What’s up?
It’s Sussan Mourad here with Clevver News and James Charles is speaking out after he
was trending on Twitter for being accused of ripping off a fellow influencer’s merch
design.
Even after James Charles said he wanted to leave the drama in 2019, it still manages
to follow him.
This time it’s about his latest Sisters Apparel design.
James has been seen rocking the new color block design on his social media pages alongside
his friends and fellow influencers like Charli D’Amelio, Kimberly Loaiza, and Larray.
“I am wearing the brand new sisters apparel color block collection which will be launching
next week!”
But since James announced this new design, there’s been some drama brewing on Twitter.
Ethan and Hila Klein, the husband and wife duo known for their H3 podcast and YouTube
channel h3h3Productions, called out James’ merch for looking like “the same exact”
design as one for their brand, Teddy Fresh.
Last night Ethan took to Twitter and shared side by side pics of their merch with his
2.5 million followers writing quote “I know we didn't invent color blocking but I'm having
a hard time with the new james charles merch, it's the same exact design as Hila's.
Combined with the fact that his audience is so huge, many people will assume he designed
it and start accusing us of plagiarism.
What do you think?”
He followed up with another tweet saying “It's possible it's all a totally cosmic coincidence
but he used pretty much the identical colors here too, he at least moved em around a little
bit”
Hila also tweeted a pic of her original design writing “I guess I might as well share some
behind the scenes.
This is my first sketch of the color block hoodie from 2017 before we had a logo for
TF, and in the other pic is the pink one, this is usually how I work on our color pallets.”
And people on Twitter were quick to get involved in this conversation.
Some fans totally took Ethan and Hila’s side writing things like “im sorry are we
not going to talk about how james charles basically just stole @HilaKleinH3 design @teddyfresh
@h3h3productions”
Another fan chimed in saying “the new james charles merch do be looking kinda familiar.....”
And this person wrote “I don’t even own any teddy fresh merch but James Charles for
real ripped them off.”
But others came to James’ defense saying that like Ethan mentioned, they didn’t invent
color blocking.
This person tweeted saying quote, “@h3h3productions Um, this style has been around for awhile
it’s literally a 90s aesthetic and you can find identical looks by googling 90s color
block hoodies like I did and it took about 2 seconds.
I’m not even a James Charles fan but the reach here is pretty embarrassing.”
Another fan said this look threw it back to the 90s writing “I'm so old I look at the
James Charles, Hila, Teddy Fresh clothes and think they all took it from "Punky Brewster"”
And this person added “H3H3 didn’t invent color blocking and neither did James Charles
y’all dumb as shit why is this drama”
And all of this led to James Charles actually trending on Twitter over night.
So James finally decided to chime in and he revealed that he had actually spoken to Ethan.
James said quote, “When you DM’d me yesterday, I sent you the original photo that inspired
my collection, explained I’ve never seen your brand, but also asked what you wanted
me to do...
You didn’t reply.
After last year, I vowed to keep conversations private and create solutions, not drama.”
James followed up in another tweet saying quote, “@h3h3productions If you’d like
to continue our conversation and find a solution, my DMs are still open!”
But it didn’t stop there, Ethan fired back at James writing “I give you permission
to share our convo.
You told me you were going to sell them anyway.
You also admitted that the similarity wasn't a coincidence.
I dm'd you because I wanted to keep this private but I found your response combative and dismissive.”
James hasn’t spoken out again since Ethan’s latest tweet, but hopefully they were able
to handle things behind the scenes.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see if James’ new line drops next Thursday as originally
planned.
But for now, if you want more on James Charles, click right over here for another Clevver
News video.
Also, let us know down in the comments what you think of this merch drama.
I’m your host Sussan Mourad, bye guys!