CoverGirl model/makeup artist James Charles has been fielding a PR nightmare after shocking allegations were lodged against him by fellow influencer Tati Westbrook claiming he took advantage of straight men, pressuring them into having gay sex against their wills.
For whatever reason, another fellow influencer, Jeffree Star, decided to insert himself into the drama by calling 19-year-old Charles a “danger to society” on Twitter.
“There is a reason that [boyfriend] Nathan [Schwandt] banned James Charles from ever coming over to our home again,” 33-year-old 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.”
Given Star’s own history with fetishizing straight men, however, the criticism didn’t land so well.
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In 2007, before he became a beauty vlogger and when he was still an aspiring club performer, Star released the song “Straight Boys.”
The song was all about his lust for heterosexual men and included lyrical gems like “I wanna boy with juicy lips who doesn’t care I don’t have tits” and “They don’t have to tell their friends they’re getting it from both ends.”
Yesterday, Twitter user @thelightalex dug up several old tweets written by Star where he bragged about preying on straight guys, including one that reads: “I’ve had so many straight boys naked that I think I deserve a life time [sic] achievement award.”
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
— alexander (@thelightalex) May 14, 2019
Others on Twitter pointed to episodes from Star’s past in which they feel he behaved just as badly, if not worse, than Charles.
There’s a video of Jeffree Star grabbing a straight guys private area without consent and tati is still friends with him? James is getting heat for straight guys flirting with him wanting to explore their sexuality lmao WITH CONSENT BTW and Tati has a problem with that funny
— Joy Sutherland?????? (@joysweatsalot) May 13, 2019
"I've always been attracted to straight men." — @JeffreeStar https://t.co/I7k6FynZwy
— Devlin Adams (@DevlinAdams5) May 12, 2019
Him sexually assaulting a straight man. @JeffreeStar pic.twitter.com/YPoRXl5PoG
— ???? Michael ???? (@geminii_boi) May 13, 2019
Star has since deleted the tweet calling Charles a “danger to society” and has begun blocking anyone who accuses him of calling the kettle black.
Now, like Charles, people are calling for him to be “canceled” as well.
So are we ready to cancel Jeffree Star yet?
— ? Amara ? (@amaraofficial) May 12, 2019
jeffree star after he was exposed as a hypocrite for also harrassing straight men
pic.twitter.com/SnEkSXbUiM— ????? (@tlicgrnde) May 14, 2019
Let’s cancel Jeffree star next pls
— fate gay night (@kiyalunga) May 15, 2019
Idk why Jeffree Star is so quick to call people out and “cancel” them when he should’ve been canceled YEARS ago ?
— Leo ?? (@leo_kardashian) May 13, 2019
me waiting for a white woman to cancel jeffree star nowpic.twitter.com/uJ5ebxMxIe
— ???? ? (@DDAENG69) May 10, 2019
the internet is so selective on who they want to ostracize. youll cancel james charles for hitting on straight men (and not for his racist comments) but let jeffree star thrive after calling black women gorillas? interesting
— dick wolf (@leahcorne) May 15, 2019
If you cancel James Charles but still stan Jeffree Star all three of you can go fall in a hole. Periodt.
— Cassidy (@hylianbabe) May 14, 2019
Can we cancel Jeffree star as well pic.twitter.com/Qsh6k0Ab0D
— bitch is you sears (@nairobiwilliamx) May 13, 2019
Related: More terrible news for disgraced beauty vlogger James Charles
justgeo
Ugly is as ugly does.
GayNOTQueer
Bingo!
swellster
Who are these people? I’ve never heard of them. Maybe I am old and out of touch.
Jared MacBride
No, you’re lucky.
Creamsicle
I have never been so happy to be old and out of touch.
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like the 20 somethings now are engaging with online toxicity the way I did when I was 13 and was dumb enough to care about people’s Internet drama. I thankfully learned that if you can turn off a machine and go about your life then it’s not a real problem. But it looks like people are ignoring that lesson and turning meaningless flame wars into career killing debacles, all while doubling down on physical inactivity.
I think everyone involved in the James Charles mess is a worthless piece of trash. I’m not defending his behavior, because I don’t care enough about him or the people stupid enough to find themselves in his orbit to actually read about the specifics of what he did or with whom.
The whole thing allegedly started when two makeup artists start getting snippy while selling vitamins, part of the unregulated supplement market. These Social Media Influencers are as worthless and vapid as the Reality TV “celebrities” of the early 2000s, and they’re making moves out of the same play book: all they do is rebrand generic products with questionable efficacy and sell them to a niche following for a ridiculous markup, and then pretend like they’re entrepreneurs.
They may as well be Ivanka Trump.
Brian
These people sell “vitamin supplements” that are not actually vitamin supplements. They are angry at each other for promoting competitor’s pills.
Yes, that’s the world we live in. 🙁
g-sing
the snake also has a long history of racism!!!!!
Donston
This is one of the many consequences of placing so much weight on identity and identity having so much attachment to sociology and personal ego.
What do they even think “straight guys” are supposed to be? Heterosexual? Hetero-leaning dudes who like hooking up with guys on occasion? Closet cases? Any guy who simply says he’s ‘straight’? Men who are into women but ultimately prefer being with a feminized guy (or prefer being with a guy in general, because many “masculine” dudes are obsessed with and only want to be with “straight guys”)? And why do they think hyping hooking up with “straight guys” is a good look or something to aspire to or be proud of? And are they driven by gender expression, sexual fetish, romantic/relationship fulfillment, feeling as if “straight men” are superior, and/or ego and narcissism? These are the actual questions we need to be asking.
In general, I’m very much over so many of these social media “queers” and what many of them represent.
Jack Meoff
These self-appointed vloggers are all toxic messes including the woman who started it all.
Creamsicle
Yup. It was a takedown that started over vitamins. They’re all trashy snake oil salesmen, and they deserve each other.
Donston
Well, I definitely wouldn’t say “all”. That’s thousands of random people we’re talking about. However, it seems out of that “community” the people most problematic, unstable, leeching, manipulative and lacking in self-awareness run in the same circles. While the beauty/fashion industry seems to always be driven by some type of toxicity.
Brian
The defining characteristic of the millennial generation is that they’re an emotionally stunted group of adults who never learned how to transition into adulthood. It’s really no surprise that we have so many media “scandals” that are straight out of an 8th grade slam book.
Can you imagine Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart writing weekly newspaper op-eds about why they’re no longer friends? They would have been laughed into exile.
JK 1984
Most millennials are not “emotionally stunted group of adults who never learned how to transition into adulthood”.
Millennials are agreed between 25-39 (varies slightly depending on when someone thinks the generation starts/finishes) and most are perfectly normal adults going about their day to day lives without drama.
Yes there are “scandals” which are mostly bull and don’t deserve anyone’s time or energy, but that has happened in every generation, it is just now with technology people have much wider audiences and random people can end up famous for very little reason.
Brian
If you think millennials are basically like every other generation, other than the online aspect, you are sadly mistaken.
IWantAFullBeard
I think there are a wealth of academic studies that would disagree with your opinion about millennials. But as a general rule, when you lump millions of people together, across thousands of cultures, customs, geographical locations, etc. you can pretty much be assured you are incorrect.
Jscott86
Jeffree Star is technically a millennial, but James Charles is Generation Z. It really doesn’t matter either way, because one psychopath doesn’t represent an entire generation. We are talking about hundreds of millions of people, so maybe you shouldn’t generalize so much.
Brian
Things like trigger warnings, safe spaces, bringing parents to job interviews, colleges having therapy puppies and play doh to help their students de-stress, adult onsies, offices with people whizzing around on scooters and all those other tech industry cliches, people living with their parents into their 30s, and a bunch more infantile stuff like that are uniquely millennial. Of course it doesn’t apply to every single one, nothing about any generation applies to all of its members other than their age.
The really scary part is going to be when the children that these idiots are raising become adults.
redzebra1
You talk like tabloids are new, they go back to the 1800s when the press was emerging. There’s nothing new about ‘gossip’ and ‘celebrity scandals’ & petty stuff, etc.
dwes09
All the Millennials I know are emotionally mature, socially engaged, progressive and intellectual. These are relatives and people I know through work. Many work for non-profits and NGO’s, doing good works.
Most moved out on their own immediately after college, which, by the way, has only been considered the norm (especially for women) since the 1960’s. Those that lived with their parents after school have now become homeowners, years earlier than their parents were able to. Their foibles are somewhat different from those of preceding generations, but overall they are not really different.
Sorry to say your stereotypes, while amusing, don’t hold true.
ingyaom
This guy is/was a beauty-blogger?
redzebra1
Still is, yes. There’s a number of them. And he shot to success more quickly, etc, than others which no doubt irritated his now rivals
Tombear
YUCH!
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Excuse me, but WHAT is that thing in the picture at the beginning of the article?
Jscott86
I’m pretty sure that this website clearly stated that they do not allow mean spirited comments. Yours is completely irrelevant to the subject matter. Stay on topic.
Brian
We don’t need a net nanny in here, thanks. We can make whatever comments we want, if Queerty wants to delete them that’s up to them. MYOFB.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Jscott86: He is part of a campaign to destroy a 19 year old kid who engaged in the EXACT SAME behavior. I find him to be as ugly on the outside as the inside ..
The whole dramarama is petty jealous queens making a whole lot about nothing.
As long as these “straight” guys weren’t forced into having sex, they ain’t exactly “straight”……
frankcar1965
Yep, he should have been aborted for sure.
Evji108
Another YouTube career in ashes. The sheer superficiality if the people involved in this tacky catfight /scandal and the fact that these people put all the sad and sordid details of their petty shallow lives on social media and YouTube for the delectation of their mass of followers makes me not care that their lives are now “ruined”. They rose by social media and they are now shredded to tatters by their former fans and followers who now have turned on them like a pack of rabid hounds baying for their blood. Bye Felicia.
redzebra1
His career isn’t over. I’ve yet to see one end this quickly. It might survive, we’ll know say a week away. It’d require his sponsors, etc, to ALL leave him. Losing YouTube followers alone won’t do it, other plugs would need to be pulled as well
nitejonboy
Ugh, you’re telling me that ” Thing ” has a boyfriend ? Kill it with fire!
Black Pegasus
Jeffrey Star is a disgusting racist.
Man About Town
It kills me that the word “influencer” is used as an actual job title, but then it kills me that the Kardashian family is rich and famous.
dwes09
Not only is it an actual (if capricious) career, but it can be quite lucrative. And you don’t need any actual knowledge or skills to go into it. You just have to be telegenic and talkative.
Certainly these two guys seem to know how to apply makeup, but they are clueless as to how it makes them look (unless the look they are going for is “man looking like unattractive woman wearing too much makeup for her own good”).
ShiningSex
STAR IS GROSS. NEXT!!!
ShiningSex
THE GUY IN THE VIDEO OBVIOUSLY DIDN’T WANT TO BE TOUCHED BY THOSE CLOWNS. IT IS SEXUAL ASSAULT.