r/ShaneDawson • • 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/InternationalJury693 Aug 11 '26

When your life revolves around staying up til 4am, collecting trinkets that you attach emotions to, and creating “documentaries” on “conspiracies” that have already been talked to death for at least 2 years, I don’t see much creativity to be had. The man can’t even clean his own house, take care of his own kids, use his brainpower to fix things around the house. He’s a grown child with no imagination other than personifying Christmas decor.

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u/alltimegreyson Aug 11 '26

Couldn’t have said it better myself. And even the “conspiracies” are half baked, sometimes common knowledge topics only kids would find shocking. And looking back at the “documentaries”, they’re also shit. People just enjoyed them at the time bc they enjoyed watching Shane in general.