Colleen Ballinger has denied allegations she “groomed” and fashioned inappropriate interactions with underage followers.
The YouTuber, 36, who in the beginning observed fame with her alter ego Miranda Sings, recently took to social media to refute the promises by way of a track titled “Toxic 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” while the online “ties me to the tracks and harass me for my earlier.”
Ballinger began her online video by alleging that “some men and women are saying points about me that just are not true” and that “even though my workforce has strongly recommended me not to say what I’m going to say, I realized they hardly ever stated I could not sing about what I want to say.”
The content creator then jumped into her tune, outlining that she used to information her admirers “to be besties with everybody” but “didn’t have an understanding of that maybe there really should be some boundaries there.” She additional that experienced no plans to “take the route” of indicating she is “100 p.c in the wrong” and to do so would be “admitting to lies and rumors that you manufactured up for clout.”
The Haters Back again Off star also claimed that although have been “times in the DMs when I would overshare facts of my life which was truly odd of me” she hasn’t “done that in years” and has now taken “accountability” for her issues.
“The only factor I’ve at any time groomed is my two Persian cats / I’m not a groomer, just a loser / who did not realize I shouldn’t respond to enthusiasts / and I’m not a predator even though a good deal of you feel so / since 5 many years ago I created a fart joke,” she sang into the camera.
Ballinger was accused of grooming her followers before this month when YouTuber KodeeRants shared alleged screenshots amongst a team of youthful fans and Ballinger. The actress allegedly requested the textual content chain, titled “Colleen’s Weenies,” their “favorite position” all through one particular specific dialogue, according to NBC Information. (KodeeRants has given that deleted their YouTube and Twitter accounts.)
The allegations against Ballinger started back in 2020 when written content creator Adam McIntyre manufactured a YouTube online video saying that Ballinger fashioned “an inappropriate own friendship with him while he was between the ages of 13 and 16, which incorporated her sending him lingerie as a joke.”
Ballinger responded to McIntyre’s promises at the time by way of her have video clip titled “Addressing Everything,” in which she claimed McIntyre asked for the underwear to be sent to him just after she posted an on line unboxing clip. Ballinger also famous that it became a “significant joke in the fandom.”
“Now, in hindsight, I see how entirely stupid of me, I ought to have never despatched that,” Ballinger added in the 2020 video. “I do not know what portion of my mind was missing at the time that I thought, ‘Oh this is a ordinary, silly factor to do.’”
Talking to NBC Information previous 7 days, a admirer named Erin shared why allegations versus Ballinger are coming to mild in 2023. “The purpose that this is, I consider, attaining so much traction now is mainly because all of her very first cycle of enthusiasts that she had, you know, me and the other group of lovers that started out 10 decades in the past, we’ve all grown up now,” she told the outlet. “And we are recognizing … the parasocial relationships that she has authorized to take place and encouraged to come about.”
