Popular vlogger Jenna Marbles is stopping her YouTube channel over past racist slut-shaming videos.

The 33- year-old comic, who has more than 20 million customers and has actually been making YouTube videos for more than 10 years, made the statement in a psychological 11- minute clip.

Due to the fact that “I don’t want someone to watch something and feel hurt or offended now for any reason, at all”,

She stated she had actually made “almost all” of her old material private over the last couple of days.

“I think I’m just going to move on from this channel, for now,” she stated.

” I do not understand if that’s permanently. I do not understand how long that’s going to be … I wish to ensure that the important things that I have actually taken into the world aren’t harming anybody.

“I’m ashamed of things I’ve said and done in my past.”

Marbles, real name Jenna Mourey, described a number of videos, consisting of one made in 2011 in which she appears to use blackface to do a “cringey and embarrassing” impression of Nicki Minaj.

She described: “It was not my objective to do blackface … however all that matters is that people were upset and it injured them.

” This isn’t alright, and it hasn’t existed on the web, due to the fact that it isn’t alright.

“I haven’t done anything remotely like that, because I heard people say ‘this is blackface’ and ‘I don’t like that’.”

She described another video, made because exact same year, that consisted of the words: “Hey, Ching Chong Wing Wong/… Sorry, that was racist/ I’m bad at rap songs.”

Marbles apologised consistently for angering anybody with the videos, including: “I shouldn’t have said that. Ever. It’s not cool. It’s not cute. It’s not okay.”

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The YouTuber has actually been making videos for more than 10 years

The comic, who was raised in New york city and now resides in Los Angeles, attended to a 3rd video made in 2012, however which she did not show, and apologised for slut-shaming.

She stated: “There’s no on-demanding an apology of me for that video right now, but put it on my tab.”

Marbles broke down in tears throughout the statement, and stated it would be her last video on the channel, “for some time, possibly forever”.

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“I want to make sure the things I put out into the world are not hurting anyone,” she stated.

Marbles increased to popularity for her 2010 video entitled How To Fool People Into Thinking You’re Great Looking, which has actually had more than 69 million views to date.

She is likewise the first social media star to have a wax figure showed at Madame Tussauds in New York City City.

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