Jenna Marbles YouTube Channel Termination Announcement

Overview

Jenna Marbles YouTube Channel Termination Announcement refers to an announcement made by popular YouTuber Jenna Marbles in June 2020 following the George Floyd Protests apologizing for past problematic videos and saying she is taking an indefinite break from the platform. Following the announcement, many fans blamed cancel culture for her departure while others respected her decisions and recognized her growth.

Background

On June 25th, 2020, Jenna Marbles uploaded the video "A Message" in which she outlines the various problematic videos she had uploaded in the past including wearing blackface to impersonate Nicki Minaj, joking about gender stereotypes, using a racist Asian joke and body/slut-shaming videos. In the video, she explains that she has made all of the videos she is ashamed of private, calls her actions inexcusable and says that she will be taking a long break from YouTube and possibly never come back (shown below). The video gained over 3.7 million views, 534,000 likes and 9,500 dislikes in a day. Although there have been hashtags on Twitter like #JennaIsOverParty used to speak out against her, Jenna Marbles did not receive much pressure to leave the platform from viewers.

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On June 25th, 2020, many fans took to Twitter to voice their opinion on Jenna Marble's announcement. Twitter user @liatwintelle^[1] tweeted, "honestly, if anyone watched jenna marbles in 2020, you'll see that she is NOT the same person that she is in 2011 or 2012. as a black person, i fully forgiver her for the nicki minaj / black face video. the other things that she apologises for are not for me to accept…" which received over 48,500 likes and 3,300 retweets in a day (shown below, left). That same day, Redditors took to r/JennaMarbles to post letters of thanks to the YouTuber. Redditor EchoTheGoat_ posted a say sike right now meme regarding the announcement to r/Jennamarbles^[2] (shown below, right).

On June 26th, Twitter users continued to discuss Jenna Marbles' decision. Twitter user @lasaniaaa^[3] posted a meme addressing "how a lot of you white folks sound rn with Jenna Marbles quitting YouTube being THEE reason you hate 2020" (shown below, left). The tweet accumulated over 430 likes in a day. That same day on YouTube PewDiePie ^[4] posted his opinion on the matter (shown below, right) and garnered over 26,000 likes saying,

Jenna Marbles was one of the most genuinely good people on this platform and now she gets bullied off the site by mistakes that happened 8-10 years ago.. Who cares? These actions reflect in no way who she is and the content she makes today, anyone who watches her can see that. Some things were more leviant a few years ago – that's not to say it was right, but where the line is drawn from the past and today seems non existent. I thought the point was to learn from your mistakes and do better? We all have problems in our past, no one in the world is perfect.
This site will be filled with nothing but douchetubers who don't care, while the people who do, gets pushed out. So disappointed with the internet and how far things have gotten.
And of course these are the headlines as well..

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