Colleen Ballinger\u2019s ukulele \u2018non-apology\u2019 mocked on social media: \u201cIt\u2019s beyond sick\u201d Youtuber: Colleen BallingerSocial media users negatively responded to Colleen Ballinger\u2019s recent \u201cnon-apology\u201d video. They could not fathom the way she reacted to the accusations against her. Colleen, more popularly known as Miranda Sings, has been getting backlash for her \u201ccringe\u201d video. She was recently accused of being inappropriate with and \u201cgrooming\u201d her young fans. The YouTuber was also accused of using some of her fans for free labor. The video responding to the allegations was titled, \u201cThis is not an apology\u201d. Ballinger addresses allegations in a YouTube video Colleen responded to the accusations with a YouTube video where she is singing and playing a ukele. She improvised a song to talk about the allegations \u2013 which did not go down well with some social media users. The influencer revealed that her management team had \u201cstrongly advised\u201d to not address the situation, but she said that they never told her she couldn\u2019t sing about it instead. Colleen then sang a ten-minute song, with lyrics about heading to \u201cmanipulation station\u201d by hopping on a \u201ctoxic gossip train\u201d. One of the accusations against her included a girl who was called up on stage and was asked to participate in a \u201cyoga challenge\u201d. The girl was 16 at the time when the incident happened. The events led to the young fan saying she had a terrible experience and was left \u201ctraumatized\u201d. Social media responds to Colleen\u2019s ukulele video Many users were unimpressed by the response video. One viral Tweet said, \u201cColleen Ballinger really thought singing \u2018I\u2019m not a groomer I\u2019m just a loser\u2019 was a cute way to respond to the very SERIOUS allegations that\u2019ve been levied against her and\u2026it\u2019s beyond sick.\u201d A YouTube comment questioned how Colleen thought this was a good idea while preparing this, rehearsing, and sitting down to record it, and called her \u201cdelusional\u201d. While another comment under the video reads, \u201cThis isn\u2019t All Too Well 10-minute version girl, you groomed kids\u201d. Many others made memes about the situation and how the YouTuber chose to react to it. At the time of writing, Ballinger has not responded to the criticism of her apology video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Colleen Ballinger\u2019s ukulele \u2018non-apology\u2019 mocked on social media: \u201cIt\u2019s beyond sick\u201d Youtuber: Colleen BallingerSocial media users negatively responded to Colleen Ballinger\u2019s recent \u201cnon-apology\u201d video. They could not fathom the way she reacted to the accusations against her. Colleen, more popularly known as Miranda Sings, has been getting backlash for her \u201ccringe\u201d video. She was recently […]<\/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-46072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46072","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=46072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}