YouTuber Tana Mongeau posts a TikTok video referencing uncomfortable experiences she had with older men as a teenage influencer

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YouTuber Tana Mongeau posts a TikTok video referencing uncomfortable experiences she had with older men as a teenage influencer
Tana Mongeau has been referencing inappropriate behavior from older men in her past.Rachpoot/MEGA / Getty Images
  • Tana Mongeau posted a TikTok about her interactions with adult influencers when she was a teenager.
  • She followed the trend of miming the lyrics to 1 Trait Danger's song "Timmis."
  • Mongeau has been linked to controversial influencers, including Shane Dawson and Jason Nash.
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YouTuber Tana Mongeau posted a TikTok video that appeared to reference uncomfortable experiences she had as a teenage influencer with older men in the industry.

On Wednesday, she took part in a recent TikTok trend where creators mime the lyrics to 1 Trait Danger's song "Timmis." The lyrics to the track read, "I think this is affecting me mentally / Like long term s--- it's gonna f--- with me." It's become a popular sound on TikTok that people have used as a way of expressing something troublesome or traumatic in their past.

"Me every time I hung out with a male influencer double my age as a teen," Mongeau wrote on her version of the video.

Mongeau, who is now 22, rose to fame in 2017 thanks to her "storytime" videos. She currently has around 5.5 million YouTube subscribers and has collaborated with some of the biggest content creators on the platform.

Mongeau has not publicly confirmed whom she was referencing in her cryptic TikTok. One person commented under her TikTok video asking who it was aimed at, and she replied, "no one in specific so many people hahahha."

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As a teenager, Mongeau interacted with numerous adult male influencers, ranging from Shane Dawson, now 32, to Jason Nash, now 47.

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Insider has reached out to Mongeau, Dawson, and Nash for comment.

Mongeau has signaled in the past that she's rethought her relationships with adult men when she was a teen

In March, fans saw that Mongeau had been liking tweets that described her relationship with Dawson as problematic. After years of friendship, Mongeau quietly distanced herself from Dawson, who has over 20 million YouTube subscribers, following his fall from grace last summer. Dawson took a step back from YouTube after he and beauty mogul and YouTuber Jeffree Star were accused of manipulative and racist behavior.

When Mongeau was 17, she was a guest on Dawson's "Shane and Friends" podcast, where they had explicit conversations and Dawson asked what her favorite sex position was. In the podcast, Dawson also suggested Mongeau should have sex with his friend Drew Monson, an adult, though the age of consent in California is 18.

Mongeau has previously alluded to feeling uncomfortable with some of her past experiences with male influencers. She tweeted a message with a similar sentiment on March 25, referring to older men who interacted with her when she was younger as "weird."

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"I see that s--- now too with these young TikTok girls," she said. "Guys are weird if there's a 10 year age gap & he just 'understands you' something is wrong with his brain??"

Mongeau's relationship with the Vlog Squad has also been called into question

Mongeau also used to participate in fellow YouTuber David Dobrik's popular vlogs. Ever since a former Vlog Squad member was accused of rape, more historic clips have resurfaced that show questionable behavior by the group.

In one running joke on Dobrik's channel, Nash said he wanted to have a threesome with Mongeau and his then-girlfriend Trisha Paytas. Mongeau was no longer a minor at the time, but viewers pointed out Nash was more than two decades older than her. Another clip seems to show Nash admitting to kissing Mongeau without her consent when she was 19 and he was in his mid-40s.

The ongoing gag has been referenced by Paytas many times as one of the main reasons her relationship with Nash - and the rest of the Vlog Squad - dissolved.

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