Over ten teenagers have recently come forward. Yet, a 16 and 17 year old fan have both separately come forward since then with screenshots proving his continued grooming and sexual interactions with minors. Charles has openly admitted to having inappropriate sexual interactions with two individuals under the age of 18 and he stated these crimes in yet another apology video for his 25 million followers. Westbrook blamed the video that nearly ruined Charles’ career on Dawson and Star’s manipulation, but since then more and more victims have come out against Charles. Since “Bye Sister,” Charles and Westbrook have rekindled their friendship. Dawson and Star have since been “cancelled” for years of overlooked racist and overly sexual content. Shane Dawson and Jeffree Star were later accused of orchestrating the entire “scandal” and Charles came out of the ordeal slowly regaining his popularity. The Youtube community turned on Westbrook, accusing her of being too harsh on the then 19 year old Charles. After that video was uploaded, the alleged victim stood up for Charles and denied any inappropriate behavior. Charles lost the most followers in the shortest period of time in Youtube history – over three million in less than 24 hours. Westbrook received support from Jeffree Star and Shane Dawson, who similarly “called out” Charles. On May 10th 2019, Tati Westbrook came out with a video titled “Bye Sister” wherein she spent a majority of the video criticizing James Charles’ predatory behavior, specifically citing times she witnessed him pressuring heterosexual men into inapropriate interactions. Youtube could resume Charles’ monetization in the near future, but it is unlikely he will regain his status as a “recommended” account within the Youtube algorithm. Youtube demonetized the creator’s content and announced that Charles would no longer host the Youtube original game show, Instant Influencers. Morphe, a popular makeup brand, has since begun to “wind-down” their longstanding collaboration with Charles. Minors cannot consent, and even if they lie, are still the victim. Even if Charles did not know the age of the minors involved, it is still a felony. This defense is faulty and unlikely to be true, as the minors in question have released screen shots of their conversations with Charles, multiple of which include the minor’s disclosing their age and Charles explicitly acknowledging this information, but then proceeding with his sexually explicit actions.
In other instances, Charles claims that his accusers were lying that they even communicated with him at all.
Charles claims that his inappropriate actions were caused by the minors lying to the influencer about their age. While semi-successfully evading public disapproval then, it is unlikely he will be able to recover from this new round of accusations. In 2019, Charles was accused in a video that caused him to lose three million followers. Though, this time around, all of the accusations have been brought forth by victims with actual evidence. Another beauty guru has been exposed as an alleged predator for the second time in his short career – James Charles.