James later issued an apology on his Instagram story, saying he didn't intend to upset Westbrook, and stated he did the advertisement to secure security during Coachella.
Westbrook posted an Instagram story being upset that James would promote her competitor, even though they were friends. During Coachella 2019, James came under fire for promoting a Sugar Bear vitamin on his Instagram, which the Sugar Bear vitamin was a direct competitor for Tati Westbrook's Halo vitamins. This controversy was so viral to the point it nearly ended James' career. While James had a fair share of controversy, it all paled out when Tati decided to upload a video confessing and castigating all the wrongs James did. in the wake of these allegations YouTube would demonetize his channel for an entire month and his show instant influencers would have him replaced with fellow Youtubers ZHC For season 2 and on word, as well as fellow YouTuber and friend of his PewDiePie unfollowing him on Instagram James finally made a video addressing the allegations and admitting to these mistakes, but really messed up on trying to get a thorough explanation together. One of these allegations came when a 15-year-old boy accused him of aggressive grooming and James blocked him for spreading his word. New allegations in 2021 have surfaced that James has groomed a total of at least 3-6 minors on multiple platforms and tried to deny the allegations by stating that they lied about their ages, but it slowly became more aggressive with each allegation. This follows Gage Gomez coming forward and admitting Charles’ manipulative and predator-like nature towards straight men, threatening to expose them if they reject his advances. More controversy arose after Charles’ appearance at the Met Gala, with people making fun of his outfit, which didn't fit the camp theme, and him being a YouTuber, attending a prestigious event.Īfter the Met Gala controversy, multiple classmates coming forward with how he had cat fished his high school's soccer team. Charles apologized shortly after, releasing a statement saying that his comments were unintentionally transphobic, though that was not his intent, and that he should have chosen different words to convey what he meant. There's also been trans guys in the past, too, that I was really, really into for a moment in time." These comments created controversy and were called transphobic. In April 2019, Charles clarified that he was not fully gay, being a 5.5 on the Kinsey scale, revealing that "there have been girls in the past who I've thought were very, very beautiful. However, it was revealed that they were actually edited which led the photographer being contacted. He claimed that his high school prom photographs were retaken with a ring light. High School PhotoĪ month later, James was exposed when another YouTube make-up artist named Thomas Halbert posted screenshots of previous conversations online with him where his rise to fame story was falsified. I hope that people who might look up to me will be able to learn from my mistakes and not repeat them. No one owns me forgiveness, but I've learned a lot from the experience. An apology was later issued with him saying I am extremely sorry for what I said. In February 2017, James tweeted an offensive joke about Africa and Ebola. After having his career in makeup, his father helped him change their basement into a makeup studio where he practiced doing it on his friends.
Before he developed his interest in makeup, he often did hairstyling. James is from Bethlehem, New York, United States, and was a student of Bethlehem Central Senior High School.
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