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Colleen Ballinger, the popular YouTuber known for her quirky, red lipstick-wearing character Miranda Sings, is facing backlash from fans for denying the grooming accusations against her with a bizarre ukulele song.
The 36-year-old personality, whose content mostly appeals to preteens, uploaded a 10-minute video Wednesday entitled “hi.” She flippantly took “accountability” for her actions while simultaneously criticizing cancel culture.
“Some people are saying things about me that just aren’t true,” she said in a sing-song voice. “Even though my team has strongly advised me not to say what I’m going to say, I realized they never said I couldn’t sing about what I want to say.”
Ballinger, who has been on YouTube for more than 15 years, stated that early in her career she “used to message my fans — but not in a creepy way, like a lot of you are trying to suggest. It was more of a loser kind of way. I was just trying to be besties with everybody.”
She admitted that “there were times in DMs when I would overshare,” but said she “changed my behavior and took accountability.”
Her statements are in response to accusations by YouTuber Adam McIntyre, 20, who first claimed in a 2020 YouTube video that Ballinger allegedly formed an inappropriate personal friendship with him while he was 13 to 16 years old.
