YouTube Star Jenna Marbles Quits Channel After Blackface Skits Resurface
Jenna marbles, one of the first stars of YouTube has announced that she’s quitting after old videos have resurfaced of her using blackface.
On Thursday, the star, 33, revealed that she would be quitting her channel which currently has over 20.2 million subscribers.
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In an 11 minute video she apologized for her past actions and said that she would be stepping away from her highly popular channel,
“I think there was a time when having all of my old content exist on the Internet showed how much I have grown up as a person, which I’m very proud of,” she said. “I think now it’s hard for that content to exist at all because I think people watch it and don’t bother to look at when it was posted or care about what path I took to get to where I am. It offends them now and, if that’s the case, where people will watch something and be offended now, I don’t want it to exist.”
She revealed that she disabled multiple videos including one where she was impersonating Nicki Minaj in what many deemed as black face.
“I do just want to tell you that it was not my intention to do blackface,” she added. “I don’t know how else to say this, but it doesn’t matter because all that matters is that people were offended and it hurt them. For that, I am so unbelievably sorry. This isn’t okay and it hasn’t existed on the Internet for a long time because it’s not okay.”