James Charles, a name so chilling
that it requires a trigger warning.
Trigger warning: James Charles.
You can say a lot of things about James Charles.
Most of them are bad.
Like, really bad.
But objectively, he is one of the most well-known
influencers from the last 10 years.
And because of how much exposure
and business success he saw over the years,
James Charles is truly somebody who could have had it all
if only he wasn't a piece of shit.
If you're watching this video, odds are you've heard of James,
or you've at least heard of his infamy.
You may have had the petrifying experience
of seeing his BBL or hearing him say
"Hi sisters!"
This guy's digital footprint has some of the funniest
and grossest shit I have ever seen.
Because as we'll get into, he is a massive creepo, freako,
womp womp.
It is quite a tale.
So allow me to take you on an Unhinged James Charles Deepdive.
James Charles (or James Charles Dickinson)
was born on May 3rd, 1999 in Bethlehem, New York.
And he is Emily Dickinson's third cousin twice removed -
ignore that, it was a lie, I just lied.
In 2010, at the age of 11, he started his
very first YouTube channel called JaysCoding.
This channel mostly consisted of him covering songs like
"Pumped Up Kicks".
♫ "You better run, better run faster than my bullet." ♫
"Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood.
♫ "Carved my name into his leather seats." ♫
But most notably, this "It Will Rain" cover
where he's wearing this wolf hat.
♫ "- morphine at my door." ♫
And although these childhood videos are wholesome,
this would be the start of a very troubling
pattern of him singing unprompted.
Although my personal favorite video that I found on JaysCoding
was this six-second upload of just a image of an eye.
Like, bro really uploaded an image to YouTube,
and that is so of the time.
But in 2015, he would launch his second and main channel
that we know today as James Charles.
And this is where he started uploading makeup tutorials, such as
serpent makeup tutorial and Snapchat Galaxy makeup tutorial.
And as you can see, none of these look particularly good.
In fact, they're pretty bad, but I assure you
everyone's makeup looked really bad in 2015,
so that really means nothing I guess.
But he was gaining a really decent audience from posting these tutorials.
But the inciting incident, the catalyst that would launch
James Charles' career, happened in September of 2016.
And this moment would have irreversible repercussions on society and the Internet.
James was 17 years old at this point,
and he had just taken his senior photos,
which came out fugly according to him.
And so he hired the school photographer to come back
and let him retake the pictures with his ring light.
And as you can see here, his highlight is definitely going off,
his brows have a good Roblox look to them.
However, where I draw the line is that man bun.
What the f**k?
Anyways, his friend convinces him to post these
new glamorous pictures online and they go extremely viral.
Like, this picture of James was being shared
so much that CoverGirl noticed it.
And that is how he became the world's first male CoverGirl.
Now because this was 2016, it stirred controversy amongst conservatives.
And, you know, of course it did
because it's CoverGirl, not "CoverDong".
Seriously, though, I found this old Twitter thread
where people are just bitching about this like there's no tomorrow.
A great example is this one:
reads tweet.
There's also this one where a woman compares
James being on CoverGirl to a white person doing blackface.
Um... Nurse, she's out again!
Anyways, outisde of these randos making a stink out of it,
this opened up a lot of opportunities
for James.
I mean, he went on Ellen, I guess that's not that impressive, though.
As I mentioned in the Jojo Siwa video, you could literally fart into a bucket
and somehow make it on Ellen at this point in time.
And as his fame was escalating,
he did his first-ever fan meet.
Only 50 people showed up to this event,
and one of the videos that was taken there
was turned into a meme because at
some point James just sat down on the ground and started singing.
♫ Bring me a little water now! Bring me little water, Sylvie!♫
I don't know what my favorite part about this meme is. It might be
the Snapchat caption that says "f**k it up"
which insinuates that he's doing a good job singing right now.
Or it could be the fact that he raises
his finger up as if he's hitting those high notes.
This was, of course, the very first time
that he was turned into a meme,
but it's certainly would not be the last.
This same year, James did a CoverGirl promotion with Zendaya,
and oh my God, this has gotta be
one of the most unintentionally funny videos I've ever seen.
So this video that they're doing is a challenge to see what makeup
looks they could come up with in the span of 5 minutes.
And so they're both in a rush and trying to showcase these CoverGirl
products along the way.
And about 30 seconds in, James gets befuddled and just starts
copying Zendaya and then acts like
everything he's doing was his idea.
- "I used it on my inner corner." - "Same."
(Huh??)
- "I used this as a base for the blue." - "Yeah, same."
And not only this, the end result is so bad,
she absolutely ate him up, I can't believe this video exists.
These two people should not exist in the same universe.
James would soon also start doing collabs
with massive YouTubers like Tana Mongeau, Joey Graceffa, and even
non-YouTubers like Maddie Ziegler.
However, he would soon find himself in his
very first controversy, and that is the "Ebola" tweet.
On Febuary 16, 2017, James writes:
reads tweet.
So obviously this is very out of touch
and just kind of assumes that Africa is like a diseased-riddled area,
and so people were not happy about this.
And so the very same day he did his first public apology ever.
He wrote:
reads tweet.
And people definitely still thought James was racist for, like, a good month
after this.
But the discourse got completely overshadowed by the events of
March 5th, 2017, which was the birth of Flashback Mary.
So what happened was that James was at an event
and he had WAY too much powder on his face,
and so when they took this picture of him, it caused a flashback that gave him this,
like, ghostly, ghoulish, sinister SCP look to him.
And the internet was immediately obsessed with this.
Like, this is definitely one of the biggest memes that has hit the Internet.
Ask anyone, ask your grandma, ask your
local pastor, they know Flashback Mary.
The main comparison that was being made to James was of this spider from-
what is this show called?
It's called Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends.
Like, I can't express to you how many times
I've seen this image against my will,
I wish I could permaban it from my brain.
Something a little disappointing about this meme, though, is that the
widespread image of Flashback Mary is not the real one.
This is the real one, and I will say, the flashback is still really bad,
but whoever edited this picture just made it 70 times worse.
An interesting artifact of the time that I found was this Redbubble page
that just exclusively sells Flashback Mary furniture, such as clocks and pillows.
I really don't understand Redbubble, people will just sell
tych-fck-ehchk-ANYTHING there.
Anyways, though, speaking of James Charles' foundation, he does not
know how to match that shit.
Like, there's entire compilations of him doing just that.
And in this video specifically, he describes himself as having
warm undertones.
"GASP. That looks like it could be such a good match for me,
everyone is convinced that my skintone is, like, not warm."
Girl, you are PINK! You are PINK!
I think the funniest part about all of this, though, is that he
literally has a YouTube video trying, like, 40 different foundation shades, and
in the end he still chooses the wrong one.
Side note, though, another James Charles-ism is that he chronically misuses
Facetune, especially in this era.
And to be fair, he's never hid that he uses Facetune, but it just looks so bad
that I don't understand why he continues to do it. Like, when I see these pictures,
I get uncanny valley, Russian Sleep Experiment, creepypasta vibes.
Moving on, though, we have the "It" debacle of 2017.
Now, the It debacle began on September 7th when James tweeted about
how he was gonna go see It, and how excited he was about it.
But literally five minutes into the movie, he started tweeting about how bad
it was, which, of course, is just nutty
because how have you already decided that
you don't like the movie, and it's only been five minutes?
And, like, why are you even on your phone?
About thirty minutes later, James tweets again,
and this time, he says:
reading tweet.
Both of these tweets annoyed people for obvious reasons.
Like, he's just been texting the entire movie.
It doesn't even sound like he's been watching it to know if it's bad!
And so in response to all the people questioning why he's doing this,
he writes:
reads tweet.
But then,
Finn Wolfhard replies to one of these tweets and says:
reads tweet
Granted, at this time, I think Finn was 12 or 13 maybe.
And so James tweets:
reads tweet.
Which sounds like he's accepting the end of this.
Like, this should be the end of the conversation.
But instead, he starts backtracking times 3,000, and he says:
reads tweet.
For the next few hours, people on Twitter would not leave him alone
about why he was texting in the movie theater.
And so he eventually says:
reads tweet.
And this dug his grave in even more.
Because people were like, "What do you mean 'everyone does it,'
like, everyone does not do that!"
Personally, as an AMC Stubs member, this pains me.
Follow me on Letterboxd so I can feel important.
But this caused people to start doing polls about whether or not people
actually texted people during movies.
And the results were, of course, overwhelmingly NO.
No they do not!
And again, this should've been the end of the conversation, but he just keeps
acknowledging it, and he ends up filming an apology video in the backseat
of an Uber.
(James talking:) "I want to personally apologize to Finn and anybody else
involved in the making of the movie It."
And regardless of all of this, a couple days later, he ended up doing an
It makeup tutorial.
(James doing a Pennywise voice:) "Hiya, sisters! James Charles
here, and welcome back to my YouTube channel!"
Which, by the way, the first six seconds of this video
changed my life for the worse, so I'm gonna make you see this too.
(dubstep, intense music)
(scream sound effect)
In 2018, the "Sister Squad formed
And this was basically just of long
squad of these four best friends that
consisted of... I mentioned Ethan Dolan,
Grayson Dolan, and of course
James himself. Now Eathan Dolan / Grayson
had a huge Youtube channel that they
have been making videos on since 2014
And James ended up meeting them in late
2017 after he left he left a bunch of very
Questionably, thirsty Tweets on both of
Their Instagrams. These includes comments
Such as "Run me over with that
Motorcycle, daddy". "Choke me with that
Seatbelt, daddy".
And last but not least, " Hit me with that
Stick, daddy".
On June 9, 2018, the first ever "Sister
Squad" video was posted and this
Had a cultural impact like no other
Squad at the time. I don't care what
Anyone says. This is the truth.
The "Sister Squad" was such an
Immediate success and all their videos
Were pretty much just them hanging out.
Each one of the "Sister Squad" videos got
Around 30 million views a piece.
And so, they say that people were
invested.
In this friend's group dynamic
'It would be an understatement.
The most notable dynamics was that of.
Emma and Grayson because it was heavily
theorized that they secretly dating while
fans were constantly speculating them.,
making entire compilations of their
interactions. And secondly was the
dynamic between James and Grayson.
It was pretty much an open secret that
James had a crush on Grayson and there's
entire compilations of him unsuccessfully
flirting with him. And there's
definitely some of the incidents were
preplanned as a joke, but there's
also many that were pretty much very raw.
Very real like you can feel the rejection
in the air like groaning
this is very important to remember when
we get to bisister, so just keep this is
in mind that this group being able to
make millions and millions of views per
video and despite the way they seem so
close in these videos. These two things
have appeared to cause some turmoil
because by February 4th, 2019, Emma
unfollowed all of them and to be fair,
she did unfollow everyone but like six
people and posted on her story that she
had done that for a social media purge.
But to be honest, it doesn't really make
sense because if you are doing a social
media purge I think you still follow your
closest friends and just not anyone else.
So it kinda seemed like a convenient, uh,
excuse. And James Charles's response to
this was this tweet, "I posted a beautiful
makeup look today but you wouldn't know"
In November of 2018, James released his
first ever makeup pallet. And this, of
course, was James X Morphe. Now, let me
tell you, this pallet was extremely
popular at the time. Everyone that I
knew had this, I had this, and it was just
generally really well recieved. So this
new level of entrepreneurship really
brought him up a threshold of passionate
passionate fans. Like he did an appearance
at a Morphe store in Birmingham and
8,000 people showed up to the mall to see
him and it literally caused gridlock
outside of the store, like people were
trapped in their cars. That is how
popular he was at the time. However, it
wouldn't be long until James found himself
in another controversy. Also, oh my god, I
almost forgot to mention that he was
singing unprompted in front of this Morphe
as well.
singing
The 2019 Sisters Tour. So James was doing
a tour across the country and the most
expensive ticket that you could buy to see
him was $500. Which, a lot of people
were quick to call a scam. And he received
a ton of backlash for this. Personally, I
don't think this was a scam because you
were going to get what you paid for. Like,
it says right here what's included with
this. It says, "Exclusive hangout with
James Charles and the other Sister VIPS.
One on one photo with James Charles.
Exclusive Sisters VIP goodie bag. And
exclusive autograph tour laminate. Front
row seats and early access to merchandise
vendors". Okay, that last one is crazy.
Like, if your spending $500, I think you
should get some free merch. In no way do I
feel like this is worth $500 and like, in
my perspective, I would feel like an
asshole to hide a meet and greet with me
behind a $500 paywall. However, if you
really wanted to have all that stuff and
spend $500, that is your business. James
did say that he would try to talk to his
team about lowering the prices, but they
did remain the same. And in case your
wondering what the luxury VIP James
Charles experience was like, there's a
video on YouTube titled, "I PAID $500
TO SING WITH JAMES CHARLES" and it's him
surrounded by a huge group of girls
singing Listen by Beyonce very poorly.
singing
A genuine perk I see for anyone who went
on this tour though, was that they got to
witness the New Rules kick. In real time.
video plays
This became a meme just purely out of
being the perfect storm. People just found
out that some tickets to the tour cost
$500 and then they see this. Poor
singing and poor dancing. And that third
miscellaneous kick, muah.
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Welcome back! Now we're entering the calm
before the storm and what I mean by that
is that we are on the cusp of dramageddon
This is literally April 2019 and no one
had a single clue that the biggest drama
of the internet would ever see what about
to occur. Now, let me introduce to the
central characters of the dramageddon.
Ok, so here we have Tati Westbrook. She
was a beauty guru as well as James'
mentor and close friend. He even referred
to her as a mother figure. As you can see
here, this is James doing Tati's wedding
makeup like that's how like this was how
close they were and prior to these
coming events, Tati had started her own
supplement company in 2018 called Halo
Beauty, and they basically sold like hair
vitamins and skin vitamins, hoopla hoopla.
Enter Jeffree Star. If you don't know who
Jeffree Star is, he's probably in the top
10 worst people on the internet and to
fully explain why that is that would
require like a whole three hour video.
inaudible
he has a very successful makeup company
called "Jeffree Star Cosmetics" and his
channel at this time was massive in the
beauty community. However, not
as massive as James' and side note,
in 2024 he lives on a farm and sells yak
meat. So, there's that. Our last big
dramageddon figure is Shane Dodsen.
Shane is probably also on that top 10 list
of worse people online. Come to think of
it, James is too, but we will cross that
bridge when we get there. What is
important to know now though, is that in
landscape of 2019 YouTube, for some reason
Jane Dodsen, like a respected
documentarian, and he has just done a
documentary series about Jeffree Star.
Looking back on it, these videos were not
good and 60% of them were just like
filler but each and every one of them got
around 30 million views. With that it
mind, this brings us to Coachella 2019.
This is where is all kicks off dude.
During this time, James was "seeing" an
influencer named Gage Gomez. "Seeing" it
in air quotes because it was less of an
actual relationship and more of actual
like bicurious experimental time on Gage's
end, but they were photographed at this
Coachella multiple times, which made fans
start to speculate that James had a
boyfriend. And so, a lot of people began
to tweet James about this and he actually
responded to one of these tweets saying
something along the lines of "No. I'm
sadly still single. I was manipulated by
a conman." I looked everywhere for this
tweet and read it and writing down
every thing it said at this point but
can't find it anymore. So, sources that
trust me. James just subtweeted
that Gage, several times over the
Coachella weekend, including this one
which says, "I'm sitting sobbing in my
hotel room at 8 am and have to be on set
in an hour. This is no one's fault but
my own because my dumbass continues to
go for the same type of insecure cute
boys and it gets me hurt, every single
time. I was started fucking to hate
myself". Tensions are rising. Things are
bubbling up, ok. And the next day of the
festival, James ended up getting mobbed
by fans because for some reason he didn't
have like a VIP ticket which would have
let him in like exclusive spaces to not
be around so many fans. And so, all these
people are running up on him right. He is
like, holy shit, what do I do? And this
led him to text his friend and fellow
beauty guru, Nikita Dragon. And he asked
her for help about the sicky situation.
And so, she connects him to the Sugarbear
Hair Team, because they're had their
own VIP tent space, and they were going
to let James in and in exchange for him
doing just one Sugarbear Hair
ad on his Instagram story and so,
with no other choice, he signs the
contract and gets in that tent. But let
it be known that Sugarbear Hair was a
very popular was a very popular vitamin
brand as in Beauty Vitamins, as in for
your skin and face. A.K.A. a direct
competitor to Tati Westbrook's
brand "Halo Beauty" Dramageddon arrived!
Her story in the making. On April 22,
James posted his contraction obligated ad
on Instagram. Notably, as you can see
here, he's actually promoting their sleep
gummies, not their skin or hair ones. But
he does this and then he gets on a plane
to Australia. For what I am about to say
next, at this point in time Tati
Westbrook is 37 years old and James was
only 19. By the time James landed in
Australia, Tati had already posted
multiple stories of her crying and
saying she feels so betrayed by a close
friend and she had been taken advantage
by somebody she thought she can trust and
she helped so much and it was very
obvious, like that she was talking about
James. Like he literally just posted that
Sugarbear Hair ad so, people added two
plus two together so unbeknownst to James,
thousands and thousands of people had
begun adding him on Twitter, messaging
him on Instagram. People he knew were
sending him messages being like what's
going on with you and Tati. And so, he
gets off the plane, right. He sees this.
He tries to call Tati. He tries to text
her. He tries to call her husband.
Neither of them answers but Tati just
continues to post on Instagram. So, he
decides to just make a public
apology post. So the apology read," I want
to publicly apologize to my close friend
Tati. She has been like a mother to me
since before my first days in this
industry and has given me more love so
important resources and advice that I
could ever ask for. This weekend I did an
Instagram story for sleep vitamins that
I have been taking because the brand helps
me with security when the crowd around me
at Coachella became unsafe. I did not
accept any money for the post. As most
of you know, Tati has a vitamin brand
which I take on a daily basis but at the
moment, I did not think about the
competition, which was a major oversight.
I've supported Tati both online and off
like she has done for me and I am
devastated that I hurt somebody that I
truly love and have endless respect for".
I think the mature thing for 37-year-old
Tati to do after seeing this would be to
just talk to him, but instead she just
continued ignoring him and posting and
posting about this situation and crying
online. And so, a few days later on May 4,
2019, Gabriel Zamora, another beauty guru,
posted this video titled "Makeup and
Opinions". And during this video, he
indirectly talks about the drama going on
between Tati and James, saying that it's
stupid that basically, Tati keeps like
sub tweeting about him but won't
actually say what's going on or just talk
to him and he's honestly so right, like
this 37-year-old woman just implying that
her 19-year-old colleague has done
something awful for days on end but then
refuses to say anything about it
to divulge more information and so
Gabriel concludes this segment of the
video by saying "Girl, go sit on the
internet and talk about it then". And
those words would unknowingly be the
final straw, the final catalyst for the
video that we all know today as the
"Bye sister". "Bye sister" is one of the
most iconic YouTube videos of all time.
Seriously, the cultural impact of this
cannot be minimized. Cannot be silenced.
I still remember where I was when "Bye
Sister" happened. It was a cold, windy
day. On May 10th, 2019, when Tati decided
that she needed to spill the tea "on
James' Charles". This video is insane
from start gulp to finished. It begins
Gabriel Zamora's famous last words, "Girl,
go talk about it on the internet then".
"If you are going to go on the internet
and cry and heavily imply that there
a horrible human being
and everybody can get what it is.
Girl, sit on the internet
and talk about it then".
Imagine being the person that made this
happen. But there were three major
claims that Tati makes in this video
against James Charles and let's just
tackle them bullet point by bullet point.
First and foremost, she claims that James
purposefully sabotaged her vitamin gummy
business by preorchestrating the Sugarbear
hair contract. Two, that James' obnoxious
and talks about c*ck and balls.
Three, and the most serious one, is that
he tries to manipulate straight men. But
let's start off with the vitamins. Tati
lists multiple ways in which she
supported James over the years by pouring
over contracts for him, setting up his
Google add cent by him even after he
tweeted about Ebola. But despite all this
stuff that she's given him, she claims
James gave her no warning before he posted
his Sugarbear Hair ad, and also that he
actually made the whole Coachella security
thing up like he wasn't getting bombarded
by fans or anything. He just already
planned to do the Sugarbear Hair ad. Her
reasoning is that there is no way that a
company would ever just go out of their
way to give you a contract just like that.
And so, he has to be liying and even if
there was a security problem.
Even if he was getting rushed by fans, he
should have simply walked away.
You should have walked away. You should
have held on to your integrity.
You're phony. I know that now.
These are all really interesting things
to say because at the high of James' fame,
I would think that a lot of companies
might want to leap at the opportunity to
work with him. I also kind of love it and
I am kind of gagged by the way that she
just says "walk away from people mobbing
you."
A lot of people are like were like what
is he supposed to do. It's dangerous.
Like leave. Go home.
Why are you drowning? Just breathe.
Why are you getting cyberbullying?
Walk away from the computer. She goes on
to blame him for potentially losing
thousands and thousands of dollars due
to his Instagram ad. Because nobody is
going to buy two different brands of hair
gummies.
It's not a palette. It's not something
that people buy multiples of.
Then she then contradicts herself by
saying that she doesn't needs ads. She
doesn't want ads and her product is
selling like hotcakes
We're selling like hotcakes. Like I don't
need to at this point. It seems like I
am going on about this first bullet point
for a while. It's because the majority of
the video is actually about the gummy
vitamins. She claims that James said
he couldn't advertise for halo beauty on
his channel because he had too many young
fans watching and he didn't want to like
market them supplements and so, she's
like "But here you are on your Instagram
story, selling sleep pills to kids which
is whoa thats a reach. Ma'am, these are
melatonin gummies.
Moving on to the fucking c*ck and balls
and straight boy allegation section.
Unfortunately, those two things are
interlinked in this video. So that's why
I'm roping them together. It's not
that I'm not taking
the last one seriously. It's that
Tati has... Tati has done this to me.
Tati claims that James tried to manipulate
a waiter at her birthday dinner into
thinking he was gay. She also claims that
he was saying very loudly explicit things
that he wanted to do to him.
But what was most shocking to her was the
fact that he was willing to talk about
all this in front of her family and his
own parents which is why we get the
iconic sucking dck and cck line.
Sucking and dick and cock. Like
I'm just like Oh my God
time and place and you did it at my
birthday dinner.
She claims she told James to leave the
waiter alone and that he was straight.
And in response he said it doesn't
matter. I'm famous. She concludes the
video with talking about some other
vague instances of James trying to
manipulate straight men and claims that
the only reason why she's posting this
is because it's a last ditch effort to get
through to him so that he will stop
trying to manipulate and seduce these
straight men. Okay, let me just do a
quick disclaimer here. I'm going to be
treating the bye sister allegations as
their own separate thing. Not really
trying to connect them to further
allegations because I feel like that will
get very crazy and twisted and that is
not what I want because a lot of bye
sister, as you will see, gets debunked.
Where as in the future. there are actual
victims that James like has with reciepts
So I don't want Dramageddon
and like that world
intermixing out of respect.
And so, with that in mind, we
need to talk a little bit more about the
elephant in the room with bye sister and
that is that Tati spent the majority of
video talking about her beef with James,
with the vitamins, but then in the end
claims that she making this video because
of the sexual ab*use allegations.
Including but not limited to the sexual
harrassment of the waiter at the
restaurant. Also just have to mention
it, I don't know if you noticed this but
the Jeffree Star Lipsticks sitting in the
background of this video. Oh My God!
Move over classic literature writers.
That is the best foreshadowing I've ever
seen. Regardless, the immediate public
response to bye sister was cateclismic.
The video quickly accumulated 30 million
views and a trend sparked within the hour
of burning or destroying your James'
Morphe palatte . There are many of these
compilations. This one alone is 10 minutes
straight of people just destroying their
James Morphe palatte. James Charles
is over party was trending on Twitter.
My personal memory of this is
going on Snapchat and seeing on
one of my friend's stories that there was
a line out the door at my local Ulta
of girls were just returning the
James' palette. I really, really wish I
could have found footage of that because
it contributes to a bigger picture here
and that is, I think, everybody had a
little bit of mass hysteria with this
because I have just never seen people
react in the way people reacted
to bye sister. Like people have done other
alleged things that are of equivalent or
worse and we have not seen
something like this
happen. Anyways, within all this havoc,
later that night James post an apology
video simply titled "Tati". This is a nine
minute video but I am willing to bet the
actual amount of talking in it is more so
around like four because in it,
James is very clearly jetlagged and
tired like he's whispering. He's talking
really slow.
I met Tati.
Not only that, he only apologizes
for disrespecting Tati. He doesn't
confirm or deny any other allegations. he
just needs to be more careful of his
relationships in the future in the
public eye. And so, posts and to say that
people um didn't receive it well would be
a flub. it would be a lil flub.
As soon as video dropped, a ton of
channels began to live
streaming. The live sub count of James
Charles losing thousands and thousands
and thousands of subscribers meanwhile,
showing Tati gaining subs. I'm not joking
with you guys when I say, there was
probably like 300 of these channels all
active at once and in the live chat people
were goading them on like a sports event
before terminally online makeup girlies
At least partially because of these
live sub trackers, James Charles would
become the first Youtuber to lose one
million subscribers in one day. There were
a ton of memes about the Tati apology
video floating around and let's just
say all of the breathing in it did not
help the case.
*breathing
Meanwhile, a ton of people started chiming
in about the situation on Twitter and
even just kind of making things up to
insert themselves into the conversation
because it was so trendy.
For example, the singer Zara Larson posted
this tweet that said
"I'm cackling cause he hit up my
boyfriend in the dms several times
knowing damn well he's straight".
She would later go on to apologize for
that because she didn't realize that he
had only sent her boyfriend one message.
There was also some person making the
claim that in high school, James had
catfished the entire football team just
to trick them into sending him d*** pics,
which I mean, it's a wild claim.
I'm not saying impossible but it's
f******* wild, I'll say that.
At this point, people also mass
unfollowing James on Instagram, as well,
and some of the people unfollowed him
include people like the Kardashians,
Demi Lavato, Ariana Grande....
But most importantly to all of this, is
the fact that every single one of the
members of the sister squad unfollowed
him which affectively ended it.
The next day, May 14th, Gage Gomez
uploads a video titled " My first
YouTube video" and in it he talks about
how James having sub tweeted him had
actually, caused a shit ton of his fans to
his page and start threatening him and
harassing him. He also says that James
realized that these sub tweets were wrong
because he ended up apologizing to him
and deleting them, but essentially he just
wanted to clear his name out of this.
Confusingly though, shortly after this
video was posted he went on a Instagram
live stream and when somebody asked him
if he was single he said that he had just
been dumped and seemed to imply that
it was either James or related to James
in some way.
Someone by the little name of, um
I'm not gonna say it. It starts with a J.
What makes this even more convulated to
is that I found out on one of the days
that James was at Coachella, he went to
brunch with this guy named DIllon Gike
I think and the *gasp it all is, is that
this person Dillon is Gage's friend and
speculated more than friend. So there's
that interesting thing. Then Dillon would
comment on Gage's page calling clout
chaser. I don't know what kind of friend
dynamics or anything more happening here,
but it made me very confused about Gage's
stance in all of this. Shortly after that
live stream though Gage would post
another video that just made me even more
confused because in this video he said
that James tried to manipulate him to
thinking he was gay, even after telling
that he was straight multiple times but
James kept pursuing him. I have
nothing more to say about this video even
though I totally believe it could have
happened but also, I am confused.
*Popping noise
Alrighty, Here we are.
I am just a little bit lost in it all.
Let's move on.
While all this is going on, Ian Jeffree,
A.K.A. James' little brother tweets out
" Why does everyone act so tough over the
internet".
And Jeffree Star chimes in within A.K.
47 for no reason he says
"Why is your brother a predator?? Why'd
you really move back to NYC? Exactly.
Shut the f*** up".
For context, I guess Ian had moved back
to New York City to be with their parents
recently, but saying this to a 17-year-old
that probably has no idea what you are
talking about. It's so Jeffree Star. Like,
at least he stays on brand like he just
continues to be a bad person.
But Jeffree ended up continuing he said,
"There is a reason why I haven't seen him
since Tati's birthday in February. He is a
danger to society. Everything that Tati
said is 100% true.
On the same day as these tweets, Sam,
the waiter from Tati's birthday party.
"Sucking a dick and cock"
Posted a video explaining his side of the
story and basically, Sam explains that
James had asked another one of the waiters
for his number and if he would was single.
He also complimented him on the way
that he looked. Since he didn't get his
number, he left the restaurant and that
was that but later that night, Sam's
sister convinced him to dm James and talk
to him again and so, he did and they
started talking. James apologizes for
flirting with him. At this point he
actually found it flattering.
The conversation escalated until James
invited him to his hotel room, and since
Sam says he is bicurious he went to
go meet up with him. He says
they ended up making out for around
an hour at the hotel and that James'
is the worst kind of kisser he's ever had.
It's just...
If I am being honest, he is the worst
kisser I've ever kissed. Way too much
tongue. He then goes on to say that James
begged him to stay in the hotel with him
but because he did not enjoy the kissing,
he decided to leave anyways. And now the
following week, James offered to fly Sam
out to California for his birthday, but
Sam told him that he figured out that he
was pretty much straight so it wouldn't be
right for him to accept the invitation. At
which point James became upset and told
him that he was not straight and that
he hoped that he would figure that out
sooner than later. The TLDR at the end of
this video is that the last draw for Sam
to cut contact off with James was finding
out he was also talking to Gage at the
same time meaning that he thought that
he was playing two straight guys at once.
On May 13th, Nikita Dragon jumps back into
Dramageddon and tweets out strange shots
between her and James Charles. She's
trying to back him up, trying to be like
"See, it really did happen guys",
like he was getting bombarded at Coachella
but this really only made things worse,
because after Tati's video, everyone
really believed that James had reached
out to Sugarbear Hair in a pre-planned
effort, not to mention that she didn't
bring up the straight boy allegations so
people were really clowning on her for
this. She posted a YouTube video the
following day titled "What really
happened" and this made plenty of fans
click on the video expecting her to
talk about James and Tati situation
because, of course, what else could this
be about and, mind you, I haven't actually
watched this video completely, scrubbed
from the internet. Cannot find it
anywhere. But apparently instead of
addressing anything relevant, she just
makes a general statement about mean
comments and then plugs her beauty brand
for the last, like five minutes. Which
goes to show how much people
were capitalizing off this beef. I mean
Nikita Dragon was literally just there at
Coachella with James. She could have said
something about the subject but
she was like I'm gonna get into this with
my Dragon Beauty brand. This same night,
Jeffree Star goes out on Snapchat and
starts talking about how he has crazy
receipts on James and he's going to be
exposing him very soon and I have to say
this is probably my least favorite thing
that Jeffrey does all the time is that I
feel like actually does have crazy
blackmail against people but he only ever
uses it for self-interest, Like he's like
he has something insane like crazy
proof that James Charles has done
something beyond the pale that we don't
even know about yet. The only way
he would leak it is if it was in his
own benefit,
On May 17th, Tati Westbrook post another
video addressing this whole situation
called "Why I did it" and for some reason
this video hasn't been archived.
I was only able to watch someone else's
reaction of it but basically gist that I
got was this was just her doubling down on
what she has said previously, only now she
wishes people wouldn't pick sides on what
between her and James.
But little did everyone know that that
the next day on May 18th, James would
upload "No More Lies", which is probably
the internet's biggest uno reverse.
Which nobody claims in bisister and so
many debunkinings and not debunkinings
happening in "No More Lies".
We are just going to take it category by
category again. No More claims state
of claim. Firstly, she said the ad was
preorchestrated. It was that Jamas talked
to the Sugarbear hair team on the grounds
at Coachella, Two, James didn't give her
any warning before he put up the ad.
He only says something after which was not
the case. He had screenshots of the text
message where he warned her in advance
and to which she replied "I'm so hurt"
and he gave a lengthy apology.
Three, she said James said he wouldn't
talk about Halo Beauty on social media or
his channel because he didn't want to
promote supplements to young kids.
This is a really weird and strange lie.
Like he promoted Halo Beauty multiple
times and across his social media pages.
So, I am trying to understand Tati, I am
trying why to lie about maniscule things.
*Inaudible
Another one of Tati's claims was that
James had been using his power, influence
and money in order to extort sexual
favors to people to manipulate them and J
James admits that he is a 19-year-old
virgin and that isn't the case because he
is not fuckin but I will say this. At
12:40 in this video he says
"We'll never use my fame, money, or
power to manipulate or get any sexual
actions from a guy",
Which did not age well. When it comes to
this allegation in the James Charles
timeline, I have a little bit of a
question mark over it because I am not
sure how much damage he had done at age
19. But from what we know about Gage and
Sam, the waiter, there were some strange
tendencies already at play.
Another claim Tati had was at her birthday
dinner she had tried to tell James the
waiter was straight and to leave him alone
He replied saying it doesn't matter. I'm
so famous, right? Well , it turns out
that was actually a lie as well, because
there are screenshots of James and all
of his friends including Tati making the
same joke where they say "We're so famous"
like definitely it was not supposed to be
a serious thing. Again, really
interesting. I don't understand the
choices to lie about something so petty,
especially when you are overall message
was supposed to be about something as
serious as like sexual misconduct
allegations. And speaking of Sam, the
waiter, James has screenshots of their
conversations as well. And in these
screenshots you can clearly see that
Same had actually told him straight up
that he was bisexual. So this is where it
gets kind of interesting cause Sam didn't
mentioned this in his side of the story.
After they agreed to stop their
relationship, James had blocked him.
And after this, Sam had used his friend's
phone to DM James from his account and
blocked and why he actually figured out
that he was full gay so that he could get
him on a FaceTime call and record him.
Instead of talking to James about his gay
revelation, he asked James if he was
talking to Gage at the same time that they
were talking. At this point, Sam told
James that he wasn't actually gay. He was
just trying to get him on this phone call
and so James hung up. But then, after the
call, Sam text him that he basically
confirmed bi, which it why in Sam's video
you saw the screenshot of James saying
that you are not straight, You are not
ever going to be straight. The sooner you
figure that out the better, etc. Now
outside of Tati's allegations, Jeffree
Star had personally been texted James
that he had a bunch a dirt on him and
that he was gonna expose him for various
things sooner or later, And so, at this
point in "No More Lies", we start to
address that. And so Jeffree's claims are
as follows: Number one: that James has
been talking shit about him. Number two:
that James had to try to Jeffree's
brother in law to like him and sent him
unsolicited, inappropriate pictures. And
thirdly, James trapped Sam the the waiter
in his hotel and that they were all gonna
get together and film a video about how
that happened and expose. Lastly, and
this is the craziest one that he had tried
to touch and molest Grayson Dolan in his
sleep and made him uncomfortable for
months. James' rebuttal to these claims
were that he had only talked to Jeffree's
brother-in-law a handful of times and
it was nothing inappropriate. And next,
the trapping Sam in the hotel room thing
we know is not true because Sam. himself,
said so. And then finally, the rebuttal
for the most serious and crazy allegation
is that this is simply not true and that
the rejection jokes that was in the
sister's squad videos were pretty much
all staged. James also claims that the
Dolan twins were among the first to call
him and make sure he was alright and
during the initial bisister of the
dramageddon of it all. There weren't any
receipts for that. We don't really know
what happened between them and neither
of the Dolan twins ever refollowed James,
so there is that as well. We'll talk a
little bit more about the Dolans later
on. But all in all, "No More Lies"
changed the YouTube landscape for weeks
and flipped the entire situation on it's
head. Like, never in my life have I seen
people switch up this fast before. And
despite every body being this initially
being on Tati's side in all of this,
right after this video dropped, his
subscriber account rise again and
meanwhile, Tati's began to fall. Speaking
of Tati, her immediate reponse to "No More
Lies" was to get on Twitter and say
things like this:
I have left town on a digital break to
heal and pray for healing on all sides. My
family made me aware on what was just
posted and I am disappointed ro see
it littered with so many lies and half
truths. I stand by my videos. Do not twist
my words to what they are not, hear the
message.
Dudes, can I be totally honest with you
guys right now? The way Tati speaks
like she's the Buddhist monk pisses me
off! She also posted a couple of
other Tweets but they basicaaly said the
same exact thing like, "Praying on all
sides", "Peace and love" da ba duh
Then she goes on to like a novel length
post and the TLDR that I give you says:
"I spent all the last few years building
up a career on honesty, integrity and
truth. But let me tell you guys that
Tati is a makeup reviewer. She basically
says things like "I hope that our
community is somehow strengthened from
all this madness and that we will all
strive to hold ourselves and each other
to a higher standard".
Girl, what?!? Jeffree Star also
immediately got on Twitter and said:
"Everyone keeps asking me for receipts...
I have so much to say and some really sad
and disgusting things to show you guys.
James Charles tried to mass manipulate
all of you today. When I show you
the proof and why I tweeted
the tweet about him, you'll understand"
and get this. Get this! Tati deletes Bye
Sister after just typing up novels about
how she said she said what she said and
she stands by it, And she is praying for
everyone on all sides. I hope the
community gets stronger out of this.
Like she can't claim that this was for the
betterment of society in and then
take it down. She then took like a week
and a half off of YouTube and returned
video called "I'm Back" and it's literally
just a makeup tutorial, She just pretends
like none of that even happened. And as
you can see here, the audience was just
really confused by this, The top comment
literally "Tati, I stand by everything I
said". Also,, Tati deletes video a day
after the Tati video. Sam, the waiter,
returns to the internet with a new
video titled "I'm sorry James Charles".
In it, he says that his friends and his
family pressured him to continue talking
to James and even typed out some of the
messages to James pretending to be Sam.
He also says that they hold him to be
just pretend to be gay and to date James
to get all the opportunities that would
come with that.
*inaudible
James returned to YouTube in a very
pleasant audience and a very different
internet compared to a just a few short
weeks a go. By all standards, Tati's video
should have been that final nail
in the coffin and impossible to come
back from, but there he was an amazing
comeback story at the time.
In November of 2019, Tati was still
trying to fully ignore what happened and
move on despite on not saying anything
and then she wants to make a brand
called Tati Beaity and spoiler alert, both
Tati Beauty and Halo Beauty would not
survive the upcoming pandemic.
And despite everything that Jeffree had
said about James being a disgusting
monster and how he had all these receipts.
He was ready to expose him. By March of
2020, he had done a full 180 and even
left us a supported comment on one of
James' post. I mean this is Jeffree Star
we are talking about so it isn't that
surprising. Jeffree Star, very lore heavy,
evil man. Even then, Jeffree then posted
a video title "Never Doing This Again"
and I know just from that title you are
thinking, "What, what is he never going
to do again?" In this video he basically
says, "Just because I said that I hate
James Charles and I want him to die
he's disgusting, doesn't mean I hate
James Charles."
Because I said those things, that does
that not mean that I hate James Charles.
But my personal favorite part of this
video is when he says there's no hate in
this heart..
There is no actual hate in this heart.
He also says that he's not going to give
the people what they want.
He's not going to come out with receipts
and cancel anyone today.
They want me to open up my phone and
expect me to expose it all.
He basically says that he was being
manipulated about James and being fed
things that wasn't necessarily true.
There are people telling me a lot of stuff
The video ends by him saying that he's
done with the tea and he's done with the
drama. He would then precede to have to
and the Tati and drama for the next like
four years. And something important to
note is that during this time, both
Jeffree and Shane Dodsan were pretty much
PR nightmares and there was both trying
to like quickly clean up and do a little
damage control and fans found resurfaced
images and videos of them doing various
problematic things. And, imagine that as
Jeffree Star's fans are demanding him to
take accountability for some old
problematic stuff. He decides it's time
to rewrite history a little bit when
it comes to his loyalty to James Charles.
Meanwhile, Shane Dolsan was having a
much harder time dealing with facing
his actions, because the thing about Shane
Dolsan is that he crumbles. He crumbles
under pressure. Meanwhile, Jeffree
Star, like I don't want to harm
psychology him, but he like might actually
be a psychopath. He is able to lie himself
out of any situation. Just like that.
Easy, simple. But this guy having to face
the ramifications of let's see. Let's
check our notes. Umm..
Black face. Racist characters.
Said the n-word. Said very various
other slurs. Various instances of
sexualizing minors and etc. There
was so much backlash with this that
YouTube temporarily demonatized Shane's
channel, which is really funny because it
all comes back to him not being able to
handle the heat. Like Jeffree Star's
channel, fine. What did Jeffree Star do?
A lot. Pretty similar things actually, but
he could take the heat and so imagine
you are on your tenth Youtube apology
pretty much and you have a bunch of
dirty little bug bites al over your neck
ok and you have scabies and you're
salivating *hag
I am so sorry that I sexualized Will
Smith. Nobody gives a f***!
Shane Dolsan f******cry.
Shane Dolson, that is your mindset ok.
You are going just a little bit loopy
already and then June 30th, Tati drops
a video called "Breaking My Silence".
And in this video, Tati says that she
was coerced into making bisister by
Shane Dolsan and Jeffree Star.
I made it as a result of all of the
poisonous lies that were fed to me by
Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star.
Fuck! This is so Netflix short little
special coded, limited series. There you
go! That's the fucking word. So Tati says
that she's apologized to James Charles
and that they met up together in private
and compared screenshots that they have
from both Jeffree and Shane
and come to the conclusion that this
whole thing was a mass
manipulation from both of them.
And according to Tati, she learned
that being friends with Jeffree Star
is like being friends with a lion.
I learned that being friends with Jeffree
Star like being friends with a lion. He
may have been dangerous but he was always
really kind to me.
Mind you, anybody at any age can be
manipulated. This is a very true.
However, in my opinion, there is no way
that she's not at least partially
responsible for some of this. And I can't
stress this enough okay. Don't freak out.
Don't freak out. Every character in this
story sucks. We have our main character,
predator backing in oven. We got racist
guy #1. We have a racist guy # 2 and at
least, petty vitamin woman. So on this v
video Tati makes a series of new claims,
okay. So, first off, she says that when
she met Jeffree Star, she knew he had a
controversial past but that she took it
among herself to try to make him a better
person and that get him involved with her
favorite charity, which did not work. She
also claims to have known nothing about
Shane Dawson's past and that she
did no research on him like all she knew
that he was the "most adored documentarian
on YouTube".
I wish I had educated myself and I was
aware of his earlier content.
In my opinion, this truly doesn't add up
because we are talking about Shane *gasp
Dawson. But anyways, she goes on to say
that Shane told her that he was making
a documentary about the beauty community.
and that it is rapidly developing and
rapidly changing due to new information
that Jeffree Star had collected on
James Charles. She said it was Shane's
idea to make bisister and even went as
far as to offer to edit it for her.
And when Tati hesitated, he sent her
a voice memo about an alleged victim of
James.
It wasn't enough for me to contact the
authorities. It was enough to scare me.
Jeffree and Shane claimed that as soon as
she posted bisister, a plethora of
victims were going to come forward.
But then they never did. Tati goes on
to theorize that Shane and Jeffree
actually orchestrated this whole thing
as a plot to destroy James because they
were jealous of his career trajectory and
they wanted as much attention as possible
when they released their collaborative
palette the "Conspiracy palette". She then
gets super tin-foiled-atty at the end and
says that she believes that there were
many more players involved to
orchestrate this whole thing, and that it
is not a coincidence that after the whole
fallout, Morphe came out with gummy
vitamins.
I do not think it is a coincidence that
Morphe is about to launch their own
brand of hair and nail gummy vitamins.
I have beef with every single one of
these people. Like we can grab. I don't
give a shit. But Tati, even though she is
not the biggest villain here by far,
really irks me because I feel like she
acted completely out of selfishness.
I agree that it is plausible to have
been manipulated by Shane ad Jeffree,
like especially Jeffree. But if Tati
truly, truly believed that the allegations
that Shane and Jeffree were telling her
were real and that serious, why did she
make the majority of bisister about gummy
vitamins? Why did she falsely accuse him
of sexually harassing waiter amongst other
things. Conclusively, the entire video
was based on somebody else's lies, but
she double downed on it multiple times
over the course of several months and
holds virtually no accountability for
causing the cultural switch against James,
who at this point, she is saying is
completely innocent. And like above all
else, I think the biggest issue is the
fact that she says that there's a voice
memo that is damning enough
that warranted her going through
with that public flogging, yet now
she is saying wait! That wasn't real.
And the question you might be asking
right now is what the fuck is in the
voice memo? Well, it's currently 2024 and
we still don't have the answer to that.
But there's been a ton of speculation
as to who it is. A lot of people theorize
that it's Grace and Dolan since Jeffree
made that claim about James molesting
him in his sleep. People also think this
because by the cultural shift back to
liking James, the Dolan twins still
haven't followed him back or even
publicly spoke to him but I'm not saying
that I believe this. This is just a
theory. I hope that's not true. With
Jeffree Star though, it is really hard to
tell what is actually true and
what's total bunk, because he seems to
always merge partial truths with lies.
And so it's like okay, part of this
could be true but that might not make the
entire story have validity. But in the
aftermath of the breaking my silence
video, Shane Dawson gets on a Intagram
live stream and starts like tweaking.
This is insane! This is insane! This
woman is like a fucking, omg!
This entire live stream consists of him
calling Tati a liar and running around
his house like he just drank iced coffee
and he has to take a shit.
I can't, I can't. I don't want to say mean
things about people. This is insane.
This is insane.
It's actually hilarious because I love
shaming Shane Dawson while he's down
and I would again. For legal purposes this
is a joke, but I wish that we could
collectively blast Shane Dawson into the
sun. James Just responds to all this
public freaking out that's just a tweet
that says "love you guys!"
All this same day, Trisha
also uploaded a video called "Tati's dumb
as hell" which I only mentioning because
it is so off the cuff and untethered.
And to summarize it in one clip:
"I was beyond gaslit, no we are just
stupid".
In the following days, Morphe cut ties
with Jeffree Star.
Morphe said they made the decision
to cease all commercial activity related
to Jeffree Star and related products
within the coming in the coming weeks.
And in the April 20th, he would go on
mom's basement podcast and reaffirm
to keep Team Star that James Charles
is a monster and that he still has the
voice memo of the alleged victim but
doesn't want to publicly out them.
Yet 2 months later, on July 18th, 2020,
he would release a video called "Doing
what's right" and in this video Jeffree
says a whole lot of f***** up.
He's like "Hey guys, I am not going
cancel anyone today. Sorry, I am not
coming in with steaming hot tea today
ya'll."
Today I will not be sitting her showing
a million texts messages and all these
things that allegedly are out there.
He goes on to say that he's done with
all the drama and that's there bigger
things in the world to worry about and
I honestly forgot that this apology
happened in 2020. So I was sent into a
whole whiplash when I heard him
say that we need to focus on Black Lives
Matter. Okay, back up. We are backing up.
Jeffree, first of all, you've made a lot
of claims buddy, and now you are coming
on your being like sorry, I am not
involved in any of this drama, "Drama",
when it is something supposedly serious.
And then you are deflecting the
conversation on to Black Lives Matter?
What? What? He literally uses murdered
people of color to take the attention off
of him, making claims that James is
a predator.
Black trans men are being murdered
every day and the news is silent.
Like, there are no words to describe this
chat. Are they words to describe this?
Are there words for something so
despicable? James is kind of like a
predator and a danger to society. But
that's like drama though. It's kind of
like "Hi, everybody. Welcome back to my
channel". The Freudian Slip. Meanwhile,
right after this whole Jeffree podcast
debacle, James Charles goes on impulsive
which is even Jake Paul's or Logan Paul's
Podcast. I don't know because I use their
names interchangeably and I don't know
who's who but this podcast seems chill
and it seems inconsequential at first.
But then James starts dropping bombs
left and right, like let me show you some
bullet points of what this man publicly
admits. A little over an hour into
the interview, James claims that he is
far more mature than other people his age.
By the way, he's currently 21 in this
interview. Then he then goes on to say
that he's just not attracted to older
men and the absolute lowest that he would
date was either 18 or 19 but looks a
little bit older and he says the absolute
lowest that he would date
The absolute youngest, like 18, 19, that
looks a little bit older.
This is already more than a little
questionable, like what is the point of
dating somebody who is 18 or 19 but
looks a little bit older. What is the
point of them being 18 and you just
said that you are more mature than
everyone else your age. So, why do you
want to date somebody more immature.
But as if that wasn't bad enough, a few
minutes later he goes on to say something
even weirder. He says that he tried to
fly boys out to LA because a lot
of them don't have any money or they
are still in high school or I mean a
senior in high school.
Because you can't afford a plane ticket,
you are probably still in either in high
school or still in college, a senior in
high school or in college.
Oh, so you really said that. Hmmm, and
who makes mistakes like that.
There's Madeline here who. Who makes
that kind of mistake and it's a probably
a minor. Admitting to outsourcing
teenagers from other states at the age
of 21 is crazy. And they didn't even have
to waterboard that out of him.
By the way, might I mention that nobody
had a negative response to this? Like
the boys on this podcast are just like
Oh, yeah! Totally! Maybe they just felt
awkward or wanted to keep the peace. Like
didn't know what to say. But damn, if that
was me, I would have a visceral,
uncontrollable reaction like what? And
not to be to be grossed ok. But like
these bold boys that he's outsourcing are
are literally the same age as his little
brother. Like does he see his brother
as in an equal when it comes to maturity
and growth. Oh yeah, and last question.
Have you seen every person on Earth
that is your same age or a little bit
older than you. Have you? How have you
already determined that you're not
attracted to people older than you.
There's people that older than all of
us that just look youthful. So what is it
really about, James? The last thing I
want to say about this interview, because
I can honestly talk about it forever, is
that he also claims that he wouldn't date
a fan in it.
You wouldn't date a fan?
No.
Just remember that ok?
On September 1, 2020, James would do a
collab with Emma Chamberlain, and this was
the first time that these two would
reunite since before dramageddon. In an
interview with the paparazzi, Emma also
said that her and James weren't in a
really good place. But when asked about
the Dolan twins, she basically says
"Don't hold your breath".
With the Dolan twins that if
everybody can get on the same page?
No promises.
On September 16, 2020, James would have a
mini controversy over some allegedly
stolen designs. Now as you can see here,
this is a color block, Sister's merch
hoodie, okay. And now let's compare it
to a hoodie that was originally designed
by Teddy Fresh, a.k.a. H Threes brand.
Well obviously, James' says Sister on the
front and this one just has like a red
square that says the fresh.
The sweater is the exact color grading.
Like it's the exact same shades and the
exact same spots. And when James was
confronted about this, he said he had
never heard of their brand before. Despite
the fact that people were quick to point
out that one of James' best friends, Lorai
had pictures in that exact Teddy Fresh
hoodie on his Instagram and was even
featured on the Teddy Fresh Instagram
page. And like, obviously, no one owns
colors. But the fact that they were the
exact same shades and the same areas.
It's just a suspicious set of lace.
Also, just generally speaking, James'
hoodie is just really ugly.
In October, James got his very own
YouTube original show called Instant
Influencer and it was a competition where
amateur influencers competed for
a $10,000 video setup, a collab with
James Charles, and $50,000 cash.
And the sheriff evolved around doing
different challenges. One very noteworthy
one is in episode where they do an
apology video challenge.
I just really want to apologize and I
want to change. *Sob Sob
Just, just terribly ironic and if I
can be completely honest with you guys
right now. If I had just one teeny James
Charles wish on a star. It would be that
Instant Influencer could come back but
obviously with a different host, because
this show is actually good. Like
literally, YouTube, can we get somebody
else, literally anybody else to host the
show. I've throw a shower. Let's go!
Of course, I already spoiled this for you
but the show does not exist anymore.
And I'm sure you already guessed why.
In February of 2021, a minor came forward
and alleged that James asked him for
totally explicit photos and videos over
Snapchat. The minor questioned, posted a
Tik Tok where he explained that he had
previously dmed James because he was a
fan.
Prove it to you right now. This is the
notification that I got when he snapchated
me first and this is further proof that
he deleted the chat in a way to deleted.
That's totally in his Snapchat.
And so he began sending snaps back and
forth and one day, James saw that he was
in the bathroom, so he began making the
conversation very sexual.
So, he started making the conversation
very and sexual and really got
uncomfortable.
Saying disgusting things like "Take a
video of yourself in the shower" and "Can
I see your muscles and hair". He then
began sending nudes of himself, which
I cannot show you, but I tell you why
this. It is very clearly James Charles'
musty BBL booty. Once he sent these nudes,
the victim told him that he was only 16,
to which James allegedly replied, "Oh,
but I haven't seen your dick yet". Then
after saying he didn't want to send nudes
James kept hounding him for them anyways.
Like, for example, in this screenshot here
he says, "It would literally take you 30
seconds to take a pic like this, awww".
James would later claim that the boy
told him that he was 18. In a Notes app
response on Twitter. And until the art in
lame Twitter notes app thing is that James
said that the boy messaged him excitedly,
telling him he loved him. And so, he began
talking to him without asking for ID.
And I find this really interesting
because he just said on the impulsive
Podcast that he did not want to date a
fan, but in conclusion he says, "I will
know be asking everybody for IDs. The
fact that he's like, I'm still going to
DM questionably young people but I am
still going to be asking for IDs now is
crazy. Also, even if they are 18, like I
said, seeking out a barely legal
18-year-old is creepy. Jeebs!
How does it make it ok? This is still
your teenage 18. That's a teenager fan.
Also in February, yet another underage
fan came forward. This time it was a
14-year-old and he also said that James
sent him unsolicited nudes and
inappropriate videos of himself. This boy
alleges that he reached out to James
Charles on a dare, not expecting James
to answer of course, but when he did,
he got very excited. Of course, this is
a famous person so, he wants to talk to
him. James then added him on Snapchat.
Are you seeing a pattern?
Are you seeing this? He claims that James
kept pressuring him to come out to LA
and that he was also trying to get him
to question his sexuality. And remember
that Impulsive Interview?
Even they confess that they can't afford
a plane ticket. It's like ok but I can.
So, get on the plane.
Wow, this alleged victim literally thought
that he was speaking about him in that
segment. Also, big shout out to Paige
Christie. I was literally only able to
find this information from her video. Like
so much of this has been just like
scrubbed from the internet, like Big
Sister is like watching. Trisha Paytas
replied to this whole situation saying
like: "I'll say without a shadow of a
doubt. James Charles in the only creator
that deserves to be banned and stripped
from all social platform. He's abusing by
sexting with minors!!! Repeated behavior
happening as recent as a few days ago.
This is an actual predator/pedophile.
I have to say I'm completely agree
and I don't know if he's the only one,
But I do completely agree that he should
not be on Tik Tok or YouTube or Instagram.
Like, and it just gets worse. On April 1,
James would upload "Holding myself
accountable in response to all of these
allegations". Yes, it's true he posted a
response to grooming allegations on April
1st. Now this video makes me mad from
beginning to end. He basically says he
trusted the information that was given
to him rather than the info that he
could've or should've gotten himself.
And yeah, that's true, but I feel like
he's immediately deflecting from the
fact that even what you thought you were
doing is wrong. James then goes on to
list being desperate for the reason for
why he makes all these dating faux paus.
And it is ridiculously embarrassing to
admit this but I'm desperate.
And then he starts bracingly lying like
outright like a dog, lying. He says that I
will partially quote so that I don't have
to play like a long clip and get
copyrighted or something. It's really
looking like I'm an actively searching for
younger people to be in a relationship
with and that's absolutely not the case.
My hope is that it always been in
a relationship with somebody around my
age or older.
Hey, wait a minute! Isn't this the exact
opposite thing of what you said earlier
this year.
I'm not physically attracted to older
guys which sucks.
He concludes the video with a detailed
description of how he came to the
realization that him talking to fans
created a power imbalance and that from
the get go he should of never had these
conversations to begin with because he
ignored red flags. Wave the red flags is
IOU. I have to saw is while this apology
video is definitely not is well received
and we will talk about it in a second.
He is pretty clever. I will say that.
His use of language really disassociates
himself with the facts of everything. He
says, for example.
And for that, for the example, so, so
sorry.
Okay, these are kids and these are not
just victims, they're your victims.
Ironically, holding myself accountable
would later be deleted. Later that month,
Morphee would release a statement saying
that they are permanently cutting ties
with James. But in the eyes of a lot of
fans, this was too little too late.
In light of the recent allegations against
James Charles, Morphee and James
have agreed to leave and our business
relationship and wine down sales of the
Morphe x James Charles product offering.
It is and has always been Morphe's goal
to create a positive, safe and
empowering space for all beauty lovers can
freely share their artistry and passion
for cosmetics. And Morphe is fully
committed in furthering that goal. I don't
know too much about PR but fuck all
if that wasn't really bad. First of all,
waited weeks to say anything and
when they finally did, they were
like we and James have decided to scale
back. Like, what do you mean we? Fans
were also quick to point out that all the
James Charles products were still being
sold at full price on their website. This
same week, YouTube announced that they
would be temporarily demonetizing James'
channel and as a result of all this, James
took a four month break off of social
media. When he returned he posted a
selfie on Instagram and announced that he
just posted a video called "An Open
Conversation" and I will say that this is
incredible on brand the worst way. Now the
comments on "An Open Conversation" are
so funny and this is this is the first
time that I have truly felt and notice
that there were so many people just done
with him. Like this video only has six
million views and I know that that's a
lot still, but in comparison to other
videos, even such as taking accountability
there was a huge dip in viewership. And
these people made the right call for
obvious reasons, and were also
fortunate enough to not bear witness to
this video turning into a makeup get ready
with me at the 4 minute mark.
An you guys know I posted my
"Holding Myself Accountable" video.
Absolutely dystopian fear. Getting sued!
In the following month of May, a former
employee of James, named Kelly Rocklein
sued James for wrongful termination.
And, let me just read you one of these
headlines so you can get the full gravity
of this situation.
James Charles' ex-employee speaks out
about lawsuit, claiming he didn't pay
overtime and asked her to shave his
butt. Ummmmm.
To get into the nitty gritty, the
specifics of the suit though, she
alleges that one, James had her working
12-hour days, seven days a week. Two,
that when she was promoted from video
editor to producer, he didn't hire
anybody to take over the former
position, so she was left doing both.
Three, she was not paid overtime for
any of this, and four, that she had
suffered a head injury in front of James
Charles. To quote this business insider
article directly, the head injury resulted
in her experiencing headaches,
temporarily loss of consciousness,
confusion, amnesia and other ailments,
according to the complaint. She alleges
Charles was not sympathetic to her
recovery needs and callously accused her
of not being dedicated to her job as a
result of her work being delayed when
she was hospitalized. And right after
Kelly returned from being hospitalized,
she was fired, despite never having
received negative feedback. Kelly also
alleges that James used the n-word in
front of her with the R & R and everything
More on the ass situation, Kelly says
that James walked around the house naked
and call her names like "bitch" and once
texted her, "Kelly, I need help shaving
my butt in preparation for a revealing
Coachella outfit. James ha since publicly
denied all of this in a lengthy Twitter
video.
Just the craziest claims you can ever
imagine.
But the suit is still ongoing.
Although, I will say I can totally see him
doing all these things. Kelly, get behind
me. 2022 was a relatively quiet year for
this MF. Like, his only controversy was
talking on Instagram and twerking while
talked which resulted in him losing
130,000 followers in a day and I won't
show you that video here because you don't
deserve that. Everybody say "Thank you
Nikki!" And by the way, if you didn't
unfollow him for the groping but you did
for the talking and the twerking, I don't
know. It might be time for me to take
you out behind the barn and shoot you.
Since May 6, 2023, Morphe would end up
closing all of it's stores and this was a
crazy thing to happen for anybody who was
really into makeup in 2019 and 2020.
Like, it was a very popular store to the
point where it was valued at $2 billion at
it's peak, but the company had made the
unfortunate decision of fully investing
into James Charles and Jeffree Starr to
be the focal point of their stores,
especially James, like seriously I did not
know what the hell Morphe was before his
palette. The brand name had kind of become
synonymous with James, like he was their
most successful product. In other words,
James Charles is virtually the reason why
Morphe died. Like, that is very crazy to
think about. Bro brought down an entire
industry. On July 13, 2023, Cosmopolitan
published an article about James titled
"James Charles would like to be
uncancelled, please". This article, quite
frankly, is a blasphemous peace of trash.
Honestly, the woman who wrote it,
Gabrielle Bluestone should have to serve
public service for 6 months, just for
writing this shit, because it is so foul
you need to picking things up on the
highway. Get out of here. Let me just
read you a direct quote from here.
It's no surprise that a star's willingness
to answer any intimate questions about a
catastrophic stretch of their lives,
including pieces dramatically when they
have a project to promote. In today's
case, that is ostensibly Charles' new
makeup line "Painted". But it's also
Charles himself. This very interview is to
be a triplum. It's reception, the answer
to the question both of us and maybe
you, too. If what auto-populates in
Google search can be believed, are here to
ask, "Is James Charles still cancelled?"
So, that alone, basically self-diagnoses
itself that it purely exists for James to
win over public brownie points, so that
his new makeup line can do better.
Bluestone also writes, "When I pulled
friends and colleagues about Charles in
the run-up to this state, the general
consensus was that he had done
something bad, but no one was clear on
exactly what. This to me feels like her
claiming that these random civilians in
her office not knowing what James Charles
did is evidence that he hasn't done
anything that serious or at least less
serious than people are making it out to
be. Would is a real logical hootenanny,
I tell you that. The article then goes on
to say the wildest like, like...
My cat's looking at me. He's more cautious
now, although not so much that he's giving
up on the DM sliding completely. Instead,
he started requiring potential romantic
interests to provide ids before he'll
engage. I'm a club bouncer at this point,
he says, which even still hasn't stopped
the occasional breach of trust.
Earlier this year, a TikTok user shared
snippets of a flirtatious conversation he
had with Charles and which outlines his
requirements for a boyfriend. Charles
also tells me he recently caught a
17-year-old trying to lie about his age by
taking out a digit on his ID. And when she
asked James why, he wouldn't just use a
regular dating app to find a partner, he
basically says that he feels to exposed
on apps and that anybody can take a screen
shot of his profile and brag and tell
their friends about it. Ummm and ahhh,
but ummm, I don't know how to say this
nicely so, Are you stupid? How is talking
to people on social media any less risky
than using a dating app. The article just
got done saying that somebody leaked a
private DM on to the internet that was
from Instagram. It wasn't from a dating
app. It's also from a dating app you can
instantly verify like somebody's age. You
can investigate whether or not there are
catfish. You can investigate their social
media, if they have a link to the profile.
And so, at this point, I really have no
choice to assume that this isn't just
stupidity. It's malicious. Because you
know who's not on dating apps? Minors!
In September of 2023, James was seen
asking for a 17-year-old's age on a
TikTok live stream. And I mean, do I even
have to say anything? This is a direct
result of the same repeated behavior over
and over again. I found this clip from
Frenemies of all places that kind of
perfectly summarizes how I feel about
this.
Because you know what? These people
who are sick like this? They keep doing
it, but sick people can't help themselves
but do it again.
A normal person would have stopped. A
predator cannot help themselves.
In January of 2024, another boy would
come forward with claims that James had
talked to him inappropriately while he was
a minor, and this boy actually has a
screen shot of James sliding in his DMs
and saying "Age Check!".
He dmmed me that and I responded and I
said, " I am a very mature 16."
And, something that made me very sad
about this TikTok, where he talks about
all the inappropriate conversations that
they had was that had he says "I know
I shouldn't have been talking to him like
that. I know I had no business ta