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James Charles, a name so chilling

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that it requires a trigger warning.

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Trigger warning: James Charles.

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You can say a lot of things about[br]James Charles.

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Most of them are bad.

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Like, really bad.

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But objectively, he is one of the most[br]well-known

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influencers from the last 10 years.

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And because of how much exposure

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and business success he saw[br]over the years,

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James Charles is truly somebody who[br]could have had it all

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if only he wasn't a piece of shit.

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If you're watching this video, odds are[br]you've heard of James,

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or you've at least heard of his infamy.

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You may have had the petrifying[br]experience

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of seeing his BBL or hearing him say

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"Hi sisters!"

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This guy's digital footprint has some of the[br]funniest

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and grossest shit I have ever seen.

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Because as we'll get into, he is a massive[br]creepo, freako,

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womp womp.

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It is quite a tale.

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So allow me to take you on an Unhinged[br]James Charles Deepdive.

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James Charles (or James Charles[br]Dickinson)

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was born on May 3, 1999 in Bethlehem,[br]New York.

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And he is Emily Dickinson's third cousin[br]twice removed -

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ignore that, it was a lie, I just lied.

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But in 2010, at the age of 11, he started his

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very first YouTube channel called[br]JaysCoding.

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This channel mostly consisted of him[br]covering songs like

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"Pumped Up Kicks".

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♫ "You better run, better run[br]faster than my bullet." ♫

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"Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood.

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♫ "Carved my name[br]into his leather seats." ♫

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But most notably, this "It Will Rain" cover

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where he's wearing this wolf hat.

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♫ "- morphine at my door." ♫

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And although these childhood videos are[br]wholesome,

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this would be the start[br]of a very troubling

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pattern of him[br]singing unprompted.

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Although my personal favorite video[br]that I found on JaysCoding

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was this six-second upload of just[br]a image of an eye.

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Like, bro really uploaded an[br]image to YouTube,

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and that is so of the time.

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But in 2015, he would launch his second[br]and main channel

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that we know today as James Charles.

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And this is where he started uploading[br]makeup tutorials, such as

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serpent makeup tutorial and[br]Snapchat Galaxy makeup tutorial.

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And as you can see, none of these look[br]particularly good.

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In fact, they're pretty bad,[br]but I assure you

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everyone's makeup looked[br]really bad in 2015,

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so that really means nothing I guess.

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But he was gaining a really decent[br]audience from posting these tutorials.

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But the inciting incident, the[br]catalyst that would launch

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James Charles' career happened in[br]September of 2016.

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And this moment would have irreversible[br]repercussions on society and the Internet.

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James was 17 years old at this point,

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and he had just taken his senior photos,

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which came out fugly according to him.

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And so he hired the school[br]photographer to come back

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and let him retake the pictures[br]with his ring light.

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And as you can see here, his highlight is[br]definitely going off,

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his brows have a good[br]Roblox look to them.

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However, where I draw the line is[br]that man bun.

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What the f**k?

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Anyways, his friend convinces[br]him to post these

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new glamorous pictures online[br]and they go extremely viral.

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Like, this picture of James[br]was being shared

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so much that CoverGirl noticed it.

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And that is how he became the world's[br]first male CoverGirl.

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Now because this was 2016, it stirred[br]controversy amongst conservatives.

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And, you know, of course it did

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because it's CoverGirl, not "CoverDong".

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Seriously, though, I found this[br]old Twitter thread

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where people are just bitching about this[br]like there's no tomorrow.

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A great example is this one:

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There's also this one where[br]a woman compares

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James being on CoverGirl to a white[br]person doing blackface.

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Um, nurse, she's out again!