The Larger Issue Around Shane Dawson

[Music] you know things are about to go down when something as petty as beauty drama on youtube starts to develop massive legal implications it all started last year in may when tati westbrook launched some serious accusations at her former friend james charles among them hinting that he might be some sort of actual deviant who preys on straight boys jeffree star was all over twitter saying stuff like everything tati says is 100 true and even outright calling james charles a predator verbatim until as it appeared they all suddenly came to the conclusion that it was best to leave it all in the past and take a break for self-reflection well it's been over a year since the scandal erupted and things are very much still up in the air not only that but a lot of disturbing new information has taken this entire situation up to a whole new level there's heavy legal implications there might be a huge lawsuit coming up and on top of all of this people are speaking up against shane dawson and jeffree star in a way that's putting everything that happened in 2019 in a completely different light so in this video we're gonna take a look at what all of that means from a legal perspective as well as for the online environment if we look at google trends we find that around 55 to 60 of all searches for jeffree star's name came after he collaborated with shane dawson on their first docu-series in august of 2018. and that's saying a lot for someone who's had a presence on the internet since the early 2000s what that means basically is that most people like myself came to know about him when he was already a millionaire that was moving away from his past mistakes and even some of the people who knew him before that were fooled into believing that he was a changed person shane dawson gave jeffree star the biggest gift anyone could give him a clean slate from this point on people either bought this clean label or at most just scratched a surface on who this guy truly was and boy oh boy there's a lot under the surface although a lot of the compromising information on jeffree star was available for anybody who would look hard enough it was buried well within the depths of the internet where only those who knew what to look for would find it as for the people who had stories about jeffree star it was revealed that they were all afraid to speak up that is until earlier this year when one by one people started to come forward cam lester a creator who had worked on previous campaigns for jeffree star cosmetics was the first one then a former friend of jeffree stars by the name of tab made another video then a bunch of drama channels started coming out admitting that they were quote unquote on jeffree star's payroll and slowly but surely layers started peeling off to reveal the truth at the same time a youtuber by the name of liam mcevoy made two videos thoroughly investigating jeffree star's past uncovering some hidden things that are deeply disturbing and we're not just talking about vile things that he said in the past that he supposedly moved away from we're talking about allegations of drugging people revenge porn and blackmail [Music] what's important to note about shane dawson is that although he's been active on youtube since 2008 prior to 2018 he had reached this state of limbo where people knew him as an og but he was pretty much on the brink of irrelevance it was only around that time mainly through his docu-series and his conspiracy videos that he re-established and reintroduced himself to a wider audience for instance i think i was aware of him since around 2012 but when he really popped on my radar was with the tanacon series which at that point i also made a video on what was appealing about shane dawson's journey was the way he turned his situation around to not just become relevant again but to legitimately dominate the platform like he had never done before what's also important to clarify is that the information coming out about him now isn't just oh he made some jokes 10 years ago because i even made a video at one point using shane dawson as an example on why cancel culture is toxic if that were still the case of a new audience discovering jokes from his past content some of those you can contextualize in the time that they were made it doesn't excuse them but context matters the problem that has come up with shane dawson recently is not just the jokes but the extremely inappropriate behavior he's exhibited towards children which seems to be a systematic pattern for him throughout the years and if somehow you still don't know what i'm talking about i'm going to link some videos down below that cover this aspect more in depth but a fair warning it's a giant rabbit hole that by the end you're gonna regret entering so with everything that's coming out about these people for someone who is associated with allegations and revenge porn and for someone with a track record of really weird pedo type behavior what is the appropriate set of consequences because it feels like this exceeds the definition of cancel culture when you enter a territory where authorities could get involved it's no longer a matter of losing subscribers or trending on twitter with the hashtag is overparty and as we're going to explore in the next part it goes even further although people use the term beauty community quite a lot in reality each beauty guru is a brand in themselves brands that have grown so big that they've started to outweigh traditional makeup companies for a more in-depth analysis on this you can watch the video we made in 2019 called how the beauty industry took over the world with a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars beauty gurus are essentially competitors there may be a community on youtube but out there in the real world each beauty influencer competes over more or less the same pool of potential customers and as you would expect there are laws in place governing business competition such as the economic espionage act or the uniform trade secrets act i should mention at this point that i'm not a lawyer and despite what he may lead you to believe neither is wilfur so take what we say with a grain of salt but based on what i've read things might get interesting here tati westbrook claims jeffree star is a co-owner of morphe cosmetics which was the distributor for james charles's makeup palette jeffree star himself publicly said at one point that he is quote-unquote invested in morphe although morphe has denied this it should be noted that they are a private entity and any information on its investors cannot be publicly verified at the very least we see a gigantic double standard in the way morphy took shane dawson off their website but continued for quite a while to defend jeffree star until finally after like a week of public outcry they came out with a statement that they have and i quote decided to cease all commercial activity related to jeffree star keep that in mind commercial activity based on the vagueness of that and the preferential treatment he got compared to shane dawson in my opinion further supports the possibility that jeffree star is or was more than just a commercial partner to morphe on top of this jeffree star co-owns killer merch which at one point was the exclusive distributor for all of james charles's merchandise so we already knew jeffree star had control over james charles's merch but if this morphe investor thing is true then it means he may have also been privy to his makeup distribution deal and that has huge implications if that is the case for one jeffree star broke ftc guidelines by not disclosing his relation to morphe every time he used their products on his channel and two if tati and james charles skin proved that jeffree star and shane dawson conspired to sabotage them they might not only be liable for millions of dollars in damages for defamation but by virtue of jeffree star's involvement in james charles's business operation he could also be charged with misappropriation of trade secrets again no law degree here just speculating but either way it's not looking good now this has been a developing story ever since may of last year and i like many other channels that covered it along the way reported on a situation that was missing some puzzle pieces for example the case of the shane dawson makeup series with jeffree star like i said there's a lot of new information pointing to how these two guys may have legitimately broken business competition laws which if true completely changes the optics on their november conspiracy palette launch back then i honestly believed their project to be revolutionary it was a great case study on how to leverage attention through content to sell a product but even that proved to be a scam because they didn't even finish the series they announced nine episodes released the palette after the sixth episode and then they were like you know what we're just gonna we're just gonna take off now so what was initially inspiring about their marketing is dwarfed by a the lack of interest shown for the content after they made their money and b by the malicious scummy tactics they allegedly used by sabotaging their competition now as far as the lawsuit goes i think it's going to be very interesting to see what comes out of it if tati westbrook and james charles have enough evidence to prove their allegations and to make one thing clear by the way just because we didn't talk much about them in this video doesn't make them innocent and you gotta understand there's no good guys and bad guys here it's just a bunch of millionaires trying to pull the rug from under each other as for shane dawson and jeffree star again i think it goes beyond cancel culture there's just too much information being brought to light that crosses into a much more dangerous territory what do you guys think let me know your thoughts on anything that we've touched on here if there is indeed a lawsuit how do you think it's gonna go and do you think shane dawson and jeffree star will ever get back to the level of influence they've previously had i'm not gonna lie at the rate at which these people have been swaying the public opinion i would not be surprised if like six months from now they come out with a new series that just turns them into angels all over again the variable though is will people still click on it this time around now speaking of things changing and turning into other things you ever find yourself wanting to visit a website and they go sorry we're not available in your country yet but we should be up and running sometime within the next six months and i don't know about you but i'm not waiting no gosh darn six months and thankfully with nordvpn i don't have to it's enough to quickly install it and within a few minutes bam i change my location and google chrome doesn't know where i live anymore it's that easy to trick technology i don't know what 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Channel: Andrei Terbea

Views: 3,886,092

Rating: 4.9410615 out of 5

Keywords: @andreiterbea, andrei terbea, andrei terbea animation, shane dawson, shane, jeffree star, jeffree, shane jeffree, shane cancelled, cancel culture, tati, james charles, tati westbrook, bye sister, beauty community, beauty

Id: EctPZ_0_Rp8

Length: 11min 13sec (673 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 15 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/DastardlyDeliah]

I knew some people learned about Jeffree Star as a result of Shane’s videos, but I didn’t realize how much Shane’s videos affected Jeffree’s popularity. Showing the google trends data was eye opening.

[u/wiklr]

This is actually pretty good even if it only touches the surface. Apart from the many channels who covered this, misappropriation of trade secrets is an interesting point Andrei brings up.

So far Jeffree has sabotaged James' business twice - with pulling him out of Killer Merch & his supposed makeup line with Morphe.

The other part is last year Tati was afraid James was leaking Halo Beauty secrets to Sugar Bear Hair. This year the real threat could be Jeffree leaking to Morphe with Wonder Bear vitamins.

Either way it makes Tati the double loser in the vitamin drama or lawsuit because neither Jeffree nor James was in contract with Halo and yet she divulged her company secrets with them.

Edit: where Shane comes into the picture is it might not just be Jeffree's loyalty at play. Because if JSC & KM also drops Shane, that makes two youtuber brands Jeffree has sabotaged in the process.

[u/reymorous]

This video does such a good job explaining the situation and how big Jafar and Shame messed up. One of the things this video reminded me was how we were promised 9 episodes of the conspiracy pallet series but then they tried to get away with only doing 6. I’m still pissed about this. And this video reminded me that I’m still mad about it.

[u/Unknown404Error]

Hi OP, can you please make a parent comment to summarize the video and help spark discussion?

[u/exoticgluten]

Great video I just watched it earlier!

[u/Rosie-Love98]

This is Andrei Terbea's look at Shane and Jefree's scandal as of now and what could happen.