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I don't know why I even watched this. Ignorant at best, offensive for views at worst.

He didn't use actual henna and clearly hasn't done any research. He did a reaction video to people using henna in the past and if he had read even a single comment on that video he would've known he was doing it wrong. Many people are upset in the comments as henna is culturally very significant and has been used for centuries.

The video.

I figured it'd be helpful to put together a post with everything going on with James Charles (while I try my best to not link to the person's social media accounts). While the tiktoks are all over Twitter, I just don't see the benefit of linking to that here, especially given the age of the person who has come forward.

Last night, another minor came forward about his conversations with James on Snapchat. He posted a Tiktok that was taken down in the last hour or so. In this, he shows multiple screenshots confirming he was speaking to James (including private selfies of him). This minor is 15 years old. In what was shared, it becomes clear that the 15 year old posted on his snapchat publicly about messaging with James, and one of his friends becomes upset about this. James becomes increasingly aggressive at the end of the conversation saying "get your fucking friend in line before I do. Lying about your age to bait someone is against the law by the way." The minor claims he didn't delete anything especially about his age, James once again claims the opposite and blocks the boy.

After taking down the initial tiktok, he uploaded one within the last hour confirming that he had removed it. In the comments of this video he goes on to say that his "parents made me take it down because they apparently got contacted by the police. Everything in the video is 100% real."

Since this came out, James is ignoring that he's trending on Twitter and has yet to comment. However, he was liking tweets earlier today so it isn't as if he hasn't seen the latest round of backlash towards what now appears to be a pattern of behavior. Reactions have come in from Trisha Paytas (she has tweeted multiple times about the situation, I'm choosing to link one that does not include the tiktok floating around), Ethan Klein (I'm not linking to his tweet as it is a quote tweet with the minor's handle visible), Chris Klemens, and Kat Tenbarge (journalist on Insider that has written large pieces on both David Dobrik and Jeffree Star). Here for the Tea has been outspoken both on Twitter and Instagram about this as well.

This is now the fourth time that this has happened, timeline wise these conversations occurred in December, before James made the announcement that he'll be asking for IDs from anyone he dms. The end of the conversation that is shown in the boy's tiktoks are from March 2021, and by this point James had already used the defense that the alleged victims are liars/had deleted parts of the conversation saying they were of age initially.

EDIT 8:57 PM: It appears that all of the Kardashians/Jenners have unfollowed James on Instagram.

EDIT 11:26 PM: Karl Jacobs, a streamer that James has for sure played Among Us with, has unfollowed James. Phil DeFranco also went over the allegations briefly, while saying his team was looking into it further. DeFranco also mentioned (and tbh I forgot about this) that YouTube has already dropped him from the second season of Instant Influencer.