![]() Regardless of how you feel about the validity of YouTube as a medium and how legitimate the influencers and celebrities who are a product of it are, once that power is shifted into “real-life” scenarios and real offences have taken place, it becomes a “real-life” issue that should concern all of us. However, what’s different about this situation is that James Charles is not apologizing for an indiscretion or a fight with another creator-he’s trying to issue an apology for soliciting naked pictures from under-aged boys.Ī crime has been committed here, an offence against several children. ![]() There are arrays of more important topics than a twenty-one-year-old with way too much money issuing an apology for some arbitrary scandal that he’s gotten himself into. You might be thinking: “why should I care about some kid on YouTube making an apology?”. I know I tend to have an older audience for my writing: I write about issues concerning capitalism, intersectionality, and violence, and this topic might seem childish or gratuitous. The video, titled “holding myself accountable” (all written in lowercase), is just over fourteen minutes long and features James offering a whispered explanation for his actions. Just a few days ago, on April 3rd, 2021, James Charles-beauty and fashion YouTube personality sat down in front of a camera with a plain white background and a deflated perm on the top of his head for yet another apology video to his fans.
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