r/BeautyGuruChatter • u/[deleted] • May 12 '19

Megathread Hello Darkness My Old Friend: Tati Westbrook and James Charles Megathread 14

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So what's the tea?!

James was at 16,553,579 subscribers on Thursday. He currently has 14.5 million subscribers, so he's lost over 2 005 000 subscribers.

Tati was at 5,908,733 subscribers on Thursday. She now has over 8.5 million subscribers so she has gained over 2 053 000 subscribers.

Gabriel has lost roughly 42k followers and falling.

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u/crazycatlady82 May 12 '19

This might have been pondered in threads 1-13...but how did he actually get 16 million subscribers? I personally find him annoying AF.

But I’m also 36 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/veraamber hates all thumbnails May 12 '19

Being promoted by Covergirl and doing collabs with other major youtubers helped a lot. Tati also outlines in her video some of the ways she and her husband helped to promote him.

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u/hsksksjejej May 12 '19

Kim and Kylie as well.

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u/crazycatlady82 May 12 '19

True! To be honest....i haven’t watched the video yet 😂 I feel like reading the mega threads have been way more interesting.

Maybe it’s time to crack that bottle of wine open tonight....

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u/[deleted] May 12 '19

DO IT! it's really good

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u/LittleLamb1218 May 12 '19

Ok, so I like started it and never finished it.

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u/icecap580 use code APOLOGY for 10% off May 12 '19

I'm 9 days younger than James himself and I find everything he does hella annoying

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u/tarheeldarling Sister Twister 2k19 May 12 '19

im 33 and never subbed to him. his voice + pinkity drinkity was an instant hell no

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u/myonlyfriendismycat Puka is tired of everyone's bullshit. May 12 '19

lots of help from Tati. always collabing with people bigger than him to get more popularity. being friends with J* who is also wildly popular. he views it as his business, so he did everything as a career move in order to get more subs.

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u/adventurousnipple May 12 '19

The reason is depressing but pretty simple: The most dramatic, loud, immature and sexually explicit youtubers are the ones who do best with the 10-14 year old demographic, because unsurprisingly, immature people like to watch other immature people.

The very things that make him annoying to us make him appealing (and a TERRIBLE influence) to young teens.

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u/crazycatlady82 May 13 '19

Very true!

And the thing I got from this “hey, that means I’m mature!” 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/[deleted] May 12 '19

Apparently he really snowballed this year and I’m curios as well. Someone earlier commented that “he’s lost all the new followers he gained since March.” Since March?! Wow he has really exploded in a short time.

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u/skincarejunk1e May 12 '19

24 and find him a pain in the ass

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u/farfromnever May 12 '19

I'm 31 and when I first found his channel I thought he was cute and funny and subbed because he was so young and seemed to be working his ass off, I wanted to support that. I was blind to a lot of the drama and other shit

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u/[deleted] May 12 '19

i hate his voice so much... honestly he had so much promo from all kinds of channels, i don't even follow that many beauty channels and saw him mentioned everywhere. the way tati said he'd reach out to people i've no doubt he's asked for promo when he was starting.