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  • The feud between beauty vloggers James Charles and Tati Westbrook caused such a stir that

  • millions of subscribers seemingly jumped ship from one to the other.

  • So what exactly happened?

  • Here are the deets on the drama between these YouTube stars.

  • Sliding into DMs

  • To fully grasp the scope of the Westbrook and Charles drama, you have to first understand

  • how their friendship started.

  • According to Life & Style, Charles slid into the beauty vlogger's DMs in 2016 after his

  • ultra-glam high school yearbook photos went viral.

  • She had been vlogging for nearly a decade, and he was still green to the world of YouTube.

  • He reportedly told Westbrook that she was his inspiration and, in turn, she decided

  • to help him grow a following.

  • She spent the next three years as Charles' mentor.

  • By 2017, the pair were close enough that Westbrook not only invited Charles to her wedding, but

  • she trusted him to do her bridal makeup, which is a huge deal even for brides who don't have

  • millions of followers!

  • Westbrook reportedly paid for Charles' trip because he was a broke teenager, and by 2018,

  • she was using her Halo Beauty launch party to shout out her pal.

  • In turn, he posted an Instagram story showing off a bottle of her vitamins.

  • At this point, it seemed like their relationship was reciprocal, even if Westbrook would later

  • have regrets.

  • "It's sad to think that I will never be able to watch my wedding video without seeing his

  • face and thinking of him and thinking about all of the things I hoped our relationship

  • would be."

  • Don't swipe up

  • Westbrook and Charles' feud sparked in the most Instagram way possible, with an argument

  • about tiny gummy bear vitamins.

  • Of course, since this is the world of YouTube influencers, the whole thing went down at

  • Coachella.

  • On April 22nd, 2019, Charles posted an Instagram story promoting SugarBearHair, and Westbrook

  • was reportedly livid.

  • The brand is a direct competitor of Westbrook's supplement line Halo Beauty, which Charles

  • allegedly felt uncomfortable promoting to his young followers, according to Page Six.

  • Westbrook uploaded a teary-eyed story as a response and claimed everybody, quote, "uses

  • who they need to use."

  • Not long after, Charles publicly apologized via Instagram.

  • He claimed SugarBearHair helped him with security at the festival when the crowd around him

  • became unsafe.

  • He reportedly didn't make any money off of the post and still took Westbrook's vitamins

  • daily.

  • In the post, he wrote, in part,

  • "I did not think about the competition.

  • I've supported Tati both online and off like she has done for me and am devastated that

  • I hurt someone that I truly love and have endless respect for."

  • Bye, Sister

  • Charles' initial apology apparently wasn't enough for Westbrook.

  • In early May 2019, the star posted a scathing, 43-minute YouTube video titled "BYE SISTER"

  • which slammed Charles for a large number of alleged indiscretions, including the gummy

  • bear incident.

  • Westbrook claimed she felt used by Charles because her husband helped mentor and negotiate

  • millions of dollars worth of deals for him, without taking a dime.

  • She also promoted the influencer's makeup palette and Morphe discount code on her channel,

  • and was shocked that Charles claimed she was, quote, "loving the drama because it's improving

  • sales."

  • "I don't want to be friends with you, I don't want to be associated with you, and I need

  • to say that very publicly so that this chapter can just be closed."

  • Over 40 million people watched Westbrook's "BYE SISTER" video before it was scrubbed

  • from her channel.

  • But nothing on the Internet ever dies.

  • Ruining a reputation

  • Westbrook's "BYE SISTER" video was a lot more salacious than any gripe about hair vitamins

  • or unreciprocated favors.

  • The beauty guru made the claim that Charles had, quote, "tried to trick a straight man

  • into thinking he's gay," and it made her "want to vomit" that he would manipulate someone

  • in that way.

  • At this point in the feud, no one was exactly sure who Westbrook was referring to, but the

  • internet oozed with speculation.

  • Vox theorized that Westbrook was referencing a model named Gage Gomez, since the pair reportedly

  • attended Coachella together.

  • Not long after the event, Charles tweeted, then deleted, about an unnamed boy who had,

  • quote, "played [him for] months."

  • He called the guy a "disgusting con artist."

  • Gomez, who inferred that Charles deleted the tweet because it was both about him and untrue,

  • posted a video outlining his experience with the YouTube star.

  • "So he then unblocked me and continued to speculate that he didn't know or that he forgot

  • that I told him that I was straight in the beginning."

  • Charles was allegedly sexually aggressive at Coachella, despite Gomez's repeated rejections.

  • Gomez claimed that Charles even got emotional in an attempt to manipulate him into hooking

  • up.

  • "Even though I was telling him the whole time I wasn't into, I guess you could say, experimenting

  • at that time."

  • Charles has also apologized for publicly hitting on Shawn Mendes, but neither of these events

  • took place at Westbrook's birthday dinner, like the incident she cited in her video.

  • The apology video

  • As two of the most popular beauty vloggers on YouTube, it's not really surprising that

  • Westbrook's takedown video about Charles would go viral almost instantly.

  • According to Newsweek, Charles subsequently lost about three million subscribers, including

  • celebs like Kylie Jenner and Ariana Grande, dipping from over 16.5 million subscribers

  • to around 13.8 million.

  • Although the drop was so enormous there were channels live-tracking his downfall, as of

  • June 2019, his subscriber count recovered and was back up to over 15 million.

  • Westbrook, on the other hand, essentially doubled her subscriber count, jumping from

  • 5.9 million to over 10 million subscribers.

  • It didn't take long for Charles to post an initial apology video titled "tati."

  • The star gave us eight, make-up free minutes of holding back tears.

  • He apologized to Westbrook and her husband, the influencers he spoke poorly about on social

  • media, and for his interactions with other men.

  • As far as public apologies go, it was pretty standard.

  • He went on to say that in the past he's handled these situations immaturely.

  • "I've gone off and tried to pull receipts or facts or screenshots, and play the victim."

  • But he insisted he wouldn't do that this time, he just wanted to apologize.

  • The video racked up more than 56 million views before it was removed from his channel.

  • Jeffree and Tati

  • Charles and Westbrook weren't alone in their feud.

  • Makeup mogul and former Myspace personality Jeffree Star, who did a video with the pair

  • on Charles' channel in January 2019, swooped in to take Westbrook's side.

  • According to Seventeen, Star was at the birthday dinner where Charles allegedly hit on a waiter

  • who Westbrook claimed was straight.

  • In a now-deleted tweet, the makeup mogul also made the shocking claim that his boyfriend

  • allegedly banned Charles from visiting their home, saying, in part,

  • "There's a reason why I haven't seen him since [Westbrook's] birthday in February.

  • He is a danger to society.

  • Everything Tati said is 100% true."

  • Shock of the century, it wasn't 100% true.

  • Though Star didn't go into why Charles was allegedly banned from his house, Charles later

  • revealed in another video that Star accused him of pressuring his boyfriend's younger

  • brother, Zach, into sending Snapchat photos.

  • According to Charles, he and Zach sent about 10 selfies to each other in a harmless exchange.

  • "He was super super sweet but it was very clear to me that he was not actually interested,

  • and the conversation stopped before anything could even get remotely flirty at all."

  • Charles later called out Star for harassing his brother on Twitter, and things got even

  • more messy.

  • Wrecking Westbrook

  • If you thought that 8-minute apology video was the last you would hear from James Charles,

  • you don't know anything about YouTubers.

  • In a bombshell 41-minute video titled "No More Lies," the star claimed he wasn't erasing

  • the sentiment of his first apology, however, his answer to "BYE SISTER" was essentially

  • a point-by-point rebuttal of Westbrook's video and Star's public and private claims.

  • Plus, Charles kept the receipts, text message screenshots, like a good social media star.

  • In the video, Charles denied that his SugarBearHair post was premeditated and slammed Westbrook's

  • manipulation allegations.

  • He claimed that on the night of Westbrook's birthday dinner, the waiter he allegedly hit

  • on, named Sam Cooke, was the one who actually initiated their conversation.

  • Cooke even told Charles he was bisexual, and the star invited him back to his hotel room

  • but said he, quote, "didn't have to do anything."

  • Charles also accused Cooke of pretending to be gay in order to get him on the phone and,

  • quote, "illegally record the conversation" for a video, which was then taken out of context.

  • "I have never and will never use my fame, money, or power to manipulate or get any sexual

  • actions."

  • Charles called that type of behavior "disgusting" and said it blew his mind that Tati would

  • accuse him of such a thing.

  • According to Newsweek, Westbrook lost around 200,000 subscribers after Charles posted "No

  • More Lies."

  • Star walking back

  • In this convoluted YouTube beauty feud, it seems there are no winners.

  • Jeffree Star, who for some reason involved himself in the drama, eventually walked back

  • on his comments after Charles posted his second, receipt-filled video.

  • Again, Tati's story wasn't exactly 100% true, nor was it 100% false.

  • In a video titled "Never Doing This Again," the former Myspace personality apologized

  • for inserting himself into the situation.

  • Star admitted the accusations he made were based on rumors, and he owned up to sending

  • Charles vicious text messages and, quote, "mishandling" their friendship.

  • "Even if we weren't close friends anymore, I should have handled it way differently.

  • I will never handle a situation like this again."

  • The only people losing out on Star's apology were the tabloids waiting for all the receipts

  • he promised to deliver, but cheers to a YouTube star who can admit he's done wrong, even with

  • the looming fear of cancellation.

  • Cancelling a tour

  • Before Westbrook decided to throw down over gummy vitamins, Charles was already facing

  • controversy for his unusually elaborate national tour.

  • According to Seventeen, the teenage YouTube star announced his Sisters Tour in late April

  • with plans to hit around 25 different cities in the United States, but his ticket prices

  • where so outrageous that he faced major backlash.

  • You may wonder what a YouTuber actually does on tour, anyway.

  • Apparently, it's not really a whole lot.

  • Vox reported that Charles planned to sing and conduct meet-and-greets, but that's about

  • it.

  • Tickets ran as high as $500, but the star bumped the price of VIP spots down to $250

  • after being ridiculed for the crazy price tag for simply meeting him.

  • Ultimately, Charles ended up canceling his tour in the wake of the Westbrook drama even

  • though it was almost entirely sold out.

  • "I made the decision to pull the tour.

  • This was 100% my decision, okay?

  • None of the venues pulled out, none of the brands that were going to be sponsoring it

  • pulled out."

  • Charles also wanted to get ahead of any reports with false claims about why the tour wasn't

  • happening.

  • "So the Sisters Tour is not being 'canceled' because I was 'canceled'.

  • So Let's make that clear."

  • Calling a truce

  • As much as the drama queens in all of us wants to see clap back video after clap back video,

  • all good YouTube feuds must come to an end.

  • As such, Westbrook, Charles, and Star decided to wave their glowing white highlighter palettes

  • and call a ceasefire.

  • Two days after Westbrook posted her "Bye Sister" video, she said "bye sister" to the drama.

  • The beauty guru wrote a lengthy Twitter post claiming that she had been talking to Charles,

  • quote, "through an intermediary," and that she wouldn't publicly comment on the situation

  • any longer.

  • Of course, that wasn't the final goodbye.

  • According to Mashable, Westbrook also posted a now-deleted follow-up video where she claimed

  • she didn't think feuding with one of the largest beauty vloggers on YouTube would become national

  • news.

  • Regardless, Charles responded to Westbrook's apology and Star's "Never Doing This Again"

  • video.

  • He tweeted that he was, quote, "on board to move on," and thus the biggest drama YouTube

  • has seen came to a close.

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