Popular YouTuber Shane Dawson has come under fire for a resurfaced video of himself pretending to masturbate over a poster of a then 11-year-old Willow Smith.
In the clip, the then 21-year-old can be seen making the explicit motion while referring to Willow's popular song 'I whip my hair back and forth'.
Now, the 31-year-old has taken to YouTube to apologize for his past controversial behavior, including the video.
Watch Dawson's apology video below:"This video is coming from a place of just wanting to own up to my s***, wanting to own up to everything I've done on the internet that has hurt people – that has added to the problem, that has not been handled well. I should have been punished for things," he said.
Dawson explained that he has tried to remove his controversial content from the internet, but it has been resurfacing elsewhere.
Prior to addressing the video of himself and the Willow poster, Dawson apologized for playing "stereotypes of Black people, or Asian people, or Mexicans, or pretty much every race."
"I'm sorry that I added to the normalization of blackface, or the normalization of saying the n-word," he said.
"I swear on my life, I am not somebody who would ever talk about a child, like in seriousness, I would never talk about a child in any way that is inappropriate," he said, addressing the video of himself pretending to masturbate over Willow.
"That is disgusting, that is gross, it is not something I would ever do. It is something I did for shock value or because I thought it was funny or like, 'Oh my god, my child molester character,' or whatever."
On Saturday, Jaden Smith slammed Dawson for sexualizing his sister when she was still a child.
He wrote: "SHANE DAWSON I AM DISGUSTED BY YOU. YOU SEXUALIZING AN 11 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO HAPPENS TO BE MY SISTER!!!!!! IS THE FURTHEST THING FROM FUNNY AND NOT OKAY IN THE SLIGHTEST BIT."
Jaden and Willow’s mom, Jada, also tweeted: "To Shane Dawson…I'm done with the excuses."
Dawson, however, has yet to respond to the Smiths' tweets about him.
This comes after Jenna Marbles released an apology video for her content that was branded racist and sexist and subsequently announced that she would be taking a break from YouTube.
Since Dawson posted his apology video three days ago, it has been viewed 11 million times and counting.
