#vidcon15

Shay Carl Opens Up About YouTube Journey! (VIDCON 2015)

he giggled about the accidental butt touching thing tho so I doubt it’s a serious issue 

i feel the butt-touching thing is more about the potential collab him and Tyler (and possible Phil) are doing rather than a whole video about consent. 

i’ll admit, at the time, i was 90% laughing and 10% concerned for Dan. I fell for the crowd-vibe of laughing at what was happening rather than going with my gut, ya know? 

I didn’t think about how i was reacting, let alone what was happening could potentially be harmful (Dan being in an uncomfortable position doing things that clearly didn’t really involve his consent - i.e. being twerked on, being picked up, having his first video shown in full to a room of thousands of people, being constantly treated like a ‘pretty face’ that girls scream at etc. that whole panel, looking back at it, was a mess. to put it bluntly.) and I am genuinely sorry, to Dan esp, for not calling that out at the time. 

The VidCon hype distracted me from my values and thus, caused me to follow the double standard (srsly, if anything that happened to Dan happened to a woman, I probably would have not been laughing and that’s really fucked up that I didn’t even acknowledge that double standard at the time.)Right now though, obviously, I do realise the problematic issues that arose and I feel bad for not going more towards being concerned for Dan’s level of feeling comfortable when it was all happening…I feel genuinely sorry for Dan after how he addressed what happened in his liveshow too… :( I agree with this, this, this and this (haven’t reblogged them all bc i think the first one puts across the issue v well)