It took just two days but James Charles has already caused his first scandal of 2020
James Charles has been tangled in controversy just a day into 2020. (Ray Tamarra/GC Images)
If James Charles’ New Year’s resolution was to be controversy-free for 2020, it took him just 24 hours to fail it.
Piping hot scandal from Charles in under a day or your money back.
This time around, Twitter users are organising a #JamesCharlesIsOverParty after the make-up guru uploaded a video of him singing along to Saweetie’s ‘My Type’, which includes several uses of the N-word, on January 1.
So, what’s James Charles been accused of this time?
Charles was immediately caught in a crossfire of criticism, as people accused the 20-year-old of belting out the racist term.
https://twitter.com/JoacoSevitz/status/1212414869619785730
It’s safe to say that, for the most part, a number of people weren’t particularly surprised by this given Charles’ track record of *checks notes* joking about catching the ebola virus during a trip to “Africa”:
Every time James Charles gets cancelled again I have to post this pic.twitter.com/g3KdBnL0yM
— Buy One Kobold, Get One Free! (@Aurixoth) January 1, 2020
lmao congrats to james charles for being the 1st person to be cancelled this decade pic.twitter.com/S5yMks24I3— emilia, MOVED (@fancygyu) January 1, 2020
https://twitter.com/parkyourjimins/status/1212482371628552193
Imagine how tired we are. Maybe hibernation isn’t a bad idea.
However, the cancel party divided Twitter, as users also defended the YouTuber:
https://twitter.com/lacciusspam/status/1212656862790914048
I was squinting real hard to see if James charles said the n word in that video and I’ve come to the conclusion that he didn’t say it🤷🏿♀️ #jamescharlesisoverparty— c (@findaft_) January 2, 2020
I watched that video of James Charles like 15x yesterday and he really didn’t say the n word looool— Diddy Hate Account (@StephGump) January 2, 2020
‘How stupid would I have to be to confidently record a video of me singing the N-word and still have it up the next morning?’
As backlash bubbled, Charles eventually took to Twitter to address his first scandal of the new decade.
After someone directly questioned him whether he said the phrase, he flatly denied the accusation and replied: “No?”
“Turn up the volume and listen,” he explained, “I skip over it.
“How stupid would I have to be to confidently record a video of me singing the N-word and still have it up the next morning?”
no? turn up the volume & listen, I skip over it. how stupid would I have to be to confidently record a video of me singing the n word and still have it up the next morning
— James Charles (@jamescharles) January 1, 2020
While users wondered when the next #JamesCharlesIsOverParty will be, some noted other internet influencers have not faced similar condemnation for their actions:
https://twitter.com/notmybissbut/status/1212534280527761410
And others brought up that while the world debates whether or not Charles said the N-world, a part of the world is literally a burning hellscape and maybe we should talk about that:
https://twitter.com/grxzve/status/1212554795938189313
https://twitter.com/TeaSpillYT/status/1212518948895412225
Points were made.
