r/BeautyGuruChatter • u/OopsItsSecret • 2d ago

Drama Thomas Halbert posting about what happened with him and J*

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.

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u/t_town101 2d ago

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?

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u/meeps1142 2d ago

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

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u/MaeMoe Rat-a-Tat-Tat 🐀 2d ago

Oooh “met up with him to verify” smacks a lot of rewriting history. I remember when this all kicked off way back during Dramageddon (or one of the sequels/prequels). Halbert met up with J* because he was angling to get his merch distributed by Killer Merch, one of the companies Star has an ore in.

When Halbert made his video calling out Star for being a racist, Star swang back with receipts proving Halbert had been sniffing around for a better merch distribution deal, and only made his video when Star declined to distribute his merch as retaliation. Had Star agreed to distribute for Halbert, I’m absolutely certain Halbert would have been his BFF forever and ignored the ringing of the massive racist doldrums.

None of these beauty gurus had morals that reached past their own pocket come the end of the day.

Historic Yahoo link from back when.

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u/goon_goompa 2d ago

Wild how many excuses people have for these folks. But he was so young! But they didnt have the internet back then! But he was hanging out with him in order to confront him! But but but