YouTuber outs boyfriend in series of wildly unhinged videos, now she’s being sued

This story has it all — jilted lovers, legal drama, modern celebrity and onscreen breakdowns.

And yet upon closer inspection, it also has absolutely nothing at all; perhaps less than nothing.

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Without getting lost in an examination of modern internet celebrity, let’s just assume that heavily auto-tuned singer Trisha Paytas having 2.6 million YouTube followers makes any earthly sense whatsoever.

These are the days we’re living in.

It’s truly tempting to get hung up on that one contextual fact, but we simply must move on — there’s a lot of absurd ground to cover here. Besides her vocal stylings, Trisha deals in emotional outburst videos. We only just discovered that’s even a genre, but apparently the people love it.

They’re like the moments in life you try to forget about by remembering how much good surrounds you, except recorded and blasted out into the public sphere for consumption, ridicule and with any luck, some revenue.

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The 28-year-old posted a breakup video on Saturday, after her Snapchat friend allegedly saw Trisha’s boyfriend, Sean van der Wilt (oh come on now) kissing someone at a club.

Is her video, “he cheated. i’m done,” a sly commentary on the fragility of trust and connection in the internet age, or is it merely a sobbing, bizarre mess?

Definitely that second option.

This was followed by the twist that this mystery homewrecker is actually a guy.

Which led to this natural question: “is sean van der wilt gay?”

See what we mean? There’s a lot, and also literally nothing, to process here.

Trisha, for her part, wasn’t processing very well. Shocking — we’d never expect someone who bleeds every thought and emotion out onto the internet to be ill-equipped to handle big change.

She posted her next video as something of a desperate plea to return to Sean’s good graces.

We’ll save you the experience of actually watching it and just give you this detailed analysis: Wow.

Having done all she could do (it must have been tempting to hold back on just one more video), Trisha waited for a response.

That response came in the form of a new legal matter:

“Sean is suing me,” Trisha tells us, now in a near-manic state.

And to close out the rollercoaster that is Trisha’s life, her next video — “I’m a chicken nugget” — is the best advertisement we’ve seen for therapy we’ve seen in a while:

In total, she’s posted another five videos about her mental state over the ordeal that have something of a cathartic arch to them:

These culminate in Trisha herself coming out as gay:

Either Trisha is an internet marketing genius, masterfully orchestrating a “breakdown” while watching the view-based revenue pour in, or–

On second thought, we’re just going to choose to believe that premise. The alternative is far too bleak.

h/t PerezHilton

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Chelsea Handler Gets Frisky With Lesbian Santa Fortune Feimster

Among Chelsea’s Christmas wishes: a gay son for Mike Pence and membership in the Ambien of the Month Club.

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Vladimir Putin, Roy Moore, Tony Perkins, Ivanka Trump, Henry Cavill, Sarah Palin: HOT LINKS

RUSSIA. Putin personally involved in election hacking: “What began as retribution and a personal vendetta against Hillary Clinton “morphed into” an operation to have Clinton lose the race, and to discredit America among foreign governments as an untrustworthy entity. “Putin’s role was directing the use of the hacked material,” NBC News’s senior investigative and legal correspondent Cynthia McFadden reports.”

TRUMP TOWER. Anna Wintour also met with the president-elect on Tuesday.

ALABAMA. Anti-gay state Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore appeals suspension: “Liberty Counsel filed an appeal brief on Moore’s behalf on Tuesday night. Today was the deadline to file it. In September, the Alabama Court of the Judiciary suspended Moore without pay for the remainder of his term, finding that he violated judicial ethics.”

JOE ARPAIO. Sheriff makes good on promise to re-open bogus investigation into Obama’s’ birth certificate: “According to a Wednesday statement, Arpaio said he and a chief investigator will be “presenting their newest revelations to the years long investigation of the birth certificate presented by the White House in 2011 of President Obama.”

FAMILY VALUES. FRC President Tony Perkins still railing against Trump State Dept. pick Rex Tillerson: “Now, after two terms of exporting radical social policy, Americans could finally see the light at the end of the Obama administration tunnel. To hear that Donald Trump may be appointing a man who not only led the charge to open the Boy Scouts to gay troop leaders but whose company directly gives to Planned Parenthood is upsetting at best.”

CASTING. SNL alum Taran Killam joins the cast of Hamilton to play King George III. Time for him to join the Order of the Garter. 

CELEBRITY INSTAGRAM. Adam Lambert smolders, Jared Leto rides a lion, Henry Cavill gets sweaty and shows off some chest hair, plus more.

EW. Ivanka Trump to get office in the East Wing usually reserved for First Ladies: “Titles for Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, have not been determined. But Kushner, a publisher and businessman, is expected to have his own role outside of the family office — the latest indication that he could be bound for the West Wing.”

WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE. Pat Robertson worries about Sarah Palin getting a job in Trump’s cabinet: “Heaven help us from that,” Robertson said. “That would be a terrible thing. Terrible. Terrible.”

WELP. Hillary spent money running up the popular vote but forgot about Michigan: “Michigan was the only presidential battleground that didn’t have an active Senate race, and that cost the state money from Brooklyn. Waving off complaints during a visit to Michigan a few weeks out, Marshall explained to the room that Clinton was going to clobber Trump in the final debate and they were talking about moving money into Senate seats. And by the time they arrived in Las Vegas for that third debate, Clinton’s top aides were boasting about how they were about to expand the lead and pull marginal Senate candidates over the line to give her a governing majority.”

HUMP DAY HOTTIE. Adrian Loh.

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Katya opens up about her addiction to meth

Drug addiction can be one of the most challenging things to talk about publicly, but true to Katya’s fear-be-damned attitude, the RuPaul‘s Drag Race all star is helping to shed light on a vital topic.

Chatting it up on RuPaul’s podcast What’s the Tee? With Michele Visage, Katya didn’t hold back on the truth, from family life to drugs to how she really felt when she saw Alaska in the work room on day one of Drag Race All Stars season 2.

The drag fan favorite opened up about a difficult time in her life — a nervous breakdown while in her sophomore year at Massachusetts College of Art and Design — and how it led to falling down a drug-fueled rabbit hole to cope with the depression that accompanied it.

“I’m thinking of suicide everyday because I can’t imagine at losing at life,” Katya recalls feeling. “I started stealing speed from my roommate. I wanted to do drugs to do more, to live, to cope, to be happy.”

That’s when meth entered the equation.

“I’ve been through hell on meth, but I’ve also been up in the clouds, and thats why you do it,” she told Ru and Michele.

Katya’s success, professionally and personally, is a testament to getting through tough times and coming out the other side.

Fans have clearly latched onto her ever-developing confidence, wanting to see her succeed in every way possible. It’s no surprise, then, that her one woman show’s Kickstarter more than doubled its fundraising goal, blasting past $33k for a total of $74,580 raised.

On a lighter note, Katya gave some behind-the-scenes commentary on her exceptional run during All Stars season two:

“When Alaska walked in there the first thing I thought was ’f*ck, I cant win,’” she said. “The second thing was: ’oh, thank God’ because I felt free, the pressure was off. I cant have to win but I need to be able to do this well. And I did that and I was proud of myself.”

You can find the full podcast here.

h/t NNN

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Russia Blocks Mention of LGBT Rights in Tribute to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon

Russia demanded that a statement praising outgoing U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon remove mention of Ban’s achievements in the area of LGBT rights.

Vitaly Ivanovich Churkin, Russia’s Ambassador to the UN

The statement was adopted by the U.N. Security Council, one of the U.N.’s most influential bodies and one in which Russia is has veto power.

The AP reports:

The original statement, obtained by The Associated Press, said it was thanks to Ban “that women, young people, and the LGBT community have been heard and assisted, and today their voices sound louder and stronger in (U.N.) headquarters and around the world.”

But the statement read at Wednesday’s council tribute to Ban made no reference to the LGBT community, instead saying it was thanks to the secretary-general “that the most vulnerable or marginalized have been increasingly heard and assisted by the United Nations.”

Ban Ki-moon has served as Secretary General for the past 10 years. Antonio Guterres will take over the office on January 1.

RELATED: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon: Governments Have a Duty to Uphold the Rights of LGBT People — VIDEO

Russia’s opposition to the mention of Ban’s work on LGBT rights is not surprising given the country’s anti-gay propaganda law and its vehement opposition to LGBT equality.

Russia recently attempted, but failed, to block spouses of gay U.N. staffers from receiving marriage benefits.

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