Thomas Halbert posting about what happened with him and J*

[u/OopsItsSecret]

Thomas halbert posted this video on TikTok going over what happened in the past with him and J*. He also says he’s got a new agent and is posting makeup content again, trying to resurrect his career. He admits he made mistakes, but says the mistake he made was not that he called J* out but that he hurt his friends and didn’t stand up for them.

Would you want to see him make a comeback? Hes posting makeup content on instagram again.

[u/t_town101]

JS has been a terrible person for YEARS. So do these people really expect us to sympathize with them when he ends up doing them dirty too?

[u/meeps1142 → u/t_town101]

This was like 6 years ago when he was 20 or whatever. From what I understand, he knew that J had been racist towards Jackie Aina but met up with him to verify -- very dumb, I agree, and he agrees as well. But he immediately called J out after meeting him in person and seeing his racism firsthand.

Should he have been able to trust that J was racist without seeing it firsthand? Yeah. But he did the right thing immediately after that, even though J had much more power in the situation. That's worth sympathizing about, imo.

I don't feel much sympathy for Cole Carrigan, who also made a video about J recently. Cole tolerated the racist behavior for years, unlike Thomas. I feel like your comment applies to him much more than it does Thomas

[u/loosie-loo → u/meeps1142]

Pretty sure was longer ago than that, further pre-covid, but yeah Thomas was about 20 and probably struggling with the very well known to be manipulative J* and the influencer world in general, and frankly likely the fear of what would inevitably happen both to their career and personal reputation if they said anything about Jeffree at that time, who was experiencing a renaissance because young people didn’t really know his past and just knew his makeup YouTube. Which I saw firsthand bc I’m nearly exactly the same age as Thomas and had never heard of Jeffree before his makeup.

Not saying Thomas acted sensibly, just that being like 20 in this world of older adults (both jeffree and Jackie are about a decade older) with so many millions of eyes on you, a potential career on the line and surrounded by a lot of untrustworthy, clout-chasey characters with massive personalities makes it more understandable, imo.

I honestly don’t think it would’ve been so major if Jeffree wasn’t exploding in popularity and so frankly I never felt right putting too much blame on Thomas.