James Charles reacts to backlash after posting \u201coffensive\u201d TikTok YouTube: James Charles[jwplayer ksH6zuKH]YouTube star James Charles is facing backlash after taking part in a TikTok trend that many critics have found offensive and racist for seeming to making fun of Indian culture. James Charles is one of YouTube\u2019s biggest beauty gurus, boasting over 20 million subscribers due to his insane talents with a makeup brush and his top-tier collabs with other social media stars. In spite of his popularity, Charles has been at the brunt of critics\u2019 ire as of late, after hopping on a popular TikTok trend that uses a classical Indian song and a wavy filter. The filter kicks in as the singer\u2019s voice trills, creating a humorous and unique effect in time with the music \u2014 but in spite of its apparent comedic intentions, many critics are taking issue with the filter\u2019s use across TikTok, as well as Charles\u2019 involvement with the trend. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CDofmfhH8x-\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link \u201cDisrespecting Indian classical music is never f***iing okay,\u201d one user wrote of the scandal. \u201cNot James Charles, Capital FM, Dua Lipa and many more are doing this TikTok s**t. Wtf is wrong with you all? Casual racism is never f**king okay.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/FEARLESS_LOU_\/status\/1292066163795533826?s=20 \u201cF**k James Charles and f**k anybody else who thinks mocking Indian culture is funny,\u201d another chimed in. \u201cYou guys are so quick to drink you chai tea and have temporary henna tattoos and appropriate the s**t out of our culture. Sit down and shut the f**k up.\u201d fuck james charles and fuck anybody else who thinks mocking indian culture is funny. you guys are so quick to drink you chai tea and have temporary henna tattoos and appropriate the shit out of our culture sit down and shut the fuck up \u2014 missing yoongi \u2077 rpwp (@kthdiior) August 8, 2020 Despite the backlash, it doesn\u2019t look like Charles is letting the criticism get him down, as evidenced by his pointed response to the matter in an Instagram comment. \u201c1.8 million other people made this video, yet I\u2019m the one getting cancelled lol,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI thought the filter was funny, not the song. The singing is impressive as hell, but I deleted the video because I obviously didn\u2019t mean to offend.\u201d While Charles has since deleted the TikTok in question, some critics are clearly unhappy with his response; but this isn\u2019t the first time the makeup mogul has been dragged into drama (2019, hello?), and it seems that he\u2019s learned how to roll with the punches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
James Charles reacts to backlash after posting \u201coffensive\u201d TikTok YouTube: James Charles[jwplayer ksH6zuKH]YouTube star James Charles is facing backlash after taking part in a TikTok trend that many critics have found offensive and racist for seeming to making fun of Indian culture. James Charles is one of YouTube\u2019s biggest beauty gurus, boasting over 20 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}