James Charles' Subscriber Count Drops By 3 Million: Blogger ‘In Hiding’ Following Tati Westbrook Allegations James Charles has lost three million followers after Tati Westbrook's video. Picture: James Charles/YouTube Tati Westbrook/YouTube James Charles is said to be “in hiding” after losing almost three million subscribers following his fallout with former pal and mentor Tati Westbrook. James Charles is currently losing millions of followers across his social media platforms including YouTube and Instagram after an epic feud with his former mentor and fellow blogger Tati Westbrook. As a result, James is apparently “in hiding” while on tour in Australia, after his subscriber count dropped by almost three million within a couple of days. It's unknown whether James is still in Australia after the country's top paparazzi failed to track him down, reports MailOnline. YouTuber James Charles Speaks Out After Being Trolled Over ‘Influencer Representation’ Comment After Met Gala Debut Tati Westbrook was James Charles' mentor and close friend. Picture: Tati Westbrook/YouTube The makeup artist’s fallout with former close friend and mentor Tati Westbrook – who has a YouTube beauty channel of her own – began when James uploaded a sponsored Instagram post for a vitamins company rivalling Tati’s health brand while he partied at Coachella. Despite James issuing an apology, claiming the brand “helped me out when the crowd around me at Coachella became unsafe”, days later Tati filmed a YouTube video airing her grievances about the 19 year old, after years of offering him advice and support as he tried to break into the industry. She also claimed their friendship had become strained due to numerous issues, alleging he “manipulated people’s sexuality” and talked about sex during her birthday dinner and during a meal with her and his parents. James has also issued an apology video, saying: “A lot of the time when I've had to address things in the past, I've acted out of impulse and I've gone off and tried to pull receipts or facts or screenshots and play the victim and I'm not doing that today, I'm not. That is all I have to say, I'm sorry.” However, it seems the damage has already been done as James’ follower count continues to plummet. > Download Our App For All The Latest Celebrity News<doc-sep>James Charles and his Morphe make-up palette. (Getty/Twitter) Former fans of James Charles are distancing themselves from the embattled YouTuber and his branded make-up palettes in suitably dramatic fashion. After Charles was dumped by friend and fellow YouTuber Tati Westbrook, fans have deserted the gay make-up artist in their droves. Westbrook fell out with Charles over his promoting a supplements brand which rivals her own, but has also accused the 19-year-old of behaving inappropriately around straight men. Now, fans who have purchased Charles’ popular Morphe makeup palette are making a statement using the beauty product. One decided to burn theirs, sharing a clip of a make-shift fire pit on Twitter. What to do with your James Charles Pallete thanks to Tati Westbrook pic.twitter.com/VrzaGiTDVw — Bd (@lolmastrblank) May 11, 2019 Another covered Charles’ signature on the £39 palette with black tape, before writing over it: “Stan Tati Westbrook.” oops, i think i got a little something on my james charles palette- stan tati 🙂 pic.twitter.com/uOp3DETNXQ — ًalexa was grantsarreaga (@baileysbesson) May 10, 2019 A third fan admitted: “I’ma still use tf out of my James Charles palette because it’s incredible. Will i still be supporting him? Absolutely not.” James Charles and Tati Westbrook fall out Westbrook announced that she no longer wants to be associated with Charles in a 43-minute YouTube video shared on Friday (May 10). “From the time that I met him when he was 17 before he really had taken off on YouTube at all, I know that he has a way of just getting what he wants,” she said. Their feud began on April 22, when Charles shared an Instagram post promoting Sugar Bear Hair vitamins. “The moment that everything kicked off, he started panicking. He was texting me, and then it got increasingly demanding, and I don’t deal well with someone telling me that I need to accept an apology on their terms to fix their problems,” she added. Tati Westbrook accuses James Charles of ‘tricking a straight man’ Westbrook also accused Charles of behaving inappropriately around straight men in the video, which has been viewed more than 34 million times Describing an incident at a birthday dinner where she claims Charles spoke in explicit terms about a waiter, she said: “You tried tricking a straight man into thinking he’s gay yet again, and somehow you’re the victim. “You know, it’s really disgusting to manipulate someone’s sexuality, especially when they are still emerging into adulthood and don’t have everything quite figured out. “You are using your fame, your power, your money to play with people’s emotions. “You’re threatening to ruin them. You’re threatening to embarrass them. And you’re doing that to have them behave sexually in your favour, even if they’re straight. “And you know what? That’s not okay. That behaviour’s not okay.” James Charles subscriber count continues to fall Charles’ YouTube channel has shed 2.2 million followers in light of Westbrook’s video, according to monitoring tool SocialBlade. He posted his own take on the controversy on Friday (May 10), saying: “Boys have been a topic that I’ve talked a lot about on my social media journey, and I wish I hadn’t. “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, and it’s something I should have been far more careful with, bringing into the public eye.”<doc-sep>I am emotionally quite old and know very little information about YouTube personalities from the post-“Shoes” era, and yet for the last two days I’ve been fascinated by the ongoing feud between YouTube beauty blogger James Charles and fellow YouTube beauty blogger Tati Westbrook. Advertisement For those of you who have not spent the last two days watching YouTube response videos to the YouTube drama and/or don’t care about any of this, here is the backstory: A few weeks ago, James Charles, the 19-year-old vlogger, social media star, makeup artist, and model with millions of YouTube subscribers, allegedly shaded Tati Westbrook, a 37-year-old vlogger and social media star with her own strong following on YouTube, by doing an Instagram video for Sugar Bear Hair beauty vitamins. Westbrook, who essentially mentored Charles in his early vlogging days, recently launched her own line of beauty vitamins, Halo Beauty, and after throwing some lowkey shade of her own on Instagram, on Friday Westbrook posted a 43 minute video titled, “BYE SISTER” that, among other things, accused Charles of being an extremely petty influencer diva, and also of sexually harassing servers at restaurants. (I highly recommend watching the whole thing, perhaps instead of tonight’s Game of Thrones, which, to be fair, will probably suck.) Though Charles apologized to Westbrook, this fallout from this DRAMA has been VICIOUS, with beauty vloggers and people who follow beauty vloggers weighing in worldwide on Tati vs. Charles. It’s so vicious, in fact, that according to CNN, someone had the good business sense to make the above live-count showing Charles’s YouTube subscribers, who have been abandoning the vlog ship in droves thanks to what I have dubbed #Sistergate. Charles’s count was at about 16.5 million before “BYE SISTER” dropped—as of Sunday evening, it’s at just over 14 million. Meanwhile, Westbrook’s subscriber count has seen a sizable bump in the wake of the Madness, going up from a meager 5.9 million followers to about 8.7 million by Sunday evening. It is very dramatic!!! ! Again, I truly have no horse in this race, but I have been watching this subscriber count video for about as much time as I spent binge ing Younger two weeks ago, in part because I appreciate a good internet scandal, in part because I dig the fun background music, and in part because the person who posted the subscriber count video also included their own live subscriber count, and I respect the hustle: Advertisement Please do take this ride with me.<doc-sep>
If you want to make a living by posting videos on YouTube, then subscribers are everything. Just a few days ago, James Charles had more than 16 million of them, but now his following has tumbled to 14.6 million following a series of controversies. If you don't know the bloke from Adam, basically he's a 19-year-old beauty vlogger with a mostly teenage audience who posts videos of him doing makeup and stuff like that. However, the American lost around 20,000 followers in the days after he attended the MET Gala on Monday, which he described as 'a step forward in the right direction for influencer representation in the media' ... I mean, where do you even start with a statement like that? But while this comment was undeniably wanky, it didn't have a disastrous affect on his subscriber numbers. Rather, it was his former friend, Tati Westbrook's, allegation that Charles was attempting to 'turn straight men gay' that saw his subscriber count plummet. Advert 10 On Friday, Charles lost more than half a million subscribers, and on Saturday he lost a whopping 1.26 million more. James Charles shared a questionable post about his appearance at the MET Gala. Credit: Instagram/James Charles Fellow YouTuber Westbrook made the allegations about Charles in a video, in which she claimed: "You tried to trick a straight man into thinking that he's gay yet again, and somehow you're the victim. You know it's really disgusting to manipulate someone's sexuality... you are using your fame, your power, your money to play with people's emotions. "You're threatening to ruin them, you're threatening to embarrass them, and you're doing that to have them behave sexually in your favour even if they're straight, and you know what, that's not okay." Advert 10 James Charles has been accused of abusing his power. Credit: PA Indeed, it seems the people have backed Westbrook, as she has gained almost a million subscribers in the same period. Charles has since issued an apology to Westbrook (in the form of a YouTube video, of course), in which he admitted to playing the victim in the past. He said: "What sucks the most is that I know there's nothing I can say or do to ever earn that friendship or trust back but I don't blame them for it. Advert 10 "A lot of the time when I've had to address things in the past, I've acted out of impulse and I've gone off and tried to pull receipts or facts or screenshots and play the victim and I'm not doing that today, I'm not. That is all I have to say, I'm sorry." to clarify, i begged my team to change prices but because of contracts with the venues, it was not possible. instead, i made sure meet & greet was more accessible and ensured that the highest ticket was worth the price. i'm sorry i can't make everyone happy, i'm trying my best. - James Charles (@jamescharles) April 25, 2019