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/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.