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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
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
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
over the years,

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James Charles is truly somebody who
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
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
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
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
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
James Charles Deepdive.

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James Charles (or James Charles
Dickinson)

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was born on May 23, 1999 in Bethlehem,
New York.

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

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

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In 2010, at the age of 11, he started his

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very first YouTube channel called
JaysCoding.

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This channel mostly consisted of him
covering songs like

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"Pumped Up Kicks".

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♫ "You better run, better run
faster than my bullet." ♫

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"Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood.

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♫ "Carved my name
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
wholesome,

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this would be the start
of a very troubling

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pattern of him
singing unprompted.

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Although my personal favorite video
that I found on JaysCoding

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

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Like, bro really uploaded an
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
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
makeup tutorials, such as

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serpent makeup tutorial and
Snapchat Galaxy makeup tutorial.

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

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

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everyone's makeup looked
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
audience from posting these tutorials.

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But the inciting incident, the
catalyst that would launch

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James Charles' career happened in
September of 2016.

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And this moment would have irreversible
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
photographer to come back

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and let him retake the pictures
with his ring light.

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

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his brows have a good
Roblox look to them.

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

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What the f**k?

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Anyways, his friend convinces
him to post these

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new glamorous pictures online
and they go extremely viral.

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Like, this picture of James
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
first male CoverGirl.

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Now because this was 2016, it stirred
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
old Twitter thread

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where people are just bitching about this
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
a woman compares

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James being on CoverGirl to a white
person doing blackface.

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Um, nurse, she's out again!

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Anyways, outisde of these rando's making
a stink out of it,

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This opened up a lot of opportunities

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for James,

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I mean, he went on Ellen, I guess that's
not that impressive though

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As I mentioned in the JoJo Siwa video,
you could literally fart into a bucket

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and somehow make it on Ellen at this 
point in time.

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And as his fame was escalating,

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he did his first ever fan meet.

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Only 50 people showed up to
to this event,

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and one of the videos that was taken there

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was turned into a meme because at

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somepoint, James just sat down
on the ground and started singing?

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♫Bring me little (??) Bring me little♫

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I don't know what my favorite part about
this meme is, it might be

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the snapchat caption that says f*ck it up

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which insinuates that he's doing a good
job singing right now

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or it could be the fact that he raises

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his finger up as if he's hitting those
high notes

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This was of course the very first time

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that he was turned into a meme

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but it certainly would not be the last

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This same year, James did a covergirl
promotion with Zendaya

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And oh my God, this has gotta be

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one of the most unintentionally funny
videos I've ever seen.

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So this video that they're doing
is a challenge to see what makeup

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looks they could come up with in the span
of 5 minutes

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and so they're both in a rush,
and trying to showcase these covergirl

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products along the way