D’Amelio, 16, had been on the cusp of hitting 100 million TikTok followers during the week but saw numbers drop over criticism of a family dinner video showing what many viewed as disrespectful behavior from D’Amelio and her sister Dixie. Green, 40, posted a video in response to the backlash, saying he had no personal stake in the matter while suggesting that D’Amelio had been a victim of misogynistic bullying.

“I’ve been in this business for a long-ass time,” Green said. “I’ve got no dog in the Charli D’Amelio hunt but I will say that people love tearing down teen girls when they make little mistakes, but the big teen boys make colossal f**k ups and get free passes all the time.”

“So, if you’re ragging on anybody right now, ask yourself if you’ve ever been a shitty person at one point and regretted it a little bit later,” he added. “It f**king happens.”

The controversial video, which was the first episode of what may be a series titled Dinner with the D’Amelios, featured the sisters dining alongside their parents Marc and Heidi and a dinner guest, YouTube star James Charles.

When they learned that the gourmet meal that the family’s personal chef Aaron May had prepared for them contained snails, the sisters began a sequence of dramatic behavior that included gagging and making arguably rude comments.

Harsh criticism of the TikTok star and her sister came shortly after the video was posted to YouTube, where it had been viewed over 10 million times as of Thursday night. Many comments admonished D’Amelio for being “rude” or “childish” in their response to May.

However, many others have defended D’Amelio. May insisted that he was not offended by the sisters and that the situation had been “blown out of proportion” in an interview with The Hollywood Fix. James also stood up for D’Amelio in a tweet, suggesting that the backlash was petty and mostly coming from people over 30 who were “dragging someone half their age.”

D’Amelio posted a new video in response to the controversy on Thursday, tearfully explaining that the criticism had been sparked by a “misunderstanding” while adding that she had been sent death threats over the video.

“Don’t tell people to kill themselves,” D’Amelio said. “You can say I’m disrespectful. You can say I don’t have human decency, but at the end of the day, I’m still a person no matter how many followers I have.”

Newsweek reached out to D’Amelio’s publicist for comment.