The entertainer, whose real name is Jenna Mourey, shared a video to her YouTube channel on Thursday (25 June) titled “A Message” in which she apologised for doing an impression of rapper Nicki Minaj while wearing blackface in a 2011 video.
YouTube star Jenna Marbles has quit the video-making platform amid controversy over racially offensive videos previously shared to her channel.
I haven’t done anything remotely like that because I heard people say, ‘This is blackface and I don’t like that.’”
YouTube is joining traditional broadcasting in reckoning with its past use of blackface, with Jimmy Kimmel and Tina Fey also apologising this week for their use of the practice.