World War Tea

Overview

World War Tea refers to TikTok stars Charli D'Amelio and Chase Hudson's rumored relationship, break up and a public feud that broke out on Twitter. In early July 2020, the hashtags #LilHuddyIsOverParty and #Charli began trending after Chase Hudson and Charli D'Amelio argued with each other on Twitter about Hudson's infidelity during their relationship which involved both members of the Hype House and the Sway House.

Background

On March 30th, 2020, Sway House member Josh Richards released a diss track accusing Chase Hudson of trying to hook up with his girlfriend Nessa Barrett (shown below). The video gained over 23.6 million views and 921,000 likes in three months. In early April, according to Vulture,^[1] D'Amelio and Hudson announced their break up after four months of dating through Instagram stories.

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On July 6th, 2020, Chase Husdon took to Twitter to address rumors surrounding his break up with D'Amelio saying, "All this drama is going on because I kissed Nessa when we were both single" (shown below, left). The tweet has since been deleted but reposted by Instagram^[2] user TikTokRoom which gained over 13,500 likes in a day. Charli D'Amelio^[3] then responded saying, "then you shouldn’t have come to my house after without telling me… " which received over 350,700 likes and 36,800 retweets in a day. In response, Hudson then tweeted a long breakdown of alleged cheating in the TikTok community, reposted by Twitter user @ronnyramirez73^[4] (shown below, right).

That same day, D'Amelio^[5] responded "stop deflecting you’re actions onto others because you can’t take responsibility chase. want me to talk about how you treated me throughout our relationship or do you just want to continue to play the victim?" (shown below, right). The hashtags #Charli and #LilHuddyIsOverParty began trending on Twitter. (shown below, left). The next day, Twitter user @gracewein^[6] posted a flow chart of TikTokers involved in the relationship controversy which was reposted by journalist Taylor Lorenz^[7] (shown below, right).

That same day, YouTuber Viral Kingdom uploaded the video "Lil Huddy gets CANCELLED on Twitter and exposes EVERYONE on TikTok" which includes screenshots of reactions from Hype House and Sway House members (shown below). The video accumulated over 3,500 views in a day.

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