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Tati Westbrook vs James Charles: Bye Sister and No More Lies
The public conflict between Tati Westbrook and James Charles began in April 2019 after Charles promoted SugarBearHair at Coachella, a competitor to Westbrook's Halo Beauty supplement company. Westbrook posted emotional Instagram Stories saying she felt betrayed, while Charles apologized and said the SugarBearHair arrangement had been made because the company helped him obtain a safer festival pass. After Gabriel Zamora publicly criticized Westbrook's handling of the disagreement, she uploaded the 43-minute BYE SISTER... on May 10, 2019. The video publicly ended her friendship with Charles and expanded the dispute beyond vitamins and business loyalty into serious allegations about his behavior toward straight or questioning men and his use of fame, money, and influence. Charles initially responded with an approximately eight-minute apology titled tati, apologizing to Tati and her husband without offering the detailed factual rebuttal that came later. During the following week, numerous creators and other public figures entered the dispute, while Charles lost millions of YouTube subscribers and Westbrook gained millions. On May 18, Charles published the 41-minute No More Lies. He presented screenshots, messages, and other material disputing substantial parts of Westbrook's account, including the SugarBearHair timeline and the interaction with Seattle waiter Sam Cooke. He denied using fame, money, or power to obtain sexual activity from men, while acknowledging that he had sometimes been overly forward in messages and saying he intended to change his approach. Westbrook initially responded that No More Lies contained lies and half-truths and that she stood by her videos. The next day, however, she said that she and Charles had communicated through an intermediary and that they believed ending the public fight was best for themselves and the community. Jeffree Star also apologized for escalating the conflict, and Charles agreed to stop discussing it publicly. The public ceasefire did not immediately erase the personal consequences. Charles cancelled his Sisters Tour and later spoke about the severe effect the controversy had on his mental health. Around December 2019, according to Westbrook's later account, Charles visited her home and the two privately apologized to and forgave each other. Westbrook disclosed that reconciliation in her June 30, 2020 video BREAKING MY SILENCE..., in which she apologized to Charles and alleged that Jeffree Star and Shane Dawson had supplied her with frightening claims about Charles and manipulated or influenced her decision to publish BYE SISTER.... Those allegations against Star and Dawson were themselves disputed and are not treated as established fact. In 2021, Westbrook said she had stopped communicating with the broader beauty community. In a September 2024 interview with Michelle Phan, she again discussed the background to the 2019 decision, including an unverified claim that an unnamed person warned her that a YouTube executive intended to remove Charles' channel. No later public material reviewed establishes whether Westbrook and Charles currently maintain a friendship. Later 2024, 2025, and 2026 materials found during research were primarily retrospectives and commentary rather than a renewed direct conflict between the two.
Tfue vs FaZe Clan: contract dispute and lawsuits
Tfue signed a Gamer Agreement with FaZe Clan on April 27, 2018. By fall 2018, his side was already arguing that the agreement could not automatically renew and was attempting to change or end the contractual relationship. On May 15, 2019, Tfue filed a petition with the California Labor Commissioner under the Talent Agencies Act, and on May 20 he sued FaZe Clan in Los Angeles Superior Court. He alleged that the contract contained excessively restrictive provisions, allowed FaZe to collect large percentages of certain commercial revenue, interfered with independent sponsorship opportunities, and that the organization had acted as an unlicensed talent agency. FaZe rejected Tfue's account, said it had actually received only about $60,000 from brand deals it had arranged, and stated that it had taken none of his tournament, Twitch, or YouTube revenue. After the public ReleaseTheContract campaign, a copy of the Gamer Agreement was published by the press. In August 2019, FaZe filed a separate federal lawsuit in New York accusing Tfue of breach of contract and related conduct. Proceedings continued across multiple jurisdictions into 2020. The parties settled all disputes in August 2020 without a trial on the central mutual allegations and without public disclosure of the settlement terms. Public personal interaction between Tfue and Banks resumed before the settlement, and in 2024 and 2025 Tfue, Banks, and FaZe again publicly joked about and discussed the old dispute.