 All aboard, the toxic, toxic train. What? What is wrong with you? She's turned her accusations and her response into a Disney musical number here, I suppose. We addressed someone who is in their house, been around their family. You have some issues. So my uncle is one of my best friends. And also, he likes to cuddle attacks, so. Sometimes I would literally just go to Google and type them, like, Frisha paid us. At best, this is disingenuous. And at worst, this is an active attempt to invalidate the people who have come forward to, like, bravely share their stories. The girl who I was sent, Zove, was kind of on a watch list. I don't know yet, it's not fun. We thought we had seen the worst apologies on YouTube or rather, non-apologies. I've made a severe and continuous lapse in my judgment. When I say I hate that person, I feel bad. My lipsticks are not moldy. They're not unsafe for you in any way. It feels like every day somebody new is canceled. But we never expected someone to turn their non-apology into a musical performance. That is, until Colleen Ballinger apologized. My team has strongly advised me to not say what I want to say. I never said that I couldn't sing what I want to say. I was just trying to be the best of everybody. She's gas-sliding, manipulating. Oh, she's a narcissist and a rat. The only thing I've ever groomed is my two Persian cats. Colleen Ballinger tried to make the very serious accusations levied against her into something of a performance, a show, and instead a circus ensued. She's been accused of having inappropriate relationships with some of her underage fans. You've committed a crime. Claims that Colleen sent inappropriate messages And Colleen was the one who was seen as the clown, the joker. Colleen's non-apology was not taken seriously. She was in even bigger and bigger trouble as more allegations and reactions ensued. I never said that I couldn't sing what I want to say. I think there was something more sinister under there in a simple way. That's probably the worst I've seen from someone that I've considered a friend. Colleen Ballinger is the worst kind of monster. That's creepy and should probably be illegal. What the f- One who's been hiding under our bed all along, yet we never notice. And unfortunately, we've found out recently it seems that Johnny Silvestri, someone who propped themselves up as a victim, may have been another monster in disguise. A sinister one that hid behind the shadows of the victims. Colleen is the clown in the gutters who looked innocent and friendly to children passing by till it was too late. Colleen Ballinger's ukulele video wasn't an apology. It was a performance. She intended to victimize herself and deflect blame onto all of her victims and all of her detractors. And now she's left countless of people scarred, damaged, and traumatized and refuses to own up to her actions. I know you wanted me to say that I was 100% in the wrong, well, I'm sorry. I'm not going to take that route. But the reality is people saw right through Colleen's clownish act, knew that the victims had a real story to tell. I remember I was just really scared of how creepy Colleen's sending was. That they were using their platforms to speak out so that Colleen could not harm any more minors the way that she had harmed them. So Colleen's clown act put her career in a casket. Her performance, her non-apology caused a major chain reaction on the internet. Mr. Hiding Under the Bed had come out to face the light. The clown had run its final circus act. So let's do a deep dive into everything that's happened since Colleen Ballinger's non-apology in a new deep dive series that I'm trying out on the channel that I'd like to call into the vortex. Not only because my team here loves space, sci-fi and cyberpunk themes, but also because vortex has a double meaning. One of its meanings can also be a dangerous or a bad situation in which you become more and more involved and from which you cannot escape, which I think encapsulates a deep dive pretty well. So let's dive into the vortex on Colleen Ballinger. Warning, board takes a coaching. Evacuate from escape once immediately. Hello friends and internet acquaintances. Welcome or welcome back to another video on my channel. And today's video is part two on the Colleen Ballinger saga, covering everything that has happened since the Colleen Ballinger apology video. Now, before we get into this video, if you watched my last video on Illuminati, I want to thank you so much for all of the overwhelming support on my last video. And I was just blown away by the awesome community that we have. Before we get into the video, I have something else incredible to share that has completely transformed my daily routine, which is today's sponsor, AG1. 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When you head to my special link, drinkag1.com slash cruelworldhappymind, you'll receive a free one-year supply of AG vitamin D3 and K2, and five AG1 travel packs with your first purchase. That's drinkag1.com slash cruelworldhappymind or click my link in the description. You can get started today. In June, I posted a video titled How Colleen Ballinger Destroyed Her Career, detailing everything leading up to Colleen Ballinger's apology. Much of that initial video went over allegations that had led to Colleen Ballinger's apology being released. The former fans who had bravely come out publicly to share their stories of their inappropriate interactions with Colleen Ballinger when they were minors and how Colleen had treated them horribly in the aftermath. I was about 16. I saw Colleen's eyes widen because she realized I was not wearing pants. For some reason, that didn't stop her from continuing. She would always compliment parts of my body that were very skinny. And this is something that has lasted with me for my entire life. She spread some so far that you can see the spandex I was wearing under my romper, which, thank God, I was wearing. And then became an everyday thing, so. How old were you at the time? 13 when it first started. But since Colleen Ballinger's apology, much has happened that Well has left Colleen Ballinger's career in a casket, which is what we're covering in today's video. And Well, the circus surrounding everything that is transpired, circulating the Colleen Ballinger controversy. But if you're feeling out of the loop or haven't watched my first video on Colleen Ballinger or need a refresher, I thought I'd summarize in a synopsis the allegations of the Colleen Ballinger controversy. 2020, content creator Adam McIntyre released a video detailing the very inappropriate relationship Colleen Ballinger had with him over many years, starting when he was a minor and only 13 years old. Over the course of this relationship, Colleen Ballinger had sent him long array. This is what I was saying, okay. After Adam had released this video about Colleen, Colleen Ballinger had made a response video addressing these allegations. He asked for the underwear. And so in my mind at the time, this was no different than all the other weird stuff I send to my fans as a joke, which initially sent a wave of bullying and harassment Adam's way from Colleen Ballinger fans. But then in 2023, all of these allegations resurfaced again. When a YouTuber by the name of Cody Rans left the Colleen Ballinger fan base and made a video about it, detailing how Colleen Ballinger was leaving inappropriate messages in a group chat that had minors. This group chat was called the Weenies group chat and after this video would become infamous. Colleen Ballinger would allegedly leave messages in this group chat asking minors inappropriate questions like are they a virgin and asking what their favorite exposition is. After years of being bullied and harassed by Colleen Ballinger's fans for making claims that Colleen Ballinger was being inappropriate towards him, Adam finally felt like he was vindicated because there were finally more stories to back up his claims of Colleen being creepy behind the scenes. It's no longer the only one shouting into the void. So Adam McIntyre released a series of videos, two of the most notable being I was right about Colleen and my relationship with Colleen Ballinger. People were listening to Adam McIntyre's heroine story of what seemed to be manipulation grooming of a minor among a litany of other inappropriate behaviors displayed by Colleen. Adam's videos as well as the leaked text messages absolutely shocked people and prompted others to come forward with their uncomfortable and inappropriate interactions with Colleen. Becky who was 16 at the time was invited on stage by Colleen during one of her Miranda Sane's live shows segments where Colleen Ballinger ended up exposing Becky to a sea of people scarring her and traumatizing her. I basically felt naked so it felt incredibly sexually violating. I was younger and my body was still developing and I was still becoming comfortable with myself so for her to use my body as entertainment on stage really set my confidence back quite a lot. Oliver was 13 when Colleen Ballinger's brother Trent Ballinger sent inappropriate DMs and messages. Throughout this story someone named Johnny Silvestri has been highlighted as a victim. At the time of this controversy Johnny released a series of videos talking about his experiences working on the Miranda Sings tour. Johnny claimed he was bullied and endured poor treatment while working on tour. Yes, I was a child. I was a teenager. I was bullied, tormented on a daily. But Johnny's story didn't stop there. In another video Johnny's focus completely shifted over to Joshua David Evans calling Ballinger's ex-husband. Johnny claimed Joshua had an inappropriate relationship with him. I'm not going to show the whole thing but that looks like a phone number to me. Why did you give a 16 year old your phone number? But much of the proof he showed for this was an old paper crown with a phone number written on it which he alleged Joshua gave him when he was a minor alongside photos of him with Josh when he was younger. Johnny also claimed he ran a social media account for Josh for free. But I never received any payment for it. As I mentioned in my previous video which mirrored a lot of Adam's experiences with calling Ballinger. Whenever anyone tried to press for hard evidence that Joshua David Evans grew up Johnny and was as Johnny continually claimed worse than calling Ballinger there was always a convenient excuse as to why Johnny couldn't show evidence. My old MacBook Pro revived itself. But many people initially believed Johnny out of their good nature and wanting to believe victims. And now many believe that Johnny abused people's good nature and accused an innocent man. What didn't help with this matter is Joshua David Evans had made statements apologizing for inappropriately interacting with underage fans which led many to assume inaccurately it now seems that Johnny was telling the truth. Apologizing to you is the least I could do to begin for everything I'm sorry. And I left him on red. On August 17th Swoop an in-depth documentary style channel here on YouTube released a nearly four hour video detailing all the inaccuracies of Johnny's story and how he may just be the devil hiding and calling shadow who attached himself to the victims of calling Ballinger for well who knows what reason. In this documentary Swoop and her incredibly in-depth team found that not only was Johnny greatly exaggerating the extent of his relationship with Joshua but also participated in the mean bully behavior that Colleen utilized to victimize and harm her child fans. My opinion of Johnny in the fandom was always that Johnny was the mean girl. Then as an adult Johnny was participating in group chats and conversations with minors. Oh no Johnny was in DMs with minors. I was. Johnny was a part of the entire toxic system taking place within Colleen Ballinger's circle. Even as he left the circle and was on his own he continued to participate in group chats with minors. You know there were also chat rooms or DMs that I was uh added to during tour and it was tricky because I didn't want to be in DMs with a bunch of teenage girls. Like I was you know confident in my sexuality if anything. I want boys well men to be in my DMs. So the story of Johnny is a dark sad and twisted one especially how he tried to destroy the one adult in this situation who was trying to actually properly speak out apologize and take accountability which all expand upon later in this video. Another major player in this toxic gossip circus ring who was often forgot about because of the silence that he has had throughout this entire matter but who participated in the abuse and should not be forgotten about is Corey DeSoto. Corey DeSoto is Colleen Ballinger's best friend and right hand man. Hi guys it's me Colleen with my best friend in the whole world Colleen DeSoto. He participated in a lot of the inappropriate actions and content Colleen has made in the past. Just grabbed the dog and pinched its skin and dug my nails into it. The dog yells turns around protect itself and bites me in the face and then they had to put the dog to sleep because the dog was dangerous to be around. So I heard a dog was involved in the group chats with minors messaging minors frequently with inappropriate messages. Corey sends into the script chat of people of very young ages and says I swear to the Lord if I find out you leaked this info to your friends I'll block you all forever. Even at one point sending an infamous audio message that Adam had shared saying that these minors are close friends to him. Corey I just wanted a lot to say um but first of all I just want to say that like I love all of you like you are honestly mean so much to me um like I have no idea I know that it sounds weird because I'm a full grown adult He fat shamed a fan at a meet and greet and according to many victims was involved in much of the bullying that took place behind the scenes. So Corey is just lying on me yet again. But he and Colleen also made a lot of creepy content together and were publicly acting inappropriate for years in front of our very eyes which I'll talk about a little more later in this video. All of this created a toxic system that primed fans to fall right into their trap of allowing their inappropriate behavior into their lives along with all the bullying and abuse aka a grooming system normalizing terrible treatment and behavior around minors and Corey DiSoto seemed to be a major player in it all. People were saying collectively this is messed up and collectively we're saying Colleen you need to say something about this because this is messed up. Well what we never expected was exactly what happened. The non-apology, the career casket, the circus performance, the toxic gossip train. Colleen Ballinger's apology has officially been rated the absolute worst apology of all time. Absolutely everyone has reacted to it and well it's become a show. More and more allegations have surfaced. More and more things have come out about Colleen. The more you find out about Colleen and the deeper you look the more and more you uncover. And well we've uncovered a lot here so get ready. Vortex is never ending and it gets darker and darker the further and further you go. Get ready for the circus. She decides to put on the entire clown outfit, grab her trusty ukulele and go to battle. As soon as she grabbed the ukulele I knew this whole thing would be a joke. Colleen Ballinger's non-apology video has 3.7 million views within this ban of 24 hours. It's now her most viewed video on her vlog channel and even more viewed than her pregnancy announcement video. Adam McIntyre made a tweet stating, As much as Colleen discredited and made fun of me, which I'm sure was extremely traumatic for Adam McIntyre, at a certain point you want the person who victimized you to at least acknowledge they hurt you and instead they attack you make fun of you for millions to see. I cannot imagine how Adam must have felt. I'm glad her video did one thing. Show you all exactly the type of evil woman she is that a lot of us have experienced over the past few years behind the scenes. The mask has slipped. Everyone meet the real Colleen Ballinger. Adam also released a response video titled Hi. It was a sort of parody video made to mimic Colleen Ballinger's response video where Adam took out a ukulele sung off tune. You continue to note just how ridiculous and downright offensive Colleen Ballinger's response was. And as a person watching this unfold I couldn't help but feel sad for Adam because he had probably at least somewhat wanted Colleen to respond like a normal human being. Acknowledge that she had hurt him when he was a minor. That she had abused his love for her. She pulled out a ukulele and called him a liar in front of millions of people. I mean what do you even do with that? Colleen decided to make this serious accusations into a mockery for all to see. So the internet reacted to this with absolute shock, dismay, and of course YouTube reaction videos. Didn't know what a f**k this was so you it but I hope you're all having fun. Hope you're all having fun with that. People made AI versions of the Colleen Ballinger non-apology song. And if you didn't know the context behind the non-apology song, we're just viewing a lot of the memes behind it. He tricked into believing that a lot of this isn't serious but this is not all fun and games. Because for years online and in person Colleen Ballinger was having inappropriate interactions with her underage fans and while I am not personally a legal expert or a psychologist, there are experts in those fields who have reacted to her actions online. So let's see what those experts have said on this situation. There's a YouTube video titled criminal defense lawyer reacts to toxic gossip by Runkle of the Bailey. According to Runkle of the Bailey, in Colleen Ballinger's non-apology, she paints herself as the victim in the situation. Whereas from a legal standpoint, she's obviously seen as the main aggressor. Someone who views themselves as the victim when they're actually legally considered the aggressor, that's the sort of thing that gets you hammered on sentence. Considering how in Colleen Ballinger's non-apology video, she already referenced making past mistakes. Also, she's just admitted that there's something in her past. That's already an admission that on cross-examination, you could make all sorts of hay with. Colleen goes on to admit she was guilty of creepy and off-putting behavior, weirdly referring to herself as a creepy aunt at a family gathering. When Colleen says I used to message my fans, but not in a creepy way like some of you are trying to suggest, but more in a loser way, Runkle goes on to say that this is a terrible admission. Colleen also has a self-serving attitude in her non-apology video, saying that she felt it was important to tell her side of the story. Runkle says is one of the main ways people end up incriminating themselves. People say I just felt it was important to tell my side of the story. That's how they explain that they talk to the cops. And often that is what gets them into even worse trouble. Like when Colleen admits to messaging her underage fans in her non-apology video. During the closing section of Colleen Ballinger's apology video, Colleen continues to emphasize the fact that she made mistakes. Have I made lots of dumb mistakes? Yes. Have I made lots of dumb mistakes? Yes. Everybody has, every single person. But in the context here, this again is great fodder for cross-examination. Sometimes people make mistakes simply because they made a mistake. Is her literally admitting that she made these mistakes? But under this very serious context, people do not care at all about being forgiving. When these allegations are this big of a deal, towards the end of Runkle of the Bailey's video, states he cannot imagine at all that she ran this by her legal team. I can't imagine she actually ran this by her team and they said, yeah, go ahead. That's, that's excellent. Runkle goes on to say there's no real way to know whether or not any of these allegations could be strung together as something that's worthy of a charge. But if one could be thrown together anyway, there is an absolutely massive amount of supporting evidence, especially through this video, that Colleen should be concerned if that did happen. But some of the allegations should have her in sort of a defensive posture, a position where she might realize, hey, I could get charged, I should be being careful. Important thing to point out is that YouTuber Onision is currently being sued for grooming. So really, who is to say that Colleen couldn't be sued for the same thing as well? Though I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know. Child grooming is a federal crime, but oftentimes it has to be linked to the perpetrator having a sexual intent. The federal government defines grooming, which is technically called enticement, as a method used by offenders that involves building trust with a child and the adults around a child in an effort to gain access to and time alone with them. If you are experiencing something like this, please talk to somebody, especially a therapist or a legal representative. Child grooming is not the only possible way that Colleen Ballinger could get into legal trouble. Again, I'm not a lawyer nor a legal expert, but it does seem like the victims involved in the situation could press charges as well, or sue Colleen Ballinger. If Colleen Ballinger loses, she could end up behind bars or have to pay her victims, according to Medium. Colleen Ballinger's lawyers have allegedly sent out cease and desist as well, but according to those who have received the letters, those letters don't necessarily refute the allegations, so it doesn't seem likely that Colleen Ballinger will be taking any of the victims to court for defamation. But that's just my opinion. Again, I'm not a lawyer. Licensed therapist Mickey Atkins also covered the Colleen Ballinger non-apology in a video titled, Therapist Deep Dive How to Tell If You're Being Manipulated. Therapist unpacks Colleen Ballinger's non-apology. Mickey Atkins explains from a therapist's perspective why the Colleen Ballinger non-apology is so manipulative. Immediately right off the bat, Mickey states that even though body language is quite an unreliable field, as a therapist, she makes a point to discern how the opening body language of Colleen Ballinger staring at the camera absolutely oozes with contempt. A lot of the behaviors seen throughout Colleen Ballinger's non-apology video is really an attempt to provoke shame and guilt from the people who are calling out Colleen Ballinger on her actions. Mickey continues to inspect all the heavy-handed language being used by Colleen, which can be seen as manipulative to try and provoke a response from the audience where we see her as a victim. Like all of this like very heavy-handed language that's intended to provoke this emotional reaction where we as the audience view Colleen as a victim for being held accountable. And that sort of behavior has no place in a good apology. It's bad faith at best and like actively manipulative and at worst. Mickey points out that the definition of grooming from a clinical perspective is when an adult abuses or utilizes that power and balance in their position of influence and authority to manipulate a child or a younger person into doing something for them that's advantageous to the adult. It can include CSA or similar types of abuses, but it doesn't Mickey points out that it's absolutely not necessary for this behavior to reach its worst stages in order for grooming to be valid or true. The insinuation that it has to have reached the worst stages of a particular act in order for it to be valid is just not true. This is like a thing that we accept pretty universally about lots of other types of trauma so I want to encourage people to integrate that into your understanding and like definition of grooming also. I am not a therapist or a mental health professional, but I recently researched in depth the practices of grooming because I wanted to educate myself not only so that I could see for myself how much they lined up with Colleen Ballinger's actions but also so that I could possibly utilize this video in some way to spread awareness of these dangerous and manipulative practices and how they appear in your life in real time. Here are the stages of grooming, whether it's an adult or a child, the stages of grooming by the predator towards their target are typically the same, friendship forming, the predator will work to determine a target's candidacy by asking questions about the target's life, engaging their vulnerability and also getting contact information such as social media handles or phone numbers such as when Colleen Ballinger first followed Adam McIntyre on Twitter. Colleen and Corey were doing a live stream and they stumbled across my Twitter account, this was the day before we officially started really talking. They found my Twitter so funny that they said they needed to send me brat and panties that Corey was wearing during the live stream. Relationship forming, the predator works to gain the target's trust, the predator may also share a secret that only the target can know then ask for a similar secret to level the playing field. For example when Colleen Ballinger would share with Adam McIntyre intimate details about her divorce and sex life. You have message me, virgin, pics, position, period talk, like all this, sex with your ex-husband, josh's penis size, all this. Rett gauging, the predator will engage in a risk assessment to determine how accessible the victim truly is. This is more common among predators who are growing children but can also happen with adults who will check a target's relationship strength with friends, family and roommates. For example when Colleen traveled to Ireland and wanted to visit with Adam and double checked to make sure that when Adam met her at a restaurant that his parents were not coming. And then I go my parents are so mad and she goes wait are your parents coming what's happening I'm confused because the worst thing for Colleen is for my parents to be there because she can't talk to me inappropriately. Isolation, the predator will begin distancing the target from friends or family. This can be done in multiple ways including surprisingly positive methods such as compliments and favors. Colleen Ballinger would love bomb message Adam frequently. She would love bomb me make me feel like I had a friend pretend to care about me and I would just have to do all of her dirty work for her. The predator may tell the intended victim that they feel an especially strong connection to them which Colleen Ballinger did with Adam McIntyre or that they understand each other in a special way that no one else can get. Control is the predator's intent by appearing calm and concerning the predator is seeking to increase their influence over the victim to advance their agenda. In this phase the predator will start to use their target to meet their needs. With children this is generally sexual in nature but predators will use victims for money to accomplish morally questionable things for them or even just to fill an emotional need. Oftentimes Adam was emotionally filling a need for Colleen Ballinger. So this is why I wanted to help this was why I helped over the years because she would actively say that she was struggling with the character and I wanted to help my friend I. Then he helped her when she needed help with her Miranda Sings account and did free work for her. And how many times she told me that she was going to bring me on as an intern I cannot even count four years of work. Maintenance. Once the victim is doing what the predator wants the predator will work to keep them under control through various means. These methods can include gas lighting telling the victim their feelings are crazy or unreasonable destroying the victim's self-esteem or continuing to isolate the victim from their loved ones. I mean once Adam tried speaking out publicly initially Colleen used all of her power and platform to try and silence him as much as possible. To then find out that within that moment she was running with this narrative against me and trying to ruin me within the fandom and get people to turn on me and call me someone that was just trying to ruin her career and take her down it was not like that at all. The result of grooming to a victim can be catastrophic in terms of loss of self-esteem and personal safety psychological trauma and harm to the victim's financial resources and personal wealth and almost all of these tactics in my opinion Adam clearly documented Colleen using on him and instead of Colleen seeing that and apologizing privately she tried to victimize herself tried to turn it all around as if her victims were the ones inflicting harm on to her in her public non-apology. Which as the lovely swoop has noted in videos as well as others is utilizing DARVO abuse techniques. The definition of DARVO originally coined by psychology researcher Jennifer Frade developed by other researchers in the Frade Dynamics Lab. DARVO refers to a reaction perpetrators of wrongdoing particularly sexual offenders interestingly enough may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior DARVO stands for deny attack reverse victim and offender the perpetrator or offender may deny the behavior like when Colleen said it doesn't matter if it's true or not it doesn't matter if it's true though lies in rumors that you may up for clout attack the individual doing the confronting reverse the roles of victim and offender such that the perpetrator assumes the victim role in turns the true victim or the whistleblower into an alleged offender like when Colleen was using words as if her victims were attacking her to the point that in her song she was acting as if her victims were literally killing her. It occurs for instance when an actually guilty perpetrator assumes the role of falsely accused and attacks the accuser's credibility and blames the accuser of being the perpetrator of a false accusation. Throughout Colleen Ballinger's apology Mickey Atkins shows that though Colleen Ballinger is clearly the perpetrator who is inflicted harm on to her victims she continually tried to reverse the role completely minimizing her actions making her victims out as if they were these cruel monsters simultaneously singing and mocking them the irony of it all it is true Darvo tactics at its finest all for the world to see Adam McIntyre allegedly posted onto the Colleen Ballinger snark subreddit a really moving post that I thought was important to read because it really shows just how hopeless victims can feel sometimes when these abuse tactics are deployed onto them also shows just how amazing it was that Adam continued to speak out though Adam posted it's Adam just a couple of thoughts when Colleen inevitably flips this around on me again like she did in 2020 and tries to ruin my life again and let's say everyone turns on me and hates me again at least I know I've provided so many people the confidence to feel they can speak up against huge powers in their life so it would have been worth it Adam is definitely an inspiration because of that reason because Colleen has tried to do everything in her power to deflect and outright damage the victim's reputations through refusing to acknowledge the pain and the suffering that she has caused them on July 10th the entire Miranda Sings tour was officially cancelled Colleen had 11 shows left in 2023 by the time the Colleen Ballinger allegations have gone mainstream and when these shows were cancelled there was no statement from Colleen Ballinger or her team though I think they may have had bigger fish to fry by that point guessing Colleen Ballinger probably lost out on a lot of money over this which is a major real-world consequence from her actions one of the biggest I've seen from a youtube controversy and personally I'm glad to see someone have a real-world consequence for greatly hurting their fans if you hurt your fans you should not be able to continually make money off of them and on top of the tour getting cancelled sponsors also pulled out of their relationship with Colleen Ballinger Pop Crave posted a tweet stating Colleen Ballinger loses sponsorship deals with one skin and Zodok over grooming allegations we have decided to cease the relationship completely this behavior is appalling and we do not condone or support it in any form better help also cut ties with Colleen haters back off Colleen Ballinger's Netflix series which we're going to talk about more later in this video is still on Netflix which is interesting now when Colleen Ballinger's non-apology ukulele sing song video first came out a lot of people speculated that the entire purpose of it was to profit off of her demise in a final last hurrah exit video through copywriting the song and then claiming everyone who tries to make commentary videos about the apology song it's really scummy and weird and like freakish to claim it because it's like an apology and it's supposed to be authentic and not something that she's making money from but ultimately it's very fair you Colleen Ballinger pulled an interesting business move that no one saw coming her ukulele song is now available to stream on apple music as well as youtube and it's been marked as copyrighted at the time some people speculated that Colleen had purposefully chosen to address the allegations with the song so that she would be able to claim copyright on people who use crypts of it in other videos and at first it was hard to believe that somebody could be that vindictive until it was reported that the song had been uploaded to iTunes then it was reported that the h3 podcast who's one of the channels that was known to be interviewing a lot of the victims who were speaking out about copyright claimed for a portion of their video where they featured her apology song Ethan Klein at h3 h3 productions on twitter tweeted Colleen Ballinger uploaded toxic gossip train to cd baby and is claiming us i said Colleen Ballinger uploaded toxic gossip train to cd baby and is claiming us so here it is she was generous enough to do our sharing revenue yeah right guys don't worry i'm disputing and you can see through the screenshots on the podcast's youtube analytics where it shows toxic gossip train as a song that was claimed though there is technically no definitive proof that it was Colleen Ballinger specifically who uploaded this song to iTunes and claimed it though there is a screenshot on apple music that shows toxic gossip train as an ep with the name Colleen Ballinger on one of the screenshots that h3 h3 productions uploaded it does say that it was cd baby on behalf of Colleen Ballinger and that it allows for revenue sharing in what looks like every single country out there and so if this was Colleen Ballinger's doing it does make you wonder if all of this was a ploy to make a profit off of this controversy that was going to be widely talked about a buzzfeed article calling Ballinger's legal representative said Colleen had nothing to do with the song being uploaded to apple music the lawyer told buzzfeed miss Ballinger did not upload the song or video to apple music or to any other streaming platform for sale or for any other purpose we don't know how it got published on those platforms when pop Crave posted about this claim Ethan Klein tweeted it and said can you please tell her legal reps that she still has our podcast claimed though eventually the claim was dropped and Ethan Klein tweeted Colleen or whoever was impersonating her dropped the claim but the allegations get much more serious after the non-apology and the internet's reaction to the non-apology and other allegations surfaced that a lot of people were not expecting july 3rd of 2023 her ship haters released a video titled Colleen so this is a video um that i like really do not want to make dressing a serious situation Colleen had been allegedly sending Trisha's unsolicited news to her fans in group chats and even hosting watch parties to make fun of Trisha Paytas's only fans and sex work they did you in parties of my adult content to the economy the allegations seemingly came out of nowhere and completely shocked everyone and they're supposed to be friends as someone right no in way dude so where did these allegations initially come from these allegations first surfaced when johnny silvestry first posted on twitter that Colleen Ballinger had sent him nude photos of Trisha when he was 22 so it is really important to know that johnny was not a minor at the time that Colleen had sent him nude photos of Trisha Paytas and it would later be revealed by him that he also participated in sending nudes of Trisha Paytas if i'd find a photo i'd follow Trisha so if she posts something publicly or sometimes i would literally just go to google and type in like Trisha Paytas this is a completely different matter than Adam McIntyre who was a minor at the time when Colleen Ballinger allegedly sent Trisha Paytas's nudes to him in group chats these photos were from Trisha's sex work accounts where Trisha Paytas was legally uploading them johnny posted proof of this screenshots of the alleged text messages that johnny had with Colleen where they talk about the photos of Trisha johnny also posted more screenshots of the alleged texts from Colleen Ballinger with what looks like x-rated videos from Trisha Paytas's pay walled sites and johnny described the chats as viewing parties for Trisha Paytas's porn all of these allegations were particularly shocking because at the time Trisha Paytas had a podcast with Colleen Ballinger that they both started this year called oversharing with Colleen and Trish we want to do oversharing because we both have overshared our whole lives on the internet they appear to be somewhat friends colleagues or at least friendly with one another so the fact that this was happening behind the scenes that Colleen Ballinger was taking the sex work of her friend and sending it out to people to mock her behind the scenes is even more shocking dismaying and disappointing but are we even surprised at this point no we are not now of course if you've been following my channel you'd know that i've done a video on Trisha Paytas and some of the past mistakes that Trisha Paytas has done but i also personally believe just because someone made past mistakes does not justify others sending their nudes in group chats or abusing them in that manner i've done stuff in my past that's not cool by today's standards you know in my past video i often noted Trisha's very rough childhood the actual boost that she's noted she's endured in the past as this commenter noted just the fact that it's known that Trisha is a survivor of childhood SA and Colleen chose her images to further a minors is an extra special kind of twisted especially since these nudes being sent were unsolicited which could constitute as revenge revenge point that active posting someone's intimate photos online without their consent is illegal in california where Colleen Ballinger is based so that's all to say i do not think Trisha Paytas is a perfect person but what happened to Trisha Paytas at the hands of Colleen Ballinger is extremely unjust whether you agree with Trisha Paytas's past actions or not just because Trisha Paytas made mistakes does not mean she deserves her unsolicited nudes being spread by someone who pretended to be her friend Johnny Silvestri the person who originally brought these allegations public made a twitter post apologizing to Trisha Paytas about the entire situation saying to Trisha Paytas i'm so sorry you had to learn about these things in a public light believe me if i had a way of contacting you privately i would have much preferred doing so after hearing Johnny participated in sending nudes of Trisha if i'd find the photo i'd followed Trisha so if she posts something publicly or sometimes i would literally just go to google type in like Trisha Paytas nudes talking with minors in group chats like oh no Johnny was in DMs with minors i was and participated in conversations where Colleen shared nudes of other fans the girl who i was sent nudes of was kind of on a watch list what nudes of other fans who he admitted their unsolicited nudes were being sent around by Colleen and he was complicit in it it is hard to believe at this point that this is a sincere apology that we witnessed it is hard to believe that Johnny's intentions weren't to make a public spectacle with these tweets that he shared of Trisha Paytas i have to wonder what Johnny's intentions were with posting it all publicly Trisha Paytas made a video recently speaking on how Johnny Silvestri releasing the photos publicly of her work made Trisha feel forced to speak about the issue publicly now i can see that those photos were posted um with certainty to to humiliate me to force me into talking because he was so upset that i wasn't saying anything that i wasn't talking that this forced me to talk of course was to to humiliate me of course the pictures were to body shame he was like oh no i didn't send the pictures to him oh well one time there's no other reason to send that he talked the way he talks about my photos being like she was with a big grin on her face like it's just that is that is manipulative that is gross that is disgusting that is a form of just forcing someone to humiliate them which is unfortunate no one should feel forced to speak on such a sensitive matter unfortunately when Colleen Ballinger was sending Trisha Paytas's unsolicited news to fans at least one of those fans that we know of was a minor at that time the text came out and the minor fan who is now an adult has said that those same pictures were sent to him this is all alleged as i haven't seen anything this is extremely serious but i feel like this is beyond drama i've had like a sick to my stomach feeling for a while now i had nothing to do with this i do not condone it i think it's the most disgusting thing the video trisha talks about how she has a very hard boundary when it comes to dealing with minors and interactions with minors it's a it's a very hard hard boundary like it's a very it's one that i don't let up on with anybody when trisha tried confronting Colleen about this Colleen blamed the sending of the photos on one of her fans at a mac and tire and who was a minor at the time she claimed would send the photos to her she assured me that she had never sent photos of me this one fan who was underage at the time would send photos to her she's like no he was a fan he sent photos to me which of course either way is extremely inappropriate and any reasonable person if a minor was sending them photos of their friend would shut that down immediately and inform the friend that a minor was obtaining photos of them on their 18 plus paywall the site in trisha's video she made it adamantly clear that she does not support any of what Colleen has been accused of and feels very deeply for all the victims she says this was the worst i've seen from someone i've considered a friend and it is downright cruel in trisha patis's recent podcast episode she also supports adam mac and tire she writes about him saying this trauma to a 14 year old is some irreparable damage it's devastating it can negatively impact him for life you can dislike adam but he is 100 a victim in this and has every right to make a thousand videos if you wanted to and in my opinion adam doesn't need to apologize for any of his actions as a minor he was a child and still is very young to process all of this that podcast episode trisha patis also talks about how Colleen Ballinger sent her an apology message where Colleen admits that she did send those text messages apologizes to trisha for not admitting it sooner she sent me an apology on that saturday after i made the video i made the video july 3rd and then she sent me an apology on like saturday july like eighth or ninth legally seems like a very dangerous thing to be admitting because of california's revenge laws and also the fact that she was sending them to adam who was a minor at the time andry bretler has your client colleen ballinger informed you that she has just admitted to a crime because trisha patis and i just went on the record saying that after trisha made the video on colleen colleen said yes it did happen yes i'm sorry and yes i was acquired for lying to you trisha confirmed on july 8th in a video titled this is embarrassing that her and colleen's podcast oversharing with colleen and trish to an end after just three episodes i don't get embarrassed by many things like obviously the podcast ending after three episodes is like embarrassing us doing all this is embarrassing which i don't think anyone was too shocked to hear but i'm sure was still an embarrassing feeling for trisha sometimes they just feel like a failure and i am not a failure i have lots of failures but i'm not a failure and i know that i'm sure if you're trying to grow in your life move on from drama you have a child you have a family you're trying to build a stable life you think you found another stable friendship you start a podcast together try and have a stable business venture and then get swept up in one of the most chaotic and traumatic youtube dramas of all time and it almost sounds terrible to even call it a youtube drama because it's even more traumatizing than that with real very serious allegations i'm sure that would feel embarrassing because you are unknowingly a victim in this situation the entire time i empathize with her that feeling of public embarrassment but at least the truth is out there and though it may be embarrassing it really should only be embarrassing for callin ballinger who acted like a cringy mean girl behind the scenes for no reason i mean really what's the point of taking someone's photos and making fun of them with all your friends and literal children that's embarrassing i guess callin is right in that sense it is loserish behavior i'm just a loser but it is also extremely creepy behavior can't wait to give all the dead mirfanda accounts that still follow me what they deserve my revival era 100 here for it already been done before need fresh concept what about your youtube career release my tell all series and start a drama channel recently more and more information has been coming out about the man named johnny silvestry who i've mentioned earlier in this video but i thought i dedicate a portion of this video to the story of johnny silvestry and the impact that he's had on the internet because johnny silvestry has harmed a lot of people whether it's content creators who have dedicated their platforms to covering this issue i became part of this story he liked to victims he liked adam he liked to becky ollie everybody so this has been a lot to process victims who have been associated with johnny silvestry i take these things seriously i take it seriously what happened to me and i'm not going to allow someone to completely steal my story and but say it's worse i have like this name or whatever it just ties me to the story i feel like this just becomes this like really dark dark tangled web and it's just like i think it it's just like triggering and traumatizing for like a lot of people or private people who have been harmed by johnny so i feel a responsibility to cover johnny's story more in depth in this video in june of 2023 johnny silvestry connected with adam mackentire and told adam mackentire that he had similarities in his story and experiences within the calling balancer fandom and interactions with calling balancer and joshua david evans i reacted to his first clean and quarry video because he really wanted me to on that call and i said that i would do it on my twitch i told him i would react to it and i said that my audience would send him so much support and then i would upload it to youtube and he was so excited and i extended that branch to him whenever he spoke up i still was so proud of him that i told him that i was willing to platform his story little did i know that he was doing that so he could build an audience off of my audience which is what he did with a bunch of other people so then he could take dine josh johnny silvestry made a video about calling balancer and his experiences working on the miranda scenes tour but soon after johnny silvestry's tone shifted to joshua david evans calling balancer's ex-husband and johnny made a video which can only be described as directly going after joshua david evans johnny shared how he was given access to joshua's social media account for a character that joshua was doing as well as how joshua gave him a phone number at a meet and greet on a paper crown he wrote his phone number on a little paper crown and after he signed it he opened it up unprovoked and he wrote his phone number why is it that i don't know boundaries but you were the one to sign this crown with colleen and miranda you not only signed it but you continued to open it up and write in it i'm not going to show the whole thing but that looks like a phone number to me why did you give a 16 year old your phone number you are the reason any of this happened eventually had run accounts for characters for you as a minor not paid but he even shared in this video how joshua had issued him a private apology at this time you're the one who sold me a fantasy you couldn't uphold i still have the crown you wrote it on all these aspects may had made initially the public feel like johnny silvestry's story was credible so johnny was interviewed by major news outlets like the rolling stone about his story and was often featured among the list of victims within the colleen ballinger story and johnny silvestry's claims began to escalate more and more from simply that joshua david evans was inappropriate with him to that joshua david evans screamed him meanwhile joshua david evans was the only adult throughout the colleen ballinger saga who was actually apologizing and taking proper accountability on june 29 of 2023 colleen ballinger's ex-husband supported the victims in a tweet that read anyone feeling hurt and gaslit right now my message to you is this your experiences were real the proof is there your trauma should be taken seriously the proof is there your anger is justified the proof is there you deserve better take your power back sending you love joshua goes on to state how this behavior was also his reality i assume he means during his personal relationship with colleen's behavior was my reality any time i spoke up and disagreed with her actions in rhetoric during 2009 to 2016 i was gaslit too i was made to feel like i was always the problem any pain i felt was an inconvenience and was belittled every ounce of what you're feeling i understand joshua has continually owned up to his mistakes which is more than any other adult has done in this entire controversy and the fact that he was also a f***ing victimized by calling ballinger makes this entire story so much darker and so much worse though we will never know the ins and outs of the relationship between colleen ballinger and joshua david evans to the fullest extent it seems that joshua was treated horribly by colleen and for that i'm so sorry honey silvestry has been shown in interviews saying things that discredit joshua's relationship trauma and domestic violence experience he f***s around and found out and now he's just upset about it joshua goes on to state that he has no desire to use this entire situation as a catalyst for a comeback on youtube i have no desire to use this as a catalyst for a youtube comeback it's not a safe place for me i'm past that my voice is only here to help validate those that are hurting nothing more i have no need to make any money off of this that is gross and not in my heart whatsoever the internet initially reacted positively to joshua david evans posts praising him for his acknowledgement of the victims and accountability for whatever role he played in all of it but quickly and swiftly johnny silvestry interjected ignoring any accountability that joshua tried to take any apologizing that joshua tried to make only trying to further highlight himself johnny as a victim he was a dude pushing 30 who leached on to a vulnerable kid now it seems johnny may have at times greatly exaggerated and other times outright falsified this information for what exact reason it's unknown though many feel it was to further push himself into the spotlight within these public apologies joshua david evans continually apologized to johnny silvestry but it's important to note that within these public apologies joshua david evans never apologized for grooming johnny silvestry or doing anything remotely close to that manner joshua david evans simply apologized to johnny silvestry for interacting with him too much within the boundaries of the fan creator relationship dynamic according to the rolling stone evan acknowledged silvestry's claims posting a public apology to his twitter saying he had acted inappropriately my hope is that i can help remove some of the burden by acknowledging your experience in taking accountability evans also apologized for dragging other underage fans into an abusive fan creator dynamic before i take a break from my own mental health i also wanted to formally apologize to anyone else out there that got dragged into such an abusive fan creator dynamic with me still processing how to rectify it just know you never deserved it and i hope you're finding peace but when johnny continued to publicly call joshua a groomer it got to the point that joshua had enough he had continued to apologize and still johnny was publicly attacking him making claims over something that joshua had never claimed to do when johnny had gone on specific podcast and continued to make these claims finally joshua had begun to tweet that johnny was spreading misinformation but people still believed johnny he was propped up by so many credible sources and was claiming really egregious things about joshua johnny had claimed that for many years joshua had an inappropriate relationship with johnny when he was a minor under the guise of wanting to mentor him i think to this day he has this skewed idea that he was being a mentor johnny claimed he went with his parents to meet joshua at a car show there was the one where we had a little offy date at starbucks when i went to the auto show to visit him and then later when johnny was an adult he went to see joshua performing california at a show in urbine where johnny would come out to joshua that's the night that i told him this was 2015 i'm gay and he looked at me and said well that's none of my business but besides these interactions most of joshua and johnny's interactions were public facing their twitter dms have now been brought to light and show little interaction between the two and johnny openly admitted he hadn't texted with joshua that often and that they had a mostly public relationship and then you guys started texting like on a one-on-one basis not super regularly because i didn't want to use it it was more of a public relationship this conflicts with the very serious claims johnny had been making that he had been groomed by joshua david evans which would involve some level of a private relationship and inappropriate interactions that johnny would have been able to bring to light but he was unable to you have obviously said uh that you believe that josh groomed you yes can you just give me a summary of exactly what josh did that has made you feel that way when he was in town he did the harlin shake video we filmed a little goofy stupid video for my channel there was a contest he did once there were like maybe eight of us who submitted videos i won and my prize was a ball of duct tape the only things he was really able to prove were some photos of joshua david evans in video calls with minors which as we now know he has been doing the exact same thing this entire time it is never okay to fake claims of abuse not only because it can ruin someone's life but because it can also cause harm to victims and their stories and that is what all of this should be focused on the real victims of calling ballinger because at the time of making this video it seems publicly there have been no other reports or credible allegations of minors coming forward alleging that joshua opposed to them the villain joshua david evans was painted out to be was from johnny and johnny alone all i'm left feeling after this information has come to light over johnny silvestry due to swoop and her incredible research team is just wondering why why go through so much trouble to attach yourself to these victims continually push yourself into the spotlight and attack and practically defame a man who has done nothing but tried to apologize to you for any hurt you may feel over the interactions they've had with you over the years which seem to be very minimal johnny silvestry has been caught continually contradicting himself and his own involvement in causing harm within this toxic system of the calling ballinger fandom i remember it was around 2013 starting to see this adam kid pop up we just kind of picked on him for being so young when it comes to adam personally i don't really think i partook and saying things that seemed to prove that johnny was just in it for the fame like how he struck out with josh so call lean can be his redemption i struck out with josh maybe calling can be my redemption which in the context it was clipped in this interview seems to be a very strange thing to say if josh was someone who harmed you why would you say that you struck out with josh and if calling was also someone who harmed you why would you years later say that calling was your redemption and what does that mean was your intentions with these people johnny continually attached himself to other victims so their stories would amplify his she had her relationship with adam while josh was having his relationship with mine they were playing both on their phones on opposite ends of the couch the aming miners which is not the purpose of what this story is it's a horrific experience of when influencer culture can be damaging to children it is not an opportunity to become famous johnny was also platformed by people who wanted to give these victims a chance to share their story and it seems that maybe to johnny it was an opportunity to gain a following which is really sad johnny solvestry would not accept any of josh david evans apologies which people began to notice as odd behavior in fact in general people began to notice some of johnny's odd behaviors on top of his persistence in going after josh david evans even after josh was numerous apologies people began to notice johnny's inconsistent statements and wondered if there was more to johnny's story on the r slash calling ballinger subreddit the tone started to shift against johnny solvestry but there was much more that was about to be uncovered on august 17 the swoop released a four-hour documentary on johnny solvestry that uncovered how johnny was actually in group chats with miners the entire time that he was claiming that joshua david evans was inappropriate with him for even having spoken with him when he was a minor oh no johnny was in dms with miners i was not only was he in group chats with miners well into his adulthood but he also was best friends with an alleged groomer named tim connelly who was part of the calling ballinger fandom and then went on to have very inappropriate conversations with miners in group chats and video calls johnny solvestry even developed his own young fans off of working on the maranda sings tour but he longed to be part of the a group with calling ballinger and would according to johnny's own account bully other fans and alongside calleen participate in the sending of newt's of trishypatis and even of another fan sometimes i would literally just go to google and type in like trishypatis newt the girl who i was sent was kind of on a watch list all to be a part of calling ballinger's circle people were shocked at this turn of events that johnny was in fact not a victim at the hands of calling ballinger and her ex-husband joshua david evans but could have in fact been a perpetrator who perpetuated calling ballinger's toxic ways after swoop's video johnny solvestry made a statement saying that he feels betrayed by swoop and that basically he'll be coming forward with more information soon so far no information from johnny has surfaced and johnny solvestry has gone into hiding adam mack entire seemed absolutely heartbroken to find out someone he had initially tried to uplift to try and help them share their story had really been lying and try and betray him adam released a video sharing his thoughts on the matter how he had noticed that johnny had been lying for some time and really adam believes now that he was being used by johnny so that johnny could build an audience off of him which is really sad and disappointing to hear any story i would say about colleen johnny would then come out with the same story about josh but it would be a hundred times worse to take away from my story that is what johnny wanted in all of this johnny wanted fame and attention in all of this you want to know one of the things that johnny said to me whenever he was planning on making his video on that call honey i make sure that my youtube channel is monetized on the calling balinger snark subreddit someone from swoop's team posted an update that reads we began researching the calling balinger story at the start of june we decided early on that much of the research should come straight from the source including johnny solvestry who you may have heard we interviewed for six hours in early july following an hour of interviews conducted over twitter voice notes in june despite the interview lasting as long as it did part three was always intended to be an update on the story as a whole which would include johnny's allegations against joshua as a section however following that interview a few disturbing developments occurred that completely changed how we were even planning on approaching part three in our series we personally received three separate allegations against johnny solvestry on top of discovering the allegations raised against him on another subreddit and we were given reason to believe that johnny actually doctored evidence he sent to us in our investigation to change the context of that evidence completely one allegation we received was from a now adult who had been in group and video chats with johnny as a minor and has in fact known him since they were a teenager and was in his 20s we have confirmed this person's identity many times over and believe them to be quite credible they alleged that johnny was a participant in a series of group video chats with many minors from the calling fandom according to johnny himself these chats began as calling fandom chats around 2018 but were eventually run by a man named tim connelly a former calling fan himself and johnny's former best friend of around 10 years it's been alleged by our speaker that johnny was a part of these chats for at least a year our speaker's description of the video chats included tim consuming alcohol on camera while encouraging minors to drink on camera our speaker claims that some of the minors were young enough to not even know what a hover was furthermore the chats contained incredibly disturbing talks that ran the gamut from sex and romance to tim shaming and bodying his fans we managed to not only track down a video call johnny tim and under age fans did around that time dated april 14th 2020 on twitter which is very recently to cap this off the person who reached out ended their message by stating that they were speaking to us because they are scared of tim and johnny retaliating simply for them speaking out we had discovered around mid june that as a member of the calling live show johnny sylvestry had his own underage fans who would create group and video chats with him send him gifts and take photos with him at shows a massive amount of public evidence of this was found on social media this was confirmed by adam mack entire who actually revealed to us that johnny allegedly held his own unofficial meet and greets at calleen shows we have given johnny multiple opportunities to tell the truth we have publicly and privately supported johnny and his story we even gave him private advice that he should take accountability himself and he chose not to or more specifically he deflected accountability and in notes app statement he hid in the responses of an elon musk quote tweet a reddit user under the name specialist leg has posted a lot of information regarding some of johnny sylvestry's inappropriate actions as well as proof of some of johnny's inconsistencies for example in 2020 when calling ballinger released the video called addressing everything johnny sylvestry supported calleen replying to the video saying proud of you specialist legal also posted screenshots like how fans of johnny sylvestry would post youtube videos wishing johnny a happy birthday the most infamous group chat was the johnny stands group chat there have been many various messages posted onto reddit from this group chat most of them look legitimate but many have been unverified from what it appears the johnny stands messages have gone on for many years and it seems to be verified from multiple accounts that the johnny stands group chat is where most of the interactions took place on august 24th swoop also posted a statement on twitter saying more victims have come forward privately alleging that he and adult was inappropriate with them as minors this time in person beyond chats the evidence they shared is deeply disturbing i will never push someone to speak publicly but if they do please extend compassion so it seems that johnny may have tried to ruin another person's life and reputation and this turn of events shocked everyone for years johnny had a behind the scenes look into an incredibly toxic circle the calling ballinger circle where abuse and bullying seem to be an everyday occurrence we cannot forget that calling ballinger caused so much damage in her wake there are people she's recruited along the way drafted into her team taught her cruel and harmful methods but calling ballinger was the ringmaster all the other players mentioned in this story johnny silvestri kori disoto trend ballinger are members of her toxic circus and for clarity's sake i'm only saying that as an illusion and not to trivialize all the harm they have caused so let's dive a little bit deeper into why calling ballinger is youtube's biggest creep big big trigger warning especially for visual content that will probably be disturbing as a defense lawyer i'd be concerned in her shoes and i would never put this out something that's a very controversial aspect of calling ballinger's Miranda scenes character that i didn't mention in the first video that i did on calling ballinger because i didn't have definitive proof and i didn't necessarily want to speculate on the subject without definitive proof was the fact that for years people have been wondering whether or not Miranda scenes character has been a character used to mock those with disabilities pulling base is a lot of miranda's traits off of him it's trend i mean she's said it to my face there have been rumors that those who have worked closely with calling ballinger have said that she uses the character to mock those with disabilities and people have been noticing a pattern within the miranda scenes character for example on the affinity website there was an article written titled miranda scenes needs to stop harming the disabled community that was written back in 2017 that noted that the biggest problem is miranda scenes's characterization it's never been explicitly stated whether or not she has a disability it could be said that her characterization is based off of harmful stereotypes of people from that community she is portrayed in a way which highlights her disconnect with reality and much of the humor produced is because of the fact that she's unable to comprehend certain ideas where it does something in an odd way this is ableist much of this was speculative and wasn't tied to anything concrete until recently when johnny silvestry who worked on the miranda scenes tour and closely with calling ballinger and participated in a lot of group chats with calling ballinger confirmed these rumors in a tweet and now we know johnny silvestry was even closer with calling ballinger so of course he would have inside knowledge of her intentions with the miranda scenes character as he participated in many group chats and conversations where much of the bully like behavior took place in this tweet he said she bases pieces of miranda off of her disabled relative she literally told me that to my face her words not mine that when trent has tantrums i like to study them and take mental notes so that i can incorporate them in miranda's act her characteristics the way she talks if you see a miranda video where she's upset visibly angry and having an episode she's mocking her own brother so while calling ballinger claimed publicly that the miranda scenes character was based off of the sort of popular girls who thought they could sing like these teenage girls posting the same songs that i had sung in performance but alone in their bedroom a cappella changing lyrics and doing whatever they wanted with them and they were terrible but they were so all the while allegedly behind the scenes she was really making fun of a relative the entire time then she turned this character into a way to make inappropriate content that lured in a child audience colleen ended up exploiting for her own gain i mean really what good did colleen even do with her content i can't personally see any positives with this situation colleen's most recent defense of her content has been that her content is not for kids which is why it's not on the youtube kids app and that's why you won't find my videos on the youtube kids app anyway and that actually her content is rated pg 13 and has always been rated pg 13 she's pg 13 it says that on my website and it's always been that way which initially i had taken at face value i don't know why i took this at face value but looking back i think personally colleen ballinger tried to gaslight the entire internet in her non-apology video and let me break down why i don't use the word gaslight lightly i know that's overused and i often don't use mental health terminology flippantly but i think in this context it's fairly used calling said you wouldn't find her content on the youtube kids app but almost immediately people found that not to be true and posted on the calling ballinger snark subreddit how her content can be found on the youtube kids app posted by underscore craigular joe here's a screenshot of miranda sing's content on the youtube kids app randa sing's content being listed as pg 13 can't be found anywhere on her website at least that i could personally find or it seems that anyone else could find so parents aren't being warned or at least aren't being easily warned when they go to buy tickets to her live shows that the shows are intended for viewers 13 and older on the netflix streaming platform randa's recorded live show is rated tv 14 which means it contains content that most parents would find appropriate for children over the age of 14 readers back off on the other hand is rated tv pg which means children of all ages should watch with their parents not just children over the age of 13 so not all of calling ballinger's content is pg 13 in fact the biggest production that she has ever done or took part in is rated tv pg just calls for some parental guidance if you are a child of any age which i don't know i would think is a pretty major difference and something that calling would know if she worked on the project and was the entire face of it on top of that you can find haters back off in the kids section of the netflix app and interface and it gets worse when you watch calling ballinger's netflix special in the first 20 seconds of that special i saw more five-year-olds featured in those first 20 seconds then i think i've seen in my entire life calling ballinger gets up onto the stage she's visibly pregnant in this special and around two minutes into the special the very first joke that calling ballinger says the first joke that she makes up on stage after you witness the crowd coming in with all the parents and all the five-year-olds filling the seats calling ballinger gets up on stage talks about how she's pregnant and that there's a tiny penis in her and then says is there kids in here in a obviously sarcastic tone because she obviously knows that there's a bunch of kids in there there's a tiny little piece in there is that weird are there kids here first joke of the entire special is about a tiny penis inside of calling ballinger in a room filled with probably the most children that i've ever seen in my entire life or at least for a comedy special at would definitely for a netflix comedy special then seven minutes into the netflix comedy special you'll never guess what happens calling ballinger pulls out a ukulele and says that that's her universal solution whenever she's receiving hate she writes a song about the hate she's getting comfortable when it comes to confrontation and hate but i'm a little bit better at it when i can hide behind my camera like a coward so i write songs about the hate that i get before shadowing why are you a youtuber i'm not a hater i just hate your vids and your voice you look uglier than my no points but either way calling ballinger bringing up this pg-13 fact is a complete red herring and a distraction from the main point because calling ballinger knows regardless that her main fan base is children she knows every time she steps on stage her live shows and stares into a child audience she knows when she goes to her meet and greets and sees a sea of children screaming with excitement to meet her she knew when she messaged with underage fans inappropriately and then wrote a ukulele song about it many years ago i used to message my fans to turn around all of a sudden and act like your content was never intended for kids and for years you have seen first hand who has followed you i just don't understand what she was trying to do there even in that netflix special calling ballinger acknowledged multiple times that was children who were attending her shows or parents who were begrudgingly taking their children to her shows i get a lot of hate from the mothers hi you all say the same thing to me when you meet me too the moms and i think you think this is a compliment but you always say i don't know why my kid likes you it doesn't even matter what your rating is whether your content is for children or isn't for children of course it matters in terms of how appropriate or inappropriate your content is but there's also more to the story because in traditional media there have been actual laws that have been passed regarding children's content the level of advertisement and how much educational content there should be surrounding children's content and there's been a larger debate about how much that should apply to children's content online but the good thing is youtube is aware that they have a responsibility towards children and the content that children watch which is why the youtube kids app exists for kids are presented educational content to a certain extent and somewhat safe content that is monitored for them here's what google says about content policies for youtube kids the youtube kids app is designed to be a safer and simpler place for kids the app is a filtered version of youtube we work to identify content that is age appropriate we do not allow videos in youtube kids that includes paid product placements or endorsements its aspect of the kids app aligns very similarly with the FCC's guidelines for kids content in broadcasting overly commercial content content that is overly commercial or promotional is not allowed in youtube kids but again as Colleen noted in her apology you can't find her content on the youtube kids app and that's why you won't find my videos on the youtube kids app anyway doesn't mean her content isn't directed at kids I mean look at the tons of children who show up to her shows and her meet and greets the reason why most of Colleen's content is not on the youtube kids app because Colleen does not want to adhere to youtube strict guidelines in order to appear on the youtube kids app but what Colleen Ballinger has done is far more sinister than that really and speaks to a more dangerous aspect of influencer culture especially when your audience is made up of children and you have no concept of boundaries because in traditional children's media there's usually a figurehead that's seen as somewhat inaccessible think of someone like Spongebob or Power Rangers growing up you idolized these characters on a show but it was nearly impossible to form parasocial relationships with them at least I would hope because there's only a certain level of access that you're granted to into the world of a Power Ranger and Spongebob isn't in a group chat with you at least if that was happening it probably wasn't Spongebob and was a very weird creeper catfisher but a youtuber well a youtuber you can get to know everything about their life you have a relationship with them which a child can completely interpret the wrong way can go on tours and meet and greets see them and talk to them and even message with them if they really have no concept of boundaries and you can form this really deep one-sided bond and all of it a child could completely misinterpret according to an expert interviewed by the Rolling Stone Ballinger like other early youtubers was doing it all without establishing rules according to Jamie Cohen's an assistant professor of digital culture and media at Queen's College especially when it came to how they interacted with fans the earliest youtubers had no real guidance they were these mostly white kids that were basically saying oh we're fighting back against the gatekeepers essentially inventing the platforms as it went they made their own rules and at some point youtubers learned that parasocial relationships are their success model and Joshua Evans Collins ex-husband summed it up perfectly when he said that's what made youtubers different from celebrities you could talk to them and they would talk back he took pride in that he continued but in retrospect it's dangerous and it can be perceived inappropriately because a lot of it was inappropriate and it just evolved from being something simple into something very much that you should not be engaging in and those teens and children they don't know that it's not right they don't know that they should be pulling back as well that's the adults job and the sad truth is no one was doing that no one was pulling back no one was thinking how is this affecting them how attached are they getting even back in 2018 someone by the name of Amit attended one of Colleen Ballinger's shows along with his wife and live tweeted about how disturbed he was about how many children went to the Miranda scenes show and how inappropriate the content was at the show so let's read some of those tweets wife and I got tickets to see a comedian we really like the entire crowd are children with their parents we are very confused already have plans on how to evacuate in case this is indeed a show for kids this is one of the most awkwardest moments in my entire life average age in our row 10 including us she's starting children are screaming i'm deaf holy she just called one of the moms a oh my god this is definitely not a show for kids the theater is filled with shocked and pissed off parents oh my god this is amazing there is a whole monologue about going on all the parents just said children are cheering this is beyond amazing she just brought a girl from the audience on stage and told her that she's dressed like this is so effing amazing the word tactical was said she just asked for boys to come to the stage dads want in too there's not enough popcorn in the world right now she wants help from the crowd to perform her own birth children are going apeshit a shy looking teenage boy from the audience is going to play the role of her mother her what is this smell mom are you cooking cabbage boy reading from a script no this is my placenta just heard the mom next to us going what the f*** now it's a giant parody on disney songs children are losing their minds again the entire crowd are kids this is effing amazing show is over at Miranda scenes at calling b123 is a role model for every child in this world wow just effing wow thank you to omit for really showing and documenting first off the amount of children in the audience very very young children under the age of 13 also for documenting just how inappropriate the live shows have been for children for quite some time i think what has upset people the most about calling Ballinger shows particularly have been the various segments that calling Ballinger has done most of all because of Becky who was put in an extremely compromising position after being invited up on stage for the yoga bit portion of one of Miranda scenes's live shows and who documented her experience in the tick tock feeling extremely uncomfortable and traumatized with the entire experience especially because she was under age at the time in this video i was about 16 she spreads them so far that you can see the spandex i was wearing under my romper which thank god i was wearing that is the moment i will never forget where i was laying under queen and she was smirking down at me while thousands of people were laughing and i was terrified that my body wasn't covered enough up enough by this band ex i basically felt naked so it felt incredibly actually violating i was younger and my body was still developing and i was still becoming comfortable with myself so for her to use my body as entertainment on stage really set um my confidence back quite a lot on top of that there are a lot of very bizarre and strange segments of calling Ballinger live shows there's the porn segment which critiques young girls for wearing anything that shows any amount of skin on their body and how calling Ballinger does that is by bringing them up on stage and pointing at them and saying this is this segment is reserved solely for young adolescent girls which makes you wonder what that does to their self-esteem bringing shame and the concept of shame into their life and there's the date segment where calling Ballinger brings up on to stage mostly very young boys and takes them on a date i brought self-help for me and i was just wondering well shouldn't you know if you read it i'm just getting games i'm just getting oh my gosh okay so i'm hidden in the snack in the perfect place literally i can't believe i'm reaching in there which involves at times having these young boys grab cheese balls out of calling Ballinger's pants all of these segments involve very physical things with a young person's body why do you need to be doing so many physical activities with minors on stage like that on top of these interactions in person we cannot forget that calling continued to text her child fans creepy things and group chats and private text messages particularly the infamous group chat that was named the weenies group chat seeing things like are you a virgin and what's your favorite exposition adam also posted a very upsetting message that calling Ballinger posted in the weenie group chat on to twitter the weenies group chat listing of mostly 13 to 17 year olds i was a part of with calling all had an inside joke calling started to do with periods or some and she sent us this video and all of us had to go out and buy tampons and reenact it for the group chat it was so effing weird and then adam provides a video of calling putting a tampon into her mouth which is very bizarre a very bizarre thing for a grown woman to be sending in a video to 13 to 17 year olds i'm sure you're wondering how did this all fly under the radar well calling made creepy inappropriate jokes online for a really long time obese age woman with facial hair please don't sit next to me please don't sit next to me and i turn around and there are no open seats on the plane so of course you can sit right next to me and on me now while i briefly mentioned about this in my previous video i felt the need to dive deeper into the sam and labia series and censor these videos less but you can really grasp the gravity of how disturbing these videos are now sam and labia were a duo by calling ballinger and her best friend kori disoto hi welcome to arts and crafts with sam labia where they pretended to be arts and crafts enthusiasts teaching others how to do diy projects to their mainly child fan base slept all of these videos have extreme actual undertones to them especially the video i'm about to show you in this video sam and labia aka calleen and kori may love boxes so today we're going to teach you how to make cute little mailboxes so you can send notes to the loved ones at home which are basically intended to look like the the boxes have flesh colored paper wrapped around them my box is a little smaller will it fit big notes of course it will as long as the slits big enough and they say over and over again how they're going to make slits in their boxes need to cut a nice little slit in your box so that your loved one has a place to put all their fun things i want my stuff full so i'm going to do a large slit and then stuff things into their slits if you want to make sure that your slit is nice and smooth just take a fun little note and move it in and out of your little slit they stick things in those holes draw things that look cool in nature all over the boxes and then kori puts his mouth all over the whole of his box there's a bunch of red stuff coming out of my box i think i'll just eat it out then at the end calleen offers her box as a giveaway but if you'd like to win my box labia and i will put some fun little notes in it for you and all you have to do to win is subscribe to the channel leave a comment below and click on the link in the description to tweet the video and here are some more videos of sam and labia that have a lot more innuendos and jewel jokes like one where they teach you how to make decorated wooden spoons i always like it tight once you know that it's on there firm and tight you want to make sure that you rub it on do you want to feel my fuzzy balls very soft your cock is looking really nice thank you can i pet or this video where they make diy halloween costumes but make actual jokes the entire time talking about a c a taco a winner i mean you know what they're talking about the internet was making my head so big i couldn't even fit through the back door anymore wasn't enjoyable with your head so big labia they used the back door because sam's pussy tries to escape to the front around three minutes into this video they make a ghost costume and put it on quarry in the most disturbing scene in a video that i have ever seen personally here i have a very special ghost the mouth is wide open ready for the howling watching this you both know that your demographic is child viewers damon labia also made arts and crafts panties that were inspired by taylor swift's bad blood music video so for our craft today we thought we would make some um taylor swift inspired bad blood panties not shorts as taylor swift is clearly wearing in the music video but they specifically called them panties who doesn't like a pair of bloody panties then they go on to try and make these bad blood panties look bloody with red glitter we have some red items to add red glitter glue red circles squirt some of this on hey you can't forget the thoughts again this is just kind of weird content to be making for your child audience bloopers that they post are even weirder and clearly show the intent of what they were trying to do with their videos we're not even like slightly doing sexual innuendos this one is just straight up make a penis in a vagina the whole time the bloopers are playing with this happy upbeat music that makes it even creepier that's why i'm putting bouncy ball stickers all over my box like yeah because i know how much you'll balls on yourself there it is there it is them and labia aspect to this is to me personally the creepiest aspect because it shows that they were talking out in the open for years consistently publicly for everyone to see they were doing this out in the public just no one noticed is all so of course they were doing it in group chats as well the bad blood panties video that they did has over 900 000 views they were even celebrated for their content they were celebrated for it the other thumbnails that i heavily censored in my last video were thumbnails that collin had posted from her christmas vlogs literally vlogging her family over christmas where she had posted little girls from her family in the thumbnails with very disturbing titles the girls look like they could not possibly be over the age of six and the titles read girl on girl action xmas vlog 2 and sexy pole dancer xmas vlog 11 audience was colleen ballinger trying to draw in by putting young girls in the thumbnail with titles like those throughout colleen and her extended family's time on youtube since they've heavily participated in family vlogging there've been a lot of questions as to whether or not they've exploited their children online through over exposing them on the internet of course there's a larger debate to this but i do think personally questions need to be raised because it's at the least very concerning makes me wonder if there has been allegations of colleen ballinger exploiting minors within her fandom she'd be willing to exploit minors within her own family i'm concerned for the children within colleen ballinger's family to the patterns of inappropriate behavior and inappropriate interactions with children displayed not only by colleen but by other members within colleen's family as well allegations against trend ballinger colleen's brother have also come out recently oliver was a former fan of colleen ballinger's told the rolling stone that colleen's motto of spreading happiness drew him into the colleen ballinger fandom but after joining in 2018 and following colleen ballinger and all of colleen ballinger's family on the site a follow back from colleen ballinger's brother trend quickly turned into constant communication between the two at this time oliver was 13 years old so just the fact that trend followed back a 13 year old is very odd behavior then the fact that trend messaged back and forth this 13 year old again is very odd behavior trend would go on to message oliver about oliver's duality sending oliver is again very inappropriate messages to ask a 13 year old messages reviewed by the rolling stone show over a year's worth of communication trend complimenting oliver's looks looking him for photos telling him to text anytime anything we talk about stays between you and i it has been noted that trend is disabled though many feel like it's not an excuse for grooming someone especially when you're sending messages that makes it clear that you know better i was confused but i brushed it off oliver told the rolling stone i was too scared to tell my mom because i didn't want her to take away my phone and not trust me and even when i started to become uncomfortable i kept thinking to myself this is colleen's brother so many people in this fandom would probably love to have messages from him other messages from trend are things like i'm told not to talk to people under 18 i do so just to spread positivity how old are you 13 night don't let this reality bite so there's lots of questions that i have about the family the strange behavior that they've exhibited overall especially because on top of that colleen and her sister have done tons of strange thumbnails and collaborations together which makes me wonder what sort of behavior has been normalized within this family another strange aspect of colleen ballinger and the content that she's made on her channel is her consistent collaborations with jojo seawatt to preface this she's also said at one point that if she was santa clause she'd want the girls from dance moms to sit on her lap if you were santa named three people who want to sit on your lap i was santa i would want the girls from dance moms it sounds super creepy but it's totally innocent i just think they're adorable and super talented saying that that makes her sound creepy and pennilish this is gonna sound so creepy my answer is so creepy but i don't mean it to be creepy i can't admit this this sounds so pennilish then went on to collaborate with jojo seawatt who was a girl from dance moms multiple times on her channel top of that she made a video with her sister testing out jojo seawatt products in a bathtub together then when she went on to collaborate with jojo seawatt her interactions with jojo seawatt are very uncomfortable if not very disturbing and also further go to show that the miranda scenes content is very much so directed at children because jojo seawatt at the time was for child audiences so if you collaborate with jojo seawatt you're going to get more child viewers one of the collaborations starts off with the miranda scenes character criticizing jojo seawatt for wearing shorts and a long sleeved top which is pretty normal for a 13 year old not supposed to dress and when you were dancing i can see her entire legs miranda says next thing is we're not supposed to dress when you are dancing and i can see your entire legs stopping teaching preteens the concept of body shaming is just a very weird concept to me so jojo changes into longer pants miranda says i'm just now realizing that your shirt says milk all over it you drink milk you know that comes from a private part also i'm just now realizing your shirt says milk all over it you know you drink milk that comes from a private part then later in the video jojo does the splits and miranda says whoa did you hurt your tuki when jojo asks what a tuki is and gestures to her crotch whoa did you hurt your tuki what's a tuki then when jojo does the splits a second time miranda says we need to stop before she hurts her tuki permanently can't be there we need to stop before she hurts her tuki Colleen and jojo filmed a second collab video on jojo's channel on that same day in this clip jojo teaches miranda how to twerk you cannot do that why not that will entice all the people and miranda asks jojo in that video have you ever taken the pants off and seen what's inside okay well that's because you're wearing pants have you ever taken the pants off and seen what's inside and very visibly confused jojo asks in public no on the toilet yes in my own privacy yes to which miranda asks and before the scene cuts in public no on the toilet yes and in my own privacy yes and the other videos together and jojo have a slime war together where their two chests get stuck together with slime in a scene that colleen dramatically slowed down before re-uploading what was your intention of that in another collab the miranda seems character and jojo play a game of never have i ever any of the never have i ever statements revolving around kissing boyfriends and body parts never have i ever not had a boyfriend never have i ever had a crush on a youtuber you have never kissed anybody never jojo really inappropriate topics for a 13 year old i just really hope that these videos did not put jojo siwa in an uncomfortable situation and i really hope that their relationship off camera was not even more uncomfortable than it seemed on camera but also on top of that what precedents are these videos teaching other children that it's okay for a grown adult to say statements like that to children because it's not it's not okay for a grown adult to ask a child about their tuki or stick their chest to a child's chest with slime or ask about boyfriends and kissing and body parts calling ballinger's book is also deserving of a deeper look there's the hot dog page which calling ballinger said she wanted to look like a bloody vagina it teaches you how to draw a hot dog when it's supposed to look like a vagina and just the pages with a tuki and a pad with zero context in her book she also showed prime scene style pictures of herself sleeping pictures that her uncle took of her which look really creepy there's also this page that's extremely off-putting with the title fun activities sometimes you have to do things with kids these few activities can be fun for you and your children hide and seek have your kid hide and then do something else while they're distracted the child is underneath a recliner chair playing dress up you can have them dress as a dog or a homeless a child on a leash play horsey looks fun right Miranda playing a horsey with a child makes me uncomfortable the photos of the kids the way Miranda is on top of multiple children a leash on a kid while the child is crawling on the ground I don't love it there's also a page of Miranda's uncle's house a very private place where you can play with your daddy saddle which is something that apparently Miranda and her uncle used together how much money do you have what diseases run in your family types of yarn do you mind the award and her uncle obsession with linking her character Miranda and Miranda's uncle extends beyond her books and into her content for many many years uncle jim get on the ground it's always implied that the their relationship is a little too close and it's a little a little one of Miranda's longest running bits is that she has a strange relationship with her uncle which why it's not funny endearing or entertaining it is just creepy at a live show Miranda pretending to be her uncle as she's excited for a little girl to be born into the family because the uncle loves little girls Colleen made a post as Miranda with the caption so mad at my uncle for this saying last night after you cuddled me you put my gum at the side of the bed last night after you cuddled me you put your gum on my bed then there was also this tweet encouraging in the west saying stfu's look the fun uncle unlucky pickle on tiktok posted a great comprehensive deep dive into some more disturbing posts that Colleen has made talking about her uncle i recommend watching the full video on her tiktok page but i'll play some of the clips here one of his favorite things to do is tickle attacks and also he likes to cuddle attacks so those are really fun for me i have pink eye i am really unhappy about it it really hurts and i'm pretty sure i got from my uncle i just want to eat some apple strudels and my uncle's making me eat wings yeah that's about as bad as i remember Colleen even made a rap as Miranda about how much she loves spending time with her uncle no no that's it i've had enough of her there was also the slurpee bath video which is just a very it was a very weird video my uncle and i go down to 7-11 get a lot of slurpees and i get to take a bath in it so my uncle my mom taught me about this is that you cannot eat this kind of slurpee the spinning game recently one of the biggest debates surrounding the Colleen Ballinger controversy has been one of Colleen Ballinger's youtube videos from 2018 that's been unlisted that's resurfaced in which Colleen performs the cover of Beyonce's single ladies as Miranda sings in face paint several twitter users posted about this clip saying that it really looks like Colleen Ballinger is using blackface in the video but according to Andrew Bretler an attorney for Colleen Ballinger face paint was actually green the reason why being Colleen Ballinger had just performed wicked where she was in full green face paint and makeup and then afterwards had done a quick change had come out but still decided to keep part of her face green keep that in mind she still kept part of her face green to come out and perform single ladies no one else had green face paint on just Colleen Ballinger as she's performing single ladies now i've seen a lot of debate back and forth i've seen some people say green face paint or not this is still clearly blackface and i've seen other people on the other side saying even bringing this up and claiming its blackface is distracting from some of the legitimate things that Colleen Ballinger is doing because it gives Colleen and her attorneys an out something that they can direct all of their attention and energy to to defeat in my personal opinion i think that this video still has very strange optics i mean if you're doing any sort of costume change and you know that you're going to perform single ladies which is a song made by a black woman and you have any sort of face paint on why not just take a makeup wipe and wipe off the face paint on your face if you know that you're doing a Beyonce cover after performing wicked growing up i was a ballet dancer so i know a little bit about stage performances and looking at that green face paint it's just terribly done too so it's like you couldn't have had one stage person or dance mom or someone backstage take off that face paint really quickly before performing single ladies i mean you could have tried harder also the person who originally posted the claim of blackface has now been receiving a lot of hate which i also think is unfair because at first glance the green looks similar to black it's reasonable for someone to think that and make that mistake also with stage lighting green can look very similar to black and of course that's the only allegation that calling Ballinger's lawyers are jumping on so quickly and refuting what about all the other allegations that have been made me that just says that calling is guilty of all the other allegations if the only thing her lawyers can refute or deny is just saying actually that paint is green and according to josh calling Ballinger's ex this is all intentional as a way to do blackface without actually doing blackface as was posted in the calling Ballinger's snark subreddit by minimum underscore step underscore six seven eight seven joshua confirms her accidental blackface was intentional he tweet replied to pagey in support of you your mental health and to help clear your name that bit is intentional it's as if the character doesn't get it while she continues to perform a black artist song with stuff on her face the audience is like what well the character is like what i hope you are okay so from what it sounds like what joshua is saying is that even though calling Ballinger wasn't fully doing blackface in that video doesn't mean that the intention behind what she was doing wasn't there so the whole debate over whether it was green or black paint distracts from the discussion at hand and the hate that the creator pagey's receiving for this may not be justified calling Ballinger created the character Miranda sings as a character that sort of stumbles upon unintentional racism so throughout the Miranda sings comedic career there's many bits that have unintentional racism though it's all very intentional and very designed it's all designed to make the audience uncomfortable the Miranda sings character pretends to be completely oblivious to how racist she's being throughout these bits it's Miranda sings oblivious racism is something that calling Ballinger has written up into skits very often whether she posts as Miranda sings lettering gibberish while pretending to talk in another language or posts the story of Thanksgiving in an extremely inaccurate way I'm such a lost pilgrim I'm Christopher Columbus I have found this land of America thank you for rescuing me Columbus hearing a feathered headdress speaking in gibberish again and doing an inaccurate reenactment of the first Thanksgiving this is my pet Squanto I'm hungry good news I caught a turkey so we're going to eat it together I'm called Thanksgiving where Miranda sings doing a parody of the Korean pop song Gangnam style where she again sings gibberish oh comedy equals casual racism by pretending to speak another language by speaking gibberish so funny Miranda sings character also posted a video titled how to sing like a black woman which was supposed to be a tutorial about how to sing like a black woman how to sing like a big black woman now some of you might say that this is racist um it isn't because he said it not me well if you want to sing like a big black talented woman what she would do is sing a really loud with really lots of a brothel shake your head and then a vibrato come out so for example there's also of course the offensive video that calling Ballinger did with her sister I am rosa this is my cousin we work at the taco together I crossed the border I went to borders and then I read a book on how to make my look there was also the my family video that made fun of Asian stereotypes now interestingly enough this part of the video has been completely edited out on calling Ballinger's channel but the original version has been reposted on youtube the weird part about this is her whole family was involved in this video so it makes you wonder if certain racist beliefs have been shared within her family next co-worker April Corto Kio board recently with her experiences working closely alongside calling Ballinger as a showrunner and writer's assistant on the set of the Netflix show haters back off April recalled an instance where calling used the n word and wrote disturbing insidious innuendo storylines April wrote about her experiences on her blog ApologizeToMe.com and April emphasized many instances of blatant racism as well as Ballinger's general cruelty to those around her on meeting calling my first impression of her was that she was boisterous opinionated and had a stunning lack of humility that was unlike anything I had ever seen April wrote April said that Colleen would brazenly comment on her hair, clothes and personal life and April called Colleen's lack of boundaries remarkable Kio was the only person of color working with calling Ballinger on haters back off April claims that she was the only black person working in the office but that she knew how to make nice working in a white space I recall overhearing Colleen once bragged that a creator was being canceled for saying the n word and that she would never be stupid enough to get caught doing something like that April said Kio pointing out that Ballinger had used the slur itself it was almost like she took a weird pleasure in making me uncomfortable and knowing that even if I wanted to there was absolutely nothing I could do about it Ballinger put an emphasis on not having people of color cast or extras April even recalled when the show was looking at doing a scene in an Asian food market I took note as Colleen was shown an Asian food market that would be redressed as a bodega for the show and watch her disgust as she demanded assurance that all the Asian shit would be removed before filming and Colleen Ballinger seemed unbothered by the show's all white cast I sat patiently as the powers that be expressed concern that the entire main cast for the show was white and silently prayed that since someone with some actual say had spoken up things might change and I took note yet again as Colleen assured them that they had only casted the best person for each role and that it wasn't her fault that all those people ended up being white according to April Colleen Ballinger also insisted on writing in suist storylines and scenes between related characters on the show and it's worth noting that haters back off target audience was minors Kio said she was shocked by the show's predominantly younger audience and the hours she claims Ballinger spent trying to think of a way to show Miranda and Uncle Jim all but having on screen she often pitched stories in which Miranda and Uncle Jim would be caught in compromising positions or stomach-churning moments of intimacy that could always be easily explained away by a clueless Miranda in one instance Kio had been asked to look for mock-ups of the daddy saddle prop that Ballinger used on the show to ride on her uncle's back she also claims to have been forced to mark points in the script where Ballinger thought Uncle Jim could have been even more the content viewed by a vulnerable child watching could make it nearly impossible to identify inappropriate adult behavior in their own lives it's unfortunate that there was a power dynamic at play where April had no say on this production and had to sit back and watch Colleen Ballinger completely take advantage of this powerful position she was in to put all white people in these roles that she was storylines into her show have a lack of boundaries between staff members and continue her pattern of inappropriate relationships even when working on sets it's extremely unfortunate and i'm really sorry to hear that happened to April an article came out that many are labeling a hit piece the article is very strange me because it doesn't touch much on the accusations and only mentions Adam McIntyre by name almost painting him out to be enacting a targeted campaign against calling Ballinger all for fame and attention is the classic method which people have attacked and tried to silence victims from speaking out all throughout history where they want attention they're obsessed with the perpetrator it goes on and on the same old stories and this article was posted surprisingly by Vanity Fair by Andrew Quintana titled how the Miranda Sings calling Ballinger scandal went off the rails and in the opening statement article states how the drama is tearing YouTube apart which i think most people disagree with that statement as everyone's kind of been on the same page about the entire situation and there's some just in general very strange quotes in this Vanity Fair article for example this quote here that reads various allegations remain unverified left to endlessly circulate as they fall under that ever-expanding umbrella of inappropriate behavior various allegations remain unverified what has actually been unverified that's my question there's been provable text messages that calling Ballinger confirms herself when she says many years ago i used to message my fans many years ago i used to message my fans there's been video proof of her doing inappropriate acts on stage or doing creepy or racist things on camera literally what is not verified the only thing that i would say was unverified and defined as the vague statement of inappropriate behavior was Johnny Sylvesterie's statements about Joshua David Evans where he provided very little evidence and just stated that Joshua had an inappropriate relationship with him which we now may have a clearer picture as to why that was the case but instead of Vanity Fair mentioning the aspect of the story they only mention Adam by name and only paint Colleen as the victim in a sense this is a familiar story for the social media age is it is this a familiar story with the social media age because it shouldn't be this should not be a familiar story with the social media age can we make it not a familiar story with the social media age because i would like it to not be a familiar story with the social media age. I would like that very much. I think we all would like that very much. But Ballinger's downfall is unique. It certainly is unique. She brought teens into an adult world. She did bring teens into an adult world. She brought teens into an adult world and made it feel like it was theirs. Yeah. Saw those fans turn against her. Fans turned against Colleen once she disappointed them, which they have, I don't know, every right to do. This writer, I would say journalist, but according to Lit Hub, Andrew Quintana is actually just a writer. This writer, Andrew Quintana is trying to make it out as if Colleen Ballinger, again, a victim of her own fans, who she gave the gift of bringing them into an adult world. So she gave them the gift of bringing them is what you're saying here. Again, the whole article is written in a very odd way. Assuming that these child fans are seeking payback from this former star that they looked up to. Very odd. I can understand why people are sketched out from this article. Adam also did a video talking about the Vanity Fair article, even though this Vanity Fair piece mentioned Adam McIntyre over and over again, they never reached out to Adam McIntyre for comment, which is very interesting for such a prestigious publication to not do that. If you're in a big publication and you're making statements against someone or for someone, you need to ask them for a comment and you need to allow them a chance to respond. And if you do not do that, it's unethical reporting, which can then be looked into legally because it's bias reporting on a big platform and then it's whoever falls liable, whether it's Vanity Fair or the journalist or the editors. The article also minimized what Colleen Ballinger did, yet continually attacked Adam for speaking out too much, which is again the classic victim blaming, attacking the way a victim is supposed to speak and the manner in which they're supposed to do so. And the fact that they don't mention Trisha's name, I think is trying to get Trisha not to respond to it. And I believe that that was something in my opinion that Colleen's camp would push for for Trisha not to be mentioned by name. So with such a chaotic, tumultuous, disastrous aftermath of an apology, I'm sure you're wondering, is this all a joke? Has this all been a toxic gossip train? There's been so much commentary and coverage on such a sick, disturbing thing, and why? Well, in my opinion, the world needs to be aware about this, because we have to be aware of these practices to stop these sort of things from happening in the future. We thought maybe a new generation wouldn't continue the same old patterns, but we were incredibly naive to think that. Because abusive people don't just exist within the same generation, culture, or demographic. Abusive people exist all over the world. Andy Warhol said, They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Can't just point out these systemic problems and then hope they get resolved in time. Or they will keep popping up again and again over time in new ways. Same problem, different font. You actually have to make the change, not just notice it. Colleen Ballinger represents every exploitative person from these past ways. We've used their power and power imbalances to take advantage of people. He's used a lack of checks and balances and a lack of regulations, a lack of transparency, and a lack of accountability to exploit the most vulnerable. I'm sure there are many watching who have dealt with a Colleen Ballinger in their lifetime. That's all for today's video. Thank you so much for watching if you made it to the end. Comment if you like the new set upgrades. I'd love to know what you think. Thank you so much for watching. I appreciate it since we put so much effort into these videos. 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