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In my past, I said disgusting things to people, and I am so ashamed of myself for using racist rhetoric. I am so sorry to everyone, but especially to those in the Black community, because only you guys can forgive me for this. One of the
Exploring how OnlyJayus became one of TikTok's most controversial creators due to repeated scandals and her responses to criticism.
Key Takeaways
- Repeated engagement with criticism can amplify negative public perception.
- Public apologies that seem insincere or scripted may worsen backlash.
- Controversies can arise not only from content but also from how creators handle criticism.
- Audience reactions on platforms like TikTok can be swift and severe, especially regarding sensitive issues.
- Creators with large followings face heightened scrutiny and accountability demands.
What the video covers
- OnlyJayus has faced multiple controversies on TikTok over three years, including use of racist language and repeated public backlash.
- Her inability to ignore criticism often escalated negative attention and fueled further hate from the audience.
- A notable controversy involved accusations of copying another creator's content, which led to widespread mockery.
- An old message where she used the n-word resurfaced, sparking a major scandal and calls for accountability.
- OnlyJayus issued public apologies that were perceived as scripted and emotionally charged, which did not quell criticism.
- A petition to ban her from TikTok gathered over 400,000 signatures, highlighting her status as a highly disliked creator.
- Her content itself is relatively uncontroversial, but her responses and behavior have contributed to her negative reputation.
- The video discusses how her repeated engagement with negativity amplified the backlash against her.
- Suggestions are made that a more measured or no response might have mitigated some of the controversies.
- The video contextualizes OnlyJayus's controversies within the broader political TikTok environment and audience expectations.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Public Apology Controversy
- 00:58Responses to Criticism and Personal Challenges
- 01:57Struggles with Negative Feedback
- 02:52Accusations of Copying Content
- 03:49Backlash and Audience Reactions
- 04:44Racist Language Scandal Emerges
- 05:40Critique of Public Apology
- 06:36Aftermath and Continued Controversies
- 07:53Petition and Public Sentiment
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worst I've ever seen. She definitely took notes from the other crappy ones is how a YouTube comment described Only Jaya's public apology following just one of her numerous different TikTok controversies. What is going on with you white saviors that keep trying to defend
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Jays for saying n-word lover? Bro, you must say it too. This is what makes Only J's story unique despite having incredibly uncontroversial content. If you're at a house party and you got a drink in your hand, don't hold it up here
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by your chest. Try to hold it more down towards your hip. This will make you seem more open and confident, and people will be more willing to come up and talk to you. She's found herself in a big scandal on
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the political TikTok battlefield every couple of months for the last three years at this point. People of color should not be following Only J's. Why is Only J's more prone to getting involved in these types of controversies?
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Is it something to do with how she responds to those critical of her? I barely text my family back, and I just had to move apartments because my address got leaked, and you're gonna throw a fit because I didn't make you my
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priority? After a petition to ban Only J's from TikTok garnered over 400,000 signatures, it'd be safe to say that she's a contender for the platform's most hated creator. And while such a title seems unfair without any further
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information or knowledge, as we go through explaining how this hatred came to be, the reason for this title would become blatantly obvious. And it all began with a tweet made by Only Jais on the 9th of April 2020, just 12 months
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after she began posting videos to the website. I constantly feel like nobody actually likes me, so when I see thousands of hate comments saying, "Yeah, I never liked Only J's. She's so annoying. Jay seems like a horrible person," that
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pushed me to the edge. The harsh and possibly even backwards reality of life is that those who acknowledge and complain about hate only end up receiving more hate. In the beginning, Only J's likely received a pretty standard amount of negative feedback
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owing to maybe a slightly annoying delivery, as she mentioned in her tweet. The problem that Only J's had was that she really struggled to ignore criticism and always seemed to give way too much attention to any situation in which
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there was some kind of negative sentiment against her name. It's gonna be a running theme throughout this whole video, but it started with her simple inability to ignore basic negative comments such as, "Yeah, I never liked Only J's," which is a pretty tame comment, giving
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her a foundational reputation as someone who would crack if you simply applied enough pressure. Three months later, this reputation as a creator who would respond to negative criticism would continue after Only J's discovered that another creator by the name of the
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Jonathan Moss had been copying some of her videos word for word. Did you know that your birth month actually has a huge effect on who you are as a person and the things that could possibly happen to you? Yo, did you know that your
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birth month actually has a huge effect on you and the things that can happen to you in your life? People born in March are way more likely to have asthma, and I can actually speak to this one because
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my little sister, the only one born in March, has asthma. People born in March are actually more likely to have asthma, and I can speak to that because my cousin, the only person born in March, has asthma. Only J's would respond to
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the copied videos in a tweet reading, "TikTok creators should be called out when they copy other TikTok creators' videos word for word," alongside a video calling out the Jonathan Moss directly. Jonathan responded by stating that he'd simply found the information on Google,
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and as a result, Only J's was berated and mocked by her audience, with them stating that she was in the wrong for copying the information from Google. This information is from a website. Why are you copying a copier? Copied from Google
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then complains when others do the same? Which Business Insider article is this from? There was clearly a bit of an injustice being done here. To state that our information was invalid because it was found on Google has got to be one of the
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dumbest arguments ever made. What did they expect her to do? Find some old 1850s foundational manuscript covered in dust at the national library and take her facts from there? Jonathan Moss had clearly copied her videos word for word
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after Only J's had posted them originally, meaning there was no doubt about who copied who. However, Only J's was still painted as being in the wrong for one simple reason: they knew they could get a reaction out of her if they simply
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applied enough pressure, which they eventually would. After receiving hundreds of negative comments on her response, Only J's would take to Reddit stating, "He said that he found it on Google, which I mean he did, but only after watching my video. I'm now getting
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a huge amount of hate. People are saying I'm lying. I copied Google too. I'm problematic. I should be cancelled, etc. I have a hard time dealing with the negativity. I still don't know what to do. I don't think I've done anything wrong."
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Maybe you do, but honestly, I don't see it now. You probably wouldn't go so far as to say that Only J's was playing the victim, but she was once again complaining about the circumstances that she had found herself in. And to
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reiterate the point from earlier, complaining about hate doesn't make it go away but rather amplifies it, as the audience will look for increasingly petty things to berate you for. With this in mind, it's barely surprising to find out that approximately six months later,
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an old message would be dug up in which Only J's had said the n-word, taking center stage as her brand new colossal-sized controversy. I love you no matter your sex, your gender, your sexuality, your faith, or your race,
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because that didn't age well. Because this, you, at the bottom, calling someone the hard er a word used to oppress Black people. So I don't trust people with savior complexes. Bro, I feel like it's always a second agenda behind what you
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do. If you say it's two to three years old, you were 20 years old when you said it. The other day, Addison was cancelled for old BLM tweets from 2016. Let's see if everyone keeps the same energy. You're
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a role model to 10 million people, bro. I hope things get better, and I hope you educate. There are a couple of comments in support of Only J's; however, as a whole and understandably, the response was mostly negative. All these white people
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saying it happened four years ago, literally, it doesn't matter. She did it and needs to take responsibility. The hard er she's done, and at Only J's, you got caught in 4K. The best way that J's could have responded to this expose
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would have either been no response at all or a short, cool, calm, collected, unemotional post or video. Alternatively, she could have thrown a real curveball and simply said, "I'm not sorry," which would have actually been respectable, as it's a hundred times harder than simply
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getting in front of the camera and blurting out some pre-written stupid script with the goal of suppressing the criticism in the short term. However, with a track record like Only J's, obviously, she did none of these and rather posted
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a long, emotionally charged, scripted, generic social media apology, which felt as though it was designed to trick the audience into coming away with a specific feeling, as is usually the case with these types of public apologies. And there is no excuse, and there are no
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justifications for what I said, and you guys deserve better. And when I first saw the screenshots, I didn't even think that they were real because I forgot how hateful and how angry of a person I used to be. Another
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YouTuber slash TikToker by the name of Papa God, who...
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phone call conversation with js about this situation she seemed pretty sincere about how sorry she was again like i said i thought she was being genuine what she produced was rough it was less than stellar others such as freight the
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gemini were less optimistic you literally hit us with a playboy cardi album all that suspense just for it to be trash the worst insult you could tell somebody was liking black people wow with a scandal being shared across
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every platform imaginable only js would also lose all of her sponsors as well as a netflix podcast she'd been hosting by the name of know it all at tinder this is what your walking ad is saying she has a netflix podcast everyone needs to
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tag at netflix netflix has cut ties with jazz big dubs only js was clearly feeling the pressure and understandably wanted to make things right with her audience so she'd end the apology by stating that she wanted to share my platform with some amazing
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black creators who are going to tell their story to try and educate others on the trauma that happens when we use this kind of language which would eventually result in her and another african-american content created by the name of aunt karen agreeing to
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collaborate on only js's channel in addition to this two weeks after the apology only js would go to the effort of posting a video talking about how she had read a book on anti-racism the first book that i decided to pick up was how
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to be anti-racist by dr ibram kennedy and this will push readers that think that they're not racist into being something better to her credit she did acknowledge that it was a grift in the title stating i know it might come off
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as performative talking about this at the end of black history month but i'm trying to just educate myself and use my platform for good however her audience wasn't buying any of the lies i bet after this video she just tossed the
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book like it's nothing that seems like an amazing book for you but i think you missed some pages maybe you missed a few chapters read it again but hey at least she was still in the process of sharing
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her platform with some other black content creators as she promised right well no so this message is for you only js after your whole n word debacle said you want to collaborate with me we email and suddenly you've dropped off
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the face of the earth are black people just tokens for you to use when you're ready to play if you were really truly sorry about what you said you would not have lied and said you were going to do
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something you clearly aren't trying to do the tick tock essentially outlined that after agreeing to collaborate only js would ghost this creator by the name of aunt karen once everyone had forgotten about the drama now to only js's credit aunt karen's
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call-out was even more pathetic than js's original apology because setting up a collaboration with another creator can be incredibly difficult there's always problems relating to difference in content style difference in schedule difference in time zones the problem of
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coming up with a video idea that will be a hit with both audiences what part of the script do i allocate to the other person etc etc yet aunt karen's argument in the callout was because only js goes
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to me she's therefore a racist why not just be racist just say you're racist now maybe there was some racism involved in the decision who knows but it's still a lazy low-hanging fruit argument designed to create drama out of the
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highly likely reality being that collaborations are just incredibly difficult to set up successfully in addition to this a feature on only jss page with over 10 million followers is going to cost a brand probably hundreds of thousands of dollars and despite only
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js offering one of these spots to aunt karen for free and karen still seemed to narcissistically think that she was the one providing only js with the opportunity i really gave you an opportunity i really said you know what aunt karen
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let's see what she has to say let's see how we can mutually help each other on karen's callout was entitled and poorly thought out but not invalid for one simple reason only just made a promise there are obviously
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exceptions but most of the time if you say you're gonna do something publicly you have to follow through with it or people are going to notice jace would initially discuss the ghosting in an instagram voice message so i am sorry
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for basically ghosting you i didn't mean to do that i just have a very chaotic schedule and adhd on top of that so i genuinely just forgot it wasn't me trying to ignore you um you could have just hit me up again but
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instead you decided to go public and try to add public pressure onto me and that's not cool so i don't want to collaborate which once again received a response from aunt karen explaining that she had emailed only.js multiple times
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with no reply you're gonna put it on me in your voicemail you said i should have emailed you again april 4th i emailed you how many times do you expect me to message you waiting on you to continuously ghost me now only js
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probably could have left it at that and the drama would have been over within four weeks however as papa gut said most accurately for whatever reason jaius doesn't know how to just stop like when somebody criticizes jsjs responds and
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that's the worst thing and in classic only js fashion she'd post another emotionally charged response to the drama today's episode of what are people mad at me for now not checking my emails in a timely manner because i was choking forgot to
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respond to an email from this creator that wanted to collab with me and you know instead of just like hitting me up again they made seven videos about it can you please leave me the glow i have a diagnosed neurological
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disorder that makes me forget things and procrastinate due to time blindness i forget to eat for days i procrastinate we mentioned earlier that the more attention only js gave to each of these scandals the more she'd be held
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accountable for increasingly petty incidents well after this explosive response the things that her audience would call her out and were taken to the absolute extreme for example she would post this video you can get your letters delivered for free without any postage
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if you just put where you want it to go on the return address instead of where it's actually supposed to be which would get the post office activists involved with comments such as yes please encourage people to do activities that
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cause the already failing post office to lose more money or when she posts this video saying nothing more than what degree she did so i got my college degrees in math and computer science which means that i was never really good
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at writing to receive comments such as i thought you would have majored in saying slower sciences however it eventually got to the point where only js couldn't even make jokes anymore without being cancelled seriously on the 23rd of may
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2021 only js will post the following video if a service dog ever approaches you but they're alone that means that their owner is in trouble and they probably can't move so you should follow him because you'll get a free wallet it
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was clearly a light-hearted joke summed up in comments such as she probably said the wallet thing to lighten the mood of something bad obviously she wouldn't take a wallet and probably knew that most people would bro do people get this
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as a joke y'all are so sensitive however the rest of her audience simply saw yet another opportunity to put only just through another period of hardship can't believe this is still up it's obvious that it's a joke but some people may
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still do it it could start a trend what you post on the internet reaches so many people and some of those people may be inconsiderate or apathetic towards others and do something wrong as a joke that highly affects another person take
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some youtube and tiktok prank channels for example when is it going to be enough to say only js is not a good creator should not be followed and should not be listened to my child they are a service dog user this is not a
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kind of joke you want to be putting out there it's not funny to anybody who uses a service dog with all this in mind the petition with over 400 000 signatures to have only js band is barely a surprise
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she dug herself into a hole by displaying an inability to switch off from the audience after being involved in scandal after scandal after scandal sometimes criticism from the audience is genuine and can be spotted easily because it's worded in a constructive
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way but a lot of the time without them even realizing it people write mean or critical things just to see if you're the type of person a crack respond or apologize as has been the case throughout only jayas's entire ticktock
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career she's been tested over and over and over yet has been unable to switch off and let things go whenever she's been put under pressure as an end result there's not only a loss of respect but also a never-ending freight train of
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negativity and hatred [Music]
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