Thought it might be helpful to create a general thread for anyone wanting to discuss the drama!
Beauty YouTuber Tati Westbrook posted the following video, where you read a monologue that had been approved by her legal team:
Who is Tati?
Tati Westbrook is a well known American beauty guru. She two companies: Halo Beauty Vitamins and Tati Beauty. Fairly unscandelous as far as I'm aware apart from overuse of filter on her videos. Apart from this drama of course.
Who is Jeffree Star?
Influencer and cosmetic range owner Jeffree Star (often referred to as J*). J* has a depressingly high list of scandals and drama which can be found here. People believe he has escaped being "cancelled" and got through so much drama fairly unscathed because he holds so much power. The theories mostly centre around him having evidence he can use to blackmail other influencers, many also believe he is a co owner of cosmetics range Morphe. For awhile he was the highest subscribed to beauty channel, famous for saying phrases such as "can't relate" and generally being involved in drama, particularly with other brands.
Also credited with starting Dramageddon 1 which cancelled multiple youtubers and led to Laura Lee's infamous apology video. A summary can be found here
Who is James Charles?
James Charles is another beauty influencer that rose to fame quickly at a fairly young age. A couple of years ago he posted a photo of him retaking his senior yearbook photo with "extra" makeup. From there he just took off somehow, and became the face of CoverGirl. His YouTube is probably one of the fastest growing ever. He also has a Morphe collab in the form of a palette. James has had a fair few scandals including a tweet about Ebola, and generally seen as little obnoxious. Also famous for calling everyone "sister" i.e. "hi sisters"
Who is Shane Dawson?
Shane Dawson is one of the OG famous YouTubers. Originally making comedy videos he branched into a film, and then documentaries including conspiracy theories, and collabs with YouTubers including: Graveyard Girl, Eugenia Cooney, Jake Paul, and of course Jeffree Star. Shane has also had more than his fair share of scandals including paedophilic comments towards underage Willow Smith, creepy sexual comments about his cat, and blackface. He has recently made an apology video renouncing this.
How are they all connected?
James became friends with Tati when he was still a relatively small influencer. From there the friendship grew with her as a bit of a "mother" figure to him in the community, probably because of the difference in age and experience. They were pretty close with James doing Tati's make up for her wedding, and being invited to her birthday dinner.
Tati later befriended J* who then introduced her to Shane Dawson, who he was filming a documentary series with at the time. Shane and J* also collabed on a makeup palette called "conspiracy" due to Shane's famous youtube series.
J* seemed to perhaps be friends with James Charles, and helped run his merch line. He did however seem highly threatened by James' growing popularity which was starting to overtake his own.
Okay but why is any of this relevant?
Last year James promoted hair vitamin company Sugarbear Hair on his Instagram, in return for security at Coachella. This upset Tati as he had previously refused to promote her competitive brand Halo Beauty.
And thus began Dramageddon 2...
This in part led Tati to upload a video called "Bye Sister" in May which basically accused James of using his power to sexually abuse and harass others.
Because this is already such a long post and I'm too lazy to type anymore this article is a pretty good explanation : here
What now?
Karamageddon has started with Shane being cancelled
more people turning against J* and Tati uploading the above video explaining she was gaslit into uploading the video about James. And the drama's only just starting...
updated article about the “fall” of JS/SD -
A complete timeline of how the internet turned against top YouTubers Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star
https://www.insider.com/shane-dawso...-jeffree-star-drama-timeline-cancelled-2020-6
Beauty YouTuber Tati Westbrook posted the following video, where you read a monologue that had been approved by her legal team:
Who is Tati?
Tati Westbrook is a well known American beauty guru. She two companies: Halo Beauty Vitamins and Tati Beauty. Fairly unscandelous as far as I'm aware apart from overuse of filter on her videos. Apart from this drama of course.
Who is Jeffree Star?
Influencer and cosmetic range owner Jeffree Star (often referred to as J*). J* has a depressingly high list of scandals and drama which can be found here. People believe he has escaped being "cancelled" and got through so much drama fairly unscathed because he holds so much power. The theories mostly centre around him having evidence he can use to blackmail other influencers, many also believe he is a co owner of cosmetics range Morphe. For awhile he was the highest subscribed to beauty channel, famous for saying phrases such as "can't relate" and generally being involved in drama, particularly with other brands.
Also credited with starting Dramageddon 1 which cancelled multiple youtubers and led to Laura Lee's infamous apology video. A summary can be found here
Who is James Charles?
James Charles is another beauty influencer that rose to fame quickly at a fairly young age. A couple of years ago he posted a photo of him retaking his senior yearbook photo with "extra" makeup. From there he just took off somehow, and became the face of CoverGirl. His YouTube is probably one of the fastest growing ever. He also has a Morphe collab in the form of a palette. James has had a fair few scandals including a tweet about Ebola, and generally seen as little obnoxious. Also famous for calling everyone "sister" i.e. "hi sisters"
Who is Shane Dawson?
Shane Dawson is one of the OG famous YouTubers. Originally making comedy videos he branched into a film, and then documentaries including conspiracy theories, and collabs with YouTubers including: Graveyard Girl, Eugenia Cooney, Jake Paul, and of course Jeffree Star. Shane has also had more than his fair share of scandals including paedophilic comments towards underage Willow Smith, creepy sexual comments about his cat, and blackface. He has recently made an apology video renouncing this.
How are they all connected?
James became friends with Tati when he was still a relatively small influencer. From there the friendship grew with her as a bit of a "mother" figure to him in the community, probably because of the difference in age and experience. They were pretty close with James doing Tati's make up for her wedding, and being invited to her birthday dinner.
Tati later befriended J* who then introduced her to Shane Dawson, who he was filming a documentary series with at the time. Shane and J* also collabed on a makeup palette called "conspiracy" due to Shane's famous youtube series.
J* seemed to perhaps be friends with James Charles, and helped run his merch line. He did however seem highly threatened by James' growing popularity which was starting to overtake his own.
Okay but why is any of this relevant?
Last year James promoted hair vitamin company Sugarbear Hair on his Instagram, in return for security at Coachella. This upset Tati as he had previously refused to promote her competitive brand Halo Beauty.
And thus began Dramageddon 2...
This in part led Tati to upload a video called "Bye Sister" in May which basically accused James of using his power to sexually abuse and harass others.
Because this is already such a long post and I'm too lazy to type anymore this article is a pretty good explanation : here
What now?
Karamageddon has started with Shane being cancelled
more people turning against J* and Tati uploading the above video explaining she was gaslit into uploading the video about James. And the drama's only just starting...
updated article about the “fall” of JS/SD -
A complete timeline of how the internet turned against top YouTubers Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star
https://www.insider.com/shane-dawso...-jeffree-star-drama-timeline-cancelled-2020-6
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