Logan Paul backs James Charles amid Tati drama and accusations of sexual harassment imPaulsive, YouTube \/ James Charles, InstagramJames Charles, once YouTube\u2019s most popular makeup guru, is now falling from his pedestal, thanks to drama with fellow YouTuber Tati Westbrook \u2013 but not everyone is rooting for his downfall. Controversial YouTuber Logan Paul weighed in on the debacle during an episode of his \u2018imPaulsive\u2019 podcast on May 15, where he urged onlookers to examine claims of Charles being a \u201csexual predator\u201d for allegedly pursuing straight men. \u201cReally think about what you\u2019re saying, and really think about what a true \u2018sexual predator\u2019 is,\u201d Paul urged. \u201cThe kid is 19. Cut him some slack, please.\u201d [Timestamp: 23:00 for mobile users] Paul likewise called the drama between Charles and Westbrook \u201cpetty,\u201d arguing that the \u201ccrime does not fit the punishment\u201d in regards to Charles\u2019 massive 3 million subscriber drop due to fan outrage over the issue. YouTube\u2019s beauty community imploded after Westbrook uploaded an emotional video to her Instagram story in early May, where she appeared to react to Charles\u2019 promotion of SugarBearHair, a rival company to her own Halo vitamin brand. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bv7RvGpjs3U\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_linkWestbrook followed up her video with a 43 minute-long spiel exposing Charles for less than savory behavior, claiming that he had spread rumors about her in an attempt to ruin her image, and even accused him of using his fame to \u201cmanipulate someone\u2019s sexuality.\u201d \u201cYou are using your fame, your power, your money to play with people\u2019s emotions,\u201d Tati alleged. \u201cYou\u2019re threatening to ruin them. You\u2019re threatening to embarrass them. And you\u2019re doing that to have them behave sexually in your favor, even if you\u2019re straight. And you know what, that\u2019s not okay.\u201d Charles later uploaded an eight-minute apology video to YouTube, where he apologized to both Tati and her husband for \u201ceverything that is going on, everything I have put you through for the past few weeks.\u201d Charles\u2019 apology video has since become one of the most-disliked uploads on the platform, sitting at number nine in the rankings with over 2.81 million dislikes. The debacle even saw a massive subscriber loss for the beauty guru, who has since dropped millions of subscribers due to the drama \u2013 while Tati continues to see a regular influx of new fans. Since then, other major YouTubers like Jeffree Star and even singer Zara Larsson have come out in solidarity with Tati, with Larsson alleging that Charles had flirtatiously messaged her husband knowing that he was straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Logan Paul backs James Charles amid Tati drama and accusations of sexual harassment imPaulsive, YouTube \/ James Charles, InstagramJames Charles, once YouTube\u2019s most popular makeup guru, is now falling from his pedestal, thanks to drama with fellow YouTuber Tati Westbrook \u2013 but not everyone is rooting for his downfall. Controversial YouTuber Logan Paul weighed in […]<\/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-53804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53804","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=53804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}