Shane Lee Yaw, more popularly known as Shane Dawson, is an American YouTuber, vlogger, and social media personality. He was given the Teen Choice Award in 2010 in the category of ‘Choice Web Star’ and also won the Streamy Award for best vlogger in the same year. He plays multiple characters in his own videos, the most popular of whom are ‘Shanaynay’, ‘Ned, the Nerd’, ‘S.Deezy’, Shane’s mom, the superhuman ‘Switch’, ‘Aunt Hilda’ and other impersonations. He has three channels, ShaneDawsonTV, ShaneDawsonTV2 and Shane, his vlogging site, which he seldom uses. He started ShaneDawsonTV in 2008 and his other channel, ShaneDawsonTV2 (later known as Human Emoji) was started a year later. His YouTube channels, collectively, have more than 16.4 million subscribers as of April 2016 and his videos have amassed more than 3 billion views. From a shy, obese, confused teenager he has become an extrovert and a slightly less confused adult who looks at life with a funny lens and has definitely overcome his weight issues.
