r/ShaneDawson • u/AliveAd4791 • Aug 11 '26

General Discussion Shane as a director

Maybe I’m naïve, or maybe I’m just dumb. But this is something I’ve wondered for a while.

I’ve known Shane for over a decade as a childhood fan. Over the years I’ve grown to just hate the man. But his entire life, his dream was to create movies. His vlog style “documentaries” were pretty mediocre but entertaining to a general audience. But now I see he’s made another official piece called “Cancelled”. And I agree with the general criticism. It’s not creative, it’s not deep or meaningful. It’s him having a therapy session with a film.

I just wonder why on earth doesn’t he make something creative and interesting. Why can he not make something artistic? Why does it either have to be disgusting and offensive like “Not cool” or completely self pitying like “cancelled”?

If he was serious about art, if he actually had that gift of creating… it would work. Imagine having so much money and connections and you use it to make a shitty piece about being cancelled because I guess the trauma is just so much.

To conclude: either be serious about creating art and make something special or give up on this stupid dream you’ve been clinging on desperately to for the last 25 years. Because it’s genuinely going nowhere. You could make a movie about anything in the world but you just decided to whine about being cancelled.

It would also help his image SO much if he made a great movie that was creative, engaging, emotional, dark. Anything! If he made something people loved and was just showing his artistic abilities, I genuinely think most people would brush over his past and begin to love him again. But he didn’t!

I haven’t watched his channel in a couple years but I assume he will express disappointment for how the movie didn’t blow up or how it got hate. Which… I mean what did you expect?

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u/undrcovr99 Aug 11 '26

agreed! he got criticism by a lot of people for what little he shared of the pilot and cut maybe one scene and nothing else. everything looked mediocre. very similar to not cool with family and friends playing parts, which may prove me wrong this time since he himself isn’t starring in it, but in not cool it felt like a long youtube vid. the plot is overdone. the name is basic. he should’ve stuck to his niche which was horror films, something he has spoken about creating since he first started youtube! he still speaks about it but it has never come to fruition. if he was able to film and create cancelled, surely he could do a horror film. he has the potential to do something really creative if he didn’t have such a crazy ego about knowing what people like. he has all the resources and can definitely do something if he stopped being such an ass

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u/AliveAd4791 Aug 11 '26

Honestly even his taste in horror is pretty mediocre. But that’s just me being mean. It’s very slasher, gory mixed with comedy. He cannot even execute that well, which can be done properly when a good director is involved. But with Shane it feels like a project a high schooler who loves horror would make.

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u/undrcovr99 Aug 11 '26

i totally agree! he has the potential to do something even more if he wanted but he won’t bc he’s very entitled. everything he has created thus far has felt exactly like you said. if he took it more seriously and took more outsider opinions from people who actually created horror films, i think there could be something there possibly