When it rains, it pours. Especially if your name is James Charles.
The 19-year-old CoverGirl model/makeup artist has been bleeding YouTube subscribers ever since shocking allegations were lodged against him by fellow influencer/YouTuber Tati Westbrook last week.
On Friday, 37-year-old Westbrook posted a video to her YouTube channel alleging Charles, who she once considered a friend, had a habit out of coercing straight guys into participating in gay sex acts against their wills.
In response, subscribers began leaving Charles’ YouTube channel in droves. First it was 1 million, then 2 million, and now he’s up to nearly 3 million unsubscribes and counting.
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As a result, now holds the unique distinction of being the first-ever YouTube personality to lose over 1 million subscribers in a 24-hour period.
If that wasn’t bad enough, this week the online store where Charles sells his Sisters Apparel clothing line went dark.
On Monday, if you visited Sisters-Apparel.com, you were greeted with the following notice:
Now, the URL can’t even be accessed.
Meanwhile, the brand’s official Instagram page also hasn’t been updated in almost a week.
The brand has also vanished from its distributor’s website, Killer Merch, which is owned by fellow beauty influencer, Jeffree Star.
Over the weekend, 33-year-old Star called Charles a “danger to society” in a since-deleted tweet.
“There is a reason that [boyfriend] Nathan [Schwandt] banned James Charles from ever coming over to our home again,” Star wrote on Sunday. “There’s a reason why I haven’t seen him since @GlamLifeGuru’s birthday in February. He is a danger to society. Everything Tati said is 100% true.”
Give Star’s own history with fetishizing straight boys, however, the criticism didn’t land so well, which could be why he deleted the tweet.
ok so this isn’t me defending james charles at all, but jeffree star was 25 when he said this stuff and it seems pretty hypocritical of him to be tweeting and dragging james and adding his two cents when he’s said some disgusting shit in the past.. he should’ve just said nothing pic.twitter.com/4ASvepSbxZ
— Saints ? (@_Saints17) May 14, 2019
jeffree star deleted his tweets calling out james charles after all his predatory tweets were revealed. they are all trash. but jeffree is just on another level
— rachel (@racheleustace) May 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/ahleanah/status/1128385311317401600
In response to accusations he preys on straight guys, Charles released a video apologizing for his past behavior, saying, “I’ve been involved in a lot of very unique and strange situations that have left people confused or upset, and I learned the hard way about ways I can interact with boys I’m interested in.”
“This is a conversation that I know a lot of people are uncomfortable with,” he added, “and it’s something I should have been far more careful with, bringing into the public eye.”
Related: Twitter declares James Charles canceled for his predatory straight boy fetish
mr guy
“Toxic masculinity”—though massively overused—exists.
Time to acknowledge that TOXIC EFFEMIN?CY exists too. And Star and Charles ought to be the dictionary definition.
thisisnotreal
So tired of the gays rushing to his defense and saying stuff about how James’s behavior isn’t his fault he’s the product of a community that has put straight men on a pillar as the ultimate prize to be won and so he’s just being exactly what he was taught to be etc. when a kid is bullied and picked on until he snaps and shoots up a school or someone is abused by a family member until they snap and kill the one abusing them, does the legal system say “well we understand why you did what you did so it’s ok” hell no they don’t you do the crime and you pay.
At the end of the day whether the men James ”hunted” were bisexual or questioning or closest cases or using him for their own personal gain etc, what matters most (to me at least) is that in each situation James had a CHOICE and he made the wrong one and when you make bad choice you suffer consequences.
Oh and for all the Gail’s and Linda’s out there arguing that it’s the victims faults for leading James on and using him for this or that, consider one thing. Yes using someone for personal gain is shitty and shouldn’t be done, but regardless of how much you promise to sleep with someone if they buy you things or do nice things for you etc, at the end of the day you NEVER owe them sexual favors! It’s Your body and your life and you have the human right to pull out so to speak at any moment and say “I don’t want to have sex with you” even IF someone has bought you stuff and taken you places all with the promise of it leading to sex, you STILL do not owe your body or your virginity or anything sexual to ANYONE. Call out the victims for using James to their advantage fine, but don’t try and play it off like this was all their fault and some sort of transaction they defaulted on cuz your body is never something you owe anyone no matter what is paid for it.
Brian
And I’m so tired if people acting like he did anything different than gay men have been doing since gay men existed. Or that straight men have been doing to women as well. People take a shot because sometimes it works. That’s just part of being a human, sometimes you get aggressively hit on by someone you have no interest in. If you give in against your better judgement, that’s on you.
darklight413
You lost me at “the gays”.
thisisnotreal
@brian…I wasn’t trying to imply his behavior is singular or exists in a vacuum cuz we all know it doesn’t. But I stand by my idea that his behavior is just a symptom of a larger problem among the gay community and men in general (not all men of course). this idea of idolizing straight men and viewing them as the ultimate trophy or prize to be won, or for straight men, viewing women as another notch in the bedpost and bragging rights for their buddies. Reducing anyone’s worth to that of a conquest or a prize is incredibly problematic and exists in many facets of our society and I agree it needs to be stopped. But just because James isn’t personally the cause or origin of that sort of problematic behavior doesn’t mean his actions and choices as a high profile gay shouldn’t be scrutinized and examined for errors.
Rock-N-RollHS
Gurl, you certainly have a lot of time on your hands. I’d read this long verbal ejaculation if I were interested or had the time, but I gotta wipe my ass.
Brian
Get real. This kid grew up during a time where kids are beat over the head with concepts like respect, consent, sexual harassment, and boundaries. This kid is probably one documentary from announcing that he’s transgender, you literally couldn’t find a less masculine specimen of a man. Yet even with all that, the teensy amount of manhood that exists in him was enough to override all of that and make him a pig. Because men are pigs and that is never, ever, ever going to change. No matter how much we indoctrinate kids and handwring about it and “have the conversation” that we’ve been having forever already.
You know what would have changed his behavior a long time ago and prevented this from being an ongoing problem? If the first guy he tried to pull this crap with kicked his ass. I can guarantee that 5 minutes of that would have accomplished what 19 years of doing things the “correct” way didn’t. Actually, just the threat of breaking more bones in his face than Cover Girl could ever hide probably would have been enough.
So no, we don’t need to stop this, because that is never going to happen. What we need to do is teach people how to deal with things like this when it does happen, because the only behavior we can control is our own.
yup5hioop
He should get called out if he kept doing the same manipulative BS again and again. Better to have some youtube shame than another “gay panic” murder. And if the guys were closeted he probably drove them further in if their liberation is somehow dependent on pleasing him. He shouldn’t get beaten up hell no – he got shamed and can do tearful confessions, some rehab and redemption interviews in a couple years.
Jackrabbit
I love straight men. That’s why I’m single. sigh
Brian
I wonder how much time he spent in front of the mirror giving himself a dramatically disheveled look before he recorded his tearful video?
Bytemenow
I was wondering the same thing!
Rock-N-RollHS
“Disgraced?” Why do I get this image of Glenn Close at the end of Dangerous Liaisons. Lol. Meanwhile, his apology has apparently over 40 million views.
ingyaom
Presumably, that apology was “monetized”.
Satman_99
This is all a waste of time, who cares who these people are anyway. Worried about number of subscribers?! How about living in the real world where we deal with traffic commutes, paying bills, spend time with family, etc
redzebra1
They do, they just make more money than you do. Certainly at the beginning it’s only a hobby job because you won’t get paid much
yup5hioop
Where was the mega rich 120lb soaking wet diva twink back in my closeted days? Guess you can’t choose your obnoxious predatory stans.
dauphin315
Nobody thinks it is strange for a thirty something aging beauty guru to befriend and groom a teenage boy and yet calls him predatory? The woman is practically 20 years his senior and is acting like Regina George with her Youtube Burn book. She is defending straight men who voluntarily met with him. One of which called himself bi-curious. They were not raped by James or molested by James. Hmm doesn’t sound Brock Turner-ish. Tati should Brock up to let him know she is defending him against the evil homosexual. Lets look at who commits most hate crimes against gay men hmmmm Straight men perhaps? Glad you have a cause Tati. You carry that torch Gi.. I mean middle aged woman. I’m sure Matthew Sheppard would have appreciated someone like you in his corner.
redzebra1
No it’s not, because the beauty community isn’t dominated by people her age. Like 90+ are younger than her, she can’t help that. And she said why in her expose video, because he does have some talents but lots of his now rivals didn’t want anything to do with him.
seaguy
Yawn I could care less about some queen who puts on her war paint and gets a bunch of millenial girls to follow her on YouTube so she suddenly is a big “star”. Looks like her 15 is up!