James Charles just moved into a new
house and now he's telling fans to stop
showing up and invading his privacy.
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daily. James Charles is a beauty blogger
and makeup entrepreneur who counts over
11 million subscribers on his YouTube
channel. But like any famous person,
James's fans is mistaking his open
internet personality with an open
invitation to access him in real life. He
took to Twitter to set the record
straight about an incident that happened
to him over the weekends. He tweeted
"Please stop showing up at my house. I
will not hug you I will not take a photo
with you and I absolutely will not sign
your palette. It is extremely
disrespectful and makes me feel very
unsafe in my own home.
Respect people's privacy, it's really not
that hard." And tons of fans and friends
commented like Jacqueline Hill who said
"I'm sorry you're dealing with this James,
it's horrible." And JJ Kelso who said "the
fact that you haven't even been in the
new house for more than a couple of
months people already find it and harass
you is so beyond scary and annoying." But
to be honest, this isn't that surprising
and he isn't the first social media star
to deal with this issue. Popular comedian
jenna Marbles had a few scary incidents.
In a video titled "don't come to our
house," her boyfriend Julian sulamita
begged fans to respect their privacy. "A
grown-ass woman drove up with her son
asking if she knew if this was the
street jenna Marbles lived on. And she said 'I
don't know all these parents nowadays
are taking their kids to these youtubers
houses, it's pretty crazy.' And I said
'yeah. You drove here. You are the crazy.
Like you are the problem
here.'"
Julian explains that finding and
stopping by a youtubers home is definitely
obviously an invasion of privacy,
including when there are so many other
ways to see these personalities.
Including cons, meetups and events that
they have. Fans notoriously flocked
outside of the old team ten house where
popular creators like Jake Paul lived
together. Former team ten-er and
ex-girlfriend Alissa Violet even invited
James Charles to come live in the clout
house. God, soon what's trending gonna
have to have their own house. But I'm not
paying. And while a lot of these social
media stars are experiencing this for
the first time, it's something that
traditional stars are pretty used to/
Many fans feel like they can go to
celebrities homes and hopes of meeting
them in person
or just feeling any slight connection
with the person they're obsessed with. I
mean there's an entire Hollywood homes
bus tour, the TMZ tour where you can
literally just drive by celebrities
homes and spend an entire afternoon
doing so. Not stalker-ish or weird at
all. And while a lot of fans are coming to
James's defense, a lot of people are
saying that this just comes with the
territory. Like Krissy who said "your
frustration is completely understandable
but don't forget who got you to where
you are. It's those same people who will
keep you going or ruin you. You have them
to think for where you're living and
what you're driving. It comes with the
territory, kid.
Lizzy added "people who are saying 'you chose
this life' are part of the problem. Taking
pictures and signing pallets is obv's
fine any other time. He's meant to feel
safe in the comfort of his own home not
feel like his life is possibly at risk.
Some of you guys need to chill." I mean
that's true, it does come with a
territory but like at a certain point if
this is your reality, you need to figure
out a balance. And the people around you
need to respect that. There needs to be
some sort of boundaries. And there are a
lot of cases where a breach of privacy
becomes a scary breach of security. For
instance, The Bling Ring as made popular
by the 2013 Sophia Coppola film was an
infamous group of seven teenagers who
broke into celebrities homes between
2008 and 2009 resulting in thefts of
possessions amounting to three million
dollars. Famous burglaries include Paris
Hilton, Audrina Patridge, Rachel Bilson,
Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr, Megan Fox
and Lindsay Lohan. Which is why if a
talent feels something might happen,
they're going to say something. So what
do you think? Do you think invasion of
privacy comes with the price of fame? Let
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