James Charles Apologizes for Mocking Laid-off Spirit Worker—After Losing 130k Followers

James Charles is apologizing for slamming a laid-off Spirit Airlines employee who asked him for a donation.

via: Out

James Charles is no stranger to controversy, and he seems to have found himself in hot water once again after uploading a video over the weekend that many are calling “unnecessarily mean” and “tone deaf.” Because of that video, he lost over 130,000 followers, according to SocialBlade, a website that tracks profile statistics across different social media platforms. As of Monday afternoon, he is still hemorrhaging followers.

Charles, a beauty influencer who has over 83.7 million followers across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, uploaded the now-deleted video on Friday. In it, he says (in a mocking tone) that he received a DM from a woman asking for donations to her GoFundMe because she lost her job after Spirit Airlines shut down following a bankruptcy filing. She told him, “Any donations help.” To which he laughed and responded, “I’m sure they do, sweetheart.”

“You know what else would help you?” he says in a condescending tone, “Getting another job.” In the two-minute-and-30-second video, he goes off on the woman, saying that in the time it took her to copy and paste the same “fuck ass” message to him (who she doesn’t follow, nor has she “supported” him, he argues), she could have been applying for another job. He goes on to say that the woman is “a lazy piece of shit” and that she’s “entitled.”

He ended up deleting the video, but it still lives on in infamy across social media, as other creators saved and reposted it. One drama channel creator, Rich Lux, reposted the original video to Twitter, and it’s currently amassed over 9.4 million views.

In addition to the general public being upset with his video, Jackie Aina Asamoah, a fellow beauty YouTube content creator and beauty brand founder, lambasted Charles for his insensitive rant in a video that now has over 12 million views. “I don’t think James has ever had a real job,” she says in her video. “And the way you’re talking to this person shows. It is very disgusting and very inappropriate.”

Trans activist Hope Giselle also wasted no time dragging James by his Shirley Temple curls on Instagram and TikTok.

Not too soon after the video went viral for all the wrong reasons, Charles uploaded an apology to his spam page on Saturday, admitting that the video was “fucking stupid,” adding that it was “rude, obnoxious, privileged, and most importantly, it was completely fucking unnecessary.” His apology currently has over 5.3 million views in two days.

The reason he was annoyed, Charles explains in the apology video, is that, as an influencer, he feels some people who’ve never supported or followed him treat him as a “personal ATM.” He goes on to agree that it’s even harder not to know where the next paycheck is coming from and says that no amount of explanation can excuse his initial video.

In the comments section of his apology video, one person wrote, “Jackie Asamoah hit the nail on the head regarding all this,” to which Charles agreed, saying, “Yes, she definitely did.” Another commenter, who said they’re a single mom of four who just lost her job after her daughter was diagnosed with Crohn’s, added, “I couldn’t imagine how you made her feel. No one controls how they lose their job." Charles responded to her comment, saying he’s sorry to hear about her job and her daughter.

This isn't the first time Charles has lost thousands of followers due to a scandal. In his nascent days on YouTube, following Tati Westbrook’s explosive “Bye Sister” video in 2019, Charles broke the record for most followers lost in a day, which was over one million, and lost over three million in a matter of days. It’s been seven years since that drama (and he’s found himself at the center of many more scandals after that — including accusations of messaging and soliciting nude photographs from minors).

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All T, all shade, but fuck this tired ass f****t and his fake ass apology. He was unnecessarily rude to the woman for no reason, and also I have no respect for pedo. I had no idea James Charles was still a thing people cared about, and he's ony apologizing because of the backlash and immense drop in subscribers.

We live in a time where people are literally living paycheck to paycheck. People cannot afford to buy groceries, gas is at an all time high, and water is becoming scarce due to the data centers from the tech bros being built in poor communities. Everything is going up but a living wage, and here goes the annoying queen making disingenous comments against someone who is struggling asking for help.

If the president spent less time crashing out and sundowning all over social media, and actually created jobs instead of crying about DEI then maybe the woman wouldn't have had to hit him up.

This is someone who has shown you time and time again who he is, and even though he consistently has his hands out for regular people to support his content, and buy his products, the reality is he wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire.

So people please stop always putting your support behind people who genuinely do not care about you, and are horrible human beings in real life.

As for Miss Charles, stick to the tired rivers and lakes that you are used to --- which is make your abysmal make up tutorials and STFU when it comes to anything dealing with real life issues.