Colleen Ballinger tears up reflecting on \u201cdarkest days\u201d in 2023 YouTube: Colleen VlogsDisgraced YouTuber Colleen Ballinger, aka Miranda Sings, teared up reflecting on 2023 in her first vlog of the new year, calling her viral scandal the \u2018darkest days\u2019 she\u2019d experienced. Colleen Ballinger is an OG YouTuber best known for her comedic character \u2018Miranda Sings.\u2019 While Ballinger enjoyed a large fanbase for over a decade, she was hit with accusations of grooming a young viewer back in 2020. Although these allegations came and went without much fanfare, they returned in 2023 as more fans spoke up about their indecent experiences with the YouTube star. This prompted several sponsors to drop Ballinger and caused her live tour to get canceled \u2014 but the most prominent backlash occurred when she responded to the accusations with a bizarre, ten-minute ukulele song. Her response video instantly went viral, prompting parodies from critics and even from one of her accusers. Since then, she\u2019s been silent on her main channel but has resumed vlogging on her Colleen Vlogs channel over the past two months. Colleen Ballinger speaks out after \u201cdarkest days\u201d in 2023 On January 3, Ballinger uploaded her first vlog of 2024, where she reflected on her past year \u2014 and although she didn\u2019t directly address the accusations against her, she did tear up discussing some of the negative aspects of her life over the past 12 months. \u201c2023 was not my favorite year I\u2019ve ever lived,\u201d she admitted. \u201c..I learned a lot about the internet. I learned a lot about myself and qualities that I don\u2019t like about myself. I learned things about myself that I do love. I learned that it\u2019s better that I\u2019m here on this Earth than not.\u201d \u201cI learned a lot about trust and friendships and the media, and I\u2019m probably never going to believe anything I read or hear in the media for the rest of my life.\u201d \u201cWhat I\u2019m trying to say is that there can be beauty in hard times. [The] darkest days I\u2019ve ever seen in my life were in 2023, and I would not have seen so many beautiful things without those dark times, so I\u2019m grateful for all of it.\u201d This is the latest to come from Ballinger after the accusations went viral last year. She did upload another apology video following the fallout from her ukulele song in November, after which she\u2019s resumed vlogging as normal. For now, it looks like Ballinger is focusing on her family and is \u201cgrateful\u201d for the lessons the last year has taught her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Colleen Ballinger tears up reflecting on \u201cdarkest days\u201d in 2023 YouTube: Colleen VlogsDisgraced YouTuber Colleen Ballinger, aka Miranda Sings, teared up reflecting on 2023 in her first vlog of the new year, calling her viral scandal the \u2018darkest days\u2019 she\u2019d experienced. Colleen Ballinger is an OG YouTuber best known for her comedic character \u2018Miranda Sings.\u2019 […]<\/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-46066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46066","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=46066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}