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Willow Smith’s mother, Jada Pinkett Smith, and brother Jaden, are blasting YouTuber Shane Dawson for sexualizing the singer when she was 11 years old.
Dawson, a popular YouTuber with over 22 million subscribers, has come under fire recently for inappropriate and racist content, including videos of him in blackface and jokes about pedophilia. On Friday, Dawson posted a video titled “Taking Accountability,” in which he apologies for his past actions.
In one resurfaced clip, Dawson is seen pretending to masturbate in front of a poster of Willow.
“Whip your hair back and forth,” he says in the clip, referencing Willow’s 2010 single “Whip My Hair.” Willow is now 19.
Willow’s brother and mother took to social media to denounce Dawson’s actions.
“SHANE DAWSON I AM DISGUSTED BY YOU,” Jaden tweeted Saturday. “YOU SEXUALIZING AN 11 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO HAPPENS TO BE MY SISTER!!!!!! IS THE FURTHEST THING FROM FUNNY AND NOT OKAY IN THE SLIGHTEST BIT.”
Pinkett Smith also tweeted about Dawson, writing, “To Shane Dawson … I’m done with the excuses.”
Jaden commented on Dawson’s history with blackface.
“This Man Was Also Doing Black Face On The Regular????????♂️????????♂️????????♂️. As The Youth We Need To Support Creators Who Support Us And Our Morals. This Is Not Okay,” he wrote.
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USA TODAY has reached out to reps for Jada, Jaden and Dawson for comment.
The tweets come just a day after another famous YouTuber, Jenna Marbles, said she is quitting her channel over backlash from old, racist videos.
In a video posted Thursday titled “A Message,” Marbles (whose real name is Jenna Mourey), 33, said she has made many of her old videos private and that she is going to “move on from this channel for now.”
“I don’t know if that’s forever, I don’t know how long it’s going to be,” she said. “I just want to make sure that the things I’m putting into the world are not hurting anyone. I’m just going to stop, for now or forever. I don’t know.”
Marbles, who has more than 20 million subscribers, specifically apologized for a 2011 video in which she impersonated Nicki Minaj.
“I do want to tell you, it was not my intention to do blackface,” she said.
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