james charles is giving money to poor lazy people...let's go through this pathetic application

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Hello, hello, hello. How are you guys doing today? Okay, so today we're going to go through the application process that James Charles has set up on the painted project um for financial assistance, emergency relief or financial assistance. Okay, when I sat down last night to kind of put this video together, I thought I'm going to look at this stuff real quick and then I'm going to get on video and then I'm going to just film myself going through this application. And I was actually going to sit down in front of the computer and just kind of film myself going through each page of the application. I thought it would be really simple to do this. Um, it was actually very complicated and it probably the entire application process probably took me I don't know probably about a half an hour and I put no real answers on it. Um, so to go through this application process is very lengthy. um they ask for a lot of really private and personal information, which in all honesty, I kind of understand. Um and because it's people asking for financial assistance and things like that, but it's not information that I know that I would be willing to give James Charles.

[00:01:06]And let me get to that in just a second.

[00:01:08]So, this is going to be actually a different kind of video than I thought it was because when I started looking at the information they're asking for and I was wondering like who is, you know, who who is sitting here going through all these applications, we know James Charles isn't. I mean, he's posted, you know, Tik Toks the last couple days of getting his, you know, new haircut and he's made a, you know, a challenge video on YouTube, the no mirror challenge, which he's done three times before. and you know, he's trying to figure out his comeback on YouTube and Tik Tok like because he's gotten this backlash from the Spirit Airlines situation. He doesn't really have time to sit through hundreds and thousands of applications, which I have to believe at this point is probably in the thousands. If James Charles really has the following that he does, um, we know that the economy as it is, there are hundreds of thousands of people right now, if not more, that are in need of emergency financial relief.

[00:02:00]And so if James Charles really has the kind of following that he has, I would have to believe that thousands upon thousands of applications have been submitted. Um, there's a couple things on there that I'm not sure people would probably feel comfortable with submitting information about. So, we'll get to that in just a second. Um, I think an application process like this, it makes sense that they would ask for those questions, but I think it will keep a lot of people. I also, as I was going through it, I was wondering because I knew I had no intention of submitting this application. And so I was wondering I wonder how many people are going to submit fake applications to you know I mean there's going to be a vetting process that they're going to have to go through. Now I will make this make I will make this very very clear from the very beginning. When you go through the application process there's about nine steps you have to go through.

[00:02:44]You cannot go to the next page unless you complete the the given page. Right?

[00:02:48]So the first page starts off with just some basic information. If you don't fill that applica that first page off it won't go to you cannot go to the next page. So, I had to fill out the entire application so I could see every page of the application and then go back and delete it. I did not submit an application. I want to make that very clear. I just wanted to see what was which what was on each application page.

[00:03:07]So, when you go to the application is on painted.org uh painted project.org which is actually a backend page on the painted website. Um the first thing that I'm surprised about now they've added a lot to this website. I just want to say since I originally covered it, they've asked some frequently asked questions at the bottom. We'll get to this in just a second. Um, they've added a little bit more. It's interesting to me though, they haven't really they haven't added like a mission statement of what the painted project is about. They haven't there's no explanation of how monies will be given, how they will decide on who gets monies. There's none of that kind of information. Or one of the questions they ask is, you know, how would you like to receive the money? And it's like a bank transfer, a check. I think there's like five different options. And I thought this is interesting that they just don't say like financial assistance will be given in this way. Um and they can provide like one of the options is to provide it directly to like the payee like if it's an electric company or something like that. Um this is an extremely extensive situation. you know, when I went in and I looked because I did do some research last night on companies setting up um financial aid for people like this and what I found was cuz I really had never heard of this before. Now, for those of you that do not know, um I have a master's degree in social work. I was a case worker. Um I have worked extensively in a treatment program. I've worked with Department of Corrections.

[00:04:32]I've worked with parole and probation boards and judges. Um I have a pretty extensive background in working with like boards setting up scholarships, boards setting up financial aid. I've worked with a lot of organizations that set up financial aid and give financial aid. I've even worked with employee assistance programs that give employee financial aid. So, I do understand it's been a while since I've worked in that sector, but I do know the background of some of this and I don't believe it's changed a lot. Um, I do understand grant proposals, writing grant proposals, the the different areas you have to go through. It's extremely extensive, especially when you're talking about whether or not this is going to be like a tax write off or if this is going to be an expenditure or if this is going to be a separate entity from a painted the painted organization, which is the makeup brand versus just giving away.

[00:05:18]The more I think about it, it's interesting to me that James Charles didn't just make like a $250,000 donation to the GoFundMe that was for the Spirit Airlines. So, for those of you that don't know what I'm talking about, okay, I'm just I give have to give a brief history each of these. Um, James Charles, who also previously has allegations for um having sexual conversations with minors, which he confirmed in a video called Holding Myself Accountable and addressed his victims that were 14 and 16 at the time, that he did have sexual conversations with them. Um, so that has been confirmed by James Charles himself, that he is a predator. James Charles recently came out in a video and he shamed and called this woman a loser because she had sent him his go her GoFundMe. She was an employee of Spirit Airlines. I think that they they shut down and so like 16 or 17,000 employees lost her jobs overnight. Um, and so she was just sending her GoFundMe link to a lot of people and he came out in a video and he basically publicly shamed her. People found out who she was. She has since come out and talked. Her name was Amber.

[00:06:18]Um, and James Charles, I believe, has donated $5,000 after all the damage was done. And he came out with two apology videos, one of which he has taken down.

[00:06:27]Okay, so he came out with a third video on his Tik Tok and said um which is interesting and I will say this having covered drama commentary for a long time like we used to talk about these like notes apps that were written and posted on Twitter and we would always say that's not good enough. Like if you've offended people across the masses, you need to post it across the masses. Like this is a big deal. This is getting James Charles a lot of attention. And so he comes back on YouTube. This was my video yesterday with this no mirror challenge. no mention whatsoever of um this whole situation with Spirit Airlines, which is interesting because on his previous video, I had covered this as well. There are a lot of comments that people are like, "What did James Charles do?" Like, "I don't understand why everybody's mad at him."

[00:07:07]And people are like, "Go to Tik Tok."

[00:07:08]And they're like, "I don't have Tik Tok." So, there's a lot of people on YouTube that have no clue whatsoever that any of this is going on on Tik Tok, right? Well, James Charles wants to keep that separate. I think if you're going to come out and you're going to be honest and have any kind of integrity, which I think at this point we know that James Charles doesn't, you're going to come out and you're going to post it across the board. You're going to post it on your Instagram. Okay? He has no problem posting that he's getting a new haircut on YouTube, Instagram, Tik Tok, and both Tik Tok accounts. But you can't do the same and keep the same energy with an apology video talking about how you [ __ ] up. This is performative and you're only doing this because of the backlash. I think that should be on your YouTube. I think that should be on your Twitter. I think that should be on your Instagram. And I think that should be on both your Tik Tok accounts if you're gonna if you're going to stand behind that. Okay. Not where people have to look to find it. Like if that's really we know that this is the backlash that he's getting. So he comes back with a YouTube video, right? No mention of it.

[00:07:59]In fact, a lot of the comments over there where people are asking what did James Charles do? Or they're like, "You still follow this person?" He's deleting a lot of those comments. Um so anyway, James Charles came out with this last apology. He doesn't even say I'm sorry in the video. He just says, "Yeah, I [ __ ] up." And it was a lot of what a lot of drama commentary channels, including myself, had said that we would say in a video like this. And so he basically just kind of paraphrased all of our words and put it together. And he was sitting like this, like he was having a conversation with you. And in there, he said, "I'm doing, yes, people are going to say I'm doing this because of the backlash. 100% I am. People are going to say it's performative. Thank what you want, you know, blah blah blah, whatever." And then at the very end of it, he says, "I'm but because I've talked to all these poor people and I've learned what it's like to be poor." I mean, it's just so ridiculous, you guys.

[00:08:43]It's just the fact that anybody takes this person seriously. Um, somebody recent or somebody on my comment video, one of my I think it was my video yesterday commented and said that James Charles is like he is almost billionaire status and there's some article that came can somebody send that to me? I mean that's a I have a hard time believing that James Charles is almost billionaire status. I mean that's a lot.

[00:09:05]I don't believe that Painted has made that kind of money. I don't believe that he's made that kind of money off his sponsorships. James Charles spends a lot of money. Um, I'm not I'm not sure I believe that to be true. I I would like to I would first of all, I'm not really that interested in the net worth of James Charles. I think he has enough that he'll never have to work again, but I don't believe anywhere that he's worth worth close to a billion dollars. I just I don't I don't believe that. Um, he I think he would want people to believe that. If that's the case, I will say this. If it has come out and it's proven that James Charles is close to being a billionaire, then I think him donating $250,000 for his own organization that he is setting up to give scholarships and, you know, financial assistance and he's trying to do and the only reason he's doing this is to backpedal because he called out somebody as being lazy cuz they lost their job. Um, then I think $250,000 is really pissed in the bucket.

[00:09:53]If you want to know the truth, if he really truly is a billionaire, then I think it's even more of a joke that he's doing this. But anyway, at the end of that video, James Charles came out and he said he was setting up this painted project. And the painted project was going to be three tiered. And the first part of it was going to be uh giving up giving out emergency financial relief to people in need. The second part was going to be scholarships. And the third part was going to be community branding collaborations. The way that I understood it at first with the third part of it was that this is how he explained it. um was that if you like let's say if you he pays a scholarship for you to go to like hair school, okay, then he will brand with like hair salons so that they will hire you once they get done with school, which in all honesty is kind of the job of the school. Um number one. Number two, um you're going to that means you're going to have to follow that student through their whole entire experience of going to hair school, which not to mention like a lot of these people are in financial constraint or restraints anyway. And then on top of that, they're going to have to go to school. I think this is where James Charles doesn't think about the amount of people right now that are going to school full or part-time that are also having to work one or two jobs to I mean I know so many pe most of the people that I know today that are in school unless their parents set up college funds for them. They have to work one and two jobs while they're going to school. We have a lot of adult students today that are 30 to 60 years old that are going back to school.

[00:11:19]whether that's technical school, whether that's hair school, whether that's getting a master's degree, whether that's getting a bachelor's degree, or whether that's getting your GED, that have to work two jobs, put food on the table while they're going to school. So, to me, that's another sign that he really has no clue about this. The the community collaboration thing is his way to say, we really want to like, you know, foster a good relationship with the community as the painted organization and blah blah blah, whatever. But then it also asked the question, who is going to collaborate with James Charles? And I've said this in the last couple videos. Really what it's about is that they're asking also for organizations to collaborate with them, which means to donate money to the organization. He hasn't said anything about how this Monday this organization is going to continue to get funding. He hasn't said anything about setting up fundraisers. He hasn't said anything about the community collaborations was all it was the wording of how he did it that got me. And then when I looked at it, I was like, "Oh, he's asking for he's asking for huge donators is what he's asking for." Um, he's asking for partners to fund this this nonprofit or whatever it is. We don't you don't even know if it's a nonprofit. You don't even know how he has legalized this entity.

[00:12:26]We have no idea yet. Okay? Like, there's no information that you can find. I Googled the [ __ ] out of the painted project last night. There's no information. You can't find out who's in charge of it. There's no contact information for this. There's no how much like money are they giving away for financial assist? There's literally no information. And this is where I talk about the fact that the legality of this is going to get James Charles in trouble. Now, people have asked for a very long time why James Charles is not sitting in jail for the allegations. I mean, that's a good question. I think a lot of that has to do with the believability of victims. We see that all the time in documentaries that the victims go to the police, you know, sometimes 20 times and they're not believed and things like that. That happens every single day. Okay, it's the believability of the victims. Not to mention that you're talking about two at the time two young men if not more.

[00:13:11]Okay, that the stigma of a b a man being abused in our society and coming forth with that is further stigma on them.

[00:13:18]Okay, so we heard in you know Ethan Rhett's story that he was like at that time I didn't want I just wanted to not have to deal with it anymore which I think is a really honest response from a victim, right? But even then, even if he had, like, we don't know what would have happened with that. We don't know that James Charles would ever have been, you know, affected in any way whatsoever.

[00:13:38]This is a different story. This is a situation where James Charles could be, I mean, he could be in huge, huge, huge, huge taxation, financial, uh, I mean, the legality of it is bizarre to me.

[00:13:50]Like, there's no, you can't find anything about this entity except for that it's a back page on the PED website. Um, and I know myself and I'm sure many other people have screenshot all this stuff to see how it kind of unfolds. Him coming out in a TikTok and saying this is going to be a very lengthy process that could possibly take 3 years. I I don't know that James Charles understands. You can't say that.

[00:14:11]Okay? I mean, he can say it, but like it doesn't mean that 6 months from now you can say, "Oh, we finally put a board together, but we've kind of been given some money out along the way." You can't do that. Um, I mean, you should had all that stuff set up. I mean, if you think about this from if you've ever sat on a board before, if you've ever like worked for a non forprofit, because this is typically something that you would see in a non forprofit, okay, all of that, the the person isn't setting up the organization to get themselves out of a shitload of trouble, right? Which is what we know James Charles did. The person is setting up the organization because they really believe in the cause. James Charles doesn't really believe in the cause. First of all, the cause is basically, it's not singular towards one thing. It's not like I'm helping out trans women of color or I'm helping out homeless youth on the streets or I'm helping out families of, you know, gun violence. It's it's doesn't it's I'm giving away [ __ ] money is what it is. I think that's one thing we haven't talked about with all this. It's just I'm giving out scholarships. I'm giving out emergency relief. And I'm collabor There's been no thought to this. Like, you know, for those of you that haven't watched my videos before, I've been sober for 31 years. I'm actively involved in a 12step program. Um, but I believe in any way to get sober. I just don't want people to die from addiction. It would make a lot of sense if I were to set up like a halfway house. I've talked about it with my friends. We used to talk about it years and years and years ago. I've talked about it on my vlog before about how my best friend and I talked about how we were going to buy a house and set it up for mothers so they could bring their children out there. And you know, I mean, like people in recovery talk about halfway house setting up halfway houses a lot. That would be a normal transition for me. Okay. James Charles, what would he do? Like I mean, if he does it for young gay men, oh, that's going to look [ __ ] up for him, right?

[00:15:48]And I don't think he really is empathetic enough to say, "I'm going to start up a cause because I care about something." But that's usually why, if you think about scholarships being set up, they're usually set up because a lot of times they're memorial, you know, scholarships because somebody's passed away. So if that person played football, they're like an athletic scholarship for a student that has played football, like the most valuable player that year or whatever in memory of the person that has passed away. or a scholarship is somebody that I this school helped me so much that I want to give something back to that school because it helped me be so successful. James Charles just out of the blue wants to give a scholarship to people that are creative because he's rich now. I mean, it's so performative to me. It's It goes so far past like when we used to talk about, you know, Jeffree Star back in the day putting somebody that was Asian, somebody that was black in his photo shoots. It goes so far past that. That's not even right.

[00:16:38]Okay. But it's so disgustingly entitled perform performative action. It's just like I have so much [ __ ] money. I'm just going to throw it at this thing to take it take all my problems away. He hasn't thought anything about this whatsoever. Okay? I mean, not whatsoever.

[00:16:53]So, I started looking at this last night and towards the end of it, I think it would make more sense if I read it to you at the beginning because a lot of people are saying this is a tax write-off. Well, if it is, it's a very difficult tax write-off. This is a huge This would be I mean, first of all, there's no information. Okay? So, if the IRS came in and said, "We're going to audit you and we want to look at how you set this up, who's involved, whose money is it coming out of. Is it coming out of money that you set us?" I mean, it would be I mean, you're talking about huge tax evasion issues for James Charles. Okay.

[00:17:21]So, I don't believe that he is setting this up as a tax deduction. I just don't I think that's a really easy go-to to say that's a tax deduction. I really think he thinks I can write off $250 to $500,000 to save my ass in this situation. I don't think he's worried about Amber from Spirit Airlines. I think he's worried about the allegations because I said this recently that it's not going to be something big that takes James Charles down. It's going to be something small that brings up the allegations again. And that has happened. Literally everything he posts has the PDF file underneath that. People calling him a pedophile. Um and he's even blocked that apparently on his TikTok so you can't put it on there anymore. Um I think he is so scared of these allegations coming out again. He knows that Ethan Rhett recently came out with this story. I think he's worried about Ethan's story really picking up some traction. Um the other the guy from the B podcast or whatever that came out and said he has a lot of receipts. I think James Charles know there's knows that there's more out there that we're not aware of that he's afraid of coming out there. So it's like get the bigger story. Let me start the paint and project. That's the only thing I can think about cuz in all honesty, the way that James Charles has dealt with scandals like this in the past with being called out by somebody is I mean I just don't see him setting up this huge thing that could be his total final downfall. Um he hasn't thought it out at all. This is completely 100% a PR move.

[00:18:37]People are like he'll never follow through with it. Well, he kind of has to at this point. I mean if James Charles number one, if he doesn't follow through with this and comes out 3 months from now, I mean if I were James Charles in this situation, thank God I'm not. But if I was, I would come out today and I would say, you know what? I I really wanted to do this. I didn't think through it enough, but I'm going to give my 200 I'm actually going to double it and I'm going to give $500,000 to an organization that I've really thought through, which would be blah blah blah blah whatever that does financial assistant or I'm going to donate $500,000 to the Spirit Airlines employees or whatever. Okay, but this is going to be huge. I mean, first of all, he's going to have to be at all these meetings and things. His name is on this. So, anything that gets approved, even if it's Judy that's the secretary of taking notes at the meetings and she [ __ ] up, James Charles name is on this.

[00:19:21]It's going to be James Charles name that is remembered on every check. And if you think about it, if they give out 10 checks and one person complains and says, "Well, this happened, this happened, this happened." That's another huge scandal. They give out 20 checks.

[00:19:33]Imagine that. If somebody's application gets denied, you know, what are they going to say? You think people aren't doing applying for this just to catch James Charles and what he's [ __ ] doing? And that's why I want to make it very clear. I did not apply to this. I'm not trying to catch James Charles in it.

[00:19:46]I don't have to cuz he's going to [ __ ] up on his own. But when I looked this up last night as a tax deduction, I just want to make these things very, very clear before we get into the application part of it. When you look it up, companies that set up direct funding for people in crisis generally include nonprofit, specialized charitable foundations, and corporate emergency programs. Okay. Then when you go into about tax write-offs, the tripod fell.

[00:20:09]Okay. So, what's interesting about this?

[00:20:11]when you go in and you look at the tax write-off situation. It would be very very difficult for him to set this up as a tax deduction. I think this is really a saving face kind of thing. I don't think he really cares about the tax deduction. Um which also again, how much how much is it worth to you to get your ass out of pro trouble? $250,000, half a million, a million dollar that's just like hush money that he doesn't really care to set up this thing. It's going to cost him a lot more money than that in the long run. Companies that set up direct funding for people in crisis generally include nonprofit specialized charitable foundations and corporate emergency programs. Um, and then they go in here and they talk about different ways including the United Way which offers a 211 helpline modest needs provide short-term self-sufficiency grants, Operation Homefront, Mission Asset Funds for people, and they also go in here and they talk about immediate assistance or financial assistance for employees. There's a lot of companies that through like employee assistance programs have employee financial assistance set up. So like if an employee h is going through something then they will help them out like if they're they lose their house or something that they like there's an a program and many times in those situations they there's also a plan to pay it back like it's not just like they're handing them over money but when you go in here and you take a look at the write-off situation about it the money is deducted as an ordinary and necessary business expense IRS business expenses but the individual receiving the money usually must claim it as a taxable income nowhere on this information of anywhere if you're applying for this. Does he say if you get $1,000, you will have to pay something like 33% of that in taxable income. He doesn't explain that at all.

[00:21:45]Most grant proposals that I've ever been part of or scholarships explain that. I think scholarships fall under a different uh category of taxation, but I do understand that grants you do like grants you usually have to pay taxation on. What is not allowed companies simply cannot simply hand out cash to random people in need and write it off as charity. The IRS requires donations to go to recognized qualified organizations to be eligible for a taxdeduction IRS publication 526. So what James Charles could do is take his $250,000 and donate it to a recognized charity by the IRS.

[00:22:20]Setting this up if he's not a recognized charity, I don't know how this is being set up through his company, but it could be the thing that takes down Painted.

[00:22:27]Um, that's important to understand.

[00:22:29]Okay, I am sure that James Charles as the CEO and founder of Painted, the Painted organization is also a separate entity. I'm sure he is protected from that, right? But this could take down Painted the organization. Um, which is interesting when we talk about like Totty Westbrook and people are asking why Totty Westbrook can't come out with more makeup. Well, in the lawsuit, the deal that she made was that she would not release any more makeup and that's why she can't do a palette or she has to pay like $9 million to her exartner and things like that. These are the business transactions that I think a lot of people when they just look at this online and go, "Oh, James Charles is such a nice guy. He's giving all this money away." They don't think through this. Okay, James Charles, trust me, has this corporation set up that he is highly protected by anything that's going to happen to him. Okay, maybe.

[00:23:14]Okay, but if he's a CEO and founder, he could still be highly held responsible for the setting up of all this situation, especially if his name is on all the paperwork. But the first or the first thing that would happen is the IRS would come in to paint it and be like, "What are you doing here? You're just handing out money left and right. What where have you set this up?" There's a lot you have to set this up through a I mean, this is a mess that James Charles has done. Okay. Further, when you go on and you rate, regular companies generally cannot claim a standard tax write-off simply by giving money directly to individuals. While businesses do support causes and people, they must do so through specific structures to qualify for legal tax deductions. Here are the primary ways businesses legitimately provide financial assistance and receive tax benefits. And then it goes in here and talks about the different ways that you can give it. And usually it's by charities, okay? Which I mean on anybody's regular your personal incomes, it'll say, "Did you know donate any money to charities?" It's like through charitable organizations that you donated money. This is completely separate. Okay. In fact, it's really hard to find any other companies that have done something like this that is not assistance to employees.

[00:24:19]So that will be interesting, too, to see if he ends up giving assistance to employees of painted um or if they're just random people in the street. I think he's thinking that the people on the street will be so thankful to get some cash from him because he doesn't relate to the financial stress of of what's going on that people aren't going to say, "I don't like how this whole thing happened." Or, "Yeah, I got $1,000, but I had to pay 200 of it back in taxes. You didn't tell me I was going to have to do that." You know, I mean, he's just going to be like, "Well, that's then he's going to come out with another TikTok and say, well, you're stupid and you're lazy and you should have known that."

[00:24:51]Yet, it is rare for regular profit-driven companies to hand out cash or financial assistance directly to the general public. While corporate foundations and phil philanthropy programs give away billions, these funds almost exclusively go to reg uh registered nonprofits and charities rather than individual people. I live in Indianapolis. One of the hugest organizations in Indianapolis that probably like 40% of the people in Indianapolis work for is Eli Liy. Okay.

[00:25:16]The pharmaceutical company. Eli Liy's name is on everything here in town.

[00:25:21]Okay? It's on art galleries. There's a Lily Foundation. There's the Lily this.

[00:25:25]There's a Lily that. Okay? There's a Lily Theater. There's a Lily Endowment.

[00:25:28]There's a Lily Foundation. There's Lily this. Okay? Where they have literal boards of people that are set up to give out money for this and money to that.

[00:25:36]And the Lily Endowment gives out money to I don't know, okay, but charitable organizations. And they set up scholarships and they do all this kind of stuff. It's a separate entire entity.

[00:25:46]That is a huge corporation on the level.

[00:25:48]I mean, it's a huge pharmaceutical corporation. Okay. You're talking about James Charles. I mean, have we ever ever gotten a tour of what the painted offices look like? I'm sure he's done that sometime, right? Like, how many employees does Painted have? Does anybody know? I mean, do we know about the labs that he works with? Do we know about I mean, do we know what the paint is there a painted office that has like 200 employees? I'm not talking about a distribution center, okay, where they're like putting pallets together and mailing them off. I'm talking about does he have an employee does he have an organizational structure to his office like is there a CEO or is he the CEO and founder is there a chief operating officer is there a chief financial officer I is there a human resource you know off are there are there managers is there or like is there organizational structure underneath the manager or is it just James Charles and his assistant like how does all that work is James Charles the CEO the CFO the CO I mean I'm just asking because then who is going to be liable for all this when the IRS comes in and says, "Hey, wait a second." Okay, now people have been laughing at me for years about the FTC.

[00:26:49]This is something the FTC, okay, would have a huge issue with. Not just the FTC, but the IRS. The IRS would have a huge [ __ ] issue at this. All right?

[00:26:57]Especially if people are calling them left and right that are disgruntled applicants that have applied for this and didn't receive any information except for we're going with the other person. That the age you have to be to apply for this is, I believe, 18 years old. We're going to go through that in just a second. All right. So, let's talk about a 19-year-old that has bought everything that James Charles has ever pushed and sponsored and spent a lot of money and they're asking for $500 to get their first apartment and James Charles doesn't give it to them. You think that person's not going to take to TikTok and say, um, tag IRS in it and be like, uh, James Charles said he was going to give this money out and I want my first apartment. I bought everything for him.

[00:27:30]And even if there's no like relevance to it whatsoever and people are like, yeah, well, I mean, not everybody's going to get money. Think it's not going to get some attention? You think people aren't going to fake those and do that as well?

[00:27:40]I mean, it's going to be a huge problem for James Charles. This is going to be a huge problem past just the setup.

[00:27:47]Where's the organizational structure?

[00:27:49]Where's the the motto? Where's the business plan? Where's any of it?

[00:27:52]There's none of it. There's just an application when you go to the website.

[00:27:56]It's [ __ ] you guys. It's absolutely [ __ ] And as somebody that used to look at this kind of stuff, like, it doesn't make any sense. For example, read further on. There are rare exceptions where regular companies do provide direct financial aid to individuals and these include disaster relief and hardships which would be underneath category 1. Following major catastrophes, companies sometimes set up specific corporate hardship funds to help affected individuals. But this is often restricted to their own employees or communities in immediate vicinity of their operations. Now, this is only into the United States. He makes that very clear. But past that, there's no regulations around it. uh contest scholarships and fellowships instead of general financial aid companies often fund specific endeavors. For example, they may offer educational scholarships, creative project grants, or business pitch awards to everyday individuals.

[00:28:45]That's what's coming next. Corporate foundations. Companies like Walmart, Bank of America, or local Indianapolis Oh, because I Googled searches for Indianapolis area businesses have corporate foundations, but they privately distribute these funds to qualifying 501c3 nonforprofit charities that they then can help individuals. Okay? They have corporate foundations. James Charles has not even set up a corporate foundation.

[00:29:07]I can't even find a legal entity yet called the Painted Project. So, is it even set up? Is the paperwork in process? Did he come up with that that day? Has he trademarked it? Has he LLCed it? I mean, I'm so confused by this.

[00:29:20]There's actually, and this will be another thing cuz when we talk about like um Jaclyn Hill and the Cozy Project with Kayn Nicholson, she said, "I didn't know Cozy was out there." I actually looked up the Painted Project on Instagram. It's like a photography site.

[00:29:32]There's another painted project out there. There's several actually painted projects out there when you Google search them. So, I don't know that he can LLC it or that he can trademark it.

[00:29:42]If it's just something he came up with on the whim. So, anyway, let's go into the application cuz I know that's what you guys are all asking for. Okay. So, when you go to the website, I know probably can't see this, but when you go to the website, it says painted project.

[00:29:53]Okay. Now, I just want to show this for example. When you go out of this, okay, the only place you can go out of this too is the actual painted website where he's selling makeup. All right, it doesn't there's this is just the back page. If you put in painted project.org, which is where he's sending you to, this is the only place he tells you to. It says in the application process to follow them on Instagram and Tik Tok for more information about Painted Project.

[00:30:16]There is no Painted Project Tik Tok.

[00:30:18]There is no Painted Project uh Instagram that I can find. Okay? There's only the Painted organization, okay? Or the Painted brand. And there's no information on either of those about the Painted Project. Now, if you were so excited and this wasn't just a get me the [ __ ] out of hell problem, okay? If you were so excited about setting up this funding and it was through this corporation, don't you think there would be information? There's like one thing on the Tik Tok that's like the day after he and it's like there's no information on there whatsoever about the painted project. He has like a link to it and the link takes you to this. There's no information about there. You think, don't you think he'd be doing Tik Tok after Tik Tok after Tik Tok talking about the painted project? I mean, it blows me away. So, I went through this the other day, so I'm not going to go through all it. We'll get to the application, but when you go through the top, it says crisis funding for individuals for individual um not even grammatically correct. Immediate financial assistance for people who've lost their job in any industry and need support to get through. I mean, this is the it's grammatically incorrect. The entire sentence is grammatically incorrect to get through. Okay. And then it says learn more and apply. This one is open. The next one is the community partnerships. Oh, where's the scholarship one? Oh, he's moved it.

[00:31:31]Community partnerships is now number two coming soon. And then scholarships for creative industry. Now, the problem with the community partnerships I've said is I want to make this very clear. Whoever he partners with is going to want they're not going to want to be anonymous about that. That's going to be a community partnership where they're donating money to the painted organization. I don't really know where he's going to keep money coming in unless it's just completely self-funded from James Charles, which that's a huge amount of money. Unless he sets up this huge taxexempted nonforprofit, he can't write it off. I've just proven that to you. Okay? You can't just hand out money to individuals. So, unless that's just he's just throwing away money then um to I don't know to get out of trouble. Who who is he trying to silence by this? I mean, there's been a lot of allegations in the past that I don't know if they're true or not, that James Charles has written checks to people and whatever, but why is he wanting to keep all the attention on this? I don't know. This just seems such a weird mood to me. It's like, are there other victims that are getting ready to come out and tell their story and he is so [ __ ] and so worried about it? Like, this is so bizarre to me. But any company or corporation that would make a huge donation to James Charles would then also be seen as they are siding with a known predator that self-claimed as a predator. He got in a video and said it. That video is still on YouTube. He took it down, but other people have uploaded it. It's called Holding Myself Accountable. So, you think that any company that puts money into the painted project isn't going to be called out as being a predator protector by everybody online? And they're I mean, it's going to be horrific. And then the scholarships are coming too. Now, the part that they added was down here at the the bottom of it. Okay. How do I apply for crisis funding? Applications for crisis funding through the painted project are submitted online. Please visit painted project crisis. and it takes you right to the application. Okay. I live outside the US. Can I still apply? At this stage, the crisis funding program is only open to residents of the United States. Now, what's interesting about this is it says frequently asked questions. All the questions are mostly just about the crisis funding. Okay. We sincerely hope you're able to find local support in the meantime. I also think it's interesting that it doesn't say anywhere on here cuz he cares so much, right? That we care about you so much that if our application doesn't meet your needs and you need more immediate, here are some resources to get to. Um, do I need to attach something uh supporting documents to my applications?

[00:33:41]We understand that not every situation comes with formal docu documentation.

[00:33:45]That's okay. We ask that you upload whatever supporting materials you have available. Now, let me show you what supporting documents I uploaded. Okay?

[00:33:51]Just so that I could get through the process cuz it won't let you unless you do. I took a screenshot of a black screen. That's what I uploaded. Okay.

[00:34:00]So, then it goes on what the formats are accepted for attachments. It goes in here, explains JPG, PNG. Can I update or add to my application? I know all this.

[00:34:09]I read it all last night. No, you cannot. Sorry. Once your application's in, you can't up. Um, I experienced a technical issue while completing my application. What should I do? We're sorry to hear you've run into difficulties. We've received a large volume of applications in a short period of time and are aware that people are having experience. I didn't receive any technical Is that going to be his excuse? I should screenshot that. I didn't have any technical problems whatsoever last night. How do I know if my application was received? Once your application has been submitted successfully, you receive an automated confirmation email from the payment project. Can I just share my story directly with you? No, they would prefer that you did not do that. We truly appreciate you trusting us with your story and we don't like take that lightly. However, to ensure everyone cusses, they don't want to hear your story. Who is the what is the community partnerships program and when does it open? Community partnerships is the next phase of the painted project designed to support local organizations across the US with charitable status that are making a real impact. This is what he's hoping for that like different charitable organizations will team up with the painted project to give them status. Okay. I don't understand like in this is he waiting for something to go through where he is then a known entity as a charity cuz I don't know who would who in their right mind I mean most charities are set up are pretty ethical.

[00:35:21]I don't know who I'm not saying there's not unethical organizations out there.

[00:35:25]I'm saying most okay who in their right mind is going to knowingly to the public come out number one to somebody that has said I'm setting this up to be performative. Most organizations wouldn't want any part of that. Number two just came out and shamed somebody of lower economic status and three is a known predator. What community organization that is going to be very interesting to keep close tabs on.

[00:35:49]Didn't I just say like two weeks ago this is going to be the summer of drama.

[00:35:52]What is a scholarship program and when does it open? And a scholarship program is the third phase of the pay and project created to support individuals pursuing careers in the creative industry. What does that even mean?

[00:35:59]Creative industry. I mean, that could be open to anything, right? We're still working on the details and can't wait to share more. Follow us on Instagram and Tik Tok and keep an eye on our website for updates throughout the year. The problem with this statement is he says when you keep the eye on Instagram and Tik Tok, but this is painted.org.

[00:36:13]They don't have a separate entity set up cuz he's thinking painted is through painted project is through painted.org.

[00:36:19]Okay. So then let's get into the application. And the application to be honest with you is really not that interesting. So the first the different pages on here are hold on let me get to the very end and I will read to you all the different pages. Where does it go through? Okay so the different pages are number one identity two current situation three the crisis four what you need five receiving funds six docu documents and seven attestation. Okay so there's a lot on here that you have to go through. Now I'm going to go through and just read this to you. I didn't realize this video was going to be so long today. Okay, so on the first page, which is details, it says select employment status. It's like part-time, unemployed, blah blah blah, whatever.

[00:37:00]Profession or field of work. Do you work in or train in the creative industry?

[00:37:05]Select housing situation. It could be like unhoused, rent, own, blah blah blah. Then it asks you for your social links. They're not required. Tik Tok handle, Instagram, Instagram handle.

[00:37:15]That's the crisis. You have to fill out all of those and then it'll take you to the next one. That's the your current situation. That's u hold on. Where's the identity? Step one.

[00:37:26]Where's step? Okay, I think I had to go back. I had to go very back once I got out of it. Okay, so your identity at first it asks you for your full legal name, your pronouns, your primary phone number, your email address, your street address, select state, zip code, and how long have you lived at this address.

[00:37:41]Okay, this is like filling out for like a mortgage loan or a credit card. I'm not really sure I personally would be very comfortable giving James Charles that information. James Charles is somebody that has dipped into people's DMs. He has also said, "I have private information on other people that I can expose." He's going to have personal access to your most private information.

[00:38:05]He's going to be able to do background checks with this. He's going to be able to know your financial status. He's going to know your home address. Um, and I'm not really sure why people are comfortable with I mean, it says you have to be 18 on here, but there's no val verification for that. He could have 14-year-olds applying for this and saying, "Hey, I just want to talk to you, James." And then all of a sudden, James Charles has 14-year-old's home address, email address, or social media.

[00:38:27]Nobody has a problem with this. Nobody has a problem with that. A known predator has home address, email address, social media handles at his fingertips. He has We have no idea who's looking through these applications. He hasn't said there's an application board set up to review these. He hasn't said, "I'm sitting at home on my couch eating Sour Patch Kids reading these applications." We have no [ __ ] clue who's setting up these applications. Nobody whatsoever. And now he has access to your most personal information because you're in dire need to pay your electric bill. Hold on a second. Okay. So, then it takes you to the next page. And the next page is what I was reading, which is um your current situation. Okay. Then when you go to the next page, it takes you to the crisis.

[00:39:07]The crisis is it says in here you have to fill out each of these. Now some of these require a 300 word minimum. So I'm literally just typing in fake words.

[00:39:17]Okay. At this point this is why it took so long. Okay. And then I'm like literally you know like where your text it pulls up words. I'm just like this coming up with you had to type in a 300.

[00:39:28]What is it? 300 character. 300. Yeah.

[00:39:30]300 character or minimum 300 required.

[00:39:33]Okay. So first question is on what date did this happen or begin to happen. Next was what happened? There is a minimum of 500 words on that. Okay. How is this affecting your day-to-day life? The next one is how would receiving this money affect your life within 30 days? And the last one is are others directly affected. Now this is pretty basic for a lot of these financial assistance things. I just want to tell you that the next one is crisis funding for individuals. Well on the main page you said individual. So there's there's no consist consistency. I mean, this is how little I'm just pointing this out because these are things that you would have professional people looking at.

[00:40:09]Okay, on the main page, it says financial crisis funding for individual.

[00:40:14]Now, here we are on the fourth page, it says crisis funding for individuals.

[00:40:18]There's no consistency even with how the wording is throughout your application process, which means it was done very quickly. Okay? There was no professionalism done to it whatsoever.

[00:40:28]There would be a board of editors that would look at this before this ever went live on any kind of website. All right.

[00:40:34]What you're requesting, are you requesting funds towards a specific item or service, general financial support, or both? Okay. If you hit both, it says what specific item or service, estimated cost, vendor, or provider name? Total amount requested, how would these funds be used? If you hit general financial support, it asks you total amount requested, how would these funds be used? If you ask just for funds towards a specific item or service, what specific item or service, estimated cost, vendor or provider name? Then it takes you to the next part which is how will you receive these funds? Um option A, GoFundMe or public crowdfunding um campaign and it asks you to give them the campaign URL verifiable direct payment method only required if you do not have a GoFundMe. Select payment method and then it asks you for your public profile or handle URL. Okay, hold on. It gets better. Then it says in here, supporting documentation. You must upload at least two documents that prove your situation in addition to your ID.

[00:41:32]Photos taken on a phone are fine.

[00:41:35]Sensitive information can be redacted.

[00:41:37]So you could redact. They're saying that to protect their ass, right? But I don't know how you would do that because even if you're like you could just take somebody else's bill, cross their names out, right? like their electric bill where it says you owe $400 and then attach your socials to it and submit a fraudulent thing for $400. So, how would they verify that? By calling the phone company. I mean, they're getting a lot of private information from you. Choose documents that match what happened. For example, eviction notice, termination letter, medical bill, court document, or utility shut off notice. Now, I will tell you when you look at financial relief assistance programs, this is very normal. Okay? But you're talking about programs like the United Way. You're talking about programs like the Lily Foundation. You're talking about emergency funds that are set up. You're not talking about James Charles Painted.

[00:42:23]Um, I would like to know a little bit more about who is looking at my private information. I want to know if it's Susie Smith that's 22 years old and James Charles met her at a bar and made her his assistant that's going to have access to my private information. Okay?

[00:42:35]Especially when we look work in the world of, you know, people are identity theft all the time. We don't know how long Susie Smith has worked at Painted.

[00:42:43]We don't know what her credentials are.

[00:42:45]We don't know what her background history is and setting up financial funding. We don't know that she's not going to take our information and leave the next week and set up a bunch of fraudulent IDs. She now has all of her background information.

[00:42:55]How do I know she's not going to take that information and run with it? James Charles hasn't said anything. There's no like on here anywhere about like protection for your information. Doesn't say anything about your information is protected. Nowhere on here does it say that. Then it says documentation type and then to upload. I uploaded two just photos of a black screen. Okay. You have to or it won't take you to the next one.

[00:43:15]Okay. Then it says sworn attestation by signing below. I um attest under penalty of perjury.

[00:43:26]James Charles, can you sign this for us and we will get you under penalty of perjury that the statements and documents I have provided in this application are true and accurate to the best of my knowledge. I understand that providing false information may result in my application before being denied.

[00:43:40]Any funds reimbured being subject to repayment and that matter being referred to the appropriate authorities. Number one, I confirm that information and documents I provided are true and accurate. I did not submit an application. So don't be coming to me, honey. Okay? I deleted every single page of that. I understand the painted foundation may verify any information this application including my contacting my references, my employer, my GoFundMe organiz organizer, and the issuers of any documents I've uploaded. What they're going to do is they're going to go through and just donate money to people's GoFundMes. It's the simplest way to do it. That's what they're going to do. You're going to see James Charles donate money. This is going to be set up just to set send money. People are out there thinking he's going to send them a check for $1,000. No, he's not. The easiest way is to set up money through a GoFundMe. he can then write it off and he can say, "I set this money aside and it's a tax exemption and I sent these people money through their GoFundMe."

[00:44:28]That's the total intention of it. I don't even think he's reading applications that don't have GoFundMes on it. I don't know why it took me so long to figure that out. Um, but I understand the Payment Foundation may verify any information application, including my contacting my references, my employer, my GoFundMe organizer, and the issuers of any documents I've uploaded. I consent to the Painted Foundation, storing my application, supporting documents securely for as long as needed. That could be until the day you die to process this application and meet legal recordkeeping. There's another grammatical error requirements.

[00:44:59]I understand that submitting this application does not guarantee funding.

[00:45:02]Okay. Now, I would not ever sign this.

[00:45:04]When it says in here, by signing below, I attest under penalty of perjury. Um, I would never, never, never sign this. If one thing he can prove is wrong on there and you come out with a statement, James Charles can sue you. If you say something like um if your address is uppercase S for south instead of lowercase S and you attest to this, he could say I well what they said was [ __ ] because it was not the exact address as permitted by the United States, you know, uh postal service. I mean, I would be very very scared. I I what I really just figured out was that everything that he's going to he's set this up. He's just going to send money to people's GoFundMes. That's all he's going to do. Um, and a few people that he can probably figure out that they only need like $150 because he needs some simple people out there, too. And he doesn't mind losing $10,000 to make it look like he's really setting this up. This is going to [ __ ] James Charles.

[00:45:53]I think he thinks he's going to set this entity up and people are going to forget about it. I mean, this kind of setup where you're talking about community collaborations, scholarship funds, emergency relief, people need emergency relief every hour of every day. Um, that's where you have like hotlines set up for people and you have resources.

[00:46:09]There's no resource page on here for if we can't assist you, here are resources to set up. Almost every one of those emergency resource funds have phone numbers to call, where to reach out for resources, things like that. He has none of that on this website. None whatsoever, cuz he thinks that what he did is enough. Um, this is really going to [ __ ] James Charles. I mean, it's going to really, really hurt James Charles. Anyway, let me know what you thought in the comment section below. if anybody has applied for this like and and I only want people that have applied for this that are really in need that filled out the application pro process honestly. Um I would like to know what your response to it is and if you've heard any feedback anyway and you can DM me that. You don't have to put it in the comment section or you can email me.

[00:46:46]Anyway, there's application process. I love you guys and I'll see you tomorrow.

[00:46:50]Bye.