Colleen Ballinger has denied allegations she “groomed” and fashioned inappropriate relationships with underage followers.
The YouTuber, 36, who initially discovered fame along with her alter ego Miranda Sings, lately took to social media to refute the claims by means of a music titled “Poisonous Gossip Practice.” In a YouTube video posted on Wednesday, June 28, Ballinger performed the ukulele and claimed viewers have been on a “one-way ticket to manipulation station” whereas the web “ties me to the tracks and harass me for my previous.”
Ballinger started her video by alleging that “some individuals are saying issues about me that simply aren’t true” and that “regardless that my crew has strongly suggested me to not say what I’m going to say, I spotted they by no means stated I couldn’t sing about what I wish to say.”
The content material creator then jumped into her tune, explaining that she used to message her followers “to be besties with everyone” however “didn’t perceive that perhaps there ought to be some boundaries there.” She added that had no plans to “take the route” of claiming she is “one hundred pc within the fallacious” and to take action could be “admitting to lies and rumors that you simply made up for clout.”
The Haters Again Off star additionally claimed that whereas have been “instances within the DMs once I would overshare particulars of my life which was actually bizarre of me” she hasn’t “performed that in years” and has already taken “accountability” for her errors.
“The one factor I’ve ever groomed is my two Persian cats / I’m not a groomer, only a loser / who didn’t perceive I shouldn’t reply to followers / and I’m not a predator regardless that lots of you suppose so / as a result of 5 years in the past I made a fart joke,” she sang into the digicam.
Ballinger was accused of grooming her followers earlier this month when YouTuber KodeeRants shared alleged screenshots between a bunch of younger followers and Ballinger. The actress allegedly requested the textual content chain, titled “Colleen’s Weenies,” their “favourite place” throughout one specific dialog, in line with NBC Information. (KodeeRants has since deleted their YouTube and Twitter accounts.)
The allegations towards Ballinger started again in 2020 when content material creator Adam McIntyre made a YouTube video claiming that Ballinger fashioned “an inappropriate private friendship with him whereas he was between the ages of 13 and 16, which included her sending him lingerie as a joke.”
Ballinger responded to McIntyre’s claims on the time by means of her personal video titled “Addressing Every little thing,” through which she claimed McIntyre requested for the underwear to be despatched to him after she posted a web based unboxing clip. Ballinger additionally famous that it turned a “massive joke inside the fandom.”
“Now, in hindsight, I see how fully silly of me, I ought to have by no means despatched that,” Ballinger added within the 2020 video. “I don’t know what a part of my mind was lacking on the time that I believed, ‘Oh this can be a regular, foolish factor to do.’”
Talking to NBC Information final week, a fan named Erin shared why allegations towards Ballinger are coming to mild in 2023. “The explanation that that is, I feel, gaining a lot traction now could be as a result of all of her first cycle of followers that she had, you understand, me and the opposite group of followers that began 10 years in the past, we’ve all grown up now,” she instructed the outlet. “And we’re recognizing … the parasocial relationships that she has allowed to occur and inspired to occur.”
