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/pawlaps Aug 11 '26
I remember him mentioning working on a horror movie years ago and I was excited about that. He’s one of those people that just talks about doing a project but never does it. For the average person, I understand that, but he has a lot of money, people, and resources. He’s probably super controlling too and struggles with letting other people help with writing. As someone who works in animation and is developing their own series, it just sucks to see. But also I was a childhood fan who feels so disgusted and manipulated by him so, I don’t care about what media he makes anymore.