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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 3rd, 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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reads tweet.
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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 randos 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 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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some point James just sat down on the
ground and started singing.
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♫ Bring me a little water now!
Bring me little water, Sylvie!♫
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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**k 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's 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.
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And about 30 seconds in, James gets
befuddled and just starts
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copying Zendaya and then acts like
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everything he's doing was his idea.
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- "I used it on my inner corner."
- "Same."
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(Huh??)
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- "I used this as a base for the blue."
- "Yeah, same."
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And not only this,
the end result is so bad,
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she absolutely ate him up, I can't
believe this video exists.
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These two people should not exist in the
same universe.
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James would soon also start doing collabs
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with massive YouTubers like Tana Mongeau,
Joey Graceffa, and even
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non-YouTubers like Maddie Ziegler.
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However, he would soon find himself in his
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very first controversy, and that is the
"Ebola" tweet.
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On Febuary 16, 2017, James writes:
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reads tweet.
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So obviously this is very out of touch
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and just kind of assumes that Africa is
like a diseased-riddled area,
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and so people were not happy about this.
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And so the very same day he
did his first public apology ever.
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He wrote:
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reads tweet.
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And people definitely still thought James
was racist for, like, a good month
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after this.
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But the discourse got completely
overshadowed by the events of
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March 5th, 2017, which was the birth of
Flashback Mary.
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So what happened was that
James was at an event
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and he had WAY too much
powder on his face,
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and so when they took this picture of him,
it caused a flashback that gave him this,
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like, ghostly, ghoulish, sinister
SCP look to him.
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And the internet was immediately
obsessed with this.
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Like, this is definitely one of the
biggest memes that has hit the Internet.
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Ask anyone, ask your grandma,
ask your
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local pastor, they know
Flashback Mary.
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The main comparison that was being made
to James was of this spider from-
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what is this show called?
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It's called Miss Spider's
Sunny Patch Friends.
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Like, I can't express to you
how many times
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I've seen this image against my will,
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I wish I could permaban it from my brain.
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Something a little disappointing about
this meme, though, is that the
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widespread image of Flashback
Mary is not the real one.
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This is the real one, and I will say, the
flashback is still really bad,
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but whoever edited this picture
just made it 70 times worse.
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An interesting artifact of the time that I
found was this Redbubble page
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that just exclusively sells Flashback Mary
furniture, such as clocks and pillows.
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I really don't understand Redbubble,
people will just sell
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tych-fck-ehchk-ANYTHING there.
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Anyways, though, speaking of James
Charles' foundation, he does not
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know how to match that shit.
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Like, there's entire compilations
of him doing just that.
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And in this video specifically, he
describes himself as having
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warm undertones.
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"GASP. That looks like it could be
such a good match for me,
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everyone is convinced that my skintone
is, like, not warm."
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Girl, you are PINK! You are PINK!
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I think the funniest part about all
of this, though, is that he
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literally has a YouTube video trying,
like, 40 different foundation shades, and
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in the end he still chooses the wrong one.
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Side note, though, another James
Charles-ism is that he chronically misuses
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Facetune, especially in this era.
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And to be fair, he's never hid that he
uses Facetune, but it just looks so bad
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that I don't understand why he continues
to do it. Like, when I see these pictures,
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I get uncanny valley, Russian
Sleep Experiment, creepypasta vibes.
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Moving on, though, we have the "It"
debacle of 2017.
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Now, the It debacle began on September
7th when James tweeted about
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how he was gonna go see It, and
how excited he was about it.
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But literally five minutes into the movie,
he started tweeting about how bad
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it was, which, of course, is just nutty
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because how have you already
decided that
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you don't like the movie, and it's only
been five minutes?
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And, like, why are you even on your phone?
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About thirty minutes later,
James tweets again,
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and this time, he says:
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reading tweet.
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Both of these tweets annoyed people for
obvious reasons.
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Like, he's just been texting the entire
movie.
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It doesn't even sound like he's been
watching it to know if it's bad!
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And so in response to all the people
questioning why he's doing this,
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he writes:
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reads tweet.
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But then,
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Finn Wolfhard replies to one of these
tweets and says:
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reads tweet
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Granted, at this time, I think Finn was
12 or 13 maybe.
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And so James tweets:
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reads tweet.
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Which sounds like he's accepting the
end of this.
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Like, this should be the end of the
conversation.
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But instead, he starts backtracking times
3,000, and he says:
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reads tweet.
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For the next few hours, people on
Twitter would not leave him alone
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about why he was texting in the
movie theater.
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And so he eventually says:
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reads tweet.
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And this dug his grave in even more.
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Because people were like, "What do you
mean 'everyone does it,'
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like, everyone does not do that!"
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Personally, as an AMC Stubs member,
this pains me.
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Follow me on Letterboxd so I can
feel important.
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But this caused people to start doing
polls about whether or not people
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actually texted people during movies.
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And the results were, of course,
overwhelmingly NO.
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No they do not!
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And again, this should've been the end of
the conversation, but he just keeps
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acknowledging it, and he ends up filming
an apology video in the backseat
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of an Uber.
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(James talking:) "I want to personally
apologize to Finn and anybody else
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involved in the making of the movie It."
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And regardless of all of this, a couple
days later, he ended up doing an
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It makeup tutorial.
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(James doing a Pennywise voice:)
"Hiya, sisters! James Charles
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here, and welcome back to my
YouTube channel!"
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Which, by the way, the first six
seconds of this video
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changed my life for the worse, so I'm
gonna make you see this too.
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(dubstep, intense music)
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(scream sound effect)
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In 2018, the "Sister Squad formed
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And this was basically just of long
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squad of these four best friends that
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consisted of... I mentioned Ethan Dolan,
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Grayson Dolan, and of course
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James himself. Now Eathan Dolan / Grayson
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had a huge Youtube channel that they
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have been making videos on since 2014
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And James ended up meeting them in late
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2017 after he left he left a bunch of very
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Questionably, thirsty Tweets on both of
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Their Instagrams. These includes comments
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Such as "Run me over with that
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Motorcycle, daddy". "Choke me with that
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Seatbelt, daddy".
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And last but not least, " Hit me with that
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Stick, daddy".
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On June 9, 2018, the first ever "Sister
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Squad" video was posted and this
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Had a cultural impact like no other
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Squad at the time. I don't care what
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Anyone says. This is the truth.
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The "Sister Squad" was such an
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Immediate success and all their videos
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Were pretty much just them hanging out.
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Each one of the "Sister Squad" videos got
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Around 30 million views a piece.
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And so, they say that people were
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invested.
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In this friend's group dynamic
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'It would be an understatement.
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The most notable dynamics was that of.
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Emma and Grayson because it was heavily
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theorized that they secretly dating while
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fans were constantly speculating them.,
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making entire compilations of their
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interactions. And secondly was the
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dynamic between James and Grayson.
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It was pretty much an open secret that
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James had a crush on Grayson and there's
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entire compilations of him unsuccessfully
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flirting with him. And there's
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definitely some of the incidents were
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preplanned as a joke, but there's
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also many that were pretty much very raw.
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Very real like you can feel the rejection
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in the air like groaning
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this is very important to remember when
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we get to bisister, so just keep this is
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in mind that this group being able to
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make millions and millions of views per
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video and despite the way they seem so
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close in these videos. These two things
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have appeared to cause some turmoil
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because by February 4th, 2019, Emma
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unfollowed all of them and to be fair,
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she did unfollow everyone but like six
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people and posted on her story that she
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had done that for a social media purge.
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But to be honest, it doesn't really make
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sense because if you are doing a social
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media purge I think you still follow your
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closest friends and just not anyone else.
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So it kinda seemed like a convenient, uh,
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excuse. And James Charles's response to
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this was this tweet, "I posted a beautiful
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makeup look today but you wouldn't know"
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In November of 2018, James released his
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first ever makeup pallet. And this, of
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course, was James X Morphe. Now, let me
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tell you, this pallet was extremely
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popular at the time. Everyone that I
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knew had this, I had this, and it was just
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generally really well recieved. So this
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new level of entrepreneurship really
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brought him up a threshold of passionate
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passionate fans. Like he did an appearance
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at a Morphe store in Birmingham and
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8,000 people showed up to the mall to see
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him and it literally caused gridlock
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outside of the store, like people were
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trapped in their cars. That is how
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popular he was at the time. However, it
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wouldn't be long until James found himself
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in another controversy. Also, oh my god, I
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almost forgot to mention that he was
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singing unprompted in front of this Morphe
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as well.
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singing
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The 2019 Sisters Tour. So James was doing
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a tour across the country and the most
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expensive ticket that you could buy to see
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him was $500. Which, a lot of people
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were quick to call a scam. And he received
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a ton of backlash for this. Personally, I
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don't think this was a scam because you
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were going to get what you paid for. Like,
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it says right here what's included with
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this. It says, "Exclusive hangout with
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James Charles and the other Sister VIPS.
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One on one photo with James Charles.
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Exclusive Sisters VIP goodie bag. And
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exclusive autograph tour laminate. Front
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row seats and early access to merchandise
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vendors". Okay, that last one is crazy.
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Like, if your spending $500, I think you
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should get some free merch. In no way do I
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feel like this is worth $500 and like, in
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my perspective, I would feel like an
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asshole to hide a meet and greet with me
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behind a $500 paywall. However, if you
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really wanted to have all that stuff and
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spend $500, that is your business. James
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did say that he would try to talk to his
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team about lowering the prices, but they
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did remain the same. And in case your
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wondering what the luxury VIP James
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Charles experience was like, there's a
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video on YouTube titled, "I PAID $500
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TO SING WITH JAMES CHARLES" and it's him
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surrounded by a huge group of girls
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singing Listen by Beyonce very poorly.
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singing
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A genuine perk I see for anyone who went
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on this tour though, was that they got to
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witness the New Rules kick. In real time.
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video plays
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This became a meme just purely out of
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being the perfect storm. People just found
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out that some tickets to the tour cost
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$500 and then they see this. Poor
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singing and poor dancing. And that third
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miscellaneous kick, muah.
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Welcome back! Now we're entering the calm
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before the storm and what I mean by that
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is that we are on the cusp of dramageddon
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This is literally April 2019 and no one
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had a single clue that the biggest drama
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of the internet would ever see what about
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to occur. Now, let me introduce to the
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central characters of the dramageddon.
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Ok, so here we have Tati Westbrook. She
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was a beauty guru as well as James'
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mentor and close friend. He even referred
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to her as a mother figure. As you can see
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here, this is James doing Tati's wedding
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makeup like that's how like this was how
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close they were and prior to these
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coming events, Tati had started her own
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supplement company in 2018 called Halo
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Beauty, and they basically sold like hair
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vitamins and skin vitamins, hoopla hoopla.
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Enter Jeffree Star. If you don't know who
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Jeffree Star is, he's probably in the top
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10 worst people on the internet and to
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fully explain why that is that would
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require like a whole three hour video.
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inaudible
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he has a very successful makeup company
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called "Jeffree Star Cosmetics" and his
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channel at this time was massive in the
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beauty community. However, not
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as massive as James' and side note,
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in 2024 he lives on a farm and sells yak
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meat. So, there's that. Our last big
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dramageddon figure is Shane Dodsen.
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Shane is probably also on that top 10 list
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of worse people online. Come to think of
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it, James is too, but we will cross that
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bridge when we get there. What is
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important to know now though, is that in
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landscape of 2019 YouTube, for some reason
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Jane Dodsen, like a respected
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documentarian, and he has just done a
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documentary series about Jeffree Star.
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Looking back on it, these videos were not
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good and 60% of them were just like
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filler but each and every one of them got
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around 30 million views. With that it
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mind, this brings us to Coachella 2019.
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This is where is all kicks off dude.
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During this time, James was "seeing" an
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influencer named Gage Gomez. "Seeing" it
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in air quotes because it was less of an
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actual relationship and more of actual
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like bicurious experimental time on Gage's
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end, but they were photographed at this
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Coachella multiple times, which made fans
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start to speculate that James had a
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boyfriend. And so, a lot of people began
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to tweet James about this and he actually
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responded to one of these tweets saying
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something along the lines of "No. I'm
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sadly still single. I was manipulated by
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a conman." I looked everywhere for this
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tweet and read it and writing down
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every thing it said at this point but
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can't find it anymore. So, sources that
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trust me. James just subtweeted
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that Gage, several times over the
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Coachella weekend, including this one
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which says, "I'm sitting sobbing in my
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hotel room at 8 am and have to be on set
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in an hour. This is no one's fault but
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my own because my dumbass continues to
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go for the same type of insecure cute
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boys and it gets me hurt, every single
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time. I was started fucking to hate
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myself". Tensions are rising. Things are
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bubbling up, ok. And the next day of the
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festival, James ended up getting mobbed
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by fans because for some reason he didn't
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have like a VIP ticket which would have
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let him in like exclusive spaces to not
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be around so many fans. And so, all these
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people are running up on him right. He is
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like, holy shit, what do I do? And this
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led him to text his friend and fellow
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beauty guru, Nikita Dragon. And he asked
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her for help about the sicky situation.
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And so, she connects him to the Sugarbear
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Hair Team, because they're had their
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own VIP tent space, and they were going
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to let James in and in exchange for him
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doing just one Sugarbear Hair
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ad on his Instagram story and so,
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with no other choice, he signs the
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contract and gets in that tent. But let
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it be known that Sugarbear Hair was a
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very popular was a very popular vitamin
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brand as in Beauty Vitamins, as in for
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your skin and face. A.K.A. a direct
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competitor to Tati Westbrook's
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brand "Halo Beauty" Dramageddon arrived!
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Her story in the making. On April 22,
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James posted his contraction obligated ad
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on Instagram. Notably, as you can see
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here, he's actually promoting their sleep
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gummies, not their skin or hair ones. But
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he does this and then he gets on a plane
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to Australia. For what I am about to say
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next, at this point in time Tati
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Westbrook is 37 years old and James was
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only 19. By the time James landed in
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Australia, Tati had already posted
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multiple stories of her crying and
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saying she feels so betrayed by a close
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friend and she had been taken advantage
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by somebody she thought she can trust and
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she helped so much and it was very
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obvious, like that she was talking about
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James. Like he literally just posted that
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Sugarbear Hair ad so, people added two
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plus two together so unbeknownst to James,
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thousands and thousands of people had
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begun adding him on Twitter, messaging
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him on Instagram. People he knew were
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sending him messages being like what's
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going on with you and Tati. And so, he
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gets off the plane, right. He sees this.
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He tries to call Tati. He tries to text
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her. He tries to call her husband.
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Neither of them answers but Tati just
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continues to post on Instagram. So, he
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decides to just make a public
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apology post. So the apology read," I want
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to publicly apologize to my close friend
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Tati. She has been like a mother to me
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since before my first days in this
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industry and has given me more love so
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important resources and advice that I
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could ever ask for. This weekend I did an
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Instagram story for sleep vitamins that
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I have been taking because the brand helps
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me with security when the crowd around me
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at Coachella became unsafe. I did not
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accept any money for the post. As most
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of you know, Tati has a vitamin brand
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which I take on a daily basis but at the
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moment, I did not think about the
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competition, which was a major oversight.
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I've supported Tati both online and off
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like she has done for me and I am
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devastated that I hurt somebody that I
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truly love and have endless respect for".
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I think the mature thing for 37-year-old
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Tati to do after seeing this would be to
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just talk to him, but instead she just
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continued ignoring him and posting and
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posting about this situation and crying
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online. And so, a few days later on May 4,
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2019, Gabriel Zamora, another beauty guru,
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posted this video titled "Makeup and
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Opinions". And during this video, he
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indirectly talks about the drama going on
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between Tati and James, saying that it's
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stupid that basically, Tati keeps like
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sub tweeting about him but won't
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actually say what's going on or just talk
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to him and he's honestly so right, like
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this 37-year-old woman just implying that
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her 19-year-old colleague has done
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something awful for days on end but then
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refuses to say anything about it
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to divulge more information and so
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Gabriel concludes this segment of the
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video by saying "Girl, go sit on the
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internet and talk about it then". And
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those words would unknowingly be the
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final straw, the final catalyst for the
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video that we all know today as the
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"Bye sister". "Bye sister" is one of the
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most iconic YouTube videos of all time.
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Seriously, the cultural impact of this
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cannot be minimized. Cannot be silenced.
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I still remember where I was when "Bye
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Sister" happened. It was a cold, windy
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day. On May 10th, 2019, when Tati decided
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that she needed to spill the tea "on
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James' Charles". This video is insane
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from start gulp to finished. It begins
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Gabriel Zamora's famous last words, "Girl,
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go talk about it on the internet then".
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"If you are going to go on the internet
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and cry and heavily imply that there
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a horrible human being
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and everybody can get what it is.
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Girl, sit on the internet
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and talk about it then".
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Imagine being the person that made this
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happen. But there were three major
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claims that Tati makes in this video
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against James Charles and let's just
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tackle them bullet point by bullet point.
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First and foremost, she claims that James
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purposefully sabotaged her vitamin gummy
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business by preorchestrating the Sugarbear
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hair contract. Two, that James' obnoxious
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and talks about c*ck and balls.
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Three, and the most serious one, is that
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he tries to manipulate straight men. But
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let's start off with the vitamins. Tati
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lists multiple ways in which she
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supported James over the years by pouring
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over contracts for him, setting up his
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Google add cent by him even after he
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tweeted about Ebola. But despite all this
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stuff that she's given him, she claims
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James gave her no warning before he posted
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his Sugarbear Hair ad, and also that he
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actually made the whole Coachella security
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thing up like he wasn't getting bombarded
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by fans or anything. He just already
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planned to do the Sugarbear Hair ad. Her
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reasoning is that there is no way that a
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company would ever just go out of their
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way to give you a contract just like that.
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And so, he has to be liying and even if
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there was a security problem.
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Even if he was getting rushed by fans, he
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should have simply walked away.
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You should have walked away. You should
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have held on to your integrity.
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You're phony. I know that now.
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These are all really interesting things
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to say because at the high of James' fame,
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I would think that a lot of companies
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might want to leap at the opportunity to
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work with him. I also kind of love it and
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I am kind of gagged by the way that she
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just says "walk away from people mobbing
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you."
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A lot of people are like were like what
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is he supposed to do. It's dangerous.
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Like leave. Go home.
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Why are you drowning? Just breathe.
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Why are you getting cyberbullying?
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Walk away from the computer. She goes on
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to blame him for potentially losing
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thousands and thousands of dollars due
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to his Instagram ad. Because nobody is
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going to buy two different brands of hair
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gummies.
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It's not a palette. It's not something
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that people buy multiples of.
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Then she then contradicts herself by
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saying that she doesn't needs ads. She
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doesn't want ads and her product is
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selling like hotcakes
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We're selling like hotcakes. Like I don't
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need to at this point. It seems like I
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am going on about this first bullet point
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for a while. It's because the majority of
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the video is actually about the gummy
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vitamins. She claims that James said
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he couldn't advertise for halo beauty on
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his channel because he had too many young
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fans watching and he didn't want to like
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market them supplements and so, she's
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like "But here you are on your Instagram
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story, selling sleep pills to kids which
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is whoa thats a reach. Ma'am, these are
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melatonin gummies.
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Moving on to the fucking c*ck and balls
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and straight boy allegation section.
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Unfortunately, those two things are
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interlinked in this video. So that's why
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I'm roping them together. It's not
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that I'm not taking
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the last one seriously. It's that
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Tati has... Tati has done this to me.
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Tati claims that James tried to manipulate
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a waiter at her birthday dinner into
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thinking he was gay. She also claims that
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he was saying very loudly explicit things
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that he wanted to do to him.
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But what was most shocking to her was the
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fact that he was willing to talk about
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all this in front of her family and his
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own parents which is why we get the
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iconic sucking dck and cck line.
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Sucking and dick and cock. Like
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I'm just like Oh my God
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time and place and you did it at my
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birthday dinner.
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She claims she told James to leave the
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waiter alone and that he was straight.
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And in response he said it doesn't
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matter. I'm famous. She concludes the
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video with talking about some other
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vague instances of James trying to
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manipulate straight men and claims that
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the only reason why she's posting this
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is because it's a last ditch effort to get
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through to him so that he will stop
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trying to manipulate and seduce these
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straight men. Okay, let me just do a
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quick disclaimer here. I'm going to be
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treating the bye sister allegations as
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their own separate thing. Not really
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trying to connect them to further
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allegations because I feel like that will
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get very crazy and twisted and that is
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not what I want because a lot of bye
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sister, as you will see, gets debunked.
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Where as in the future. there are actual
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victims that James like has with reciepts
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So I don't want Dramageddon
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and like that world
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intermixing out of respect.
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And so, with that in mind, we
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need to talk a little bit more about the
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elephant in the room with bye sister and
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that is that Tati spent the majority of
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video talking about her beef with James,
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with the vitamins, but then in the end
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claims that she making this video because
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of the sexual ab*use allegations.
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Including but not limited to the sexual
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harrassment of the waiter at the
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restaurant. Also just have to mention
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it, I don't know if you noticed this but
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the Jeffree Star Lipsticks sitting in the
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background of this video. Oh My God!
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Move over classic literature writers.
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That is the best foreshadowing I've ever
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seen. Regardless, the immediate public
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response to bye sister was cateclismic.
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The video quickly accumulated 30 million
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views and a trend sparked within the hour
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of burning or destroying your James'
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Morphe palatte . There are many of these
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compilations. This one alone is 10 minutes
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straight of people just destroying their
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James Morphe palatte. James Charles
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is over party was trending on Twitter.
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My personal memory of this is
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going on Snapchat and seeing on
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one of my friend's stories that there was
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a line out the door at my local Ulta
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of girls were just returning the
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James' palette. I really, really wish I
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could have found footage of that because
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it contributes to a bigger picture here
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and that is, I think, everybody had a
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little bit of mass hysteria with this
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because I have just never seen people
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react in the way people reacted
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to bye sister. Like people have done other
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alleged things that are of equivalent or
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worse and we have not seen
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something like this
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happen. Anyways, within all this havoc,
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later that night James post an apology
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video simply titled "Tati". This is a nine
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minute video but I am willing to bet the
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actual amount of talking in it is more so
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around like four because in it,
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James is very clearly jetlagged and
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tired like he's whispering. He's talking
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really slow.
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I met Tati.
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Not only that, he only apologizes
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for disrespecting Tati. He doesn't
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confirm or deny any other allegations. he
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just needs to be more careful of his
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relationships in the future in the
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public eye. And so, posts and to say that
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people um didn't receive it well would be
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a flub. it would be a lil flub.
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As soon as video dropped, a ton of
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channels began to live
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streaming. The live sub count of James
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Charles losing thousands and thousands
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and thousands of subscribers meanwhile,
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showing Tati gaining subs. I'm not joking
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with you guys when I say, there was
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probably like 300 of these channels all
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active at once and in the live chat people
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were goading them on like a sports event
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before terminally online makeup girlies
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At least partially because of these
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live sub trackers, James Charles would
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become the first Youtuber to lose one
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million subscribers in one day. There were
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a ton of memes about the Tati apology
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video floating around and let's just
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say all of the breathing in it did not
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help the case.
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*breathing
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Meanwhile, a ton of people started chiming
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in about the situation on Twitter and
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even just kind of making things up to
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insert themselves into the conversation
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because it was so trendy.
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For example, the singer Zara Larson posted
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this tweet that said
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"I'm cackling cause he hit up my
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boyfriend in the dms several times
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knowing damn well he's straight".
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She would later go on to apologize for
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that because she didn't realize that he
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had only sent her boyfriend one message.
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There was also some person making the
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claim that in high school, James had
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catfished the entire football team just
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to trick them into sending him d*** pics,
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which I mean, it's a wild claim.
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I'm not saying impossible but it's
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f******* wild, I'll say that.
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At this point, people also mass
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unfollowing James on Instagram, as well,
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and some of the people unfollowed him
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include people like the Kardashians,
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Demi Lavato, Ariana Grande....
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But most importantly to all of this, is
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the fact that every single one of the
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members of the sister squad unfollowed
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him which affectively ended it.
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The next day, May 14th, Gage Gomez
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uploads a video titled " My first
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YouTube video" and in it he talks about
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how James having sub tweeted him had
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actually, caused a shit ton of his fans to
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his page and start threatening him and
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harassing him. He also says that James
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realized that these sub tweets were wrong
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because he ended up apologizing to him
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live stream and when somebody asked him
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if he was single he said that he had just
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it was either James or related to James
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Someone by the little name of, um
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I'm not gonna say it. It starts with a J.
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that James was at Coachella, he went to
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brunch with this guy named DIllon Gike
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I think and the *gasp it all is, is that
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this person Dillon is Gage's friend and
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speculated more than friend. So there's
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that interesting thing. Then Dillon would
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comment on Gage's page calling clout
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chaser. I don't know what kind of friend
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but it made me very confused about Gage's
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stance in all of this. Shortly after that
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live stream though Gage would post
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another video that just made me even more
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confused because in this video he said
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that James tried to manipulate him to
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thinking he was gay, even after telling
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that he was straight multiple times but
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James kept pursuing him. I have
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though I totally believe it could have
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happened but also, I am confused.
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*Popping noise
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Alrighty, Here we are.
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I am just a little bit lost in it all.
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Let's move on.
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While all this is going on, Ian Jeffree,
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A.K.A. James' little brother tweets out
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" Why does everyone act so tough over the
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internet".
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And Jeffree Star chimes in within A.K.
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47 for no reason he says
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"Why is your brother a predator?? Why'd
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Shut the f*** up".
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to New York City to be with their parents
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recently, but saying this to a 17-year-old
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that probably has no idea what you are
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talking about. It's so Jeffree Star. Like,
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at least he stays on brand like he just
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continues to be a bad person.
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But Jeffree ended up continuing he said,
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"There is a reason why I haven't seen him
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since Tati's birthday in February. He is a
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danger to society. Everything that Tati
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said is 100% true.
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On the same day as these tweets, Sam,
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the waiter from Tati's birthday party.
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"Sucking a dick and cock"
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Posted a video explaining his side of the
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story and basically, Sam explains that
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James had asked another one of the waiters
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for his number and if he would was single.
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He also complimented him on the way
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that he looked. Since he didn't get his
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number, he left the restaurant and that
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was that but later that night, Sam's
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sister convinced him to dm James and talk
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to him again and so, he did and they
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started talking. James apologizes for
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flirting with him. At this point he
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actually found it flattering.
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The conversation escalated until James
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invited him to his hotel room, and since
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Sam says he is bicurious he went to
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go meet up with him. He says
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they ended up making out for around
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an hour at the hotel and that James'
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is the worst kind of kisser he's ever had.
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It's just...
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If I am being honest, he is the worst
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kisser I've ever kissed. Way too much
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tongue. He then goes on to say that James
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begged him to stay in the hotel with him
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but because he did not enjoy the kissing,
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he decided to leave anyways. And now the
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following week, James offered to fly Sam
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out to California for his birthday, but
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Sam told him that he figured out that he
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was pretty much straight so it wouldn't be
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right for him to accept the invitation. At
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which point James became upset and told
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him that he was not straight and that
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he hoped that he would figure that out
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sooner than later. The TLDR at the end of
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this video is that the last draw for Sam
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to cut contact off with James was finding
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out he was also talking to Gage at the
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he was playing two straight guys at once.
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On May 13th, Nikita Dragon jumps back into
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Dramageddon and tweets out strange shots
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between her and James Charles. She's
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trying to back him up, trying to be like
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"See, it really did happen guys",
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like he was getting bombarded at Coachella
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but this really only made things worse,
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because after Tati's video, everyone
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really believed that James had reached
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out to Sugarbear Hair in a pre-planned
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effort, not to mention that she didn't
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bring up the straight boy allegations so
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people were really clowning on her for
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this. She posted a YouTube video the
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following day titled "What really
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happened" and this made plenty of fans
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click on the video expecting her to
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talk about James and Tati situation
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because, of course, what else could this
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be about and, mind you, I haven't actually
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watched this video completely, scrubbed
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from the internet. Cannot find it
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anywhere. But apparently instead of
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addressing anything relevant, she just
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makes a general statement about mean
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comments and then plugs her beauty brand
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for the last, like five minutes. Which
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goes to show how much people
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were capitalizing off this beef. I mean
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Nikita Dragon was literally just there at
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Coachella with James. She could have said
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something about the subject but
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she was like I'm gonna get into this with
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my Dragon Beauty brand. This same night,
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Jeffree Star goes out on Snapchat and
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starts talking about how he has crazy
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receipts on James and he's going to be
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exposing him very soon and I have to say
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this is probably my least favorite thing
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that Jeffrey does all the time is that I
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feel like actually does have crazy
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blackmail against people but he only ever
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uses it for self-interest, Like he's like
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he has something insane like crazy
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proof that James Charles has done
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something beyond the pale that we don't
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even know about yet. The only way
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he would leak it is if it was in his
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On May 17th, Tati Westbrook post another
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video addressing this whole situation
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called "Why I did it" and for some reason
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this video hasn't been archived.
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I was only able to watch someone else's
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reaction of it but basically gist that I
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got was this was just her doubling down on
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what she has said previously, only now she
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wishes people wouldn't pick sides on what
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between her and James.
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the next day on May 18th, James would
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upload "No More Lies", which is probably
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the internet's biggest uno reverse.
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Which nobody claims in bisister and so
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happening in "No More Lies".
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We are just going to take it category by
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of claim. Firstly, she said the ad was
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preorchestrated. It was that Jamas talked
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to the Sugarbear hair team on the grounds
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at Coachella, Two, James didn't give her
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any warning before he put up the ad.
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He only says something after which was not
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the case. He had screenshots of the text
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message where he warned her in advance
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and to which she replied "I'm so hurt"
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and he gave a lengthy apology.
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Three, she said James said he wouldn't
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talk about Halo Beauty on social media or
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his channel because he didn't want to
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promote supplements to young kids.
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This is a really weird and strange lie.
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Like he promoted Halo Beauty multiple
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So, I am trying to understand Tati, I am
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trying why to lie about maniscule things.
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James had been using his power, influence
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and money in order to extort sexual
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favors to people to manipulate them and J
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James admits that he is a 19-year-old
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virgin and that isn't the case because he
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is not fuckin but I will say this. At
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12:40 in this video he says
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"We'll never use my fame, money, or
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power to manipulate or get any sexual
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actions from a guy",
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Which did not age well. When it comes to
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this allegation in the James Charles
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timeline, I have a little bit of a
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question mark over it because I am not
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sure how much damage he had done at age
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19. But from what we know about Gage and
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Sam, the waiter, there were some strange
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tendencies already at play.
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Another claim Tati had was at her birthday
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dinner she had tried to tell James the
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waiter was straight and to leave him alone
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He replied saying it doesn't matter. I'm
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there are screenshots of James and all
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of his friends including Tati making the
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same joke where they say "We're so famous"
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like definitely it was not supposed to be
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a serious thing. Again, really
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interesting. I don't understand the
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choices to lie about something so petty,
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especially when you are overall message
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was supposed to be about something as
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serious as like sexual misconduct
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allegations. And speaking of Sam, the
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waiter, James has screenshots of their
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conversations as well. And in these
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screenshots you can clearly see that
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Same had actually told him straight up
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that he was bisexual. So this is where it
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gets kind of interesting cause Sam didn't
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mentioned this in his side of the story.
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After they agreed to stop their
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relationship, James had blocked him.
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And after this, Sam had used his friend's
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phone to DM James from his account and
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blocked and why he actually figured out
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that he was full gay so that he could get
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him on a FaceTime call and record him.
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Instead of talking to James about his gay
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revelation, he asked James if he was
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talking to Gage at the same time that they
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were talking. At this point, Sam told
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James that he wasn't actually gay. He was
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just trying to get him on this phone call
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and so James hung up. But then, after the
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call, Sam text him that he basically
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confirmed bi, which it why in Sam's video
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you saw the screenshot of James saying
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that you are not straight, You are not
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ever going to be straight. The sooner you
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figure that out the better, etc. Now
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outside of Tati's allegations, Jeffree
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Star had personally been texted James
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that he had a bunch a dirt on him and
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that he was gonna expose him for various
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things sooner or later, And so, at this
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point in "No More Lies", we start to
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address that. And so Jeffree's claims are
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as follows: Number one: that James has
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been talking shit about him. Number two:
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that James had to try to Jeffree's
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brother in law to like him and sent him
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unsolicited, inappropriate pictures. And
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thirdly, James trapped Sam the the waiter
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in his hotel and that they were all gonna
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get together and film a video about how
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that happened and expose. Lastly, and
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this is the craziest one that he had tried
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to touch and molest Grayson Dolan in his
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sleep and made him uncomfortable for
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months. James' rebuttal to these claims
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were that he had only talked to Jeffree's
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brother-in-law a handful of times and
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it was nothing inappropriate. And next,
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the trapping Sam in the hotel room thing
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we know is not true because Sam. himself,
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said so. And then finally, the rebuttal
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for the most serious and crazy allegation
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is that this is simply not true and that
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the rejection jokes that was in the
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sister's squad videos were pretty much
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all staged. James also claims that the
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Dolan twins were among the first to call
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him and make sure he was alright and
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during the initial bisister of the
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dramageddon of it all. There weren't any
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receipts for that. We don't really know
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what happened between them and neither
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of the Dolan twins ever refollowed James,
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so there is that as well. We'll talk a
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little bit more about the Dolans later
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on. But all in all, "No More Lies"
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changed the YouTube landscape for weeks
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and flipped the entire situation on it's
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head. Like, never in my life have I seen
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people switch up this fast before. And
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despite every body being this initially
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being on Tati's side in all of this,
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right after this video dropped, his
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subscriber account rise again and
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meanwhile, Tati's began to fall. Speaking
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of Tati, her immediate reponse to "No More
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Lies" was to get on Twitter and say
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things like this:
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I have left town on a digital break to
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heal and pray for healing on all sides. My
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family made me aware on what was just
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posted and I am disappointed ro see
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it littered with so many lies and half
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truths. I stand by my videos. Do not twist
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my words to what they are not, hear the
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message.
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Dudes, can I be totally honest with you
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guys right now? The way Tati speaks
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like she's the Buddhist monk pisses me
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off! She also posted a couple of
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other Tweets but they basicaaly said the
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same exact thing like, "Praying on all
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sides", "Peace and love" da ba duh
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Then she goes on to like a novel length
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post and the TLDR that I give you says:
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"I spent all the last few years building
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up a career on honesty, integrity and
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truth. But let me tell you guys that
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Tati is a makeup reviewer. She basically
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says things like "I hope that our
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community is somehow strengthened from
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all this madness and that we will all
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strive to hold ourselves and each other
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to a higher standard".
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Girl, what?!? Jeffree Star also
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immediately got on Twitter and said:
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"Everyone keeps asking me for receipts...
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I have so much to say and some really sad
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and disgusting things to show you guys.
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James Charles tried to mass manipulate
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all of you today. When I show you
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the proof and why I tweeted
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the tweet about him, you'll understand"
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and get this. Get this! Tati deletes Bye
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Sister after just typing up novels about
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how she said she said what she said and
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she stands by it, And she is praying for
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everyone on all sides. I hope the
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community gets stronger out of this.
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Like she can't claim that this was for the
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betterment of society in and then
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take it down. She then took like a week
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and a half off of YouTube and returned
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video called "I'm Back" and it's literally
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just a makeup tutorial, She just pretends
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like none of that even happened. And as
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you can see here, the audience was just
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really confused by this, The top comment
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literally "Tati, I stand by everything I
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said". Also,, Tati deletes video a day
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after the Tati video. Sam, the waiter,
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returns to the internet with a new
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video titled "I'm sorry James Charles".
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In it, he says that his friends and his
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family pressured him to continue talking
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to James and even typed out some of the
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messages to James pretending to be Sam.
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He also says that they hold him to be
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just pretend to be gay and to date James
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to get all the opportunities that would
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come with that.
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*inaudible
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James returned to YouTube in a very
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pleasant audience and a very different
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internet compared to a just a few short
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weeks a go. By all standards, Tati's video
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should have been that final nail
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in the coffin and impossible to come
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back from, but there he was an amazing
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comeback story at the time.
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In November of 2019, Tati was still
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trying to fully ignore what happened and
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move on despite on not saying anything
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and then she wants to make a brand
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called Tati Beaity and spoiler alert, both
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Tati Beauty and Halo Beauty would not
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survive the upcoming pandemic.
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And despite everything that Jeffree had
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said about James being a disgusting
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monster and how he had all these receipts.
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He was ready to expose him. By March of
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2020, he had done a full 180 and even
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left us a supported comment on one of
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James' post. I mean this is Jeffree Star
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we are talking about so it isn't that
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surprising. Jeffree Star, very lore heavy,
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evil man. Even then, Jeffree then posted
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a video title "Never Doing This Again"
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and I know just from that title you are
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thinking, "What, what is he never going
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to do again?" In this video he basically
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says, "Just because I said that I hate
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James Charles and I want him to die
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he's disgusting, doesn't mean I hate
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James Charles."
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Because I said those things, that does
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that not mean that I hate James Charles.
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But my personal favorite part of this
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video is when he says there's no hate in
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this heart..
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There is no actual hate in this heart.
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He also says that he's not going to give
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the people what they want.
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He's not going to come out with receipts
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and cancel anyone today.
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They want me to open up my phone and
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expect me to expose it all.
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He basically says that he was being
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manipulated about James and being fed
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things that wasn't necessarily true.
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There are people telling me a lot of stuff
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The video ends by him saying that he's
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done with the tea and he's done with the
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drama. He would then precede to have to
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and the Tati and drama for the next like
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four years. And something important to
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note is that during this time, both
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Jeffree and Shane Dodsan were pretty much
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PR nightmares and there was both trying
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to like quickly clean up and do a little
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damage control and fans found resurfaced
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images and videos of them doing various
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problematic things. And, imagine that as
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Jeffree Star's fans are demanding him to
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take accountability for some old
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problematic stuff. He decides it's time
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to rewrite history a little bit when
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it comes to his loyalty to James Charles.
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Meanwhile, Shane Dolsan was having a
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much harder time dealing with facing
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his actions, because the thing about Shane
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Dolsan is that he crumbles. He crumbles
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under pressure. Meanwhile, Jeffree
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Star, like I don't want to harm
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psychology him, but he like might actually
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be a psychopath. He is able to lie himself
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out of any situation. Just like that.
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Easy, simple. But this guy having to face
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the ramifications of let's see. Let's
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check our notes. Umm..
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Black face. Racist characters.
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Said the n-word. Said very various
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other slurs. Various instances of
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sexualizing minors and etc. There
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was so much backlash with this that
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YouTube temporarily demonatized Shane's
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channel, which is really funny because it
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all comes back to him not being able to
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handle the heat. Like Jeffree Star's
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channel, fine. What did Jeffree Star do?
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A lot. Pretty similar things actually, but
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he could take the heat and so imagine
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you are on your tenth Youtube apology
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pretty much and you have a bunch of
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dirty little bug bites al over your neck
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ok and you have scabies and you're
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salivating *hag
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I am so sorry that I sexualized Will
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Smith. Nobody gives a f***!
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Shane Dolsan f******cry.
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Shane Dolson, that is your mindset ok.
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You are going just a little bit loopy
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already and then June 30th, Tati drops
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a video called "Breaking My Silence".
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And in this video, Tati says that she
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was coerced into making bisister by
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Shane Dolsan and Jeffree Star.
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I made it as a result of all of the
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poisonous lies that were fed to me by
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Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star.
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Fuck! This is so Netflix short little
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special coded, limited series. There you
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go! That's the fucking word. So Tati says
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that she's apologized to James Charles
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and that they met up together in private
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and compared screenshots that they have
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from both Jeffree and Shane
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and come to the conclusion that this
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whole thing was a mass
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manipulation from both of them.
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And according to Tati, she learned
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that being friends with Jeffree Star
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is like being friends with a lion.
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I learned that being friends with Jeffree
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Star like being friends with a lion. He
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may have been dangerous but he was always
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really kind to me.
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Mind you, anybody at any age can be
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manipulated. This is a very true.
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However, in my opinion, there is no way
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that she's not at least partially
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responsible for some of this. And I can't
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stress this enough okay. Don't freak out.
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Don't freak out. Every character in this
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story sucks. We have our main character,
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predator backing in oven. We got racist
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guy #1. We have a racist guy # 2 and at
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least, petty vitamin woman. So on this v
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video Tati makes a series of new claims,
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okay. So, first off, she says that when
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she met Jeffree Star, she knew he had a
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controversial past but that she took it
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among herself to try to make him a better
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person and that get him involved with her
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favorite charity, which did not work. She
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also claims to have known nothing about
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Shane Dawson's past and that she
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did no research on him like all she knew
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that he was the "most adored documentarian
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on YouTube".
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I wish I had educated myself and I was
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aware of his earlier content.
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In my opinion, this truly doesn't add up
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because we are talking about Shane *gasp
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Dawson. But anyways, she goes on to say
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that Shane told her that he was making
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a documentary about the beauty community.
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and that it is rapidly developing and
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rapidly changing due to new information
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that Jeffree Star had collected on
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James Charles. She said it was Shane's
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idea to make bisister and even went as
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far as to offer to edit it for her.
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And when Tati hesitated, he sent her
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a voice memo about an alleged victim of
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James.
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It wasn't enough for me to contact the
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authorities. It was enough to scare me.
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Jeffree and Shane claimed that as soon as
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she posted bisister, a plethora of
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victims were going to come forward.
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But then they never did. Tati goes on
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to theorize that Shane and Jeffree
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actually orchestrated this whole thing
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as a plot to destroy James because they
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were jealous of his career trajectory and
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they wanted as much attention as possible
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when they released their collaborative
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palette the "Conspiracy palette". She then
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gets super tin-foiled-atty at the end and
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says that she believes that there were
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many more players involved to
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orchestrate this whole thing, and that it
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is not a coincidence that after the whole
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fallout, Morphe came out with gummy
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vitamins.
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I do not think it is a coincidence that
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Morphe is about to launch their own
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brand of hair and nail gummy vitamins.
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I have beef with every single one of
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these people. Like we can grab. I don't
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give a shit. But Tati, even though she is
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not the biggest villain here by far,
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really irks me because I feel like she
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acted completely out of selfishness.
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I agree that it is plausible to have
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been manipulated by Shane ad Jeffree,
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like especially Jeffree. But if Tati
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truly, truly believed that the allegations
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that Shane and Jeffree were telling her
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were real and that serious, why did she
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make the majority of bisister about gummy
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vitamins? Why did she falsely accuse him
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of sexually harassing waiter amongst other
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things. Conclusively, the entire video
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was based on somebody else's lies, but
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she double downed on it multiple times
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over the course of several months and
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holds virtually no accountability for
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causing the cultural switch against James,
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who at this point, she is saying is
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completely innocent. And like above all
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else, I think the biggest issue is the
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fact that she says that there's a voice
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memo that is damning enough
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that warranted her going through
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with that public flogging, yet now
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she is saying wait! That wasn't real.
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And the question you might be asking
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right now is what the fuck is in the
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voice memo? Well, it's currently 2024 and
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we still don't have the answer to that.
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But there's been a ton of speculation
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as to who it is. A lot of people theorize
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that it's Grace and Dolan since Jeffree
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made that claim about James molesting
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him in his sleep. People also think this
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because by the cultural shift back to
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liking James, the Dolan twins still
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haven't followed him back or even
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publicly spoke to him but I'm not saying
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that I believe this. This is just a
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theory. I hope that's not true. With
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Jeffree Star though, it is really hard to
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tell what is actually true and
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what's total bunk, because he seems to
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always merge partial truths with lies.
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And so it's like okay, part of this
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could be true but that might not make the
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entire story have validity. But in the
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aftermath of the breaking my silence
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video, Shane Dawson gets on a Intagram
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live stream and starts like tweaking.
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This is insane! This is insane! This
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woman is like a fucking, omg!
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This entire live stream consists of him
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calling Tati a liar and running around
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his house like he just drank iced coffee
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and he has to take a shit.
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I can't, I can't. I don't want to say mean
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things about people. This is insane.
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This is insane.
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It's actually hilarious because I love
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shaming Shane Dawson while he's down
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and I would again. For legal purposes this
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is a joke, but I wish that we could
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collectively blast Shane Dawson into the
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sun. James Just responds to all this
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public freaking out that's just a tweet
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that says "love you guys!"
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All this same day, Trisha
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also uploaded a video called "Tati's dumb
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as hell" which I only mentioning because
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it is so off the cuff and untethered.
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And to summarize it in one clip:
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"I was beyond gaslit, no we are just
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stupid".
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In the following days, Morphe cut ties
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with Jeffree Star.
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Morphe said they made the decision
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to cease all commercial activity related
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to Jeffree Star and related products
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within the coming in the coming weeks.
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And in the April 20th, he would go on
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mom's basement podcast and reaffirm
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to keep Team Star that James Charles
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is a monster and that he still has the
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voice memo of the alleged victim but
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doesn't want to publicly out them.
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Yet 2 months later, on July 18th, 2020,
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he would release a video called "Doing
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what's right" and in this video Jeffree
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says a whole lot of f***** up.
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He's like "Hey guys, I am not going
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cancel anyone today. Sorry, I am not
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coming in with steaming hot tea today
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ya'll."
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Today I will not be sitting her showing
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a million texts messages and all these
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things that allegedly are out there.
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He goes on to say that he's done with
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all the drama and that's there bigger
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things in the world to worry about and
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I honestly forgot that this apology
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happened in 2020. So I was sent into a
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whole whiplash when I heard him
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say that we need to focus on Black Lives
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Matter. Okay, back up. We are backing up.
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Jeffree, first of all, you've made a lot
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of claims buddy, and now you are coming
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on your being like sorry, I am not
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involved in any of this drama, "Drama",
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when it is something supposedly serious.
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And then you are deflecting the
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conversation on to Black Lives Matter?
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What? What? He literally uses murdered
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people of color to take the attention off
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of him, making claims that James is
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a predator.
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Black trans men are being murdered
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every day and the news is silent.
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Like, there are no words to describe this
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chat. Are they words to describe this?
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Are there words for something so
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despicable? James is kind of like a
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predator and a danger to society. But
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that's like drama though. It's kind of
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like "Hi, everybody. Welcome back to my
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channel". The Freudian Slip. Meanwhile,
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right after this whole Jeffree podcast
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debacle, James Charles goes on impulsive
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which is even Jake Paul's or Logan Paul's
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Podcast. I don't know because I use their
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names interchangeably and I don't know
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who's who but this podcast seems chill
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and it seems inconsequential at first.
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But then James starts dropping bombs
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left and right, like let me show you some
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bullet points of what this man publicly
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admits. A little over an hour into
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the interview, James claims that he is
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far more mature than other people his age.
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By the way, he's currently 21 in this
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interview. Then he then goes on to say
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that he's just not attracted to older
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men and the absolute lowest that he would
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date was either 18 or 19 but looks a
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little bit older and he says the absolute
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lowest that he would date
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The absolute youngest, like 18, 19, that
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looks a little bit older.
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This is already more than a little
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questionable, like what is the point of
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dating somebody who is 18 or 19 but
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looks a little bit older. What is the
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point of them being 18 and you just
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said that you are more mature than
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everyone else your age. So, why do you
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want to date somebody more immature.
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But as if that wasn't bad enough, a few
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minutes later he goes on to say something
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even weirder. He says that he tried to
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fly boys out to LA because a lot
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of them don't have any money or they
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are still in high school or I mean a
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senior in high school.
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Because you can't afford a plane ticket,
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you are probably still in either in high
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school or still in college, a senior in
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high school or in college.
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Oh, so you really said that. Hmmm, and
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who makes mistakes like that.
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There's Madeline here who. Who makes
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that kind of mistake and it's a probably
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a minor. Admitting to outsourcing
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teenagers from other states at the age
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of 21 is crazy. And they didn't even have
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to waterboard that out of him.
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By the way, might I mention that nobody
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had a negative response to this? Like
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the boys on this podcast are just like
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Oh, yeah! Totally! Maybe they just felt
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awkward or wanted to keep the peace. Like
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didn't know what to say. But damn, if that
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was me, I would have a visceral,
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uncontrollable reaction like what? And
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not to be to be grossed ok. But like
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these bold boys that he's outsourcing are
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are literally the same age as his little
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brother. Like does he see his brother
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as in an equal when it comes to maturity
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and growth. Oh yeah, and last question.
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Have you seen every person on Earth
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that is your same age or a little bit
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older than you. Have you? How have you
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already determined that you're not
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attracted to people older than you.
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There's people that older than all of
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us that just look youthful. So what is it
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really about, James? The last thing I
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want to say about this interview, because
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I can honestly talk about it forever, is
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that he also claims that he wouldn't date
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a fan in it.
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You wouldn't date a fan?
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No.
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Just remember that ok?
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On September 1, 2020, James would do a
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collab with Emma Chamberlain, and this was
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the first time that these two would
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reunite since before dramageddon. In an
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interview with the paparazzi, Emma also
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said that her and James weren't in a
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really good place. But when asked about
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the Dolan twins, she basically says
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"Don't hold your breath".
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With the Dolan twins that if
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everybody can get on the same page?
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No promises.
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On September 16, 2020, James would have a
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mini controversy over some allegedly
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stolen designs. Now as you can see here,
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this is a color block, Sister's merch
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hoodie, okay. And now let's compare it
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to a hoodie that was originally designed
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by Teddy Fresh, a.k.a. H Threes brand.
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Well obviously, James' says Sister on the
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front and this one just has like a red
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square that says the fresh.
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The sweater is the exact color grading.
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Like it's the exact same shades and the
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exact same spots. And when James was
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confronted about this, he said he had
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never heard of their brand before. Despite
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the fact that people were quick to point
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out that one of James' best friends, Lorai
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had pictures in that exact Teddy Fresh
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hoodie on his Instagram and was even
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featured on the Teddy Fresh Instagram
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page. And like, obviously, no one owns
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colors. But the fact that they were the
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exact same shades and the same areas.
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It's just a suspicious set of lace.
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Also, just generally speaking, James'
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hoodie is just really ugly.
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In October, James got his very own
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YouTube original show called Instant
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Influencer and it was a competition where
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amateur influencers competed for
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a $10,000 video setup, a collab with
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James Charles, and $50,000 cash.
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And the sheriff evolved around doing
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different challenges. One very noteworthy
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one is in episode where they do an
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apology video challenge.
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I just really want to apologize and I
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want to change. *Sob Sob
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Just, just terribly ironic and if I
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can be completely honest with you guys
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right now. If I had just one teeny James
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Charles wish on a star. It would be that
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Instant Influencer could come back but
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obviously with a different host, because
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this show is actually good. Like
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literally, YouTube, can we get somebody
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else, literally anybody else to host the
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show. I've throw a shower. Let's go!
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Of course, I already spoiled this for you
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but the show does not exist anymore.
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And I'm sure you already guessed why.
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In February of 2021, a minor came forward
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and alleged that James asked him for
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totally explicit photos and videos over
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Snapchat. The minor questioned, posted a
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Tik Tok where he explained that he had
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previously dmed James because he was a
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fan.
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Prove it to you right now. This is the
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notification that I got when he snapchated
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me first and this is further proof that
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he deleted the chat in a way to deleted.
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That's totally in his Snapchat.
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And so he began sending snaps back and
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forth and one day, James saw that he was
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in the bathroom, so he began making the
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conversation very sexual.
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So, he started making the conversation
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very and sexual and really got
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uncomfortable.
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Saying disgusting things like "Take a
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video of yourself in the shower" and "Can
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I see your muscles and hair". He then
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began sending nudes of himself, which
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I cannot show you, but I tell you why
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this. It is very clearly James Charles'
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musty BBL booty. Once he sent these nudes,
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the victim told him that he was only 16,
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to which James allegedly replied, "Oh,
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but I haven't seen your dick yet". Then
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after saying he didn't want to send nudes
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James kept hounding him for them anyways.
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Like, for example, in this screenshot here
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he says, "It would literally take you 30
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seconds to take a pic like this, awww".
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James would later claim that the boy
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told him that he was 18. In a Notes app
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response on Twitter. And until the art in
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lame Twitter notes app thing is that James
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said that the boy messaged him excitedly,
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telling him he loved him. And so, he began
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talking to him without asking for ID.
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And I find this really interesting
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because he just said on the impulsive
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Podcast that he did not want to date a
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fan, but in conclusion he says, "I will
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know be asking everybody for IDs. The
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fact that he's like, I'm still going to
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DM questionably young people but I am
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still going to be asking for IDs now is
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crazy. Also, even if they are 18, like I
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said, seeking out a barely legal
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18-year-old is creepy. Jeebs!
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How does it make it ok? This is still
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your teenage 18. That's a teenager fan.
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Also in February, yet another underage
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fan came forward. This time it was a
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14-year-old and he also said that James
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sent him unsolicited nudes and
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inappropriate videos of himself. This boy
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alleges that he reached out to James
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Charles on a dare, not expecting James
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to answer of course, but when he did,
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he got very excited. Of course, this is
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a famous person so, he wants to talk to
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him. James then added him on Snapchat.
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Are you seeing a pattern?
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Are you seeing this? He claims that James
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kept pressuring him to come out to LA
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and that he was also trying to get him
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to question his sexuality. And remember
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that Impulsive Interview?
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Even they confess that they can't afford
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a plane ticket. It's like ok but I can.
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So, get on the plane.
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Wow, this alleged victim literally thought
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that he was speaking about him in that
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segment. Also, big shout out to Paige
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Christie. I was literally only able to
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find this information from her video. Like
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so much of this has been just like
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scrubbed from the internet, like Big
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Sister is like watching. Trisha Paytas
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replied to this whole situation saying
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like: "I'll say without a shadow of a
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doubt. James Charles in the only creator
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that deserves to be banned and stripped
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from all social platform. He's abusing by
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sexting with minors!!! Repeated behavior
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happening as recent as a few days ago.
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This is an actual predator/pedophile.
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I have to say I'm completely agree
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and I don't know if he's the only one,
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But I do completely agree that he should
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not be on Tik Tok or YouTube or Instagram.
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Like, and it just gets worse. On April 1,
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James would upload "Holding myself
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accountable in response to all of these
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allegations". Yes, it's true he posted a
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response to grooming allegations on April
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1st. Now this video makes me mad from
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beginning to end. He basically says he
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trusted the information that was given
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to him rather than the info that he
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could've or should've gotten himself.
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And yeah, that's true, but I feel like
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he's immediately deflecting from the
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fact that even what you thought you were
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doing is wrong. James then goes on to
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list being desperate for the reason for
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why he makes all these dating faux paus.
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And it is ridiculously embarrassing to
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admit this but I'm desperate.
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And then he starts bracingly lying like
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outright like a dog, lying. He says that I
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will partially quote so that I don't have
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to play like a long clip and get
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copyrighted or something. It's really
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looking like I'm an actively searching for
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younger people to be in a relationship
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with and that's absolutely not the case.
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My hope is that it always been in
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a relationship with somebody around my
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age or older.
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Hey, wait a minute! Isn't this the exact
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opposite thing of what you said earlier
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this year.
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I'm not physically attracted to older
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guys which sucks.
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He concludes the video with a detailed
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description of how he came to the
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realization that him talking to fans
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created a power imbalance and that from
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the get go he should of never had these
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conversations to begin with because he
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ignored red flags. Wave the red flags is
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IOU. I have to saw is while this apology
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video is definitely not is well received
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and we will talk about it in a second.
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He is pretty clever. I will say that.
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His use of language really disassociates
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himself with the facts of everything. He
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says, for example.
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And for that, for the example, so, so
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sorry.
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Okay, these are kids and these are not
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just victims, they're your victims.
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Ironically, holding myself accountable
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would later be deleted. Later that month,
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Morphee would release a statement saying
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that they are permanently cutting ties
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with James. But in the eyes of a lot of
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fans, this was too little too late.
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In light of the recent allegations against
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James Charles, Morphee and James
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have agreed to leave and our business
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relationship and wine down sales of the
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Morphe x James Charles product offering.
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It is and has always been Morphe's goal
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to create a positive, safe and
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empowering space for all beauty lovers can
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freely share their artistry and passion
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for cosmetics. And Morphe is fully
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committed in furthering that goal. I don't
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know too much about PR but fuck all
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if that wasn't really bad. First of all,
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waited weeks to say anything and
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when they finally did, they were
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like we and James have decided to scale
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back. Like, what do you mean we? Fans
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were also quick to point out that all the
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James Charles products were still being
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sold at full price on their website. This
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same week, YouTube announced that they
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would be temporarily demonetizing James'
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channel and as a result of all this, James
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took a four month break off of social
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media. When he returned he posted a
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selfie on Instagram and announced that he
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just posted a video called "An Open
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Conversation" and I will say that this is
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incredible on brand the worst way. Now the
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comments on "An Open Conversation" are
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so funny and this is this is the first
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time that I have truly felt and notice
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that there were so many people just done
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with him. Like this video only has six
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million views and I know that that's a
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lot still, but in comparison to other
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videos, even such as taking accountability
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there was a huge dip in viewership. And
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these people made the right call for
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obvious reasons, and were also
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fortunate enough to not bear witness to
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this video turning into a makeup get ready
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with me at the 4 minute mark.
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An you guys know I posted my
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"Holding Myself Accountable" video.
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Absolutely dystopian fear. Getting sued!
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In the following month of May, a former
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employee of James, named Kelly Rocklein
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sued James for wrongful termination.
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And, let me just read you one of these
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headlines so you can get the full gravity
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of this situation.
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James Charles' ex-employee speaks out
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about lawsuit, claiming he didn't pay
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overtime and asked her to shave his
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butt. Ummmmm.
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To get into the nitty gritty, the
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specifics of the suit though, she
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alleges that one, James had her working
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12-hour days, seven days a week. Two,
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that when she was promoted from video
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editor to producer, he didn't hire
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anybody to take over the former
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position, so she was left doing both.
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Three, she was not paid overtime for
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any of this, and four, that she had
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suffered a head injury in front of James
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Charles. To quote this business insider
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article directly, the head injury resulted
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in her experiencing headaches,
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temporarily loss of consciousness,
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confusion, amnesia and other ailments,
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according to the complaint. She alleges
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Charles was not sympathetic to her
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recovery needs and callously accused her
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of not being dedicated to her job as a
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result of her work being delayed when
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she was hospitalized. And right after
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Kelly returned from being hospitalized,
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she was fired, despite never having
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received negative feedback. Kelly also
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alleges that James used the n-word in
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front of her with the R & R and everything
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More on the ass situation, Kelly says
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that James walked around the house naked
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and call her names like "bitch" and once
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texted her, "Kelly, I need help shaving
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my butt in preparation for a revealing
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Coachella outfit. James ha since publicly
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denied all of this in a lengthy Twitter
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video.
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Just the craziest claims you can ever
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imagine.
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But the suit is still ongoing.
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Although, I will say I can totally see him
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doing all these things. Kelly, get behind
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me. 2022 was a relatively quiet year for
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this MF. Like, his only controversy was
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talking on Instagram and twerking while
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talked which resulted in him losing
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130,000 followers in a day and I won't
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show you that video here because you don't
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deserve that. Everybody say "Thank you
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Nikki!" And by the way, if you didn't
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unfollow him for the groping but you did
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for the talking and the twerking, I don't
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know. It might be time for me to take
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you out behind the barn and shoot you.
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Since May 6, 2023, Morphe would end up
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closing all of it's stores and this was a
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crazy thing to happen for anybody who was
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really into makeup in 2019 and 2020.
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Like, it was a very popular store to the
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point where it was valued at $2 billion at
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it's peak, but the company had made the
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unfortunate decision of fully investing
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into James Charles and Jeffree Starr to
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be the focal point of their stores,
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especially James, like seriously I did not
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know what the hell Morphe was before his
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palette. The brand name had kind of become
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synonymous with James, like he was their
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James Charles is virtually the reason why
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Morphe died. Like, that is very crazy to
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think about. Bro brought down an entire
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industry. On July 13, 2023, Cosmopolitan
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"James Charles would like to be
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uncancelled, please". This article, quite
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frankly, is a blasphemous peace of trash.
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Honestly, the woman who wrote it,
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Gabrielle Bluestone should have to serve
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public service for 6 months, just for
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writing this shit, because it is so foul
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you need to picking things up on the
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highway. Get out of here. Let me just
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read you a direct quote from here.
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It's no surprise that a star's willingness
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to answer any intimate questions about a
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catastrophic stretch of their lives,
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including pieces dramatically when they
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have a project to promote. In today's
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case, that is ostensibly Charles' new
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makeup line "Painted". But it's also
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Charles himself. This very interview is to
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be a triplum. It's reception, the answer
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to the question both of us and maybe
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you, too. If what auto-populates in
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Google search can be believed, are here to
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ask, "Is James Charles still cancelled?"
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So, that alone, basically self-diagnoses
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itself that it purely exists for James to
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win over public brownie points, so that
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his new makeup line can do better.
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Bluestone also writes, "When I pulled
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friends and colleagues about Charles in
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the run-up to this state, the general
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consensus was that he had done
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something bad, but no one was clear on
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exactly what. This to me feels like her
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claiming that these random civilians in
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her office not knowing what James Charles
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did is evidence that he hasn't done
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anything that serious or at least less
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serious than people are making it out to
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be. Would is a real logical hootenanny,
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I tell you that. The article then goes on
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to say the wildest like, like...
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My cat's looking at me. He's more cautious
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now, although not so much that he's giving
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up on the DM sliding completely. Instead,
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he started requiring potential romantic
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interests to provide ids before he'll
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engage. I'm a club bouncer at this point,
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he says, which even still hasn't stopped
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the occasional breach of trust.
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Earlier this year, a TikTok user shared
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snippets of a flirtatious conversation he
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had with Charles and which outlines his
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requirements for a boyfriend. Charles
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also tells me he recently caught a
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17-year-old trying to lie about his age by
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taking out a digit on his ID. And when she
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asked James why, he wouldn't just use a
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regular dating app to find a partner, he
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basically says that he feels to exposed
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on apps and that anybody can take a screen
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shot of his profile and brag and tell
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their friends about it. Ummm and ahhh,
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but ummm, I don't know how to say this
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nicely so, Are you stupid? How is talking
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to people on social media any less risky
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than using a dating app. The article just
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got done saying that somebody leaked a
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private DM on to the internet that was
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from Instagram. It wasn't from a dating
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app. It's also from a dating app you can
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instantly verify like somebody's age. You
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can investigate whether or not there are
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catfish. You can investigate their social
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media, if they have a link to the profile.
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And so, at this point, I really have no
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choice to assume that this isn't just
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stupidity. It's malicious. Because you
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know who's not on dating apps? Minors!
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In September of 2023, James was seen
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asking for a 17-year-old's age on a
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TikTok live stream. And I mean, do I even
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have to say anything? This is a direct
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result of the same repeated behavior over
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and over again. I found this clip from
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Frenemies of all places that kind of
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perfectly summarizes how I feel about
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this.
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Because you know what? These people
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who are sick like this? They keep doing
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it, but sick people can't help themselves
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but do it again.
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A normal person would have stopped. A
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predator cannot help themselves.
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In January of 2024, another boy would
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come forward with claims that James had
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talked to him inappropriately while he was
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a minor, and this boy actually has a
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screen shot of James sliding in his DMs
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and saying "Age Check!".
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He dmmed me that and I responded and I
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said, " I am a very mature 16."
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And, something that made me very sad
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about this TikTok, where he talks about
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all the inappropriate conversations that
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they had was that had he says "I know
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I shouldn't have been talking to him like
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that. I know I had no business talking to
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him like this.
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Now I understand, right off the bat,
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I shouldn't be talking like that or
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chatting to like entice them.
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It is just self-blaming of it all. It's
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just.. It's said. Please allow me to just
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like armchair/psychology this man for a
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moment. James keeps getting himself into
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these situations, right? And he blames it
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on the fact that he can't meet people and
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the way normal people can, but
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riddle me this? Why is he the only person
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with this problem. Like, do you know
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how many gay influencers are in L.A. that
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do not have this issue? Do you know how
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many people, in general, just don't have
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this issue? And I think what makes James
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especially dangerous to be online is that
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when he talks, he doesn't seem like a
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manipulative monster. Quite the contrary,
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actually. He's very well put together. He
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can seem fun. He can seem creative and I
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feel that that leaves his audience extra
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susceptible to him. And to be honest at
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this point, I think the only people that
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start to watch him are younger teens that
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just genuinely don't even know any of
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this happened. James literally committed
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a crime and he's not in jail. So, saying
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that he should leave all social media is a
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very light, light sentence. Like, my
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brother in Christ, he should be in jail,
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but he can't even do that and he's still
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using social media the same way that
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he's always has, as if none of this even
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happened. It's ridiculous and as of was,
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I can't help but wonder why with people.
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I desperately want answers where there
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are none like all of the time. And so when
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it comes to people like James, I look at
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pictures of them from when they were
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younger. I think about how in this video.
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James is just a few years younger than
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somebody who he would prey on. It's so
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disturbing that it almost makes me feel
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bad for the person, because they
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live as a piece of shit every day. To me,
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to be so schemey and strange and creepy
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seems very tiring. And this is just
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a side tangent, but I always think about,
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as somebody who has been through grooming,
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is like no matter what, I would always
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choose to be the victim rather than be
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the person that hurts people. That's
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just some food for thought. Like the idea
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of being this person is ewwww!
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That is about all I have for today though.
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That is about all i can stomach.
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Ummm, thank you so much for watching and
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if you would like to see more videos, like
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in this format, that would be cool.
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I really do like, like putting together
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all these slide shows. Big thank you
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to my patrons! You guys are awesome!
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I appreciate you so much and it is
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actually, really wonderful to see so many
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people connect into a little
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community and the discord. You guys
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are amazing. Before we go though, I also
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did want to talk a little bit about
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a fundraiser that I started about 2
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weeks ago, called "Creators for
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Palestine". This fundraiser is now
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comprised of over a hundred creators and
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we have so far raised over $700,000 for
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Palestinian relief, which is insane.
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Um, I did not expect this many amazing
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people to get involved for us to actually
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have a goal this large. Um, if you
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like to support us, we are actually doing
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a huge live stream on Thursday, the 30th.
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I believe this video is coming out on a
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Monday so this is just a few days away.
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If you want to show your support, sharing,
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or donating, that would be amazing.
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Thank you so much for taking that time to
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listen to me and, um, I will see you guys
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very soon.