trisha paytas called james charles 'awful' and said 'i hate him' and the rolling stone profile asking if she's grown up suddenly feels very relevant
the james charles rant landed in may. a 2024 deep-dive asked if trisha had finally left the troll era behind. the lore, as always, has thoughts.
in may 2026, trisha paytas went on record calling james charles 'awful' and said, simply, 'i hate him.' per reporting picked up by imdb and others, the rant came amid renewed scrutiny of james charles following his latest scandal cycle. trisha did not mince it. she did not hedge. she said what she said.
chat, this is not new beef. this is aged beef. this is a brisket.
the lore on this one goes back
trisha and james charles have one of the longer-running frenemyships in youtube history. they collaborated. they fell out. they sort of made up. they appeared in each other's orbits at various intervals the way two objects do when neither one fully escapes the other's gravitational pull. the specifics of whatever kicked off the current rant are attributed to james's ongoing scandal, the details of which have been covered elsewhere, but trisha's response was characteristically blunt. no subtweet. no vague-posting. just 'i hate him.'
which is fine. people are allowed to hate people. what makes this interesting is the timing against a longer arc that rolling stone spent considerable effort documenting back in 2024.
in march of that year, rolling stone ran a piece explicitly asking whether trisha paytas had 'finally grown up.' the article, drawing on years of controversy and a then-recent period of relative calm, floated the idea that maybe the troll era was behind her. she had a baby. she had done some self-reflection, at least on camera. the framing was cautious but real. a redemption question, posed seriously.
that was two years ago. since then she has accused james charles of being awful, called her euphoria line an improv (a claim that generated its own entire news cycle), dropped a k-pop single that irritated a significant portion of bts twitter, appeared at a warner bros. discovery event next to jean smart, gotten a signature item on the benihana menu, announced a glp-1 weight loss of 26 pounds in six weeks, and briefly floated a congressional run. not all of those things are bad. some of them are genuinely impressive. but 'grown up' as a stable final state has not exactly been confirmed.
what the james charles moment actually tells us
the thing about the 'i hate him' clip is that it is not, by trisha standards, unhinged. it is actually pretty measured as trisha moments go. she did not post a seventeen-minute crying video. she did not show up somewhere unexpected. she named someone she dislikes and explained why, attributed to a real and documented scandal. that is, arguably, a normal human response.
the irony is that compared to the full archive, this rant reads almost restrained. which might be the rolling stone thesis quietly proving itself in the most backhanded way possible. the bar has shifted. 'i hate him' is the composed version now.
or maybe that's too generous. the rant did get picked up by outlets and spread through the usual pipeline, which suggests it still functions as content the way trisha content always has. the mechanism is the same. only the intensity dial has moved.
james charles has not, per available signal, issued a direct public response to the rant. the silence is doing work. trisha has moved on to other arcs almost immediately, which is also very on-brand. the beef does not need to resolve. it just needs to exist long enough to be logged in the timeline and referenced later when the cycle comes around again.
so has she grown up or not
this is genuinely not a question anyone can answer cleanly, which is probably why rolling stone phrased it as a question in the first place. the evidence cuts both ways and the subject herself has never claimed to be a finished project. what she has done is keep generating moments at a rate that makes any single one of them hard to assign permanent meaning to.
the james charles rant will join the pile next to the benihana collab, the euphoria cameo, the saranghae backlash, and the glp-1 reveal. in six months something else will be on top. the pile keeps growing. the question of what it all adds up to remains, as it always has, open.
anyway. james charles is still out here. trisha is still out here. the beef is still out here. some things just refuse to be over.
