shocked and laugh because they couldn't believe what was coming out of my mouth.

I wasn't confident enough to make smarter jokes.

I was making the easy jokes.

I was playing crazy, stereotypical characters I was doing shit that was racially insensitive.

I was doing shit that was homophobic.

I was doing shit that could be considered fat shaming.

I was doing some fucked up like comedy stuff that I'm not proud of, like, huh?

I have changed so much as a person and as a creative and a director and a writer and stuff like the stuff that I was saying back on those back in those times, I would never say now, ever like, because I don't think that's funny.

Listening to that clip just now I didn't laugh.

I didn't think it was funny.

But when you hear that clip, you hear my co host laughing, which is was my goal.

I wanted to always make her shock and laugh.

That was like, that was our thing.

Our thing was like, Oh, I'm gonna say something super crazy to get hurt.

Be like, Oh my God, Gene, you can't say that like that was our thing.

And if you listen to the podcast for years, you would know that that clip started circulating today, but they cut it up.

Basically, there's a clip right now called Shane Dawson is a pedophile.

And then it says proof.

First of all, that's illegal.

You can't say somebody's a pedophile and say you have proof whether or not that's there's a lot of legal words I don't know.

But I think there is a word for that defamation of character.

I don't know.

I'm not on C.

S.

I I don't know, but it seems illegal to me to call somebody fucking pedophile, knowing that they are not well, at least not having actual proof.

So before you get into that clip, I want to start with their other piece of proof that when I saw it, I assumed that people would be like, Oh, this is a joke like, Oh, this whole thing is a joke because one of their pieces of proof was taking a picture of me and Ryland my boyfriend and then a picture of me and Lisa my axe circling their faces and saying they look like babies.

They have baby faces.

Shane's a pedophile.

Gonna let that sink in.

That was one of the pieces of proof for calling me something as disgusting as a pedophile.

So, of course, when that clip started circulating on Twitter, they would cut that part out because the person posting a Twitter or delayed that's crazy.

Let's cut that out.

You know what I mean?

So, like, that's where my head's at.

Now he's talking about the actual clip.

So six years ago ish, I probably should have looked that up.

I mean, I'm getting exactly okay a long time ago, I think 2012 if yes, 2012 ish.

This was from an episode of my podcast.

Right.

So in the podcast, I'm telling a story about a little girl I saw in real life who was, like, had makeup on and like, the whole shebang.

She was like a dance moms type of vibe.

I don't know exactly what to call it, but that's what it was.

And she was on Instagram, and she's posting like, really like creepy selfies.

And her dad was helping her, and it was fucking creepy.

And it was, like, weird, right?

So of course I take that story and I talk about it on the podcast.

Now, of course, what they didn't also show in that video clip is me talking about how fucking creepy it waas.

But then I started making jokes about it because that's what I did back then.

I would make crazy jokes that sucked.

So I was saying, you know, while she was sexy, But then right away I'd be like, I'm just getting Of course, when they posted that they would cut out that I'm just kidding.

Or, for example, they're single.

Shane talked about Googling naked babies, which, by the way, I never did.

Like I was making a joke and telling a story and lying and being like, Well, I Googled make a bit.

Of course I didn't google fucking naked babies.

I'm busy.

I don't time to Google fucking naked babies, and that's gross and weird.

But I made a joke.

And then, of course, I said, First of all, I said I wasn't looking for child porn.

They cut that up.

Then I said after that, I don't know why anybody would be turned on by babies, and they cut that up.

Oh, but of course, they cut all those out at its scary music Google image search pictures of little Girls, which is creeping, by the way.

Whoever edited that video and made it seem like this creepy conspiracy, but not even a conspiracy because they said it was a fact that they said Shane Dawson is a pedophile in the title.

So I was like, I'm I need to talk about this because I talk about child molesters in Hollywood a lot on my channel.

It's something I'm very passionate about.

Um, and I'm not gonna turn this into, like, a me to moment or like a feel bad.

I'm not gonna turn this into that because that's not what I'm trying to do with this.

Um, but you guys know I talked about it so much on my channel.

I was molested, You notes.

I'm passionate about it.

I'm passionate about shedding light on the fact that there are people in Hollywood that have molested kids and have been arrested for it.

Understood, working in Hollywood.

That's proof, and that's fucked up.

And that's what people should be focusing on.

But instead they're focusing on a YouTuber who made a stupid joke and calling him a better file.

Like, to me, that seems not only crazy but also distracting from the real issues that are going on right now, right under our noses, but whatever.

So I think that's why it hurts the most is having my name put next to the word pedophile is actually like the most triggering and the most heartbreaking thing I've literally ever seen.

I've been called everything.

I've been on you two for a long time.

Um and I think I'm rambling, and I think I've already said this, But for those of you who might be new or who might have just started watching or something and you're probably like, Oh, my God, Shane, I just heard this thing and I listened and you were talking about sexy girls and laughing and the I I'm making this video more for you guys because people who have been watching me for a long time, you know, like how much I've grown and changed and how much my videos have changed, how much my humor has changed.

I would never do that now, ever So I am so sorry.

If that triggered you or offended you hurt your feelings, it triggers me Listening to that clip.

I haven't listened to that clip ever because I recorded it.

And then I didn't list back.

So listening to me, joking about it fucks me up and it makes me go like, Oh, my God.

Like, what the fuck was I doing literally what the fuck was doing?

But I look back at a lot of my old videos, and I said, What the fuck was I doing?

Most of them.

So I don't even know what else to say.

I'm not a pedophile.

I made a lot of bad decisions as faras joke telling storytelling, trying to make people laugh with shocking minimum.

I mean, there's so many things I've done in the past that I'm, like, embarrassed I'm ashamed of And I've lost so much because of it, like this isn't new.

This isn't a new thing for me.

Uh, if you've been around for a while, you know that I've done this before.

Um, I apologized many times for videos, and I genuinely meant it changed my videos because of it.

This is the first time I've had to lake.

This is the first time I literally had to tell people I'm not a pedophile.

That's a first.

And that feels like talking ship.

So I'm sorry for making offensive jokes.

I'm sorry for, huh?

I don't know.

I like I am sorry That these air making people uncomfortable, but also it's very out of context when you listen to the full thing.

It's still like shitty and creepy and bad jokes.

But it's not meeting a pedophile.

This is not me.

That's not proof of me being a pedophile.

Me dating people who have clean faces and saying their baby faces is crazy and like I mean, I'm certainly, says Shook.

I'm sure she's like they said I had a baby.

It's all too much.

Um so that's where I am.

It's also hard right now because I'm in such a good place like I I have been in such a bad place before.

You guys know that.

And right now, specifically, I feel like myself.

I feel like I'm being authentic.

I feel like I'm being the real me.

I'm with showing my boyfriend.

I'm I'm showing my family more.

I'm showing the real side of me.

I'm not making crazy offensive jokes.

I'm talking to the camera like a normal person rather than doing gullet like so right now, it just sucks that this is like a thing because I'm like this was six years ago and I'm so proud of like, especially this week.

I'm so proud of the videos that went up this week like That's another thing that hurts is they are like contacting Sophie's family.

And like kids, I've worked with family and sending them this link.

And of course, the families were like with This is not like Come on.

But either way it's like I literally found a talented girl online, brought her out, had her record a song with me, made two videos with her.

She got hundreds of thousands of subscribers overnight because of you guys, but also because of the video that I made with her.

And they're flipping that on me, saying I'm a pedophile because I helped someone fuck you, Whoever did that, that's so fucked up, like Uh huh.

It's just like I can.

All right, I think I'm done.

Um, I'm proud of what I'm making.

I'm proud that I've grown up.

I'm proud that I don't make crazy jokes anymore.

I'm proud that I am changed my channel to be more about good things and cool things in helping people and not just doing dumb shit or blowing up houses or whatever the fuck Like the fact that I posted videos this week.

Better about me helping a young girl in the music industry.

The fact that those did well in the fact that you guys enjoyed those is so cool and so awesome like that doesn't like years ago on YouTube, I had to do the craziest shit to get views crazy stuff.

And now I get to just help people and, like, be myself, hang out with my friends and my family, like that's just so cool.

And I don't want this to fuck that up, so I don't know, That's my story.

And, um, thank you guys for being on this journey with me.

I know.

I know.

If you've been here for a while, we've had this before, but this is this This is next level.

This is actually really fucked up.

And I'm really sad.

The people are actually calling a pedophile on Twitter like I don't I Okay, I love you guys.

I'm gonna go.

I hope you're enjoying videos this week.

I hope that you are.

I'm having a good week, and, uh, hopefully, I don't know.

I'm gonna go back to editing.

Oh, my God.