YouTube star James Charles isn't a bit
of a spat with Ariana Grande's fans.
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daily. James Charles vlogs about beauty,
entertainment and music, and on March
30th he posted a video to his channel
titled: "Shane Dawson and Ryland Do My
Makeup." This is all very fun and innocent
until James gets asked this question
about eleven minutes into the video.
Who's been the rudest celebrity you've
ever met? Ariana Grande. Can you talk
about this? Wait a second. What did Ariana Grande do to James? Well, apparently James
went to Ariana's show and posted videos of
it to his Instagram story like one might
do. Ariana saw this, followed James and DM'ed him to show her appreciation. But then...
This is right after like all of my scandal
started happening, so I was getting a
bunch of really, really angry tweets from
her fans that are really mad that she
had followed me and literally four hours
later I started getting tweets like
Wow. Ariana unfollowed James... like the rat
gets what he deserves... like wow love
karma. And I was like what the heck? So I checked
and she did actually unfollow me. So due
to the backlash from her fans, Ariana
then unfollowed James on Instagram and
then he DM'ed her on Instagram asking what
happened.
I message her back and I was like hey did I do something wrong and she
literally was like hey babe like I just
saw a lot of angry tweets for my fans
and I would never want to disappoint
them so I unfollowed. And I sent back
like a very like strong worded message
too and I was like you have 100 million
fans that really disappointing that you
would like stoop to the level of
listening to people bullying me just to
like appease them but okay. That scandal
he referred to is a tweet from February
2017 where he wrote: "I can't believe
we're going to Africa today omg what if
we get Ebola?" Yeah. That's probably not
good. That tweet is very reminiscent of
the infamous Justine Sacco tweet from
December 2013 that says this: "Going to
Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS.
Just kidding. I'm white!" And that tweet got Sacco fired,
but James Charles's tweet didn't
strongly impact his channel or his deal
with CoverGirl to be their first male
spokesperson. James tweeted a lengthy
apology, though he referred to Africa as
a country, and some people said they
would no longer buy CoverGirl as long as
he was there spokesperson.
But for all that, the scandal largely
blew over.
But many Ariana Grande fans are still
taking him to task for calling her rude,
especially considering his controversial joke. @Camilasfate says: "james Charles
said ariana is the rudest celeb and
"appeases bullying" because she unfollowed
him after HE tweeted racist things."
Diogo says: "so apparently Ariana is the
rudest celebrity James Charles has ever
"met" just because she followed and
unfollowed him in the same day lmfao
that boy is so annoying." That's a good
point. They actually never met in person.
James has since responded to the fan
rage on Twitter saying this: "I messaged
Ariana on Instagram apologizing for
speaking on this situation in my video
but also explaining where I was coming
from & why I said what I said. I made
it clear in my video I still loved &
respected her so if you choose to only
hear the bad, that's on you.
Let it be." Ms. Grande herself has been
quiet about the whole situation because
she probably has better things to do. She
hasn't appeared on Instagram or Twitter
since New Year's Eve. That's actually
surprising because she's been involved
in lots of stuff since the holidays. And
I'm surprised she hasn't taken to her
social media to promote those things. But,
hey. To each his or her own. Sometimes you
just got to take care of yourself,
stay off the social media. But looking
at her past, Ariana actually does take
issues of racism very seriously. In 2017,
she fired one of her backup dancers for
using the N-word on her Instagram story.
And her fans are consistently
appreciative of these actions. So overall
we probably won't see Ariana and James
becoming BFFs anytime soon. Nonetheless,
James still says Ariana is one of the
most talented vocalists of her
generation. Oh, social media drama. So are
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