Exposed: Troubling Trend Behind Shane Dawson's Conspiracy Theories

for Shane Dawson a once-- canell yet currently thriving YouTube celebrity discussing conspiracy theories has been a pillar of his brand since the early 2010s as was wearing musty t-shirts and being criminally inappropriate with children sorry Planet this was back when we Millennials felt the need to embrace the very worst aspects of popular culture but you have to understand we were just acting out after our Collective childhoods were suddenly plunged into a 24-hour news cycle of traumatic image

ry and financial stress for example we ate Our Lucky Charms while watching the live coverage of the hunt for sudam Hussein which none of us could process for another 6 years until it bubbled to the surface as that bizarre 2012 Trend where we wanted to print mustaches on everything Sadam Hussein mustaches I believe we were weird for that like God just find something to get addicted to and shut the up kids then again kids today have equally weird obsessions that come and go which provide Shane Daw

son with a never-ending source of trending topics he embarrassingly tries to co-opt that he will rebuild his whole life around every few months due to his need for internet relevancy that makes me feel even more uncomfortable than waking up from one of my Saddam Hussein sex dreams damn I think I'm the problem with America but I'm in good company if you're to believe Shane Dawson's conspiracy theories that we breaking down today like the secretly nefarious Stanley Cup craze even more paranoid mis

understandings of the processed food industry and just general fear mongering about future technology that Shane has edited together from several actually informative news segments so grab some popcorn and give a good morning kiss to your framed photo of Saddam Hussein's mustache yep I hear it I promise I'll talk to my therapist about it and get ready for the world to conspire against you in another Shane the pain Dawson installment of clip breakdown hello television viewers my name is Nick than

k you so much for joining me once again on my channel for another installment of clip breakdown this is the playlist where we dive in to our favorite movies TV movies and other such content here on the web and we break it into pieces like it is a conspiracy so we can look at each individual clip and Clump and clump of factoids and debunk them or just generally decide if they're worthy of the internet which apparently anything is or if they deserve the Saddam Hussein treatment being hanged on a n

oose God why do I keep going back to that well Nicholas let's just move on it's been a minute since I sat down and shot a video if you can't tell that's why I'm talking terrorism anyway we all know Shane Dawson loves a conspiracy theory to the point where he will like intentionally not find out the truth about things so that he can position them as a conspiracy theory and we have a lot of that going on today first thank you to the sponsor of today's video rocket money I'll tell you more about th

em later after a quick little ad that he does for SeatGeek you'll see Shane Dawson is right back to his old room with his same t-shirt that he always wears for these videos the weird ways he tries to Brand himself I'm like that shirt is stupid he's always wearing his Pig t-shirt his merch and every other scene but then this random segment he's always wearing his weird red shirt I'm like whatever I don't even have maybe I do the same thing too but I don't even have the brain capacity to think abo

ut it right now because when I see Shane come on camera right now there's something that's a little off tell me if you see it hey what's up you guys it's been way too long welcome back this is going to sound paranoid but I don't think that's the real Shane Dawson I think that's some digital Avatar created by artificial intelligence that's trying desperately to appear charismatic and personable but not quite as desperately as the real Shane Dawson does and that's the giveaway technology can't yet

replicate that level of pick me energy but nice try you deep fake dumb Fu when we review that clip frame by frame you can see a brief instant where there was a glitch in this imposters face filter revealing the stoic plasticine V of the most terrifying evil AI generated antagonist ever known to the Modern Age meet the unknown you know from that unlicensed Wily Wonka experience in glasgo what is that it's the end of on a positive note I'm glad Shane's work is finally reaching a point where he ca

n add in all of these layers and Easter eggs like he did with that super underused digital static effect there in the lower third title it says subliminal message although I guess I was a little disappointed to learn that even even Shane's subliminal message lacks any sort of actual message and is more of an opportunity for him to prove that he has a surface level understanding of what certain words mean and also to show off that he knows how to do this with his editing software ooh look at me I

'm what happen when you add the wrong file extension to a JPEG so cool definitely build your whole entire brand around that aesthetic and yes I know I have TV static in the beginning and end of my videos I do it smartly though I do it smartly and you're jealous of how smartly also he shows all this b-roll of like horror movies and stuff I'm like that's not a real video hases nothing to do with what you're showing it's just creepy imagery but anyway he starts by telling us all about the Stanley C

up craze if you're not in jenzi or like on Tik Tok it's those big tumblers metal tumblers that all the girls and kids in school want they're expensive they're like 35 bucks the limited edition ones are expensive he has a $400 one covered in Emerald crystals in this video and like okay tell me that you're out of touch and also maybe a without telling me Shane did not escape the Stanley Cup craze like every other 12-year-old girl in the world he needs to be seen as cool by the fourth graders every

one in school basically has them all this hysteria over a cup I got a Stanley I never realized how many Lees You' had oh hey Chris sorry you caught me right in the middle of my morning worship so as you can see I might have bought to the hype oh God Shane can you get a consultation to see if it's possible to have a facial expression removed from your face because that dentur out Muppet mouth How the Grinch Stole My Baby from Walmart smile of yours is not doing you any favors I get that by now is

just an ingrained habit meant to enhance your mediocre sense of humor but you could have started trying to get rid of that when it first popped up as a meme over 3 years ago the mean-spirited jokes are your signal to change the behavior have you ever been to high school but you did nothing to change the behavior so now here I am and I make my money by pointing out how you making yourself look like Spike from The Land Before Time welcome to the butterfly effect that's your fault oh and why am I

not surprised that Shane has made his entire personality out of the Stanley Cup fad that's popular amongst pre-teens this is a person who is so beholden to the approval of the under 18 demographic on Tik Tok he will jump on literally any bandwagon that he thinks will make him appear more small and baby and that includes whining waddling and piss fill diapers I assume anyway Shane goes on to point out that this is the new cup dour which we would know because he spent probably like $1,000 on these

cups and it's like everything with Shane he like did this with musically he did this with the visco girl anything that's like really trending amongst the pre-teen circuit he'll make a video about it but also like try to become it in some way and I find that a little sad so that's how he knows that the Stanley Cup is is what everybody's talking about and it went viral cuz like I remember the Hydro Flask being what every teen girl wanted like last year but this year their sales have skyrocketed i

n part due to a viral video where a car fire took place and the woman showed like oh my Stanley Cup survived this car fire and there was still frozen ice inside of it the next day so that got the cup lots of viral attention I don't know why kids love it so much it's kind of cute I don't even carry this run in real life I just drink my own spit out of my glands and that's enough for me cuz I'm an adult a dehydrated sad adult anyway Shane points out that they got the new director of marketing or s

omething that Crocs had and Crocs were super lame amongst the Gen Z crowd until they weren't and it's like the same kind of theory like of how they hired a Tik Tok agent the point is Shane is giving us no new information here in fact he's just repeating the information that he also shows us from the source material that this whole video is based on he hired an agency that was dedicated to helping Stanley build their Tik Tok so just a few months ago they tapped an agent as their dedicated Tik Tok

agency this is something that not a lot of companies have done before which is something that not a lot of brands are doing at the moment as fascinating as those facts are I probably only needed to hear them once not once from you and once from the news story that you plagiarized this information from he didn't even change the wording and I've mentioned before that I believe Shane's videos often accomplish an unethical amount of the storytelling by using pre-existing videos and clips and that's

coming from somebody whose whole YouTube channel channel is based on Clips it's one half of the sign but I'm afraid Shane is really letting the redundancy of his work shine here like he's now fully telling on himself for repeating the same sentences that he heard in the source material posing the same questions that science has already given us the answers to by conducting experiments that were already posted on YouTube as long as 3 months ago look at these videos there's like people lighting c

ar fires to see if the stany thing was a hoax months ago because again the lady who like had her carfire and her Stanley survived it was later contacted by Stanley via Tik Tok and they gave her a new car like so they took advantage of the viral moment and Shane is basically trying to insinuate that because they hired a Tik Tok agency this must all be some grand scheme that he's orchestrating but what else is Shane adding to the conversation here that gives him the right to amplify all of this co

ntent to a much larger audience without giving any credit to the original creators like I would be pissed if I was one of those people who did the Stanley Cup fire experiment who got 2.5000 views and then Shane comes out and uses it as b-roll and gets millions of views these creators at best Inspire his work but at worst make up half of the runtime of his videos but then he just adds in some over dramatic music and channel changing sound effects well listen to this mama cuz this is me changing t

he channel you suck in usual Shane fashion he gathers three of the people he knows out of the four that's Ryland his camera operator Chris ryland's podcast co-host Chrissy and then we also meet Spencer his producer who I already know because I look looked into the credits on one of his videos and saw his Instagram I won't say that again because that sounds weird I don't do that much research okay it takes like three clicks still more research than Shane does he likes up bonfire they throw the cu

p in it burns so Earth shattering oh my godic see that oh the top is look at it Chris oh my God oh my God the handle no way literally godone no way oh my God it's about to fall off oh just to be clear Shane and Chris are allowed to react however they want to seeing this plastic cut melt after all it's not illegal to have a small life however if you see that the tumbler you bought at Barnes & Noble is not covered by a magical protection spell and react as though it's the sequel to 911 then your w

ork just might benefit from a little more perspective Shane concludes the segment by implying that he believes Stanley staged the viral carfire video for attention but as that he legally can't prove it and Shane that's the the first correct thing you've said literally this whole day I'm not even sure that legally you'd be allowed to enter the courthouse with your charred belongings and your musty t-shirt and I'll once again venture to add piss soaked diaper to the list just cuz it seems right Yo

u' have proven literally nothing is it like illogical conclusions are the only thing you can jump to without stressing out your ankle Replacements I'm not being shady he really had an ankle replacement okay you didn't prove that ice could not survive a car fryer in a Stanley Cup like we saw in the original video what if that cup was never in direct Flames which it doesn't seem like it would have been since the paint wasn't burned off oh and furthermore you didn't prove that the Tik Tok agency hi

red by Stanley had anything to do with that carfire video that went viral you just implied that it was possible that they were connected but couldn't it also be that the cup survived that carfire by luck and then the Tik Tok agency like told the president to get on camera and give that woman a free car which is exactly the kind of thing you would expect a Tik Tok agency to do in order to take advantage of a viral video it got them even more lines it maximized their publicity and indirectly it le

d to like the success they're having today that's also a really plausible answer to what happened but you're not going to bring that up you're just going to leave us with like I can't legally prove that they faked this whole thing and it's a hoax but it's a hoax and it's a hoax and I believe it it's like okay okay baby girl I love that for you at this point I'm convinced they will just pump out anything to put onto our screens these days there's no getting around it content is king during this a

ge and the more of this mindless stuff that I consume the more I realize what a drain it is on the Earth's resources like all of this requires time and money and it's such a waste and if there's one thing I hate it's wasting time and money I don't like when my eyeballs are doing it and I don't like when my bank account is doing it either I just spent like 2 and 1/2 hours the other day cuz I had one of those sudden middle of the night panic attacks that I had all of these recurring subscriptions

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r finances today go to Rocket money.com nioro to get started for free next Shane gets into the next buzzword from Tik Tok the Sephora kids talking about how gen Z seems to be aging faster than gen my gen what is it Millennials he posits that is because the technology the blue light technology the crippling effects of like looking looking at our phone our whole lives these are kids who are on iPads forever and he introduces one of those like futurists who creates a 3D render of what we're going t

o look like in the future they don't say how far off in the future but it feels soon it feels like now I'd like you to meet Mindy Mindy is what we are going to evolve into because of our addiction to technology hunchbacked Tech claw 90° elbow tech neck a thicker skull that really doesn't seem so extreme to me I basically evolved to look like that just by flying basic eon from New York to LA Mindy love get yourself a THC gummy book a 45-minute massage in K Town you're going to be good as new also

maybe grow that hair out no one's even going to notice your weird head shape and honestly mind is still serving I don't care if evolution turns my whole head into one solid skull bone surrounding a small cluster of brain cells just tell me how to make sure I get Mindy's small perky breasts I can already tell the future Hunchback version of me is going to be so popular it looks like that carpal tunnel Tech claw will also be great for giving hand jobs we love a multi-use product you may remember

in a past conspiracy theory video that I've covered Shane went into like the fact that Walmart cheese is not real cheese it's like a prepared cheese product basically stuff we all already know about craft singles but here he is going at it again doing the same exact topic but ice cream he has this thing where he like has to attack certain foods like he did with the Chuck-E-Cheese Pizza this Preposterous claim that like they Frankenstein different slices of leftover pizza together as though that

wouldn't be like a huge liability for them but now he's going after not just ice cream but frozen desserts which he didn't realize there was that difference we've talked about how crazy the food world is you know how on cheese slices it doesn't actually say cheese it says cheese product prepared cheese products that's because that ain't cheese oh and it doesn't melt no matter how hard you try listen to that and this is a new one drumstick ice cream except it's not ice cream because legally they

can't call it that this this ice cream is so fake that they can't even call it ice cream it's called a frozen dessert instead like what the is in that they can't call it ice cream once again the term is not about what's in the food drain clogs in it's about what's not in the food cream they can't call it ice cream cuz it doesn't have cream in it I swear Shane is getting a lot of conspiracy theory mileage just by refusing to learn about food labeling standards like nobody's conspiring baby girl t

he FDA created these identifier for accurate labeling because they want consumers to be informed about what they're eating which seems to be the exact opposite of what you want or have ever done it took 13 milliseconds of Googling to come across Tim Krauss of Mammoth creamies saying on all recipes.com that to be ice cream there has to be a minimum amount of butter fat and then milk solids nonfat called msnf and the product has to have a certain density measured by weight per gallon so it literal

ly has to be like thick and heavy with cream to be called called ice cream that's why you see premium ice cream it has a higher milk fat content and then you see Frozen desserts which are usually made with vegetable oils or some other non-dairy fats which doesn't mean it's like the worst thing in the world I mean ice cream is not healthy anyway so if you're eating a frozen dessert made from vegetable oil yes it still has tons of sugar it's hyper processed but it's also non-dairy so that means ce

rtain people who can't eat dairy can eat a drumstick I'm not saying it's great I'm not saying go and eat all the ice cream and don't eat frozen dessert but Shane is not saying anything of the sort he's like what are they putting in there rat piss and vomit chunks no now I understand that the FDA realizes those definitions are probably not common knowledge to everybody who reads frozen dessert on a product that they previously assume to be ice cream then again the FDA probably assumed that the co

nsumer would take the 30 seconds to look up what that term means rather than creating an hour-long alarmist YouTube video making wild speculations as though Google doesn't exist I just hate how Shane poses these nefarious questions is like what the are they putting in this that they kind of call it ice cream and then he just completely ignores the fact that there is a conclusive answer and he could share that whole process with us the whole research process and then that journey of Discovery whe

re he's like and then I learned it's about milk fat and I look talk to this Dairy Farmer who points out like how much healthier it is he real ice cream whatever his propaganda point is right but that would make it feel like an actual documentary and not just like making us scared of whatever and that's where the missing 30 minutes of this whole video is is if you're going to make it an hour long also did I just hear him say that craft singles don't melt no matter how hard you try as he showed a

video of the melting are you going to say that craft singles don't melt because the three grilled cheese sandwiches that I used to eat every day during a monthlong depressive episode in my 20s would beg to differ it's like designed to melt easily that cheese I don't know what you're talking about anyway he goes into how like the Great Value again with the Walmart slander like we get it you don't shop at Walmart normally except to buy ice cream stop talking about every food at Walmart I guess the

other one was dollar value like basically vilifying these Bargain Foods that many people need to buy to eat and sustain their lives because they don't make millions of dollars off content but whatever the Great Value ice cream sandwiches don't melt and it's because again those aren't ice cream sandwiches they say they're like dessert sandwiches or something it's lowquality ice cream that people who are experienced in ice cream tasting say is Gummy because it has a lot of cellulose gum things th

at help make it have a creamy mouth feel but also that help it hold its form when it's like all the liquid's melted out you can see in this ice cream sandwich that he leaves in the cupboard it's melted like the liquid has all melted out the Soggy paper towel proves it but it's held its shape so like if you touch it it still looks like an ice cream sandwich more or less but it's still melted it's just cellulose gum that's holding its shape and he doesn't even bring that up not that I care I'm not

trying to defend ice cream it's just like don't pose an argument with a well researched and well available to everyone like described answer and not share that part as well like why are you just kicking up mud and causing these Brands grief amongst preens who are not going to do their own research either cuz they think Shane is but he's not he doesn't know what research is he has a smooth brain and an ugly face that last part was editorialization cellulose gum cellulose gum anyway for this last

portion it's a little Beyond us like it's a very Advanced topic that I wouldn't expect anybody to know how to understand unless they read m 1 to 1 and 1/2 pages from any young adult novel ever so let's bring in the big gun Shane's older brother we are here with my brother Jared hello everybody and uh he's about to break down one of the scariest most intense dangerous theories of all time so this is something I've been wanting to talk about for a long time uh but it's even too confusing for me t

o understand even you to understand what Shane no I won't believe it not you with your encyclopedic knowledge of things you just read about 10 minutes ago not you the Learned Sage who can't figure out how ice cream works the one who got legitimately scared when they saw something catch on fire after they set it on fire not you being unaware also what kind of millionaire Shane is worth like $7 million frame youring posters in your movie room I see this Titanic poster and this screen poster and I

want to sh myself cuz there's double sided tape to the wall like girl this is your home I would never hang an unframe poster on my wall because I'm not in college it's okay if you do that I mean it's Aus of me to think that everyone can buy a poster frame but Shane can buy a poster frame I prove D it by watching this video and giving him enough profit to buy a poster frame anyway Shane goes on to talk about how no Jared I'm sorry goes on to talk about how basically like under Colorado as they've

already discussed on this channel there's like a series of tunnels they're preparing for this like sort of New World Order where they're going to move a bunch of people underground to survive some cataclysmic event that they're going to describe as like an alien invasion they're priming us to get ready for this Alien Invasion by starting to have Pentagon hearings about alien abductions they're taking things more serious and the government we're getting these leaks about aliens maybe being real

that's all according to this Theory conditioning us so that we are falling for it as soon as the government stages an alien attack in order to regain control of the population and the evidence for that I mean you can Google it it may be true I don't know I don't know probably not at this point like at this point there's so many theories about that they would probably abandon it and come up with something even better like they're like oh the Sun exploded F you all we've already been in the cheese

caves forever so but anyway Jared is trying to let us know like they're trying to legitimize the idea of aliens abducting us from the way that they call them UFOs so it used to be unidentified flying objects but now they've restated it as UAP unidentified aerial phenomena so they even have like a more legit name for it at this point you know where now it's like no we got a real name for these things they're uaps UFO kind of made it feel Goofy and a little bit conspiratory honestly I don't feel

like anybody on screen right now has a great sense of when something sounds goofy or conspiratory otherwise both of them would have been finding alternative things to say for like the last 45 minutes for those who don't know Shane and Ryland just brought two newborn Sons into the world via surrogate and I'm pretty sure Shane had both Goofy and conspiratory on the short list of potential baby names that's how bad his understanding is of Optics I forget what names he actually went with something l

ike Phoebe from friends and Rickshaw I think yeah also Jared there's nothing inherently more goofy about the term UFO compared to to UAP to us maybe cuz like UFO has been around longer more decades so it's easier to associate it with like vintage Sci-Fi movies or flying saucers and Little Green Men but that's just because we've heard it all of our childhoods and association with those things by definition UAP it's no different like I'm pretty sure that name change wasn't a PR move to make us mor

e afraid of aliens but more because like unidentified aerial phenomena is Broad enough to Encompass more of the types of events that people report to the government like lighting things like when there's a projection in the sky like a spotlight oh I think that's a UFO but really it's just a I couldn't explain it it's an aerial phenomena cuz it's the light hitting the clouds or like weather anomalies like if you see the Northern Lights I'm sure many people call in every day when they see Northern

Light to be like there's aliens in the sky and it's like no that's just the fog so I don't know why he's like saying like and now it's like a more legit starting name it's like it's more legit to you because it's different and it's more specific SL broad to what like people see but they talk about how it's like oh no they have this secret technology to project all sorts of 3D Holograms into the sky so they're going to project an alien attacking us and then use their secret energy lasers to like

burn cities to the ground but the super Elite are going to move into these prebuilt bunkers downstairs and like then they'll start over with this like easily controlled smaller population with a unified World Government again I could see it happening I don't trust the government any more than these two idiots do however I do think think that there wouldn't be all these like theories floating around about what's going to happen that anybody could find without even half Googling it yes mass panic

counts for something and if buildings are blowing up and I see a UFO I'm going to run but like if someone then were later to tell me like oh it's the government faking that be like oh yeah I mean yeah I've heard of that and many other people would too but whatever the point is many of us are going to die a few of us are going to live unless we can trick the government into thinking that we're easily controlled now like we won't believe what they say about UFOs when the UFOs come we're going to

know that it's them so don't even try it Buster that's Jared's advice for us right now instead of waiting for a global threat to ban us all together to get on the same page we do that now and instead of submitting to the powers that be we show them we're not falling for it my thought is we just need to question more things we need to find some kind of a purpose that makes us feel whole and feel unified and not feel like we have to resort to what they're doing which is just decimating everything

you know these two bearded turkey meatballs are right the only way to prevent a singular World Government from rising up and annihilating most of the world's population under the guise of an alien attack while the fearful survivors hide out beneath the Colorado airport in a series of underground tunnels is if every single human being on Earth can unite together as one and gather around the television and watch season 11 of The Masked Singer I guess the instructions are not clear oh well it's pro

bably too late anyway I can practically hear those secret CIA energy cannons charging up as we speak for our extra crispy finish all because no one had the organizational skills to form a worldwide group chat that would have allowed billions of us to rise up against the New World Order that may or may not exist whenever it tries to control Us by threatening us with an extraterrestrial world order that may or may not exist God the path to World piece seems really complicated but it sort of feels

like we were almost on the right path when Kendall Jenner handed that ice cold Pepsi to a cop wearing riot gear at that protest against bad vibes you know the bad vibes matter protest Kendall come back we're ready for your message now except make mine a Diet Coke and a glass with ice and some lemon if you have it thanks so much sweetie otherwise I welcome our new Sky Cannon overlords burn the house down sis cuz I cannot deal with another conspiracy theory from Shane Dawson not only are they unde

r researched but they also feel like laced with privilege and sort of like racism through throughout the entire thing like there's classism involved at the very least at worst he's stealing content from other creators not giving them any credit and then getting a lot more money for it so G just it's grossing me out I don't like it I don't like Shane Dawson I don't know if that's coming through in the ethos of my channel I don't buy his Bullit and I hope that you don't either but let me know what

your feelings were in the comments below if you're the three Shane Dawson fans who still come and watch this channel hi I love you thank you so much and if you're the other people I love you love you love you so much thank you so much for joining me once again on my channel for another installment of clip breakdown make sure you click that subscribe button right over here that way you never miss new videos from me I'm uploading as many as I can I know I've been struggling to get them out regula

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