What's the Drama Surrounding Colleen Ballinger? The Singer's Reputation Continues to Deteriorate
By Callie (Carlos) CadornigaJul. 6 2023, Updated 12:31 p.m. ET
Colleen Ballinger at the 2023 Kids' Choice Awards
In early June 2023, drama was once drummed up revolving around actor and influencer Colleen Ballinger. As an energetic comic, YouTuber, and singer, she is very best recognized for her online personality Miranda Sings, a comedy act by which she portrays an egotistical musician who sorely overestimates her allure and singing skills. She also created and starred in a Netflix collection called Haters Back Off from 2016 to 2017, which adapts her YouTube persona into her personal story.
Throughout her ongoing career, Colleen has additionally received multiple awards for her web-based performances, together with a Teen Choice Award and a Streamy Award, either one of which she earned in 2015. Unfortunately, she unearths herself at the center of controversy after a couple of other people got here forth lobbying accusations against her for alleged irrelevant behavior with lovers who have been minors at the time. Here's what we know thus far about the drama surrounding Colleen Ballinger.
Colleen Ballinger as her on-line personality, Miranda Sings
Let's spoil down the Colleen Ballinger drama.
Colleen's content has confirmed popular among younger viewers. Unfortunately, this has reportedly ended in a number of beside the point interactions with some of her fans and allegations of "grooming" a few of her minor enthusiasts.
YouTuber Kodee (she/they), recognized for their drama-focused YouTube channel KodeeRants, posted about their enjoy with Colleen and even supplied screenshots of textual content messages that supposedly hyperlink Colleen to team chats that included both minors and adults.
"I did not know at the time that there were minors in these group chats," Kodee admitted when they, as an adult, had been first added. "I should have done the research on [this], so I want to apologize to any child who was in these group chats. I should not have been in a group chat with you."
In mild of their open apology, Kodee also shared screenshots of circumstances the place Colleen would ask fans who had been minors at the time beside the point questions. One of those fanatics was once Adam McIntyre.
In 2017, years sooner than Kodee's revelation, Adam McIntyre had come forward about Colleen's alleged beside the point conduct against him. She had allegedly exploited Adam for unpaid kid labor for operating her social media accounts when he used to be 17. Colleen even it seems that subjected him to uncomfortable questions about sex at the time.
While many fanatics, including Kodee, have been supposedly manipulated to speak out in opposition to Adam, Kodee's admission to this behavior in 2023 apparently corroborates Adam's previous claims.
Since Kodee first spoke up against Colleen, Adam has posted two lengthy videos in which he provides extra information about his harrowing revel in with Colleen. He even invited Kodee onto a flow, thanking them for being the first particular person to publicly fortify them in his campaign towards Colleen.
If each Adam's accusations and Kodee's screenshots are any indications, then again, Adam might not be the only minor with whom Colleen has been inappropriate.
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♬ original sound - ImJustZanderAt the time of the revelation, other people have been already rallying in opposition to Colleen and her future public appearances.
In one TikTok, a person who learn up on the Colleen drama claims, "YouTube is becoming just as corrupt as Hollywood and it's scary." Many on Twitter even cite her seemingly problematic conduct along with her own kids as a transparent and present signal of her toxicity relating to minors.
Eventually, Colleen replied to the accusations. In a ten-minute YouTube video posted on June 28, Colleen (checks notes) pulled out a ukulele and began to sing about the allegations.
Her entire "apology" video, which she self-purportedly posted against the advice of her publicists, is stylized as a quirky little ditty wherein she accuses folks of perpetuating rumors about her on the "toxic gossip train" and reveals that the accusations have essentially ruined her profession.
She without delay comments on the indisputable fact that a few years in the past, she would message her lovers in "a loser kind of way" the place she was looking to be "besties with everyone." In her song, she admitted to oversharing in many of her messages, however her music ceaselessly pivoted towards the concept that the details had been overblown and tried to remark that individuals were more interested in the sensation of her downfall than the fact.
"The only thing I've ever groomed is my two Persian cats," Colleen pronounces about six mins in, directly confronting the accusations made in opposition to her. "I'm just a loser who didn't understand [that] I shouldn't respond to fans."
While she states obviously that she intended on taking responsibility along with her video, she also went directly to decry the accusations while firmly fending off any apologetic statements over the topic.
"I never had any bad intentions," she states between verses. "But I do feel like s--t."
For the most part, folks are not convinced that Colleen has learned anything else from all this. While the internet found her option to make a track out of her response unique, many really feel as if Colleen has used her platform to make herself into the victim. Many have proclaimed Colleen's video to be the worst YouTuber apology ever up to now.
The drama has blown onto Trisha Paytas.
In the weeks following the allegations in opposition to Colleen and her subsequent video, extra controversies surrounding the Miranda Sings big name have come to light. One of them involves fellow YouTuber Trisha Paytas (she/they), with whom Colleen often collaborated. According to a number of reports, Colleen had it sounds as if despatched NSFW photos of Trisha from her OnlyFans account to unsuspecting fans
In early July 2023, Trisha posted her personal video addressing her alleged leaked pictures, declaring that she assists in keeping this content material "behind a paywall that requires someone to be 18 and over."
"I did ask her about these a couple of weeks ago," Trisha stated in her video. "She assured me that she had never sent photos of me."
Despite this claim, she also publicly condemned Colleen for her ukelele-ridden apology video.
"I was just shocked, to say the least, that she didn't at least acknowledge the stuff that her own fans were saying," Trisha declared. "Her video was not an apology and it took away from the severity of her actions of talking to minors, [and] bringing minors on stage at her show. These people are speaking up and they're uncomfortable for a reason."
As Colleen's recognition continues to collapse, much more photos of her problematic habits has begun to circulate.
Folks on TikTok have caught wind of a wildly racist parody video initially posted in 2013 to her Miranda Sings channel by which the character sings a deeply-offensive rendition of "Gangnam Style" by means of Psy. The video itself remains to be on up on YouTube.
Candid photos of Colleen also resurfaced wherein the singer can also be observed in blackface appearing a live parody of "Single Ladies" by Beyoncé.
I’m gonna want someone to provide an explanation for the black on her face… 👀 https://t.co/nkflIZfr04 pic.twitter.com/mGabbvzWRJ
— Paigey🥢 (@PaigeChristieUK) July 5, 2023Colleen Ballinger has issued several apologies in the previous for her problematic content, but it could appear as though the "toxic gossip train" continues to chug along as folks continue to dissect her behavior over the years.
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