Let's expose YouTubers who play the victim when they are indeed the liars and manipulators themselves. (TEA) DavidG. Follow Jun 9, 2019 · 4 min read

Addressing the real (bad) side of every single Youtuber who has been involved in some kind of drama for the last few months. The ones you probably have sympathized in some kind of way.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’d know about the infamous YouTube drama, which has been going on for a while now.

The most well-known being TanaCon, Jake Paul boxing match, FouseyTUBE and maybe some others.

YouTube's drama recently has been one big shit show, but to keep it brief and break it down :

It started with Keemstar, if you know anything about him, you’ll know he was a giant troll in his past, and to list a few things about him, he used racial slurs, DOX’d people, and allegedly swatted people. YouTubers like GradeAUnderA and LeafyIsHere, who used to be friends of Keemstar, made videos on how he shouldn’t be as popular as he on his DramaAlert channel because he used to be an asshole.

Then it continued with Onision, to whom everyone turned their backs after seeing his real side, which cost him his whole career.

FouseyTUBE took the drama crown by getting into, what in the YouTube world is known as ‘Beef’, with pretty much every drama reporting channel on YouTube(Keemstar, Phillip DeFranco, and Scarce) because he staged a fight between him and Ricegum to show how gullible or drama hungry these channels were. All of them responded including other YouTubers like Leafy, and it seems all cleared up now.

Fast forward to 2019, after LOTS of dramas, the beauty community took over. Well if someone is to be thanked for keeping the beauty gurus still relevant to this day due to the massive dramas, it would be the queen herself, Jeffree Star. His origin is from MySpace, where he amassed a cult following (and accusations of racism — more on that in a bit), which he parlayed into a music career that eventually stalled and led him to cosmetics.

So here is the TEA as YouTubers say, if you feel sorry for these people…Stop!

I am telling you to stop feeling that, you know why? Because these connections are profitable ones, as brands and gurus have parlayed their number of loyal subscribers into hundreds of thousands of dollars in sponsorships and multimillion-dollar cosmetics or any other lines. It’s also a tenuous one, as a handful of the online beauty community’s brightest stars have recently learned.

The locus of this drama is an ongoing conflict between beauty guru and business exec Jeffree Star and some of his former friends: Laura Lee, Manny MUA (MUA is an acronym for makeup artist), a.k.a. Manny Gutierrez, Nikita Dragun, and their friend Gabby (Gabriel) Zamora. Star was considered one of the most influential beauty gurus in the industry back then, with a controversial past that’s seemingly inextricable from his current success.

The combination of the fallout from the Star documentary and the drama of Lee, Zamora, and Gutierrez scrambled to film the infamous similar tear-filled apology videos.

This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. *fake cries* *fake cries*

Things only got better for our absolute favorite nowadays a better person — beauty guru — Jeffree Star, when the Jesus Christ of Youtube a.k.a. Shane Dawson himself collaborated with Star to create what was never done before in the YouTube community. A whole new series dedicated to them.

To grasp the enormity of the potential fortune available to a successful guru, just take a look at Star’s absolutely bonkers estate from the aforementioned Dawson documentary (it begins around the 6-minute mark):

Fast forward to April 22, when a new King was born. James Charles, the creator of the canceled community. Ignited backlash with his Instagram Story promoting Sugar Bear Hair Care vitamins, which is a competitor to Tati’s hair supplement company, Halo Beauty. Tati, who James has heralded as his mentor, then shared on Instagram that she felt “betrayed” and “lost” amidst the controversy. She never specifically mentioned the individual who “used” her, but people were able to put two and two together.

This seemed to be Tati’s boiling point, because she is now sharing her side of the story in a video titled, “Bye Sister,” on YouTube.

James Charles later apologized in an 8-minute video of himself on a somber look with a bare face and black hoodie, as he stated, “I hate knowing that I disappointed not only [my fans], but two people that have been role models for me doing this.” Little did he know, his new as bad as Laura Lee’s apology video only angered everyone, even more, making him lose millions of subscribers. This led to the infamous canceled community creation, more and more drama. If you want to follow up with everything, there are thousands of videos explaining everything on YouTube website.

One of my favorite YouTubers to explain everything.

Trisha Paytas made waves on the platform after YouTuber Nikocado Avocado uploaded a video discussing his experience with her, where he explained that she’d invited him to Los Angeles for a collab — which never ended up happening.

Instead, Paytas effectively ghosted Nikocado for the entire duration of his stay, despite the fact that he’d flown all the way from Colombia to see her under the pretense of creating content together.

PewDiePie called out Paytas for this “abusive” behavior during an episode of “Cringe Thursday” on May 30, where he called her a “liar, manipulator, playing the victim,” and “aggressive.”

This makes me think that the Mukbang community may potentially be the new drama community. What do you guys think? Let me know by responding below.

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