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 15.
‘A while ago I proposed to Jenna and she said yes. So we’re engaged, ‘revealed Julien, who first started dating Jenna in 2013.
Engaged! Jenna Marbles and her fiancé Julien Solomita, 28, confirmed their engagement on a Twitch stream on Tuesday April 15; Jenna and Julien pictured in 2015
During the stream, Solomita showed off his engagement band, as well as the beautiful diamond ring with which he proposed to Jenna.
Once fans learned of the couple’s future plans to walk down the aisle, they immediately got Julie and Jenna’s names trending on Twitter.
Jenna Marbles, born Jenna Nicole Mourey, has yet to make a public post about the engagement on one of her social media platforms.
The news of her engagement to Julien comes nearly 10 months after one beloved YouTuber left the platform due to re-examination of older videos with racist content.
Evidence: During the stream, Solomita showed off his engagement band, as well as the beautiful diamond ring he proposed to Jenna with
In an 11-minute clip titled “ A Message, ” Marbles not only acknowledged her past transgressions, including a 2011 blackface skit, shaming women and a racist rap, but she also announced that she would leave.
“For now, I just can’t exist on this channel,” she said. ‘I want to hold myself accountable, and it’s painful to do it. I’m ashamed of things I’ve done and said in my past, but it’s important.
‘I think I’ll just continue from this channel for now. I don’t know if that’s forever. I don’t know how long it will take … I’ll stop now. ‘
Precious: ‘A while ago I proposed to Jenna and she said yes. So we’re engaged, ‘Julien revealed
Long to come: Jenna and Julien first started dating in 2013; the couple pictured in October 2014
Marbles said it was time to step back from the channel, which has more than 20 million subscribers, amid a pile of questions about its routines.
She focused specifically on the blackface skit, a video that featured a rap that made a joke about Asian people, and another in which she lashed out at women who were “ sleeping. ”
The rap song had the line, “Hey Ching Chong Wing Wong, shake your King Kong ding dong.”
She described the video as ‘awful’ and ‘inexcusable’.
The news of her engagement to Julien comes nearly 10 months after one beloved YouTuber left the platform due to re-examination of older videos with racist content.
In the blackface video, she dons a pink wig and tight blue outfit and jokes that Minaj has different personalities. At one point in the video she is seen with dark paint or a face mask on her face talking about ‘kinky’ sex.
“I get it,” she said. ‘I’ve certainly done things in the past that weren’t great. I am not completely unproblematic. I tried my best to grow up. ‘
Marbles, whose real name is Jenna Nicole Mourey, admits that she has gradually switched the older clips to private amid ‘a time when we are purifying ourselves of anything and everything toxic’.
‘Yes there [are] things from my past that I’m not proud of and I get a lot of tweets from people saying, ‘Why did you shield all these old videos?’ and I’ve spent a lot in recent days privatizing almost all of my old content.
In an 11-minute clip titled “ A Message, ” 33-year-old New York-born Rochester acknowledged her past transgressions, including a 2011 blackface sketch (pictured), shaming women and a racist rap
Marbles is seen in a shiny, form-fitting outfit and a pink wig during her Nicki Minaj impersonation
“I’m sorry if there is any nostalgia for you there, but I literally try not to send negative things into the world.”
Marbles said she was’ incredibly sorry ‘, particularly with regard to the blackface sketch, and wished’ it wasn’t part of [her] Past.’
She added, ‘I just want to tell you I didn’t mean to do blackface.
‘I don’t know how else to say this, but it doesn’t matter because all that matters is that people were offended and it hurt them … this is not okay and it has been out of existence on internet time because it’s not okay. ‘
As for her other offensive content, Marbles said ‘it doesn’t have to exist’ and she was’ ashamed of that [she] ever made.
Marbles said she saw no value in omitting the offensive content because she does not want to “contribute to” struggles at a time when racism is at the forefront of the national debate.
Marbles acknowledged that she had done a blackface skit in the past to mock Nicki Minaj
“If that’s the case where people look at something and are offended now, I don’t want it to exist,” she said. “So I probably deleted a lot of my old content because I just don’t want anyone to get upset about anything.”
Marbles said she had no problem taking the heat of her past transgressions in line with the social values that she and her fans hold dear.
“I like to do that,” she said, “because what I want from the people I support and like is to be accountable and know that I support someone whose morals and values match mine.”
Marbles said that while she can’t erase the past, she can be her best self moving forward.
“As someone with clearly a past of their own that they are not proud of, I try to see people as they are now and today and that they are not defined by their past – and I understand that,” she said. ‘I’m trying to do the same as you and support and friends of people I’m proud of and love, and I just know I’m doing my best.’