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(I wrote this for a different subreddit, so that's why there's so much backstory on the Naturium shit.)Yes, this post is long as fuck. I got TIME tahDAY.I watch a lot of skincare channels on YouTube, and it feels like every week there’s a new CLOWN attempting to sneak Susan Yara and/or her shitty brand Naturium back into the public’s good graces. Right at this moment, Kelly Driscoll is GLUED to her chair refreshing her latest video so that she can instantly delete any comment that criticizes her decision to promote the brand. I think she’s only let three mildly disappointed comments prosper. Maybe she’s trying to compete with Susan Yara’s quickness to delete pro-Black Lives Matter posts in her Facebook group (and then attempt to gaslight everyone into believing that they definitely didn’t see it happen).Since drama channels primarily focus on the makeup side of beauty gurus, maybe these idiots feel like they can get away with these antics and not have anybody notice. Well, until Teaspill, Peter Monn, Here for the Tea, Nick Snider, etc. realize that they need to be keeping an eye on these skincare “gurus,” I’m going to call them out over here. These bitches truly ain’t SHIT. They don’t care about their supporters; they care about maintaining good relationships with big influencers who can be beneficial to them in the future.I’ll explain who Susan Yara is and why she the worst in this post, but first I’m calling out:James Welsh for continuing to kiss Susan Yara’s ass and for repeatedly acting like she’s being treated unfairly. I’ve heard him on more than one occasion (the latest was on a recent episode of the Double Cleanse podcast) minimizing Susan’s trash ass ways because it’s not like she’s as bad as Jeffree Star. Hey James, did you know that Jeffree Star being a piece of shit doesn’t cancel out Susan Yara’s piece of shit behavior?Hyram. Total coward. He hasn’t continued to promote Naturium products but still goes out of his way to kiss Susan’s ass in his videos. I can’t give this clown’s “The Truth About [Brand]” series even an OUNCE of credibility when you’ve avoided the biggest elephant in the room for over seven months now, even though Susan directly involved you in her mess. This is what not holding your “friends” accountable looks like.Kelly Driscoll. Wouldn’t have included her on this list for just the one instance (that I’ve seen) of her promoting a Naturium product, but the fact that she’s deleting comments on her video from today and that she wrote a defensive reply about giving people “second chances,” proved to me that ain’t shit. The fact that she’s deleted at least two comments (it might be more) about Susan’s racism proves that she’s a full-on, complicit trash ass POS.Glow By Ramon. This imbecile is constantly peddling Naturium in his videos, even done at least one whole video dedicated to the brand. He’s a clown who’s desperate for PR and relevancy (made clear by his salty, borderline entitled comments about PR and brands that don’t want to send him any) so it’s not a surprise that he’s licking Susan’s ass crack. Susan can be found in the comments of his videos mentioning Naturium.Cassandra Bankson. Like Hyram, she also has a “truth about” skincare brands series and has refused to discuss Naturium. I was willing to give her a pass for not speaking up since she hasn't promoted (to my knowledge) neither Susan nor the brand, but then I saw that she had no problem clickbaiting her audience by including Naturium in the thumbnail for a video titled “Products I Love by Brands I HATE” and then completely avoiding the topic of Naturium altogether. We love a cowardly, opportunistic kween!Mad About Skin. This fool also constantly goes on about Naturium and has done several videos focused on the brand, including ones about his favorite products. In a recent video about brand scandals, he did at least mention that Susan’s “apology” was half-assed.Shundara Castion. Another one who gets Naturium PR and has Susan in all her Naturium-focused videos. These smaller influencers are being WORKED, and for what? Some free bullshit that doesn’t even look that great and that their followers don’t want?I am split on whether I should include Liah Yoo, since she was featured in the Naturium launch video, along with Hyram and James. I included the other two because I know for a fact that they continue to namedrop Susan in a positive light. Sadly, Liah's videos are so damn boring to me that I have never managed to make it more two minutes without my attention wandering, so if she's continued to promote Susan/Naturium, I missed it.Who Is Susan Yara?Susan Yara has two skincare-focused channels: one called Mixed Makeup with 1.3 million subscribers and one under her own name with 283K subscribers. She used to work at magazines as a beauty editor or some bullshit like that, but for whatever reason, she thinks she’s more qualified to talk about what’s good for your skin than actual dermatologists like Dr. Pimple Popper. Yes, she actually said that.Naturium ScandalLast June, Susan made history by giving Jaclyn Hill a run for her money for the Worst Influencer Brand Launch of All Time Award.After spending months giving positive reviews to products by a new brand called Naturium, promoting codes that she claimed the brand had “sent her” so that her fans could get discounts, and having the three biggest skincare influencers around (Hyram, James Welsh, and Liah Yoo) positively review the products on their channels, Susan announced that she had actually been the co-founder and co-owner of the brand the whole time.Hyram, James, and Liah had been unaware of her relationship with Naturium when they’d reviewed the products, and Susan included video clips of when she surprised the three of them with the news in her announcement video (they all reacted positively).If you'd like a laugh, check out this video of Susan promoting her own vitamin C while pretending it's not hers. It includes this instantly iconic line: "And because it has all those ingredients in it, I'm actually surprised that it's only $20, to be completely honest."The response to this revelation was predictably and deservedly negative. As it turns out, people want transparency about any possible conflicts of interest that might impact the reviews of influencers whose jobs it is to literally influence people into buying (or not buying) products through their reviews.Oh yeah, it’s also completely illegal. Broke all kinds of FTC guidelines. Not disclosing your relationship with a brand you literally own? Promoting discount codes under false pretenses? Sending out PR to popular public figures so that they'll shill your products also under false pretenses? GIRL.A bunch of videos were made calling her out, though none by Hyram, James, or Liah, who all took the easy way out and made weak statements on IG stories/IG live that are no longer around.The ApologySusan doesn’t get nearly enough recognition for giving literally one of the worst, most manipulative influencer apologies ever given. I think most people would’ve been willing to forgive her eventually if she had seemed genuinely sorry. We could've convinced ourselves that she's just mindblowingly stupid instead of an egotistical, money-hungry fuckwad. Unfortunately, after already showing her true colors with passive aggressive comments in her Facebook group pretty much implying that everyone was being too mean and trying to stop A wOmAn In BuSsInEsS, she put out an apology video in which she:Emotionally manipulated the audience. Who doesn’t love a carefully edited apology video in which the person makes the deliberate choice to not leave out their crocodile tears? Nobody cares that you’re having a bad day, sis. You did something wrong, so put on your big girl panties and stop pulling stunts for sympathy. This isn’t a livestream where you can claim that your emotions got the best of you and couldn’t edit it out and rerecord.Made excuses. She claimed to have not officially signed on as the co-founder of the brand until a few weeks prior, directly contradicting her launch video in which she bragged about having been the co-owner the whole time.Implied that her "mistakes" (deliberate choices) were being overblown. She threw in a comment in there about “little video clips being put together like that” and about the need for context, insinuating that her actions were being taken out of context to look worse than they really were. In fact, people were showing her lies fully in context.Pretty much let everyone see how stupid she thinks her audience is. I mean, she must think the people watching her are dumb as fuck to not be able to put together a basic timeline and find proof of her contradicting herself about the facts all over YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.Further victimized herself by claiming that there was “an agenda” against her.Threw in some more crying and some weird comment suggesting that people were threatening her and her family’s safety. I’m not even going to entertain that mess.If y’all have never seen a narcissist in action, just watch that apology video. It honestly takes my breath away. Even worse, though, were her condescending comments on social media, always implying that people were coming for her unfairly and that they didn’t want to see a woman be successful.Black Lives Matter Facebook DramaThe whole brand launch scandal happened when the Black Lives Matter protests were taking place all over the world after the murder of George Floyd. Another separate issue involving Susan happened over on her Facebook group the same month as her brand launch. It was posted about here on Reddit, so if you want to read about it in detail, go here, but this is what happened:A member of Susan’s Mixed Makeup group on Facebook made a post in support of Black Lives Matter. The person was calling out brands for being silent or having lackluster responses to the issue.There had apparently previously been issues with people being removed from the group for even making references to BLM in comments. If this isn’t accurate and anyone has screenshots of these posts, please let me know.The post about brands and BLM was taken down by either Susan herself or another admin.A subsequent post was made questioning why the previous post had been taken down.The post that had been taken down magically gets put back up and Susan proceeds to lie and tell everyone that it was never taken down at all.Susan gets called out for lying by a whole bunch of people in the group who confirm that they also saw the post disappear.She then decides to say that it was Facebook glitch that took the post down and that is deleting some comments. (So weird how the glitch stopped affecting the group just in time for the previously hidden post to be restored right after someone called out the shadiness. Also weird how the glitch was only deleting comments supporting a certain view.)Susan starts making passive aggressive comments about how it’s such a shame that people have accused her and her admins of being racist.Susan basically says that she can’t be racist because she’s a WOC and her husband is Indian.She starts liking comments from people who are upset than anyone would ever DARE suggest Susan could be even a little bit racist.At some point a debate starts up about how Mixed Makeup shouldn’t have to leave up posts about BLM because it’s not a “political” group, with others arguing that BLM is a human rights issue not a political one.Susan decides to archive the group altogether for a few days because she felt the discussion was getting too “intense.”So yet again, Susan got called out for something some of her supporters felt was problematic and instead of being honest about what happened, the lying liar who lies decided to first trick her supporters into believing it had never happened at all, and then invented another far-fetched lie about a Facebook glitch that coincidentally seemed to only delete BLM-related content. I wonder if that same glitch was also responsible for kicking people out of the group just for mentioning BLM?She then fully showed her ass with that mess about how she can’t be racist because she’s Korean/Mexican and her husband is South Indian.Badly-Received Black-Owned Brands VideoAfter the whole Naturium scandal blew up, Susan’s racist Facebook shenanigans started getting brought to more people’s attention. I guess sis decided it was time for Damage Control™ because she posted a video promoting black-owned brands.On the surface, this seems like a very noble thing… Except for the fact that it was so performative that literally the entire comment section is filled with her own fans pointing out how half-assed the video is compared to other similar videos that she does: It wasn’t even 5 minutes long, she didn’t demo the products like she usually does, it’s blatantly obvious from the fact that every single product looks brand new that these aren’t things she’s actually tried, and she didn’t go into ingredients.It was overall a very lazy attempt to either do damage control, or worse, an attempt to profit off the BLM movement by getting “woke” points. She also doesn’t even mention any activist organizations in the description box. The most she did was clarify that the product links she used were not affiliate links.Susan's Continued Bullshit on Social Media and Nonexistent "Growth"Despite the fact that Susan is the one who fucked up from the beginning, who gave a completely disgusting apology that a lot of people found unsatisfactory (and which the coward has actually unlisted from public view on YouTube), and who continues to speak to her critics in a disgusting and condescending way on social media, influencers like James Welsh continue to act like poor little Susan was just trying to launch a nice brand and innocently went about it the wrong way!!!1!1!!1111Susan still limits her IG comments. When she responds to critical comments, it's always attempting to convince the other person into thinking that, actually, THEY'RE the ones who are doing something negative and evil by questioning a ~woman who's just trying to make a living!~Just look at her pattern:When she was first called out in her Facebook group for the Naturium issue, she said: "You know what I saw through all of this? I saw women going after another woman under the guise that you're trying to be mindful shoppers. It made me sad for you and I wish you well." Just go to Google images and search "Susan Yara Facebook comments" and you'll find screenshots of a treasure trove of equally cringey shit.In her apology video, at least the last full minute was dedicated to scolding people who were pissed off at her for her response and making up shit about how she wasn't being treated like a human being.When called out for racism on Facebook, yet again she responded with equally condescending comments suggesting that the people calling her out are the ones who need to do some soul-searching.TO THIS DAY, this is how Susan Yara continues to act. So I would really like know where in the FUCK is this supposed "growth" that she has shown that I keep hearing different YouTubers mention?Like I Said at the Beginning, These Motherfuckers Ain't ShitI'm honestly astounded by the blatant disrespect that these YouTubers are ok with their followers experiencing as long as it's coming from a person who is still nice to them, the influencers. Totally cool endorsing a brand or complimenting a person who has lied to and scammed your followers (you know, the people who you rely on to make a living). Totally cool with Susan continuing to show her morally corrupts ass all over the internet in comments on multiple social media sites. Totally going to act like you're blind to her racist bullshit. She's nice and sends out PR (and is probably in their inboxes trying to schedule the appropriate month for a sponsorship video) so that's all that matters.
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