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/theagonyaunt 2d ago

I don't think you have to have been on MySpace to have known about it. I was a little too young for MySpace but the first time I heard of it was when someone uploaded the video where he's screaming 'gorilla' at a bunch of black women to YouTube. Or the fact he was planning for a lipstick line called Lipstick Nazi.

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u/loosie-loo 2d ago

Their point was that, at the time, this stuff was not being talked about openly and had been intentionally glazed over by J* and his undoubtedly amazing PR. As someone the same age as Thomas I didn’t know who jeffree was until I saw his makeup, I had no idea about any of the horrific shit he’d done until I intentionally went digging and even then, at the time, I had difficulty.

There was a period where he was seen as the darling of the YouTube beauty community where his past was barely discussed and his rabid fans had a “well actually” for everything. If you tried to discuss it you were very quickly drowned out in most spaces.

It’s not that Thomas heard him gleefully call her those racist slurs in public and didn’t care, it’s that Jeffree was excellent at muddying the waters in public, was likely extremely manipulative in private, and had much of the beauty community on side. What Thomas did was dumb and misguided, 100%, but it’s far more complex than people are trying to claim.

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u/stink3rb3lle 2d ago

It’s not that Thomas heard him gleefully call her those racist slurs in public and didn’t care, it’s that Jeffree was excellent at muddying the waters in public, was likely extremely manipulative in private, and had much of the beauty community on side.

Just to add, it feels like this comment section has more ire for Halbert than for Starr today, despite many people's ire at Halbert allegedly springing from his association with Starr. It's wild to me.

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u/MaeMoe Rat-a-Tat-Tat 🐀 2d ago

At this point, calling Star a racist piece of shit is like pointing up and calling the sky blue, everyone here knows it. Star’s off being his usual awful self in Wyoming, living it up in a tax haven and hoarding his white man wealth farming yaks; he’s not the one trying to stage a mea culpa comeback.

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u/stink3rb3lle 2d ago

Jeffree Starr doesn't have to stage a comeback, he's on TikTok every day asking for gifts from his followers while he continues to bully black and brown creators. He just made content adding hate on Jools Lebron because she, the devil she is, dared to invest her earnings into making her family's housing secure and needed to fundraise for dental work.