The world of YouTube beauty guru’s has been booming for the past few years. These gurus make videos testing makeup, showing tutorials, and doing all sorts of crazy makeup challenges for their thousands and up to millions of subscribers.
There has been an abundance of drama recently regarding some beauty gurus by the names of Jeffree Star, Manny Gutierrez (Manny MUA), Laura Lee, Nikita Dragun, and Gabriel (Gabby) Zamora.
Pictured (L to R): Gabriel Zamora, Nikita Dragun, Jeffree Star(circle), Manny MUA, and Laura Lee
The group used to be good friends and they participated in multiple YouTube videos alongside each other. Manny even created a line with Jeffree Star’s brand Jeffree Star Cosmetics. An uproar began when the four began separating themselves from Jeffree and creating their own clique. Multiple members of the group even took to social media to scold Jeffree for racist behavior.
Pictured: Tweet posted by Gabriel Zamora directed at Jeffree Star
After the accusations toward Jeffree, fans searched through Gabby, Nikita, Manny, and Laura’s twitter pages and found racist tweets from their pasts. These tweets began to surface and go viral and the follow and subscriber count for the 4 began to drop and people were labeling them as “CANCELLED”. Typically, when someone is pronounced as cancelled, it means their career is over, etc.
Nikita has basically ignored the accusations and has not mumbled a word about the situation. Gabriel has posted a heartfelt apology video and has partly mended his career. Laura Lee stayed completely quiet from social media for around a month, and fans were beginning to wonder where she was.
After Laura Lee’s absence, she resurfaced to create an apology video. She received tons of backlash regarding the video and accusations of her crying being ingenuine.
Recently, she deleted her old apology and created a new one, but people still aren’t having it. There are many tweets regarding the situation, many of them stating how she is just (badly) acting to try and salvage her career.
Manny MUA has been completely silent since the situation began and has not spoken out on any of his social media platforms, so it is unclear when or how he will make his return.
The beauty community is cut throat and this recent issue has brought up accusations toward many other YouTubers. It will definitely be interesting to see these gurus next moves to protect their crumbling careers. This just goes to show the internet is forever and things can always be dug up from the past.
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