A year without Jenna Marbles
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September 24, 2021
It’s Virgo season, beech, and Jenna Marbles is nowhere to be found. Over a year has passed since Jenna Marbles left YouTube, and as we pass her 35th birthday on Sept. 15, the internet misses its favorite Virgo.
YouTube as a whole has seen the departure of many of its original creators in the past couple years. The platform feels completely different now from how it felt when I was a kid—it seems like every major YouTuber from my childhood has been chased off the platform in disgrace. Honestly, Jenna Marbles is the only one I want back, but I don’t know that she will ever come back to YouTube.
Marbles, born as Jenna Mourey, posted her first video to YouTube in 2010. The two-minute video features her chihuahua Marbles—the dog she named her channel after. For the next decade of Jenna’s content, Marbles, and Jenna’s other dogs Kermit, Peach, and later Bunny, were a staple on the channel.
Unlike today’s generation of YouTubers who join the platform specifically to become famous, Marbles joined the platform purely to use it as a video hosting site. In college, Marbles discovered iMovie, but quickly realized she had no way to export or share videos. YouTube gave her a way to share those videos with her friends. The authenticity of uploading videos for her friends never left her content.
Marbles rose to fame after posting her first viral video “How to trick people into thinking you’re good looking,” in 2010. The 240p video sits at over 70 million views today.
By today’s standards, the video is undeniably offensive. But in 2010, when controversial creators like Shane Dawson and Onision ruled the platform, Marbles joking about wearing “whore” makeup and wasting her master’s degree by working as a go-go dancer was hilarious.
Over time, Marbles’ content evolved away from the offensive and edgy 2000s humor into ridiculous videos that only she could have thought of. Videos like “Camouflaging Myself Into A Chair,” “I Turned My Hair Into A Hot Wheels Track,” and “Corn on the Cob But Instead of the Corn Bone It’s A Hotdog” were so clearly videos that she just wanted to make because she couldn’t get the idea out of her head.
Marbles’ videos regularly amassed millions of views, and she had a dedicated fanbase that loved her, her partner Julien Solomita, and their pack of dogs. As a long-time fan of Marbles, she really helped me get through some of my worst struggles with mental illness. Her videos always made me laugh even when nothing else could.
And then on June 25, 2020, Jenna Marbles uploaded her last video to YouTube. Titled “A Message,” Marbles details her problematic past, and addresses people who called her out for her previous wrongdoings.
In the 11-minute video, Marbles addresses many offensive things from her past, including blackface, racism, and slut-shaming. As a white woman, I can’t sit here and forgive Marbles for any of it, but I can talk about what made her apology different from others.
Marbles was not the first to use the term “accountability” in a YouTube apology, but she may have been the first one to actually mean it. Marbles explained how she left the offensive videos up for so long in order to show how much she’s grown as a person, but she now understands that leaving them up does more harm than good. Marbles also recognized that impact matters more than intent, and that if she could not remain on YouTube without causing harm, she would have to leave the platform.
Throughout the video, Marbles explains why she did some of the things she did, but she never tries to make excuses. She owns up to the fact that “there’s things in [her] past [she’s] not proud of.”
Marbles also apologized for issues she hasn’t even been called out on yet, wanting to get everything out in the open.
At the end of the video, Marbles announces that she’s leaving the channel, citing that she doesn’t want to put content out there that could hurt anyone and that she just needs to take a step back. Marbles ends by saying she doesn’t know when or if she’s ever coming back.
Marbles’ apology stood out from other apology videos on the platform because it was clear that she felt genuinely sorry, and she acknowledged that you can’t really stop hurting people while continuing to profit off the successes of your past mistakes.
But when Shane Dawson, who was called out for his offensive content in the past, followed Marbles’ lead and posted an apology video days later, he made the mistake that Marbles avoided. Marbles owned up to her past mistakes, called them out individually and showed the clips, and removed herself from the internet to take accountability. Dawson apologized as an umbrella term, acted like he and his previous self were two completely different people, and continued to post on social media.
As someone who watched Marbles for the better part of a decade, it was clear to see that she had changed over the years. She no longer posted offensive content and had already apologized for it time and time again. Her new content was wholesome and gave people an escape from their day-to-day life.
Over a year later, Marbles has now ended her podcast, deleted her Instagram, deleted her Twitter, and has posted no new videos to YouTube. The only updates we get on Marbles are through her partner Solomita, who announced in April that the couple was engaged.
Marbles’ continued absence from the internet sets her apart from other “canceled” YouTubers like Dawson, James Charles, Jake Paul, and David Dobrik because she actually left the platform. Every other YouTuber has eventually come back, or is currently promising to upload again soon. Coming back to their respective platforms after lackluster apologies leaves viewers feeling that they didn’t really mean anything they said.
Tana Mongeau is yet another example of apologizing and continuing to do the same things. Mongeau has apologized multiple times over for her past racism, but continues to have more racist scandals as she continues to exist online.
Marbles’ apology and exit from the internet still stands over a year later as the most credible attempt at accountability any YouTuber has taken.
I see it all the time on TikTok and Twitter, but people to this day still hope and pray that Jenna will come back. All of us feel the hole left by her absence; by the lack of new uploads every Wednesday-slash-Thursday.
I’ve begun to fill the hole with YouTubers like Strange Aeons, Micarah Tewers, and BrandiTV. They all make the kind of content that Marbles did, where it’s clear they’re posting what they genuinely enjoy doing. Watching Strange Aeons long-ify a Furby is one of the only things to make me laugh as hard as Marbles’ videos did.
Sometimes, on days when I’m really sad and other creators won’t fill the hole, I’ll sit in my bed and scroll through Jenna Marbles’ YouTube page. I click on videos at random and reminisce like I’m visiting an old friend—parasocial relationship be damned. The reuploads of “A Message,” lurk on the side, reminding me that the era of YouTube I grew up with is dead.
Maybe Marbles’ is right in saying that her returning to YouTube would cause more harm, and maybe she’s not. The truth is that we’ll probably never know.
Honestly, Marbles returning to YouTube like nothing ever happened would undermine her apology. In “A Message,” Marbles talks at length about how she can’t keep posting on a channel that has ever hurt people. If she returns to the channel, it’ll look like she doesn’t care about hurting people anymore.
On the day of her birthday, Jenna Marbles trended on Twitter with the caption, “Fans wish former YouTuber Jenna Marbles a happy birthday.” Clearly, fans miss her presence on the internet.
Wherever Jenna Marbles is, whatever she’s doing, all I can hope is that she’s having a good time and enjoying being a “35-year-old-lady.” She deserves it after everything she’s done for all of us.
FreedomGirl
Jan 31, 2022 at 10:20 pm
We no longer live in a world where we can express our individualism without it being either censored or deemed “inappropriate/offensive”. The world isn’t WOKE, it’s dead.
YoureaRACISTfreedomgirl
May 11, 2022 at 10:17 am
Mocking human beings such as the asian community IS offensive
Billy
Jan 30, 2022 at 9:24 pm
I just wish she didn’t have to remove her voice from the conversation. It’s now unfortunately up to us all to remember why she left but judging by the comments it’s not made an impact. Anti leftists revel, the angry unoffended still don’t understand, and the over 20 million people still cry and morn the loss. I wish my 5 year old daughter had to look forward to discovering Jenna and watching her become a 45 year old lady, one that I’d be proud for my daughter to mimic and look up to similar to some who mention this occurring with their daughter, but I doubt that will come to pass. Not just for my child but for entire next generation. It isn’t just my loss that bothers me most, it’s something that should be a true catalyst for change and it..just wasn’t. Yet.
i am very concerned about you billy
Mar 30, 2022 at 2:28 pm
…….what are you even talking about billy!!!!?????
Bean G
Feb 23, 2023 at 10:57 pm
Totally agree!
Sean
Jan 25, 2022 at 5:20 am
None of her content was actually offensive. A broken uneducated society that has made, being offended, a trend in itself. Younger generations are obsessed with carving their own pounds of flesh and contributing to the cancel culture. Keep going, you will flush it all, and be left with nothing but a two dimensional artificial existence.
SeanNeedsTolookUpJimCrowBlackface
May 11, 2022 at 10:19 am
Maybe do some research about how blackface came about, because what she was doing was just that. Nice try though!
Pete
Dec 28, 2021 at 8:42 pm
So, based on what you have written, the only reason you don’t hate Jenna Marbles is because she left and hasn’t returned.
So every other creator that has posted an apology for something is insincere because they didn’t completely quit. Even David Dobrik, whose scandal was the result of the actions of others and not himself, and who left the platform for MONTHS, is still problematic and insincere because he eventually came back?
You are such a hypocrite, Kaitlyn. You act like you appreciate and miss Jenna and yet you’d be the first person to light a torch for the angry mob that would inevitably materialize the second Jenna showed her face.
People like you are the reason Jenna is gone. I don’t blame her. I blame your culture of shame, victimhood, and identity politics that makes content creation an impossible thankless job. You are better off not to have written anything at all about Jenna. You don’t deserve her.
Kelsey
Feb 23, 2023 at 10:58 pm
YES!!
Katrina
Nov 26, 2021 at 1:40 pm
“As a white woman, you can’t forgive her”? it is people like you who drove this guilt trip that read to me as ridiculous. i am sure if we went back in your closet in 2009, you and your friends would be joking about the same things. it was culturally appropriate then, and people were ignorant and shouldn’t be held accountable unless it deviated from what was culturally acceptable. such as pedophilia or actual racism, neither of which was present in Jenna’s videos. are we going to patrol every 80’s or 90’s flick, and come after every single one of those actors involved or directors? no, so why then would we do this to youtubers? as i said, it is obvious or it should be to have cultural ignorance vs true spite. why can the net not differentiate, why doesn’t it care to?
(Required)
Dec 9, 2021 at 5:59 pm
Point taken, but use another example. Kid-diddling is not OK; then, now, or in the future.
Jamie
Nov 24, 2021 at 3:15 am
“Marbles’ apology and exit from the internet still stands over a year later as the most credible attempt at accountability any YouTuber has taken. ”
LOL. Apology for what? Accountability for what? She did nothing racist. How stupid is the author of this piece? Are people really this dumb?
Jamie
Nov 24, 2021 at 3:09 am
Jenna owes NOBODY an apology. She doesn’t have a racist bone in her body. She caved to the woke liberal moron mobs that do nothing but ruin society. It’s unfortunate Jenna was a liberal herself and believed the baseless garbage they came up with. And no, she didn’t cancel herself as a few select clueless people have said.
Becks
Nov 16, 2021 at 4:12 am
I feel that Jenna cancelled herself, NOT the “libs” or “SJW” etc. that the below commenters keep crediting for the personal decision she made to leave all social media. In Jenna’s apology video, from what I remember when I watched it when it came out (so over a year ago), she said that she was receiving recent backlash over old videos being offensive (none of which I had seen online but I don’t use social media that much so guess I missed it) so she was making those videos private and was unsure of if/when she’d post on YouTube in the future as she was taking a break to reflect. I didn’t see the “cancel culture” hype surrounding her as I had seen for other YouTubers (again, I don’t use social media that much but even my Google news featured other YouTube channel “backlash” from channels I had never even subscribed to – nothing about Jenna though). I feel like she was a step ahead of all the cancel-culture drama and took herself out as per her creator morals and values (unlike those who were “cancelled” and are still around because they are in it for the money – Jenna seems more into the ACTUAL point of the platform). So again, I don’t think she was “cancelled” I think she pre-cancelled herself, and I think she made that decision for herself and to preserve the integrity of her audience.
Jamie
Nov 24, 2021 at 3:11 am
Cancel culture didn’t get to her? She just wanted to cancel herself?
Let us know when you come back to earth.
How did I get here?
Mar 30, 2022 at 2:57 pm
Becks, I understand what your saying but I don’t think it’s accurate. She knew there were people stirring, mobs forming. She just cut them off at the pass, and she was smart to do so. We have all seen how fixated some people, like the author of this article, can be and you cannot deny that if Jenna didn’t bow out like she did after she apologized like she did, there would still be articles being published about her, bringing attention to her “harmful” and “racist” videos that these people say are so damaging to see. It would be years and years before these crap journalists and other crap people would even begin to possibly consider it to be old news. Why they constantly write articles about all they deem-to-be so harmful, continuously beating a dead horse and thus only drawing more and more people to know about and seek out these “awful” things? I’d say that I don’t know why, but I do. They are garbage people.
I feel very sorry for Jenna. She likely still feels a lot of pain each day, beating herself up, all because of the mentality that is so commonly promoted by drama-hungry people, like the person who wrote this article.
Mary Music
Nov 10, 2021 at 1:46 pm
Hounding people (from the anonymous safety, of your own home) is getting really old…. The light of judgement for unfortunate statements, or past actions rarely shine on the internet police…. This unseen Army jumps on the usual “trigger-bandwagon,” and is in real danger of being viewed, as GroupThink-RightThink-LookAtMe bullies…. Judge yourselves, for a refreshing change…..
John
Nov 9, 2021 at 4:02 pm
Watching the libs eat their own continues to be wonderful.
pj
Jan 31, 2022 at 10:54 pm
Watching the tards die from covid gets funnier and funnier.
Unvaccinated, somehow still kicking
Mar 30, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Lol pj, you are so pathetic
Ara
Nov 1, 2021 at 9:29 pm
Can we create a book for her or idk a flashmob and beg her to come back
Connor
Oct 10, 2021 at 6:12 pm
I cried reading this. I miss her so much.
Katie
Oct 2, 2021 at 11:18 am
We love Jenna and I hope she’s doing awesome things all the time and she gets everything she wants
Mary
Nov 10, 2021 at 1:50 pm
Miss Jenna is probably enjoying her real life, rather than being pilloried, by the group of bullies, known as “Everyone’s Conscious….
Tom
Oct 2, 2021 at 2:17 am
Watching folks that care about social justice rabidly trying to deplatform someone who also cares about social justice has certainly been interesting to watch. Probably not that best strategy. This aggressive cancel culture really only targets and affects folks who already care deeply for the same ideals while leaving that actual harmful people in place.
Mom of a Virgo
Oct 1, 2021 at 11:04 pm
My daughter’s birthday is Sept 15th. She thinks its the coolest thing she shares the same birthday with her favorite YouTube creator. My daughter actually got me hooked on YouTube because of Jenna. My daughter was a preteen at the time and she would run around the house mimicking Jenna. When I finally watched an video, I finally understood it. I was hooked! If I could say anything to Jenna Marbles right now as a mother: My daughter met you when she was a preteen. She watched you grow. She watched you mature. She watched you get better and better. The difference between you and any other creator is you changed. You took accountability and you changed, well before you even knew you did. The camera catches everything. It caught your mostakes but most importantly, it caught your amazing spirit as you grew into a remarkable woman. The type of woman, that as a mother, I minded not one bit you being in our home. You are missed.
Ms. Cleo
Oct 1, 2021 at 9:59 pm
Jenna marbles is one of the funniest characters on the internet. She didn’t have to apologize, but she did, which goes to show she’s also a genuinely kind human.
Life is a comedy and us humans are a complex mixture of emotions. Comedians don’t go out to personally attack someone’s character like they’re putting a curse on them. I mean, how narcissistic can you be to personally take offense? Like they don’t have anything better to do than to insult your character?? Come on! Get real! And if you don’t like this person’s comedy, don’t listen. It’s called, “taking accountability for how you choose to react to someone’s jokes.” This way of thinking may help to empower people to take accountability for things they can control. Like, how they react to things, their food intake, their consumption of resources instead of making someone else accountable for how they feel, letting the health staff tell them how they’re feeling in their own body etc.
I think the entire world and its inhabitants needs to get roasted so we don’t take everything so seriously. Like that should be a global holiday.
Ed
Oct 1, 2021 at 7:13 pm
I hope the trolls that drove her off youtube all meet horrible ends. They are not perfect. And their little dirty secrets will come out.
When it does, I hope I am there to cast stones.
She deserved better. Her fans should have stood up for her.
WE are as much as at fault as the trolls for letting her feel shamed.
Thanks for this article. She was the highlight of youtube and I hardly ever go back, unless I am looking for an old music vid.
Winnie Mckenna
Oct 1, 2021 at 2:28 pm
So the columnist can’t forgive? That’s what’s wrong with people. We all make mistakes – and if we can’t forgive even when someone shows remorse, we’ve shown that we’re petty and unwilling to dispense what everyone needs: forgiveness. It’s one of the most important components of civilisation.
Jon
Oct 23, 2021 at 12:31 pm
The columnist meant it’s not her place to forgive, because she is not someone who was harmed by the racist things Jenna said/did in her past. She clearly thinks Jenna has made amends, but recognizes that an apology can only be accepted by the aggrieved parties.
jamie
Nov 24, 2021 at 3:19 am
Nobody was harmed by it. Jenna isn’t the least bit racist. It’s the woke race baiting psychos that threw all this garbage at her. Sadly, she bought it.
Alesia
Oct 1, 2021 at 3:21 am
It is sad to me how people today think they can stick their nose in everyone else’s business. They comment then bully people so much that the people feel they have to apologize for just being alive or the color or their skin. I think we all need to stand up to these bullies and tell them enough is enough. Mind your own business and worry about how your child, that has always gotten everything they have ever wanted, will function as an adult.
Jenna Marbles is doing the right thing by staying away from all these terrible people. She doesn’t need their abuse or drama!
Charlotte
Sep 30, 2021 at 5:43 pm
This article made me so sad. I watch her videos almost every day. I for one appreciate your comment that (paraphrasing) “as a white woman I cannot forgive”. The people who are hurt by racist content are the people of color they are aimed at. As an unaffected party of course white people can appreciate her apology but it is not your offense to forgive. That is not to say I (a woman of color) do not forgive her as I do and would love if she were to return to YouTube. I don’t think her doing so would undermine her apology as long as she did not make “offensive content”. I put that in quotes as being racist/making racist jokes is not the same as people getting upset over dogs in clothes as another commenter mentioned. I don’t feel like I need to explain why they are two very different ideas. It was obvious Jenna had grown as both a person and a content creator since she first began posting and I will forever be sad she felt she was unable to continue her channel though I understand the sentiment. I hope she is living her best life and will be picking out costumes for her dogs for this Halloween. Can I get a hell yeah??
Landy
Sep 30, 2021 at 12:10 pm
Truly Jenna was one of a kind. A very well written article, but the thing that upset me was “as a white woman i cannot forgive..” ?? What? This statement just shows how soft the internet has become. People getting offended for others, cancelling people that shouldn’t have been cancelled even after showing so much growth from a time when things were different. And no, not saying those jokes were fine then, but it was a different time. And to show exponential growth and still be cancelled? Irritating. Cancel those who are truly horrible people. Put effort into those. And quit being sensitive and offended for others. It’s weird
Jaanraabinsen
Sep 30, 2021 at 11:54 am
As other folks have said, Jenna was one of the good ones, and I’ve never really understood the culture surrounding offense related political correctness (or indeed any culture surrounding anything after 2011). All I know is she made me smile during very dark times. Then again, so did Monty Python and even I recognize some of their skits are not OK, but she’s not at all on their level because she at least recognized that mistakes were made. Minor mistakes in a video-comedic career that was altogether brilliant.
Rebecca
Sep 30, 2021 at 8:19 am
I remember waking up every Wednesday/thursday and watching her videos before school and she is the only content creator that i really do love. I feel like the internet isn’t even mad at jenna and knows that she has adapted from when she was in he young 20s and the 2000s. Humor has 100% adapted and changed over the past 15 years and she grew up and changed with it. i truely believe that she wouldn’t want to have her actions hurt anyone and that’s why i fear that she won’t be coming back to the spotlight.
Annabelle
Sep 29, 2021 at 4:48 pm
This article is confusing. While Jenna is applauded for showing remorse and taking accountability by banishing herself from the internet, it reads as if that is the only way to do it. People make mistakes, they apologize, and they only grow when they keep up the promises made. An apology is only worth anything if the action that harms doesn’t happen again, and while a way to do that is to banish yourself, you can not know if someone has really become a better person when they can’t show it. Jenna is sorely missed, but the tone I am getting from this is that if she does come back she is no longer the pinnacle of martyrdom for her accountability, and labled as just another Shane Dawson or Logan Paul or Pewdiepie, before she has a chance to allow us to forgive her.
Sarah F
Sep 29, 2021 at 2:44 pm
Very well done article. I still quote “Hey Guys, it’s me, Goro” from when she played Julian’s video games. Her love of laughing and sharing what makes her happy was and is very inspiring to me. You can tell in her videos that she genuinely does want to do things the right way (like taking care of Ad, the hamster). She wants to help people. I hope she comes back and that her presence does do more good than harm.
Thank you for saying what we as the community feel.
Jessica
Sep 29, 2021 at 9:41 am
This is the beautifully written version of how we should feel. I have seen a lot of entitlement in the j&j fandom. There is this huge group of people that feel like she owes them content, that she owes them pieces or her life and she just doesn’t. She is genuinely caring and thinks about her own impact and she wouldn’t stay away if it wasn’t important, if she didn’t think it was the right thing to do. She has only ever set out to make people laugh and make them feel like they had a friend and you could see the hurt and pain she had when she realized the full scope of things, the unintentional harm she had caused.
I miss her deeply but I hope she’s out there healing and living her best life. YouTube didn’t look fun for her the last couple of years and she deserves work that is fulfilling and wonderful.
Leah Barlass
Sep 29, 2021 at 8:14 am
Such a good article! I find myself rewatching her content as well and hate the thought of never seeing anything new. But at the same time I am grateful for all the content she left behind for us to reminisce to and hope that she has found 10 fold the happiness she has sent out into this world via youtube!!
KLynn
Sep 29, 2021 at 7:55 am
I loved Jenna and I think part of the problem with society today is people saying things like “As a white woman, I can’t sit here and forgive…” Why? What does your skin color have anything to do with forgiving someone for something they are apologizing for?
The real reason she won’t be back is probably more due to the fact that EVERYTHING is offensive to people now. Dressing her dogs up for Halloween, someone is offended by the holiday or by dogs in clothes.
Taking the dogs for a walk, someone is offended by how they made fun of Marbles.
It doesn’t matter what people do, the internet has poisoned everything. You being unable to forgive someone, because you are white…that’s part of the problem. Her “blackface” video wasn’t the only thing she apologized for, yet it’s the only one people ever mention. Maybe this protected generation that got participation trophies and safe spaces needs to grow up.
Paige Ruskaup
Sep 29, 2021 at 7:45 am
Cancel culture is a problem. There are so many other people on the internet that are doing way worse videos. Jenna Marbles was a blessing and a way to get away for even 15 minutes. She didn’t deserve to be canceled. All of they people that contributed to her canceling should know that they hurt a very sweet and innocent genuine person. If you want change go after the ones that need to change. Picking on innocent people makes you less credible.
Katie
Sep 29, 2021 at 6:18 am
My late brother sent me one of her videos in 2012 while I was pregnant. And I was instantly hooked. I, too, feel like we watched her mature into a lovely person and admire her empathy and integrity. But I sure do miss her. I wish there was another platform for her to reemerge.
Tara
Sep 29, 2021 at 3:43 am
I never felt that Jenna’s early videos were offensive. The makeup tutorials were meant to be a joke. And they were hilarious. By the time Jenna felt that it was necessary to apologize for her old content, she had already grown in maturity and responsible content.
Incase anyone took notice, Jenna started wearing less makeup as time passed, and we still love her just as much.
I feel that our world has become overly sensitive since the introduction of the internet.
Jabraun
Sep 29, 2021 at 1:55 am
This showed up on my Google news feed and i could not agree more. As a fellow Virgo, i miss Jenna like i would miss my best friend if i lost her. This article made me cry I’m NGL. I hope she finds a way to come back; and i hope cancel culture leaves her alone when she does because i love her and my mental health misses watching her videos every week as solice.
Sobbing now
Sep 28, 2021 at 11:07 pm
I stunned upon this by accident and I’m so happy that I did. Jenna was my first youtuber, I started watching shortly after her Tricking People Into Thinking You’re Good Looking video. I remember loving her and Max together (her doing his makeup was one of my favorite videos they did) and being completely devastated when they broke up. I was unsure of Julien at first but it didn’t take long for me to realize that they are obviously perfect for each other. I looked forward to watching her videos every Wednesday/Thursday and I felt my youth die the day she decided to leave. Alright, that was probably a little too dramatic, but she really was a big part of my late teens and 20s. While I would love to see her come back, I don’t want her to do it for us. I want her to come back because she wants it. My only hope for her is that she’s happy and planning the most Virgo wedding possible.
Lindsey
Sep 28, 2021 at 10:15 pm
I found Jenna Marbles’ channel in 2013 while coping with the death of my mother. Watching her old videos consistently and then seeing them change from obvious 2010s humor to the “I woke up thinking about this/saw this online and I can’t get it out of my head SO HERE WE GO, BEECH” content was something that I really relied on as I continued to grow into my adulthood. Whether it was her giving herself a new face or filming her dog whenever he cried or was nasty, it always gave me the best feeling just to watch her do what she wanted. I miss her and her content, but I’m glad she’s taking time for herself.
Shannon
Sep 28, 2021 at 1:44 pm
Jenna brought a lot of joy, introspection, and just zero fucks into the world. I’m a month younger than her, and her introspection encouraged me to face my own past and how I affected people. I miss her personality, the embodiment of being weird and laughing at yourself. But I, like many others, hope she’s doing weird stuff and still laughing till she cries. She was a really great role model that showed growth and acceptance. I miss it.
Kate
Sep 28, 2021 at 12:55 pm
It blows my mind how everyone gets offended over literally everything. Jenna was a good one. There was no need for ppl to be rude to her. Let ppl grow and move on. Shane is a freaking pedo along with Charles, she’s not even in the same atmosphere as Tana….there such a difference between those who hurt to hurt and those who just don’t know better or realize. If I got upset at every person who made a tourettes joke, a bipolar joke, a depression joke, a add joke etc…I’d be exhausted. So ridiculous
Joseph MacKie
Sep 28, 2021 at 11:38 am
She clearly actually cares about how her content affected people, and she is one of the most genuine and sincerely funny people on the platform. Me and my partner used to watch her videos all the time.
I really do hope she comes back.
PZ
Sep 26, 2021 at 3:46 pm
I was just googling her name and saw your article. Very well written. We did miss her.
Carol Thurston
Sep 26, 2021 at 7:31 am
I bet I could find something to be offended about in almost any video. Jenna marble-dyeing her Crocs? Wasteful use of chemical-laden spray paint, bad for the environment.
I stumbled onto her channel as a 54-year-old widow starting to date again. “How to get ready for a date” was hysterical – even to someone who was aware that she may never find another partner because at my age, men can (and many DO) only date women much younger than themselves. I hope she’s doing well. I didn’t watch avidly, but tuned in more and more over the years to see the pups and how her life was going. “let he who is without sin cast the first stone.”