James Charles slams Charli D\u2019Amelio\u2019s haters in TikTok rant TikTok: James Charles\/ Instagram: Charli D’AmelioBeauty influencer James Charles has slammed Charli D\u2019Amelio\u2019s haters in an impassioned TikTok rant, explaining why he relates to Charli\u2019s situation on a personal level. This week Charli D\u2019Amelio suffered a mass unfollowing after comments about her follower count that many are calling \u201cungrateful.\u201d At the time of writing, she has lost 900,000 followers since Wednesday, November 18. The 16-year-old is already miles ahead of other TikTok accounts, having surpassed Loren Gray in March to become the app\u2019s most popular creator. In the space of a year, she has become a global social media star, securing brand deals and collaborations with some huge celebrities. While on the precipice of hitting 100 million followers, in a video with her family and James Charles, she expressed that she was hoping to hit that milestone within a year of hitting one million and that she felt she needed more time. The subsequent backlash was massive, prompting a wave of unfollows that took her further and further away from the record number. On November 19 she broke down crying during an Instagram Live, a result of the \u201cbullying\u201d she had received. While certain influencers have helped drive the witchhunt, James Charles, who was involved in the initial video, has made his feelings about the situation known on TikTok, taking aim at the other creators who have driven the hate. In his TikTok, he explained that he became friends with D\u2019Amelios because he felt as though he related to Charli\u2019s rapid rise to fame: \u201cI don\u2019t need Charli and Charli does not need me. I became friends with the D\u2019Amelio family as a whole very early on because this was all very very new to them. I wanted to be a friend and a mentor anyway that I possibly could and Charli and I, despite not being the same age, had one thing in common, which is coming to the spotlight at a very very young age.\u201d Addressing the more infamous haters directly, he added, \u201cYou are in no position to be talking about me and my career so I highly recommend that you stop starting fights with people that are half your age, pack it up, and work on holding yourself and your best friends around you because they think you are the problem.\u201d He also made comments on Twitter, comparing the situation to his own setbacks in 2019 during \u2018Dramageddon\u2019 when Tati Westbrook\u2019s accusations sent his follower count falling by the millions, saying that the situation \u201cdoes not sit right with him.\u201d this charli situation is NOT sitting right with me\u2026 100M followers in one year & y’all expect her to know how to be a perfect role model? death threats because she’s a picky eater & made a joke about a milestone? 30+ year olds dragging someone half their age? feels familiar \ud83d\ude10 \u2014 James Charles (@jamescharles) November 19, 2020 \u201c100M followers in one year & y\u2019all expect her to know how to be a perfect role model?\u201d he asked. \u201cDeath threats because she\u2019s a picky eater & made a joke about a milestone? 30+-year-olds dragging someone half their age? Feels familiar.\u201d After her live stream, Charli has made no further comments as her follower count declines, but creators continue to be at each other\u2019s throats over the debacle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
James Charles slams Charli D\u2019Amelio\u2019s haters in TikTok rant TikTok: James Charles\/ Instagram: Charli D’AmelioBeauty influencer James Charles has slammed Charli D\u2019Amelio\u2019s haters in an impassioned TikTok rant, explaining why he relates to Charli\u2019s situation on a personal level. This week Charli D\u2019Amelio suffered a mass unfollowing after comments about her follower count that many […]<\/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-51805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51805","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=51805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}