Jenna Marbles' farewell message to YouTube sounded a lot like Laina Morris' (the Overly Attached Girlfriend) "Being online and existing in semi-public constantly is burning me out, I feel like I can never fully move on from my past persona while I'm here, this isn't fun anymore"
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I really respect Marbles' farewell message I respect that it WENT BEYOND the stuff she was supposedly "canceled" for, like she didn't just leave it at "Okay these few videos had these bad jokes and I apologize for those", she disowned her whole original brand
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Like, as someone who used to be really into both sets of jokes, a lot of the old school Jenna Marbles bits were like the OAG bits - "Here's a girl who gets why guys think girls are fucked up and agrees they have a point!" The Cool Girl stuff from Gone Girl
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And, like, I just wanna say that as much as I agree with Jenna taking accountability for all that she obviously paid a price for it I'm less familiar with her than with Morris but holy shit the OAG "fandom" was gross in hindsight
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I remember all the memes her fans made contrasting her character with what they imagined the real Morris to be like - a perfect Chill Girlfriend who hates "OAGs" as much as you do - and God imagine what her actual inbox must've looked like
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(That was the unspoken subtext of why she quit, which obviously she didn't talk directly about in the video because that would lead to more of it)
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Anyway I like Jenna Marbles and because I like her I fully support her decision to quit I want her to have a long and happy creative career and *because* of that I take her word for it that leaving YouTube (for now or forever) is the right thing to do
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