Hi all James here, I'm literally sitting here in my studio. I can't film. I'm sorry.
For everything that is going on. Everything I have to put you through. He said some things and it literally made me want to vomit.
James Charles has been canceled. I doubt I really need to summarize this situation,
,ut just in case you somehow don't know what's going on, beauty YouTuber Tati
Westbrook dropped, at the time, the most well formulated and graceful expose video on James that I had ever seen. Even
rivaling the likes of a Content Cop, in my opinion.
Tati starts off the video talking about all the different ways in which she helped Charles
including how her and her husband assisted to increase his YouTube revenue from $90 a video to
$2,500 a video as well as her husband helping him to secure contracts and deals with brands.
She also promoted his special discount code for the Morphe store at every opportunity, as well as promoting his products.
But then, following this Tati
goes full psycho mode and drop some mad roasts on James Charles
including how he became overall much more toxic as of recent, shedding light on his
disgusting behavior at her birthday that I don't really want to repeat here, and a situation involving a betrayal of her business, and
then comes probably the most shocking and disgusting thing of all
Tanny exposes James Charles for his predatory behaviour, affirming a lot of allegations surrounding
Charles using his money and celebrity status to manipulate straight men sexually in his favor multiple times. A
waiter that James was in contact with came forward with this story as well, as a guy named Gage who both confirmed Tati's report.
Pretty messed up stuff, at least that's what we all thought.
James Charles decided that the allegations against him had gone too far and consequently,
he created a response video that debunked almost every single claim made against him by Tati.
The tides had turned. Tati was losing subs, the hate train had switched tracks, and
James's video had a much more healthy like to dislike ratio than his absolutely terrible apology.
So, all was coming right for Charles
But in his video he downright exposed Jeffree Star for all of the threatening text messages sent between Star and himself.
Jeffree responded in a video, not defending his actions at all, quite surprisingly but saying
that he wants to take a break from YouTube drama and spilling all of the piping hot tea.
However, in the meantime, another aspect of all of this drama was unfolding on Twitter. People started coming forward with stories about James
Charles's past including his high school classmates. There's a lot to cover here
so I'm going to do my best to summarize it as clear and concise as I can. Now
I'm not 100% sure of the timeline
but I know that this was the first tweet that gained a lot of traction. A young lady by the name of Asa Palanna
quoted a tweet by pop buzz declaring:
"Throwback to when James Charles catfished the entire soccer team in high school
pretending to be a girl so that he could get d*ck pics. So glad to know he's still predatory." Now,
this is quite the allegation. About a week later, the same account that posted this gem and got this meme worthy response from James
retweeted Asa's tweet and as a result of this, Asa made a follow up set of tweets.
"There's a lot of people asking me for tea on James Charles
but I don't really have any. I went to high school with James Charles.
I don't know him well, but he was in one of my classes and he's always been a bully and a predator.
This was something that my whole school knew about, among other things
He did such as bullying other students with his Instagram account right when it started to get a big following.
I don't want to expose him because I don't have enough information to do so,
but everybody I know has been trying to speak up for years now, and it's only now that a tweet went viral
that you're all listening. I hope that people finally do start to listen and take what he's doing seriously.
Now I had to verify that she was indeed from the same school as James Charles, so I had to do some digging.
From here on, private information will be blurred out. Even though these accounts are public,
I'm not sure if these people would appreciate having their information spread across YouTube.
We know that James Charles went to Bethlehem Central High School
but searching for Asa's name with reference to the high school didn't bring up any results.
So I had to go digging. Asa has an Instagram and from there
I was able to scroll down and I found some photos with her high school friends tagged.
I searched up some of her friends names specifically this one who had apparently moved on to become a model in Italy. Nice.
I searched her up and found this web page archived from BCHS with her name in it saying that she was an exchange student.
Well that clears up the Italy thing.
I also did the same with a few other people tagged and they all linked back to Bethlehem Central.
So at this point that was no doubt in my mind that she went to the same school as Charles.
But my only question is if everyone in her school knew about it,
why did no one else speak up about the allegations?
The only other evidence is this one from a Facebook post of which I've also verified the information for,
but in essence this still doesn't really prove anything.
I doubted that Asa would have put out a fake story trying to gain clout weeks before any severe allegations came forward.
The story only took off after the retweet.
So she gets some extra credit for that and she did go to his school at the same time as him
so there is a level of credibility to her story.
However,
I cannot say definitively whether she is telling the truth in this instance since she hasn't responded to my DM or come up with any
extra proof concerning James Charles.
So for now I'll have to label this as a plausible allegation
but not proven in any sense and doubtful to ever be proven at all.
The next allegation one that James actually mentioned in his video was made by this Twitter account,
Lilac. The tweet included a set of images explaining in detail a rather severe allegation, that James Charles
Inappropriately touched at a young boy in the urinals. Now that is despicable if true.
But then this person completely messes up by sharing obviously fake DMs supposedly from James telling her to takedown the post immediately.
Upon closer inspection we can see that this is a screenshot from an iPhone
and if so,
why is the font up here so wrong? Completely fake DMs
not to mention that James Charles definitely wouldn't use an emoji like that in a formal complaint and
sure enough the poster made a reply saying that the DMS were fake, but that the story was real.
Yeah, I don't think this story is legitimate. In fact, this individual admitted afterwards that it was all just a social experiment.
I also found out following this story that this person has an entire Instagram account made about her talking about all the shady things
she's done in the past. So I declare this allegation completely false.
This next allegation by an account named Bye Sister is probably the most outlandish
one I've ever seen. It said that James Charles was not only predatory towards males but to females as well
which seems a bit far-fetched given James Charles's apparent attraction to straight males.
It showed these DMs and even showed some videos of the DMs to prove that they were real and people believed it
like people legitimately thought this was real with all these emojis and outlandish statements.
It was insane, but then had a look at the DMs a bit closer and I immediately saw something that was a bit off.
So I brought it into my image editing program and sure enough,
there was some major issues.
If you line up both of the images on top of each other, you can immediately see a discrepancy in the position of the
screenshot. If you compare the images, one is several pixels to the right of the other.
This shouldn't happen if the images are the same resolution
which they are.
You can also compare the size of the profile pictures and you can see clearly that one picture of James Charles is clearly bigger than
the other I decided to record a quick video showing my findings and I uploaded it as a reply to the thread.
I assumed the account that made the thread was asleep because my video was left
unresponded to for many hours and in that time it amassed over
1400 likes which would have surpassed the likes in the original post if it had been up for longer.
Unfortunately, the account got deactivated. Funny that, but later they apparently came back for a few minutes to just tell me this. "Oh,
you're so wrong. My account got reported, but I didn't fake it. So, lmao."
Which was untrue. Accounts don't disappear after they've been reported. If it had, it would have showed that the account was suspended
which it didn't. I responded asking them to address their discrepancies to which they responded saying that "they didn't fake it,
it's all real and they'll do five more screen recordings today to prove it."
But they never got that far because they deactivated their account after that but not before I was able to see these amazing
tweets on their timeline.
"Apparently my DMS are fake B*tch
what? I literally don't know how to edit. So ok
John Swan." What a situation. I think this serves as another successful debunking.
Now, I'm all for people being held accountable for their wrongdoings
but you shouldn't fake a story just because you want to add fuel to the fire.
That's not okay and it can cause substantial damage to people's reputation. Now
I don't think that Charles is completely blameless as well. After all
he was listed on Tinder as a female to bring in straight dudes.
That's kind of messed up, but you shouldn't make it look worse than what it is.
It's important to know that doctoring information like this is libel,
the written form of defamation as they are asserting things about James Charles that are just not true in the slightest.
People have also been given jail time for preparing false documents with the intent to produce it in a judicial proceeding
with fraudulent or deceitful purpose, all in all not very cool. So keep on the factual side of the argument.
Or just don't say anything at all unlike those commentators who sprung on the story and had to rewrite or delete their videos.
Don't be like YouTubers, basically. Anyhow, that's it for me today, but I would like to make a few announcements
The John Swan discord is now open. I've spent a long time with my head admin to get it looking perfect
and I think we've done a really solid job. So go forth and populate.
I also recently set up a Patreon that have already got some people donating to it
Which is very nice of them.
So I'd like to mention my two $5 Patreons, Nemo Man and Tozier and my $10 patron, The Face of Team Rocket.
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I hope you enjoyed this video and I'll see you again next time
