YouTuber James Charles slams media criticism of his show-stopping meet & greet James Charles, Twitter \/ Adobe StockPopular YouTuber and makeup mogul James Charles is lashing out against widespread criticism of his Birmingham meet and greet, which ended up causing a gridlock due to the mass amount of fans drawn to his appearance at the city\u2019s Bullring shopping center. A reported number of 8,000 fans crowded all three floors of the shopping mall on January 26 to get a glimpse of Charles, who held a meet and greet event for the opening of a new Morphe makeup store. However, a few media outlets were highly critical of the incident, with some even calling Charles \u201cvirtually unknown\u201d \u2013 despite his 13 million YouTube subscribers and three million Twitter followers. In fact, Radio host James O\u2019Brien expressed some disdain towards Charles\u2019 popularity on his show \u2018Leading Britain\u2019s Conversation\u2019 \u2013 to which Charles had a surprising reaction. Charles himself popped onto the show as a suprise guest to educate O\u2019Brien as to his internet fame, ending their call on a positive note that had the host calling their conversation a \u201clovely moment.\u201d Charles likewise hit out at the backlash via Twitter, writing, \u201cIt actually blows my mind that so many news outlets refuse to recognize the success of YouTubers, when there are creators pulling the same number of viewers in one month that these outlets are proud to pull in an entire year.\u201d Regardless of the media\u2019s varied reactions, Charles\u2019 explosive appearance in the Birmingham mall stirred up an important conversation regarding the changing state of who is considered \u201cfamous\u201d in modern society. It actually blows my mind that so many news outlets refuse to recognize the success of youtubers when there are creators pulling the same number of viewers in one month that these outlets are proud to pull in an entire year\u2026 :monocle: \u2014 James Charles (@jamescharles) January 28, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber James Charles slams media criticism of his show-stopping meet & greet James Charles, Twitter \/ Adobe StockPopular YouTuber and makeup mogul James Charles is lashing out against widespread criticism of his Birmingham meet and greet, which ended up causing a gridlock due to the mass amount of fans drawn to his appearance at the […]<\/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-65904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65904","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=65904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}