Update: Charli D’amelio has lost more than one million followers in less than 24 hours. She is facing backlash over the YouTube video which shows Charli D’amelio and Dixie D’amelio are rude and being disrespectful towards their family Chef Aaron.
She started Wednesday at 99.5 M million followers on her TikTok account and currently, she is sitting at 98.5 million followers and numbers are rapidly dropping. TikTok appears to be limiting follower info as it’s slightly different than what appears on her page. Also, live updates seeing delays. You can watch Charli D’amelio’s realtime followers statistics here.
World’s most-followed TikTok star Charli D’amelio losses hundreds of thousands of her followers on TikTok after a video of Charli D’amelio and Dixie D’amelio, being rude with their chef and being ill-mannered on the dinner table, became viral on social media platforms. Let’s have a look at the video which led to a backlash against Charli D’amelio and entire D’amelio family.
Charli and her family (sister Dixie, mom Heidi, and dad Marc) are continuing to expand on Charli’s TikTok fame with a family YouTube channel. This week, they kicked off a new “Dinner With the D’Amelios” series where they invite over a “mystery guest.” First up is none other than James Charles.
The food was prepared in-house by YouTuber and chef Aaron May, who has been working as a private chef for the D’Amelios (you know, when they’re not at BOA Steakhouse). The video generated a wave of backlash simply because the D’Amelio sisters do not know how to act.
For starters, Charli made faces behind the chef’s back as he described the menu, a plant-based paella and a classic Valencia paella with shrimp, chicken, and … snails. During the meal, Dixie picked up a snail with her fingers, made a disgusted face, and interrupted James Charles to ask, “What is it?” (Charles, by the way, was a surprisingly stellar dinner guest, carrying the conversation and keeping it from getting too awkward.) After the chef says snails bring “good luck and good fortune,” Dixie tries it, gags, and then runs outside to throw up. Meanwhile, Charli was snacking on bread and asking, “Do we have any dino nuggets?” When Dixie came back, she confronted chef May about the snails. “You have a child,” she said. “Like, what do you think is gonna happen?”
We get it, Dixie, sometimes you don’t wanna be happy, but during a fancy private meal that’s being filmed for the very permanent internet? Later in the video, as the D’Amelios discuss their triumphs from the year, Charli complains that she won’t hit 100 million followers on TikTok on the anniversary of hitting 1 million. “Ugh, I wish I had more time,” she sighed. “Because imagine if I hit 100 mil a year after hitting a mil.” James Charles was unimpressed, joking, “Was the 95 [million] not enough for you?”
TODAY IN “GUESS WHO’S CANCELLED?”: D’Amelio parents cancelled by fans who were offended they said Dixie D’Amelio is dramatic for throwing up food halfway through a video. Dixie later said “Stop trying to cancel my parents.”
Dixie D’Amelio responded to comments saying “ these comments are so extra, I could throw up at the smell of something gross. I am being dramatic at my parents deal with my bs everyday.”
Here is the complete video of D’amelio family at dinner table, with YouTuber James Charles, which sparked outrage against D’amelio family. The video was recorded and uploaded on D’amelio family’s YouTube channel on November 16, 2020.
Marc D’Amelio, Father of Charli and Dixie D’amelio, posted a video later explaining that Dixie will often throw up if she doesn’t like the food. Dixie asked people to stop trying to cancel her parents.
Over the next two days, Charli was inching closer to 100,000,000 until fans started to unfollow in response to the video. The comments are overwhelmingly negative, calling the sisters “ungrateful” and “snobby.”
By Thursday morning, Charli’s follower count had dropped by more than a million. Charli hasn’t responded, but Dixie shared “the truth of something that was ridiculously blown out of proportion” on TikTok, basically saying the chef, whom her family has been friends with for “a couple of months,” knew she would have a bad reaction to the snail. On Wednesday, chef May told Hollywood Fix, he had no hard feelings whatsoever. It may be a minor offense for the major backlash, but after their successful year, 2020 was not going to let the D’Amelios off that easily.