Colleen Ballinger addresses \u201ccreepy\u201d accusations from 17-year-old fan Colleen Vlogs, YouTubeYouTube star Colleen Ballinger, the creator behind the online persona \u2018Miranda Sings,\u2019 has finally addressed longstanding accusations from Adam McIntyre, a 17-year-old fan who accused her of inappropriate behavior toward him. McIntyre, who has uploaded regular videos regarding his relationship with Ballinger, came forward in an April vlog admitting that the YouTube star had sent him unused lingerie when he was 13. The young fan also claimed that Ballinger discussed her divorce from her ex-husband with him, as well as recruited McIntyre as a sort of social media expert for her official Twitter accounts, with the promise of one day gaining an \u201cinternship\u201d in the future. These accusations quickly went viral across the net, and many fans were upset that Ballinger hadn\u2019t addressed the matter, with many accusing the YouTuber of \u201cignoring\u201d the damning allegations against her. Those concerns got answered on May 12, after Ballinger uploaded a video titled \u201cAddressing everything,\u201d in which she responded to the outrage against old videos of herself fat-shaming another person on a plane, portraying racist caricatures, and even admitting to an instance of animal cruelty. The final segment of her video discussed the drama surrounding McIntyre, with Ballinger explaining that she\u2019d done an unboxing livestream for her fans during that time and had given away articles of clothing to viewers. Known for giving away outrageous items like a \u201ctaco costume\u201d and a \u201csingle piece of toilet paper,\u201d Ballinger thought nothing of sending unused lingerie from the haul to her then 13-year-old fan, which was received as a funny joke by her fanbase at the time. \u201cNow, in hindsight, I see how completely stupid of me \u2014 I should have never sent that,\u201d she stated. \u201cI don\u2019t know what part of my brain was missing at the time, that I thought, \u2018Oh, this is a normal, silly thing to do.\u2019 I should have realized and recognized how dumb that was.\u201d \u201cIt was never a sneaky, creepy, gross thing I did in secret,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt was a silly, stupid mistake that now is being blown way out of proportion.\u201d She likewise addressed claims of not following through with her \u201cinternship\u201d promise after receiving backlash on a social media post, admitting that she hadn\u2019t reviewed the offending tweet \u201cclosely enough.\u201d The YouTuber also confessed to \u201coversharing\u201d with her fans in relation to concerns of her speaking about her divorce with McIntyre, and ultimately wished him the best. Adam\u2019s mother has since responded to the matter via his Twitter account, clarifying that she hadn\u2019t implied \u201clegal action\u201d against Ballinger for speaking up on the issue. https:\/\/twitter.com\/adammcintyree\/status\/1260389353211203594?s=20 Adam himself has yet to respond to her video at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Colleen Ballinger addresses \u201ccreepy\u201d accusations from 17-year-old fan Colleen Vlogs, YouTubeYouTube star Colleen Ballinger, the creator behind the online persona \u2018Miranda Sings,\u2019 has finally addressed longstanding accusations from Adam McIntyre, a 17-year-old fan who accused her of inappropriate behavior toward him. McIntyre, who has uploaded regular videos regarding his relationship with Ballinger, came forward in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}