YouTuber James Charles lashes out after being framed with fake racist Tweet James Charles, Instagram \/ Twindesign, 123REPopular YouTuber and makeup guru James Charles is no stranger to internet trolls, thanks to his widespread fame \u2013 but one troll crossed the line in a big way. Content creator Jovan Hill uploaded a fake screenshot of an alleged conversation with Charles over Instagram, which showed a censored message from the YouTuber that appeared to say a racial slur. Charles quickly shot back at Hill with a scathing threat after the Tweet went live, claiming that he would contact his lawyer over the screenshot should Hill fail to delete it. Hill shot back at Charles\u2019s threat in kind, writing in a now-deleted Tweet, \u201cLet\u2019s do it baby, I know the law.\u201d While Hill\u2019s Twitter account has since been deactivated amidst the scandal, Charles continued to speak out on the faked message with a series of cautioning posts. It\u2019s scary to me that there are actual people on twitter who crave attention so badly that they make fake screenshots to try and ruin other\u2019s careers and lives\u2026 it\u2019s not funny \u2014 James Charles (@jamescharles) March 13, 2019 \u201cIt\u2019s scary to me that there are actual people on twitter who crave attention so badly that they make fake screenshots to try and ruin other\u2019s careers and lives,\u201d he wrote of the debacle. \u201cIt\u2019s not funny.\u201d However, some fans felt that Hill\u2019s Tweet was just a joke \u2013 to which Charles had a serious response. Getting messages death threats and emails questioning one\u2019s character over a fake screenshot is not a joke \u2014 James Charles (@jamescharles) March 13, 2019 \u201cGetting messages death threats and emails questioning one\u2019s character over a fake screenshot is not a joke,\u201d Charles wrote of the issue after one fan told him to \u201ctake a joke.\u201d James Charles is one of YouTube\u2019s most popular makeup personalities, reaching over 15 million subscribers in early March and amassing over 14 million followers on Instagram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber James Charles lashes out after being framed with fake racist Tweet James Charles, Instagram \/ Twindesign, 123REPopular YouTuber and makeup guru James Charles is no stranger to internet trolls, thanks to his widespread fame \u2013 but one troll crossed the line in a big way. Content creator Jovan Hill uploaded a fake screenshot of […]<\/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-65903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65903","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=65903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}