What's up guys, Sunny here and welcome
back to a brand new video here on my
channel. Over the last couple of days
there's been a lot of drama surrounding
the YouTube beauty community;
more specifically James Charles. You see
that around five days ago he was the
number one subscribed beauty channel
here on youtube with over 16 million
subscribers. And as for right now he's
lost almost 4 million subscribers
because of all the drama! That's more
subs than I have and probably will ever
get... And as a YouTuber myself I'd say
that's a pretty big deal... And that's not
just for him and the people involved in
the drama, but for YouTube as a platform
and just the YouTube community in
general. So I guess the reason of me
making this video is that I just want to
share my opinion and views on this story.
And just a little disclaimer before we
get to the video. I will try and stay as
objective as possible because my
intention here isn't to cause any harm
or to hurt anybody. I simply want to
share my perspective on the story, so
yeah, let's get to the video *clap*
Ok, so for those of you who are unaware of the
situation let's just do a little recap
of what's been going on. A beauty guru
that goes by the name of Tati has
uploaded a 40-minute long video on James
Charles and his actions and behavior
called BYE SISTER... In short the video is
about how fame has changed him how badly
he's training his friends after
everything they've done for him, and
lastly how he's pressuring straight guys
into sleeping with him. Now Tati
starts off the video by explaining how
her and her husband helped James out by
getting his videos from about $90 to
$2,500 per video, which is quite a
difference. He's making $90 a video and
because of me and my husband he was
making 2500 immediately from us which
being flipped because his former
management did not go in and do that for
him... She also shows a little compilation
of her promoting James in multiple
occasions... I just wanted to congratulate
you on almost 1000000
on instagram, I want to say huge
congratulations to James Charles if you
have not checked his channel out on
YouTube and you want to be inspired he's
a freaking teenager and he's like a
genius with makeup. Which to me just shows
how open and kind Tati actually is
Because she obviously has her own brand
and for her to promote another
influencer like that is just... What can
I say? At least it shows that she cares
for him and wants him to succeed, and I
honestly think that the main issue here
is that she didn't really get a lot in
return. I've seen videos of James
promoting Tati as well so it's not like
he hasn't done anything for her. But I
guess the thing is that she didn't get a
lot in return. Now I know a general rule
is that you shouldn't do something for
anybody if you're expecting the same
stuff in return. But I don't really think
that's the main issue here. My theory is
that there has been a lot of stuff just
building up to the point where Tati
couldn't take it anymore, and just
snapped. And I mean I think it's fair.
We're human after all and we can only
take that much. Tati owns a vitamin
company called "Halo beauty" and she
offered James a deal or a sponsorship or
I don't really know to be honest... So he
wouldn't go to her competitors. The
reason that James always said that he
couldn't promote Halo on his channel, and
really do like you know heavy
endorsement was because he has a teenage
audience, and it would just be
inappropriate. Now what did James do? He
went to Coachella, picked up a brand deal
from a competitor of Tati,
called "Sugar bear hair". Sugar bear hair... Oh my god I
can't talk... In exchange of security at
Coachella. But they just came out with
brand new vegan sleep vitamins and
first of all it tastes so bomb, but most
importantly I've been dealing with a lot
of anxiety recently and it always comes
late at night when I'm laying in bed
thinking, which is not fun or fresh. Uhm, so
I've been taking these 30 minutes before
bed and they've been really really
helping me, so if
you guys wanna check it out you can
swipe up. This obviously made Tati
pretty upset and she ended up uploading
a video where she cried. When you do so
much for people in your life and they
not only don't return the favor but they
just don't even see you. So it seems to
me like he either was in a situation
where he had no other options than
backstabbing Tati,
which let's be real, probably isn't the case
considering he has a lot of money and he
probably has enough money to get a
security team for both his friends and
himself. Or he just doesn't care anymore.
After the sugar bear hair scandal James
uploaded an apology directly to Tati and
he mentioned that he didn't think about
the competition and that it was a major
oversight. But Tati felt like he was
lying and that all of this was
pre-planned...
The sugar bear hair thing, that was a blatant
lie, like come on. No company would ever
go out of their way to have an extra, you
know, handful of passes that cost
thousands of dollars a piece, like just in
case there's a value there, and there's a
value exchange. Like brands know what
they're doing and that leads me to
believe that this was orchestrated
beforehand but he had an emotional
conflict because of me, and promises he
made to me behind the scenes... In regards to
the Coachella situation with the brand
deal on the security guard. I've already
told my truth about this twice. And instead
of talking about it for a third time and
explaining it and going into detail and
pulling up receipts... It doesn't matter
and I understand that no matter what I
say or do there's always gonna be people
that don't believe me and they'll think
that I'm lying. And that's okay. At this point
the truth really does not matter, it's
the feelings that do. And this is where
Nikita Dragun decides to get involved in
the situation by dropping some text
messages of James Charles asking her to
reach out to sugar bear hair. Heard a
situation needs some clarification my
friend was in an emergency and texted me
in the moment. Unfortunately, since @DragunBeauty used all of our marketing budget
on "the fantasy" I connected him with
sugar bear. Nothing shady... After all this
Tea Spill, which is a drama channel here
on YouTube, tweeted the following:
Alright, so James texted Nikita asking if
she should get him a SBH
sponsorship, but he told me that he was
being mobbed and sugar bear reached out
to him. Sister lied to me... So nothing
really makes sense here
and I think it's really hard to know what's
actually the truth. But in the end I
believe that the sugar bear hair thing
combined with the public attack from
Gabriel Zamora was the last straw
which eventually led to Tati uploading
the video publicly instead of just
having a conversation with James Charles
himself. The next part of Tatis video is
the part of the video that is really
really bad. And it's gotten even worse
because of Twitter. Because people keeps
on tweeting and tweeting and tweeting
stuff about James that may or may not be
true... James Charles has a history of
going after straight men, and he is
pretty public about it on Twitter and
YouTube and everything. In Tatis video
she calls out James Charles's behavior
as being predatory towards straight men.
You were talking in detail about things
you wanted to do to the waiter... And when
I said James he's straight your response
was "Doesn't matter I'm a celebrity".
So freaking gross... He said that
because he's famous he can go after
straight men. I'm really hoping that
that's just a really really bad joke.
There's a lot of screenshots of
conversations with James surrounding the
internet right now. One of them being a
guy asking if he could be flown out to
meet him, where James responds there's no
point if we're not hooking up. Because
he's straight. Then another straight guy
called Gage, uploaded two videos on him
where he explains that James pressured him
by buying him stuff, and then trying to
make him sleep with him afterwards.
even Zara freakin Larsson made a tweet
about this situation, where she explains
that James Charles tried to slide into
her boyfriend's DM's. It's kind of
funny. I honestly think that James is
just joking around. I haven't even seen
the screenshots of this specific event
but he's probably just trolling, come on.
Now if we go back to Tatis video she
talks a little bit about what went down
on her birthday dinner. Oh my god you
tried to trick a straight man into
thinking he's gay, yet again, and somehow
you're the victim. And a few days ago the waiter that Tati was talking about
came forward with a now-deleted video,
where he explains the situation.
Throughout the
night, James and his friend and everyone
they just kept looking at me but
especially James, and he was looking at
me later on that night he started
talking the other employees about me
asking me if I had a Valentine. This was on Valentine's Day, and he kept
asking the waiter than if I
was single, and they thought I was very
attractive. Or he especially thought
that I was very attractive and he wanted
to get my phone number and all that, but
the waitstaff
at my restaurant didn't let that happen.
He left and it kind of just went
untalked about. Then he talks about how
he messaged James, and James invited him
to his hotel room. He also stated that at
this time he was bicurious. I get to the
hotel room, we say hi, it's all fine. We're
watching a movie, and after that movie
he asked to kiss me. And I was very
nervous, because I'd never done anything
with a guy, and I was bicurious, So I said
yes we ended up making out for around an
hour. James actually did a video with
Nikita Dragun where he did a little
story time on this situation. I was
traveling, and I met a really really
beautiful boy a restaurant and we caught
each other's eye I don't think anything
of it the weights off was a crossing
because I saw that I would kept looking
at him and stuff, and the next day he had
DM'd me on Instagram.
And was like oh my god, I noticed you and
thought you're really beautiful. And I
was like "oh my god, can I ask like, are
you straight?"
And he's like no I'm bi. So he right away told me he was
bi. He clarified it and I was like oh my
god great down. Perfect, beautiful,
amazing. He told me he was fine, so I was like
"cool". It escalated, he was super super kind.
He wanted to hang out before I was
leaving the next morning, so I booked
another hotel room at my hotel. Because I
had Drew in, so I was not gonna do anything with Drew there. So he didn't want me to leave from the
hotel room, and he kept telling me to
stay like "please stay, please stay, don't
leave me". But I really
wanted to go home.
So I left, and throughout the following
weeks We really kept in contact and my
birthday was coming up on the 22nd. And
he wanted to fly me out to LA. And that
kind of freaked me out, because at that
point I was pretty sure I was straight.
He then texted James and let him know
that he wasn't into him and that he was
straight. James was pretty upset, which is
pretty understandable. I mean he was
literally almost "dumped" if I can call it
that. And he went on an emotional rant on
Twitter. Which let's be real probably
isn't the best idea when you're upset...
But it happened and this is what he went
on to say... James then told the waiter
that there was no way he wasn't gay... And
again I'm hoping that he just said that
because it was upset, but it honestly
seems to me like he was kind of sick of
always ending up in these types of
situations. And it also seems to me like
he literally just snapped. Now I know
that I can't say this for sure because I
don't know James but, let's not forget
that it's easy to be irrational when
you're upset or emotional. And every word
that comes out of your mouth isn't
necessarily something good. There's
probably a lot of stuff behind the
scenes here so I think it's best to just
like... Not just assume stuff here. If James
is really forcing people into being gay
that's really really wrong, and I hope
for the sake of the world that that's
not the case. But he hasn't responded to
any of this drama yet, so I guess time
will show. Now there's still so much to
this story but I think it's time for me
to wrap up, and just let you guys know my
opinions. Whether or not everything is
true or false I can't help to feel a
little bit sorry for James Charles. He is
literally 19 years old, he's a teenager.
His channel exploded over the span of
just a few years. His life went from
being pretty normal to absolutely crazy
really fast, and as far as I know he
hasn't actually done anything illegal
with boys... Now if he has done
anything illegal I am NOT supporting
that at all whatsoever.
And of course I don't think that his
actions are good at all. He pressured
boys, for sure, and that's very wrong. And
he did mess up bigtime. But he literally
lost 4 million subscribers. His
reputation is destroyed, and his career
is ruined for good. A lot of famous
people and former friends have
unfollowed him as well: Miley Cyrus, Shawn
Mendes, Shane Dawson, Dolan twins, Emma,
Katy Perry and Jeffree star. Yes he has
been backstabbing multiple friends and
yes, he has pushed his sexuality on to
other boys which is wrong. But I think
he's been punished enough to be honest.
And I saw a story from Shane Dawson this
morning and I really felt it... Feeling sad.
Everything feels so dark right now even
though I believe some people need to be
humbled I also could never enjoy
watching someone go through something
like this. Today I want to focus on good
stuff. I feel like I have tea poisoning
from seeing all this drama. Send a nice
text to a friend today, give someone a
hug, tweet a link to your favorite music
video... I don't know. Something nice. I feel
like we all need that now. So now that
I've shared all my opinions I'm kind of
interested in knowing what you guys
think because obviously we're human we
have a lot of different opinions of
things I haven't seen all the videos out
there and you guys probably haven't seen
all the videos out there either so if
there's something that I missed or
anything that I should know please let
me know down below and I also want to
hear you guys this opinion so please
share them with me below as well and
yeah I really hope you enjoyed this
video even though it was a little bit
different from what I usually make. I'm
not really the type of person to talk
about drama I guess because I'm not the
biggest fan of drama, but I felt like
this was such a huge event for YouTube
as a community. I mean I think it's
absolutely crazy that a person can lose
4 million subscribers in the span of
like 5 or 6 days. There have been a lot
of scandals here in the YouTube
community with Logan Paul we have that
Jake Paul scandals we have this and that
and I don't think that anything has been
quite like this. This is huge this is
something I've never seen before and I
think that everyone has heard of this and yeah
Anyways I'm sorry for the mood of this
video I usually make uplifting and happy
videos but yeah anyway so my social
media links are listed down below and I
will see you guys within a couple of
days with a brand new video bye
