Eight Highly Offensive Yet Hilarious Jokes (80%)
There’s this stupid trend of YouTubers thinking they has struck gold in their blossoming channel of a couple million, which leads them to basically write a memoir about their life and successes. When these people haven’t even hit middle aggedom. And the first person I can remember starting this “wonderful” trend is Shane Dawson. I became a fan of his back when he was making parodies. My friend loved them and thought I would too, which was correct. I think my first video was his parody of Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night.” I don’t think I ever subscribed but I came back to see more of his work. That was until he started uploading videos to his vlog channel. I guess once I saw more of his life outside of the wigs, heavy makeup and questionable taste in humor, I was hooked and gave him a subscriber. I know a lot of people gave him hate for ditching the wigs, makeup and skits, but it was nice seeing that second side of him. Anyway, to the book. There’s really nothing wrong with it, regardless of everything i said before. I’m vibe with the short essay style, mostly because I really sounds like he wrote it. I’m in love with the way he speaks since it’s real and raw. No awkward third person narrator trying to facade as Shane, though many of these YouTuber “memoirs” (which haven’t read because I don’t support that crap) do that. The stories were funny and I never felt that I was faking laughter. I was also hooked, not Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda level, since I wanted to return the book to my friend before the weekend. With all these praise, I must do my job and provide feedback. Shane gets very, very detailed with some pretty nasty NSFW comments on other characters in the book and himself, which I really didn’t need to know, and yet didn’t ruin my experience reading the book. Kind of like the way I feel about listening to Nicki Minaj and other rappers drop a couple of slurs. I know that Shane has a lot of fears, but commas shouldn’t be one of them. They help give my inner voice and eyes a respite in the sentence, so it doesn’t become a run-on. I mean it can be annoying, but it reads better to have those breaks. I found myself questioning the grammar of the sentence because there was no comma separating the dependent clause from the independent I also found a typo, where there wasn’t a period. I’d recommend for anyone who is or isn’t a fan of Shane Dawson. You’ll like it and him a little more. Good job.
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