Someone's Google News Feed Is Filling Up With Obituaries Again. Surprise: Still Not His.

Word reaches the desk of a Google News feed that, by any reasonable measure, should cover makeup tutorials and YouTube drama. Instead, it has quietly indexed three obituaries, sourced from funeral homes in Oklahoma, Texas, and England, for men named James Charles who died in 2014 and 2015 and, apparently, sometime before June 2026. Moore Funeral Home in Tulsa filed one. Broussard's Mortuary filed another. A service called Altogether Funeral handled the third, for one James Charles Yoxall, whose passing was recorded on December 26, 2014.

For the record, the living James Charles in question has 24.6 million YouTube subscribers and presumably no connection to any of the above. His feed has, at this point, indexed obituaries out of Warren, Ohio; Kinnelon, New Jersey; Issaquah, Washington; and now, apparently, wherever James Charles Mansolo spent his years. Google's content signals remain a matter of ongoing public interest.