Jenna Marbles is engaged!
The 34-year-old YouTube personality and her fiancé Julien Solomita, 28, confirmed their engagement during a Twitch stream on Tuesday, April 15th.
‘A while ago I asked Jenna to marry me and she said yes. So, we are engaged, ‘reveals Julien, who first started dating Jenna in 2013.
Involved! Jenna Marbles and her fiancé Julien Solomita, 28, confirmed their engagement during a Twitch stream on Tuesday, April 15th; Jenna and Julien are pictured in 2015
During the stream, Solomita showed off his engagement band, as well as the beautiful diamond ring with which he introduced Jenna.
After fans learned of the couple’s future plans to walk down the aisle, they immediately got Julie and Jenna’s names on Twitter.
Jenna Marbles, born as Jenna Nicole Mourey, has not yet made any public announcement about the involvement on any of her social media platforms.
The news of her engagement to Julien comes almost ten months after the beloved YouTuber left the platform due to the re-examination of older videos containing racist content.
Proof: Solomita showed his engagement band during the stream, as well as the beautiful diamond ring with which he presented Jenna
In an 11-minute clip titled ‘A Message’, Marbles not only acknowledged her past transgressions, accusing a black face-off in 2011 of women and a racist rap, but she also announced that she will abandon her YouTube channel.
“For now, I just can not exist on this channel,” she said. “I want to hold myself accountable, and it’s painful to do that. I’m ashamed of what I’ve done and said in the past – but it’s important.
‘I think I’m only going to move on from this channel right now. I do not know if it’s forever. I do not know how long it will be … I’m only going to stop now. ‘
Precious: ‘A while ago I asked Jenna to marry me and she said yes. So, we’m engaged, ‘Julien reveals
Coming long: Jenna and Julien first went out in 2013; the couple pictured in October 2014
Marbles said it was time to take a step back from the channel, which has more than 20 million subscribers, amid a heap of questions about the routines.
She specifically addressed the blackface shit, a video with a rap that made a joke about Asian people, and another in which she hit on women who ‘slept around’.
The rap song contains the line: “Hey Ching Chong Wing Wong, shake your King Kong thing dong.”
She described the video as “awful” and “inexcusable”.
The news of her engagement to Julien comes almost ten months after the beloved YouTuber left the platform due to the re-examination of older videos containing racist content.
In the black-level video, she wears a pink wig and a sparkling blue outfit and jokes that Minaj has different personalities. At one point in the video, she is seen wearing dark paint or a face mask on her face while talking about ‘kinky’ sex.
“I understand that,” she said. ‘I’ve definitely done things in the past that weren’t great. I’m not completely unproblematic. I tried my best to grow up. ‘
Marbles, by the real name Jenna Nicole Mourey, admits that she gradually switched the older tracks to private amidst ‘a time in which we purify ourselves of everything and anything that is toxic’.
‘Yes there [are] things in my past I am not proud of and I get a lot of tweets from people who say, ‘Why did you privatize all these old videos?’ and I’ve been privatizing a lot of my old content over the last few days.
In an 11-minute clip titled ‘A Message’, Rochester, New York (33), acknowledged her past transgressions, accusing a 2011 blackface sketch (photo) of women and a racist rap has.
Marbles are seen during an imitation of Nicki Minaj with a shiny silk outfit and a pink wig
“I’m sorry if any of this is nostalgic for you, but I’m literally not trying to put out negative things in the world.”
Marbles said she was ‘incredibly sorry’, specifically regarding the blackface skit, and wished it was not part of [her] past. ‘
She added: ‘I just want to tell you that it was not my intention to do’ blackface ‘.
‘I do not know how to say it differently, but it does not matter, because all that matters is that people were offended and hurt … it is not good and it has not existed for a long time. the internet time because it is not good. ‘
As for her other offensive content, Marbles said ‘it doesn’t have to exist’ and she was ‘ashamed of it’ [she] ever made it.
Marbles said she sees no value in leaving the offensive content behind because she does not want to “contribute to” disputes amid a time when racism is at the forefront of the national debate.
Marbles admitted she had already done a sketch in black face to try to tweak Nicki Minaj
“If this is the case where people will now look at something and take offense, I do not want it to exist,” she said. “So I probably deleted a lot of my old content because I just don’t want anyone to feel upset about something.”
Marbles said she had no problem associating her past transgressions with the social values she and her fans highly value.
‘I’m glad to do that,’ she said, ‘because what I want from the people I support and love is to be accountable and to know that I support someone whose morals and values are in line. with my own. ‘
Marbles said that while she cannot erase the past, she can be her best self to move forward.
“As someone who is clear with their own past that they are not proud of, I try to see people for who they are currently, and that they are not defined by their past – and I understand,” she said. “I try to do the same thing as you do, and be supportive and friends of people I’m proud of and like, and I just know I’m doing my best.”