An Unhinged James Charles Deepdive

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 23, 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:

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 rando's 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
to this event,

and one of the videos that was taken there

was turned into a meme because at

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

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

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

the snapchat caption that says f*ck 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 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