I just stan from now until the end of time. Brief history lesson for the people who don't know: Back in the day, Justine/JPmetz was youtube royalty in that she had (has?) a cult-like following, her "minions" She had an anti-guru channel, with makeup tutorials that were never about makeup, but often some kind of rant or commentary on other shit that was going on, with ZERO instruction on the actual makeup. This was around the same time as Michelle Phan and Kandee, who were the positive, bubbly, over-explaining yin to Justine's "nah I'm not telling you how to apply this - my viewers couldn't solve a two-piece puzzle" yang. At the time, it was hard to tell if it was a character or she was just the personification of anxiety/depression (OR BOLTH). Turns out it was (mostly) a character. Then some personal stuff went down and she mostly abandoned her main channel and ditched the negative character.
Probably my favourite, and most noteworthy video of hers:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U8aLGA4K1DM
She was also one of the first youtubers (that I can recall, at least) that called Onision out on his bullshit
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8lCJF7TD8Kg
this was back in
2010 and all you need to do is interchange the specifics of the drama, and it's still relevant
Part of me wishes she would get back into her old groove but I think she said that being that negative was bringing her down because it's not really her. She's always gonna be Queen Justine, and I'm always gonna be a minion. In the tsunami of fake, over-produced horseshit that is youtube these days, her old videos are even more enjoyable now.
Anyways, that's why Justine is fantastic. I'll take my dumb/autistic/late ratings for this post with pride