James Charles Responds with 3 Videos and Tana Mongeau Thinks Influencers Owe Fans Their Wealth

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[00:00:00]Hi everyone, it's me again and today we're gonna do a little bit of like I haven't done an update video in a really long time because I don't make drama content as much in general. I tend to kind of have like these bigger situations and I'll do like bigger summaries. I'm not kind of keeping up with stuff as much. But this has been such an interesting ordeal that I just feel like I have to talk about it. So, we're going to talk more about the James Charles Spirit Airlines debacle because now we have three apology videos, a response from the woman with the GoFundMe, and an hourong podcast from Tanojo about how much he hates him. So, we got to talk about all of this very light video. I'm not cracking out the books today. Before we fully get into that, links to ways to support the channel, all that kind of stuff, all down below, including links to my Patreon and my YouTube members, which I've never actually said what happens on these. I make random extra commentary videos. They're either gameplay commentary videos or I'll do like little reaction videos to like random stuff I want to talk about. So, the recent video I did was I remembered this McDonald's mukbang from Foodie Beauty in 2020 and just decided to react to it. Um, so I'll talk about like random side stories on the internet. I'm probably going to talk about, for example, the uh Patrick Todd debacle cuz I just don't think it's hit a point yet where I need to do a full video on. I don't have much to add, but I want to yap about it. You know what I mean? So anyway, to my current members and patrons who I love dearly, the names are on the screen, right? So, three parts of the video today. Part one, we're going to do a really quick summary of kind of what's happened, but a little bit of the new events since my last video. Then part two, we're talking about the three apology apology response videos, let's say. And part three, we're going to go through uh Tanojo's podcast episode.

[00:01:48]Part one, summary and employee. Sorry, part one. All of you guys love when I do that. I guess it's very funny. Summary and employee response. Also, just an FYI.

[00:01:59]Gus, he's sleeping with his like his tummy up right now. Has been having the craziest snores. He's had something going on with his nose. Uh we've been bringing him into the vet and stuff. Don't worry. I'm just going to say if the craziest like middle-aged dad of five snore starts coming through the the mic, it's Gus. Um, and like he's been mo he's being monitored, but like he sounds like that. Just an FYI. I'm on this suspicion right now that he has some sort of allergy. Around on around like May 8th, 2026, so about 3 weeks ago. It's a little bit hard to track because specifically of the like the fact that the video was deleted. James Charles put out a Tik Tok in response to a GoFundMe link that was sent to his inbox in his like Instagram DM request. This video has obviously circulated everywhere. I have another video about it. I'll put it like I'll actually do a card for once and then is also I'll link it in the description as well. And there have now been full-blown philanthropy trends coming out of this with like an audio of myth music and like James Charles's like rant about poor people essentially.

[00:03:08]button to copy and paste the same [ __ ] ass message. You could have applied for 100 other jobs, but you didn't cuz you're a lazy piece of [ __ ] and you think that influences celebrity fund your light and you're entitled. Why would I [ __ ] HELP YOU? I'M NOT HELPING YOU. I'M not [ __ ] helping you. All you do >> because I obviously came in swinging because my last title is like the James Charles Spirit Airlines debacle or something and then I have like he hates poor people in parenthesis because that's really what it boils down to. So, for those who did not see it, VLDDR on it, like I said, I have another video on if you want to watch it after or whatever or do it now or blah blah blah.

[00:03:41]Uh, James was yelling at this person for daring to ask him for money, seeing that she didn't even follow him and needed to get a grip on the real world. the fact that I would argue the grippiest grip of the real world is acknowledging that she was put in an unfair position and James Charles was put in an equally unfair position in the other direction in that like he doesn't deserve that and then in turn was like well why don't we equalize a little you know but instead you got a whole scream rant instead since then the backlash has been immense and coming from all platforms Twitter YouTube Instagram Tik Tok talk the whole nine.

[00:04:21]Then James begins scrambling and releases the first of three response videos, which I'm going to go through separately in the second part. TLDDR on this. This video was just him doubling down, meaning like all of y'all are going to make your little think pieces.

[00:04:36]Yeah, girl. If my video talking about the very obvious class discrepancy is a think piece, what's the opposite of never thinking like what's what's the the term for never thinking ever piece?

[00:04:48]You know the ignorance piece, the dip piece, like what are we what are we doing? Because the thinking is not there for you specifically. Naturally, this did not go well. None of his off-the- cuff responses do. genuinely how you make the Tati video called like Tati from 2019 where he was like crying in Australia then spiral like the one of the biggest internet scandals in history and then you still keep doing off the cuff like bro genuinely like I don't hold on I don't have my sound bar I'm recording my camera but I think you can still hear it out of my computer speaker hang on >> there you go I don't know if that picked up on the mic I'll see in editing I guess. But anyway, this, as I said, did not go well. I think really there are three things in life that are certain.

[00:05:42]Death, taxes, and James Charles not learning a damn thing. You just like in a casino, you know, you bet it all on red. Like, I'm going to bet it all on James Charles scandal. Influencers started coming out in droves against James Charles. We had like Jackie Aina, Trisha Pis, Tan Mojo, and just kind of like social media as a whole in this response. and I guess like smaller commentary channels and stuff like that myself. Paige Christy who's been boot on James' neck for Checkex Notes like over 5 years and then also uh drama channels alike. Peter Mons made many a video obviously. This really put a spotlight on the culture too of like this idea that like you don't owe anyone anything because James talks about that in the first response video that got deleted or ripped right out real quick. But oh my god, hold on. I'll explain that in a second. I saw the light flash. Uh, but there's been a Twitter account that's been really helpful called Beyonce Garden that has been like keeping all of this stuff. Now, I know y'all just probably saw my lights flash.

[00:06:41]Just if you're wondering what that is, it is 27° C in this here Canada right now. This area of Canada, I don't know what that is in like fake American temperature.

[00:06:53]I think it's like 80 something whatever.

[00:06:58]And before like somebody from Arizona is like, "Oh my god, you're such a baby."

[00:07:01]It's like 90% humidity here at all times. That being said, I have south facing windows and black floors in this apartment. So, both ACs are on, but because this apartment's like 60, 70 years old, the electrical is not that good. So, one of my ACs makes my lights do that every time the it it does another round because I'm not I'm not a rich influencer girl. Uh, so I live in like a normal people house. So I just wanted to preface with that if anybody's wondering what that is. It's going to happen sub like subsequently like through the video and I apologize in advance. So when we discuss influencers, right, like the entire income comes from the direct generosity of people, right?

[00:07:42]Because there's a difference between somebody like myself who makes these videos as like a side hustle, the student loan paying side hustle for me specifically, and yes, they're not done yet. Uh, I had a a gently used Acura amount of student loans because I just don't feel I'm worried about saying the exact number on the internet. I don't know why. I just feel like for some reason somebody's going to do something crazy about it. So, the the timeline of events a little bit dicey, but James Charles sends a measly $500 to this uh GoFundMe later to send in more money. I believe he sends another thousand. He also DM'd the woman from Spirit Airlines privately. And then there was also the second apology video on the spam page which I believe stayed up. This one was a little bit more like, "Oh yeah, I up.

[00:08:30]I goofed. I goofed and I shouldn't have done that." We got that which was something, I guess. And the fact that he sends this girl a DM despite the meltdown being very public. Did he say the video was wrong and blah blah blah blah blah? Yes. However, when you're acknowledging that the content you made is the issue, etc., which it definitely was. The way that he doesn't like you should be like the video should be hello Spirit Airlines employee. I apologize. We should be starting with that. That should be the focus of everything as opposed to the focus being one of like saving face, right? Then the diva, Spirit Airlines Diva. I'm just because I think this was resolved and I just a little bit anxious about fueling further harassment sometimes with stuff like this. But this diva puts out a video and I'll play it where she get shows the DM and then it's just like, yeah, you apologize and I don't accept it.

[00:09:31]>> Girl that James Charles talked about in that video. Um, everybody's been asking for a video and I haven't been able to make it because of a few reasons. One being my anxiety. I have really bad anxiety.

[00:09:41]Really bad anxiety. But, you know, I tend to talk myself out of a lot of things. I was able to talk myself into this. So, we're here. We're getting it done. Sorry, I'm going to say a lot of ums. And second was I definitely was waiting to be monetized. And now that I am, let's just dive right into it. I have my iPad with me. I don't have anything really written down. I'm just going to scroll and answer questions.

[00:10:00]First question, I love this question.

[00:10:02]Is, are you planning on staying in aviation? Yes. Um, I never thought I loved aviation the way that I that I do because I come from a hospitality background. like I always worked in hotels, hotels, hotels. And then my friend Tanisha, shout out to Tanisha, was one of the best bosses I've ever had. Um, she got me into aviation and yeah, I don't think there's going back from there. Another question. Did Did James Charles really send you that message? He did. Um, he decided to message me on TikTok and he wanted to privately apologize. Um, I know another question on here is, do I accept his apology? So, I'm just going to answer it right together. Hell no. I don't accept his apology especially because he was very publicly with what he said and then you thought it was okay to message >> do I have no I have laughing but I don't have clapping let's do in my response I guess but anyway this video of the Spir Spirit Airlines employee being like I don't care about your apology appears to have prompted a third apology the longest one because the second one, which is the one that stayed up, didn't really hold it down in the way that James was hoping. So, that gets us to Pat, too. The three apology videos.

[00:11:20]See, sometimes when I do that Pat thing, I'm like, "Yeah, I'm giving Michaela and Ngera." But then sometimes I'm like, "Am I giving Bobby Hill?" I've been making many comparisons of myself to Bobby Hill recently. Once James made the infamous Tik Tok, his first thought, so he like makes the first Tik Tok and then the as in like the spirit LIKE GET IT JAMES LIKE ASS video and then he thinks that he would be able just to brush it off and then when the p the pressure got greater, James retaliated in anger and instead of retracting because there is a str influencer strategy of just keep it pushing all the time, he thought he would double down on his general sentiment. The first response, I call it apology, but it's like a response video.

[00:12:02]Came the day of or within a day of the original GoFundMe rent. In this video, it is first off clear that James has just woken up. Like literally shirtless in bed, many moles everywhere. Like, did you always have that many girl? You might want to get that checked out. But anyway, he's pretty much just like, I don't give a single [ __ ] about what happened. This video is like 30 seconds long, too. It does cut off randomly, so I'm wondering if the Twitter account like didn't keep all of it. I can't verify with James because it's gone. So, we got what we got and we don't throw a fit type dealio. So, the video goes as such. James immediately says that this whole backlash comes from people clipping 5 seconds of him being like, "Get a grip on the real world. Get a job." Despite the fact that like so much of what's being circulated is long- form content. You cannot chirp out of context when the entire video is like a minute long. It is one thing to claim out of context, which he attempted to do with by sister. By the way, one of my best videos, IMO, is uh the rhetoric and impact of No More Lies, where I talk about the root of like James being able to get away with everything.

[00:13:07]With this, we have the idea of the the out of context clip when we're talking about these commentary videos. Now, these commentary video commentary YouTube video girl, you want to stress that out as long as possible. me not as much because I don't stop talking and sometimes I look at my camera and I see like 50 minutes on the record when I thought the video be 20 minutes long and I feel for myself in editing later but nonetheless out of context claim cannot be made in the way that it was attempted to be made with like by sister and stuff like that when the entirety of the situation is 60 seconds. I know blah blah blah no one can read anymore blah blah blah no attention span girl 2x speed on Tik Tok 30 seconds we can tap in on that we can tap in on that start to finish and with the video being circulated everywhere you couldn't control that anyway then he calls the videos that were made like oh you're going to take this 5-second clip to make your cute little think pieces now knowing me I think I actually well I'll play it after I've done my summary just to kind of have an idea of like what because I can play the whole one for this because it's only 30 seconds but you're so adverse to internalizing like criticism and internalizing what these things are until there's like this huge impact. And you wouldn't have this huge impact all the time if you actually just acted when you should have acted or just thought twice before pressing post like once in your life. Then James says like he goes, "God, give me a break." in reference to the push back regarding the job market being terrible. Somebody, may I add, who has never actually worked a job in their damn life. I talked about my little resume last time. I just finished working for the day at my full-time job because I guess I also have one of those. And it's like getting any job. I remember applying to dozens and dozens and dozens of jobs with a master's degree. Okay. and it was not going particularly well for me. When you have capital, this is something else that people don't necessarily consider when they don't know a lot about money.

[00:15:13]I don't know a lot about money either.

[00:15:14]Okay, girl. Opened a TFSA last week.

[00:15:17]Felt like God got a real credit card and got a TFSA and I was like, wow, I'm an adult now.

[00:15:22]Listen, when you have capital, you just access the infinite capital glitch because once you deposit or you have in your, you know, direct access a certain amount of money, you can just access money all the time because the banks and the investors and all these other people will go in your camp to try to help you be like, "Oh, put $10,000 here. Put $20,000 here. Invest in this." and then or you have the money to hire a financial adviser and then you can just build on capital. Like Elon Musk is not going to be a trillionaire from working 300,000 times as hard as you girl. He can't even father children.

[00:16:06]Okay?

[00:16:08]Like you know how this like the dad that stepped up thing like he's the dad that stepped down. Okay? That being said, it's one of those things where it's really dystopian to just hear this from these capital hoarders in general. And I hope kind of through this channel, these conversations that I've had, that I can instill some class consciousness in the people who just consume pop culture to understand that these people who make all this money is because and how they seemingly just like infinitely rich is because once you get a certain amount of money, people will invest for you and have like these guaranteed capital gains and you have all of these asurances because when you're like poor like I'm taxed at 37% or something crazy. 35%.

[00:16:55]And then it costs $500 to do my taxes and then so it's like it's it's limiting your access to additional wealth, right?

[00:17:03]And I don't mind that I have limited access to additional wealth because like I don't necessarily want to be an evil rich person, but when and seeing the seeds of how this fuels a person just really makes it hard to have like faith in the world. using like the 5-second clip in the very beginning where I'm like, "You're a lazy piece of [ __ ] Get a new job." to upload their cute little thing pieces being like, "Influencers are all so out of touch. This is so disgusting. You don't know how hard it is in the job market these days." Oh my god. Give me a [ __ ] break. Welcome to the real world. It's [ __ ] hard out there. Nobody owes anybody anything. The universe will constantly remind you of that. And a little bit of effort goes a really, really long way sometimes. I stand by what I said. 10 toes down.

[00:17:46]James later still in bed makes another apology and like he has an apology voice. In the grow world community they call it the low BMI voice that Shantel will do sometimes. Booty beauty. He talks all soft like this when he's trying to apologize. This apology is much longer than the last 30 secondond one at almost 4 minutes. So, James opens by assuming that stating that he was assuming that the woman sent these DMs to a bunch of people, which is again, why are we starting with that, fueling that idea again? I feel like that's very stupid.

[00:18:22]Uh, then he calls the original video he made stupid, but I'm like, uh, we could do two for one on this. I fear actually three for one at this point. And then he says that he did not know the actual situation and that he feels that he gets a ton of messages of people asking him to be their personal ATMs.

[00:18:38]>> My intention behind making this video in the first place was I get a lot of messages like this every single day. And for me personally, it definitely sucks to receive messages from people that don't follow you and don't support you treating you like our personal ATM or bank account. But what I'm sure sucks even [ __ ] more is not knowing where your next paycheck is coming from and not being sure whether or not you're going to be able to put food on the table for yourself and your family.

[00:19:03]>> I'm going to keep it so insanely straight.

[00:19:06]You have scandals, James, in being you in this case. You have scandals of messaging minors.

[00:19:12]I feel like you don't need to try to remind people that you get asked for money a lot and then they should feel bad for you about it because I feel like this is not this is undeniable. Then he says that being an influencer, you should be humble and that he could no longer find the original DM. So he was hoping that she'd reach out to him again. And then he said that like where it came from was that sometimes he uses this spam account that this original video came out on as like him facetiming people. Like it's like I'm FaceTiming all my fans or whatever. All you're admitting and like and he says like oh like I usually use this account to like crash out and yell or whatever. So, all we're admitting is that you're nasty as [ __ ] in real life because what are the FaceTime topics that I'm talking about?

[00:19:55]I'm talking about the internet drama stuff. I'm talking about urban planning.

[00:20:01]I'm talking about I was talking about like Bellatro for like an hour one time.

[00:20:07]What did I talk about with my friend today? We talked about the old job and we talked about me being at war with the internet company. Okay, that's what I'm facetiming people about. Okay, I'm not I don't know about you, I'm not FaceTiming and yelling about poor people being like evil or something. It is genuinely mind-boggling in a way that like I can't even like begin to to think of. Then on May 23rd, which is only 3 days ago, uh James posts a third video about the situation. This the longest by far by coming at just over 7 minutes. Says the video that he made was awful and unnecessary and that seeing the original Spear Airlines video on his FYP like constantly is like really embarrassing.

[00:20:48]makes the excuse that the spam page is yelling and crashing out. So, it was this video, not the other one. I mixed it up. But in this video, he talks about like the I'm yelling about stuff and I'm crashing out. He said he talked about the haunt virus. Diva, weren't you canled for being racist about Ebola.

[00:21:05]Maybe I should be like, "Hire me for your PR James. Take all the money and give it to your victims or something." I don't know. You shouldn't be commenting on any on any disease at this stage, I fear. Then he says that the video was not to accuse unemployed people of being lazy and not to accuse hardworking people of not hard of not working hard enough.

[00:21:24]>> Intention behind that video was not to accuse anybody unemployed of being lazy and it was also not to accuse any hardworking people of not working hard enough. But that is how the video came across and I feel [ __ ] terrible for contributing to those narratives.

[00:21:40]I know that when I post this video today, there will probably be comments of people saying, you know, James, you're only making this response because of the backlash. And I want you to know that is true. When I first posted this video, clearly I didn't see a problem with it. It embarrassingly did take people making videos and me getting hate comments and backlash to actually take a step back, put myself in check, and realize what I said here is not okay, and now I need to educate myself as to why. Interesting that you need to make a distinction because you don't say you say that you didn't mean to say unemployed people are lazy, but then you also don't say unemployed people are hardworking. You notice that there's a distinction there. There's still a distinction that it's like you need to be employed to be working. Work is many things. Education is Oh, the lights again. Education is work.

[00:22:26]Self-reflection is work. Therapy is work. You know, improving your life, exercise, uh improving your environment, cleaning, landscaping, doing whatever, that's work. Interesting to say that you're not hardworking because students are often unemployed. I've never been an unemployed post-secary student, unfortunately, because I've gone through this. I, you know, I, if we're comparing like Tana, we'll talk about Tana after Tana's upbringing and James upbringing, like mine was closer to like a Tana kind. Not the like horrific parents. But that being said, like it's not nearly like that. But in the terms of like being conscious of of money really young and being conscious of the struggles that come within, being conscious of this constant need to be like chasing a bag all the time, that is something that I'm very aware of and we'll talk about that more in detail in a few minutes.

[00:23:14]Then he admits that he did make a response because there's Gusa snoring if you can hear it.

[00:23:21]I don't know. James says that he did actually like he's admitting that he's responding because of the backlash. So, at least we have some self-awareness in here and that he like needed this check.

[00:23:30]That's the same thing he always does. He did that with he did that with By Sister. He did that with uh the victims coming out. He did that in every different scandal that's come out about him. It's always like thank you guys for coming for me essentially which is just such a very stupid way to approach it.

[00:23:45]It feels very thoughtless and very repetitive and just like I'll never get out of this. Then he wants to see that his platform is being used properly. So he's talking about developing this thing called like the painted foundation which painted like the brand that he has like the makeup brand he has. Uh that it would like have three phases where the first phase is essentially just mutual aid which is so funny because like I've done mutual aid with people sending like $50 there, $20 there, whatever I can do.

[00:24:13]I've done mutual aid in terms of taking the little excess money that I do have and like paying someone's rent or paying someone's groceries or doing those types of things because it's like I remember when I was 17 on $750 a month or something like that. 770 I think with a $585 for with a $550 rent and $80 bus pass every month. Right. But just like my brother helping me when I was like starving or other people just like getting me lunch or getting me these very small like pick me up some like my parents when they would come around once in a while again taking me for groceries like these very small acts and how it kept me not only like kept me alive kept me in a position where I could continue my studies to be able to support myself and to develop myself in a way that I'm able to give back afterwards. Then the second is immediate crisis funding which I'm not sure what he means by that exactly in that context and that just to kind of like sustain people. So like once or I remember it was once you like if you get funded when you don't have a job and then you get into a career that like you're able to stay in it. And then another one is that the last phase is like a tuition fund. So obviously this makes this raises many questions in terms of when we're talking about like the last video in general that he doesn't mention the other videos. He doesn't mention that he doubled down on it. He doesn't mention that he was like in comments that there was so much so many points of contact with his the ideology or the um I guess a mentality story that he had there that he still denied and that there is no goodness at the end of it because like it's still the wrong person doing the philanthropy at the end. It feels like when we want to talk about a turnaround an influencer turnaround in this context of that philanthropy let's talk about Tana. So, let's get to part three. The T Tana Mojo's uh podcast. So, this podcast that I'm talking about is on Tana's new channel called Brand Safe. The idea is that she's not this like big mess anymore. Now, Tana has done horrible things associated with horrible people, scammed. She was essentially like, if I remember correctly, there was a whole scandal about borderline being like an Only Fans like ma manager, which then like leads to a lot of people losing their money. There's like tons and tons of things that she's done. So, am I going to be like forgiving Tana? No.

[00:26:29]It's one of those things where I feel like you don't necessarily need forgiveness, but you can feel happy that the harm reduction is there, you know?

[00:26:38]And that's really where I'm at. I feel that way about Trisha Pis, too. It's like it's like I'm not going to be like he haha, Trisha Pis is iconic. I've made videos referencing talking about Trisha Pis and I'm never like, "Wow, I love Trisha Pis because I don't." But am I and then is there still harm that's there? for sure with Trisha and with Tana, right? Am I going Am I going to be happier that, you know, Trisha's not doing blackface anymore? Yeah. Am I going to be happy that Tana's not scamming people anymore? There's no Tanacon. There's no people passing out outside. Yes. You know what I mean? Like that's kind of the mentality that I take personally. I don't necessarily judge too harshly on like the different angles that you can go about it, but like that's kind of where a lot of people are at. This channel brand sits at about 90k thou 90k subs and she is recording alone and Tana's kind of just saying she just wants to talk about what's on her mind.

[00:27:28]The whole podcast is an hour long. Tana gets into James at 33 minutes and that is how the so the podcast section is 27 minutes of talking about James. Tana says she's worried that everything has already been said but she's very passionate about the topic especially because so much pain in her life has been around money. And I think this is kind of why I feel like putting my two cents in as well because like I said, I am easily 150th as wealthy as Tanojo and probably 200th as wealthy as James Charles. At the same time, I still feel like the fact that I have actually leftover income left sometimes that there is this duty to kind of make sure that it gets to the right place, right?

[00:28:15]donating to the occasional GoFundMe to mutual aid to uh charities. I've donated to like Palestinian charities and stuff or like when we do uh like at the workplace they'll have like you know the Christmas drives I'll like take a bunch of people out and we'll buy like we'll fill the box with groceries and I'll like go do this other stuff and this is not and and Tana talks about how she doesn't bring up her philanthropy when she does it in the in the worry that like there'll be push back that it's performative and I feel the same way.

[00:28:42]Obviously, the context of his conversation is a bit more fitting, but I just feel like when I think about how the $50 of groceries or the the $12 cafeteria lunch at the college I went to or the, you know, the $100 bill that like my brother paid for me so that I don't get not only because the thing is not only people like people when they have never been poor poor like don't understand how quickly things tumble, right? Because for example, let's say you have no money left, right? And you pay a bill and it bounces. Now you've got the original bill amount, which you still got to pay next month when that comes around, too. Then you also got a laid fee now, right? And let's say you do decide to just pay the bill and empty the account. Now you've got an overdraft fee. So you're getting charged 20, 30, $40. I remember my credit card went over one time because my bank only gave me a $300 credit card to start and it went over one time and I got a $40 uh max out fee.

[00:29:49]Do you think I could afford 13ish% of my entire credit limit on just an overdraft fee if you think I can only have $300? Like, are we You know what I mean? It's when it costs a lot of money to be poor, right? It's like if you don't pay your tuition on time, you get a late fee or you get kicked out of your classes, you miss your classes. to have to have this reservation about giving to people because of like the culture of things being performative when I would rather be performing and doing those little changes that help someone. I get so frustrated same way same way as Tana because she talks about for example then the next point I have as well that her family had the mentality that you need to get money no matter the cost and I've been known as like the woke school in the group chat for when pe for when people I've known have done [ __ ] like scalping where I'm like you guys are evil you're siphoning a market of like joy away from people and you're you're contributing to that and I try to have my videos be like somewhat critical but positive space, right, of trying to be as fair and measured as I can because I want to make my money ethically as much as I can and then pay off my loans and try to provide educational context I've learned acquiring those loans for those who can't afford to just run off and go get an English degree if they wanted to get one or run off and get a rhetoric degree if they wanted to get one because it is something that is lifealtering debt for so many people. Tana talks about how many of her eras were shaped around money and extravagance, the OFA era, the Flexer era, the Jake Paul era, etc., and how seemingly no matter what, the ceiling just kept going up and she kept spending the money anyway. And that all this was for nothing. And in that she says that fundamentally she believes that influencers need to give back to the people who build their careers because these careers are made from relationships of workingclass people's connections to them which is very comrade Tana of her but like I'm living you know because it's true.

[00:32:06]>> I think that some people may disagree with this take but in today's day and time I do personally feel like us as influencers do owe our money to the people. And obviously that's how this whole James Charles conversation started because he was saying people are in my DMs and I feel like a bank and a lot of other awful things that I'm going to get into and just absolutely share all of my opinions on in a moment. But he was also saying that people just treat him like a bank. But here's my problem with that. I do think that us as influencers owe our people who watch us money and help. And I think that we should be willing and able to give it to them. Because here's the thing. The difference between us as influencers and traditional media celebrities is that our income directly comes from people's personal connection to us. Our pay, our exorbitant amount of wealth comes directly from the working class feeling a connection TO US. SO WHY the there's babies around. So why the [ __ ] wouldn't we give back to them? Why the will we not give back to the people that have provided this for us because of their direct connection to us? I can't get behind it. I cannot get behind it.

[00:33:22]I'm sorry. It It just I need a Xanax Jimmy Chuck. Like I It is so Oh, there's a baby. Hi. Please run away. I'm swearing a lot. We're so brand safe. He's running away. Thank god. So, I think that's my first ick is him unveiling the mask on the fact that you are directly saying that you don't want to help these people who have done nothing but help you. And I just don't understand that either. I think that was a big thing. I started to really feel this like I was feeling it before a lot, but like something changed to the point that I was crying every day during the EBT crisis. Even though I don't have even what would be a part-time minimum wage job in Canada, not parttime, a full-time minimum wage job in Canada amount of money per year on this. I still think about how my friend who works retail is stuck with that paycheck at exactly the amount that is acquired by the hours that they work that their manager is willing to give them while I can just come on and bully James Charles and get a couple hundred more dollars if I need.

[00:34:33]and how that is such an absurd dichconomy to exist in as somebody who works salaried full-time and then also does this to be like hm I can work a day of my job and make blah blah blah $100 whatever like x $100 amount I'm don't even know what it is if I actually I've never actually like done the math or and then I can sit here and do an hour of prepping for something short like this uh an hour of getting ready and filming and an hour and a half of editing and then I can make the day back just on that premise alone. Which again on the monumental scale of these other people is minuscule.

[00:35:12]Like I'm not doing this video in my marble bathroom like Jackiea or in my second home in Maui. I don't even own anything. This apartment is rented and it's Quebec rent. Okay, so it's low. I still feel astronomically grateful and gifted and also un like an unfairness in that. And it's funny because I feel like a lot of this video might be coming across as like some of my guilt, some of my experiences, but I just also feel like what needs to be added to the conversation when it's on a nice camera with a nice microphone. You know what I mean? Like in the sense that this isn't just like me ri somebody ripping a TikTok on a phone. this is like something put together that people might come into a bit more. I feel like the idea of the trauma that comes from overcoming poverty and the trauma that comes from living in poverty and the and you know the the back and forth and like the conceptualization of like the economy and the way that people have to like live. I can just never understand how not only could you wake up and make that video that you don't just go through your DMs every day and throw $1,000 into all of these different GoFundMes that you aren't the personal ATM because you being a personal ATM.

[00:36:27]Let's say you donate $20,000 in a day.

[00:36:29]One old James Charles video in that AdSense that comes like your uh legacy adsense is what I tend to refer to it as, which means like when your videos continue making money. So, for example, like if I'm looking, I have my YouTube studio open just because I was doing some other stuff this morning. And like it shows you like what views you've gotten the last couple days. I got another 128 views on my Amberllin Reed video. Like Amberllin Reed returns to her channel video, which is about like 3 weeks old now. About a month old. I think it was like the very end of April I put that out. So, that just made another $10 or something. I think it's like 10 or 15, right? So my video will make my old videos will make like $10 here, $12 here on any given day after they've already been out for a long time. 20,000 I would say he's making easily easily easily easily on videos backlog of a year plus. Like I'm talking on like only the videos that are like over a year old, let alone like the stuff from the last month, the stuff from the last couple weeks or current videos, right? Because like my last video got 6,000 views in the last two days. That's like a hundred like $80, maybe 100 bucks, something like that.

[00:37:40]Again, I don't really know and I can't break it down like that. It's just not possible. It's crazy that you even have the audacity to be mad about it. when you came into fame by lying about photoshopping a grad photo 10 years ago, then making racism marks then then ending up in CoverGirl and then making racist remarks about people in Africa to end up blowing up on a YouTube channel. Then Tana also talks about how makeup is a highest paying IP and that James Charles went on TikTok and like begged people to work for him like to get a new hire and how she says that like he in asking asks you for your ideas and that he'll pay you if he uses them. This is also another thing about the job market which neither of them mention.

[00:38:28]Applying for jobs has become a scam and you're going to tell people that asking for money when the whole company shut down is them being lazy. When you apply for that job sometimes and they'll be like let's it's common with like marketing I've noticed for like people I know in real life or whatever that like they'll be like oh make a presentation about and then the company will take it and then not give you the job either by the way. And Tana says like even if he's paying for the ideas he uses that there's so many that you're skimming, they're like subconsciously will come in and you're going to take those ideas anyway. Tana just talks about how shocked she was that it was so mean. And then talks about worried about how she was worried about the position of the push back of her uh being public about philanthropy. I just went on a rant about that, so I'll save y'all that one.

[00:39:15]And she talks about the idea of wanting to be on the right side of history as an influencer. And that is something that I've kind of had at the forefront of everything for a long time. This one was so yappy ranty.

[00:39:27]That's crazy. Finally, Tana at the end.

[00:39:30]It says all the adsense of the video is going to go to former Spirit Airline employees, which I live for. That is all link sources way to conclude. I guess we talked about the whole scenario, the timeline, the apology videos, and Tana Mojo's podcast. Link, source, way to support the channel, all that kind of stuff. All down below, including links to my YouTube patron, Patreon, and memberships who I love my current members and patrons dearly. I'm very grateful for the support and know that with my dearest efforts, I try to make some of this money at least go to a positive place instead of just the student loan overlords. I hope each and every one of you is having an amazing day and that you're being fairly compensated for your labor or at least you're conscious that you're not in some circumstances. I hope each and every one of you have an amazing, beautiful, wonderful day. Stay woke, my kings and queens and matriarchs, etc. Bye.

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