Colleen's New "Apology" Just Destroyed Her Career

[@slipperynoodles7432]

this apology is literally the equivalent of responding to a well organized argument with "nuh-uh"

[@Waylon-Pierce]

I thought the exact same thing

[@BigOstrichBob]

nuh uh

[@sirkiz1181]

“Ok but have you considered the fact that I don’t agree??”

[@MID-CRISIS27]

That reminds me of the- 'Objection! Nuh-uh' audio

[@rockification]

nuh uh 🤓

[@HeisenbergFam]

The fact she managed to make an apology worse than Sienna Mae who danced in an apology is a cursed achievement

[@spookygabs]

Next influencer apology is gonna be a rap at this point

[@JDM-is-my-name]

Or maybe someone who hires a translater

[@soupeater]

omg siennas modern dance is the first thing i thought of when she grabbed the ukelele

[@DolefulEyedDanny]

​@berryfied nah, a power ballad about how they're stronger for making mistakes

[@siena2248]

Deadass tho, an apology is not the place to express your artistic inclinations mostly cause High School Musical is not reality FOR A REASON

[@hmuehr]

People need to stop calling this an “apology” SHE NEVER SAID SORRY.

[@poppie531]

I was looking for this comment. I watched her video as soon as it came out and never associated it as an apology video just a stupid song while she sinks and goes down with her ship of lies

[@ned_arb]

good point

[@cynthiaisako]

!!!!!

[@venusrodriguez5263]

Right she kept saying she’s taking responsibility and DIDNT ONE BIT.

[@coolpumpkins453]

She didn’t apologize she reminded everyone that SHE is always the victim

[@awetistic5295]

Dear minors, if your "weird aunt" asks you about your favorite positions or spreads your legs with the excuse of a fart joke, please tell your parents about it. Her behavior wouldn't be okay as a family member either.

[@banannie2791]

THIS ^^^

[@hotdogwater9580]

Always tell a trusted adult if someone makes you uncomfortable! Even if its another trusted adult, always say something!

[@siriustaylorsversion]

YES, THANK YOU.

[@atanvardecunambiel8917]

She’s just like Miranda’s Uncle Jim.

[@yukiokuma8983]

THIS

[@CanIswearinmyhandle]

You know what? I think every apology video should be a music number, and then each year we have like a eurovision contest to decide the worst one

[@JDM-is-my-name]

This would be amazing. The winner gets one free scandal Edit to clarify; the worst one would not win, the best one would. Its golf. The worst one gets yeeted off the planet (as suggested by another commenter) and the best one gets a free scandal

[@wildfire5838]

@@JDM-is-my-nameONE FREE SCANDAL☠️☠️☠️

[@kelsey4944]

HAHA

[@purplehibiscus]

Soooo smart so true

[@FabiolaRVela]

BROOOO 🤣 😂

[@emilydj]

saying "the only thing ive ever groomed is my cats" in response to having grooming allegations is INSANEEEE

[@rats_in_a_PACK]

it's giving an alleged murderer saying "the only thing i've ever killed is this outfit- slaayyyyy✨✨"

[@suds7753]

​@@rats_in_a_PACKdon't give her ideas 💀 she would 100% say something like that in court

[@hofrmdava]

IT REALLY IS LMFAO 💀🔫

[@inisaiahsfreezer]

LIKE 😭

[@ellieanderson5745]

@@rats_in_a_PACK THIS IS SO FUNNY

[@jax_firestorm9689]

As someone who has literally attempted to escape a mental hospital before, I’ve finally realized that I haven’t actually hit rock bottom, because rock bottom is clearly whatever the fuck Colleen is doing.

[@vcabrera5396]

Goddamn, this made me laugh and feel terrible for laughing 😂

[@Sleepyratcoon]

​@@vcabrera5396same

[@fIamingoslefttoe]

i dont know a lick of information about whats in this video (just clicked on it) and im second guessing how awful this situation is given that info ☠️

[@user-vd8nm8sv6x]

LITERALLY. As somebody who spent weeks in a hospital on ketamine and oxy for pain, getting 2+ litres of fluid drained from my chest after bleeding internally for 12 hours…. whatever this is that colleen posted is definitely rock bottom.

[@Pan-oy2ck]

Thank you for this revelation, I've now realized the same about myself.

[@Katherine44477]

The fact that she made it 10 minutes to get it monetized is bananas

[@feralsgoose]

Exactly 😭

[@AlexandriteRush]

And then she calls out people for "monetizing her demise" lmao 🤣

[@pipitayun.r2763]

she has a big brain 💀

[@kelvisaisawesome]

@@pipitayun.r2763nah, if she did she’d understand sending underwear to children is disgusting and shouldn’t be done. Not to mention don’t send them buses of your grown friend. That’s illegal.

[@tradutorajuliana]

I can't help but think that she did that because she knew her career was gonna be over, because her last videos have got less views (like 100k, 200k) and the apology video got her 10 million views, so I think she knew what she was doing and that's so f*cked up...

[@me_ruh]

Colleen calling herself a “loser” as an excuse for speaking inappropriately to minors is giving James Charles calling himself “desperate” as an excuse to flirting with minors.

[@Tom-ul3gb]

exactly ….. so unhinged

[@tessaclaire1152]

To me it feels like Colleen is trying to gain sympathy by self deprecating herself. I’ve seen her do this before in vlogs and it isn’t self deprecating humor, it’s straight up whining about how “no one cares about me or watches these videos” when there millions of people watching her (yes she said this in a vlog once a few years ago)

[@namjoonie936]

😭😭FR

[@alexisreads]

YES. I’m so glad someone made this parallel too. I was just about to comment. It’s the first thing I thought of. Same vibes as James.

[@Imgonnakmsong]

It's ironic because James defended her at some point

[@annabellakokoyachuk5720]

“Im not a groomer, just a loser” is the CRAZIEST thing i’ve EVER heard from a grown adult addressing serious allegations. And her saying they’re all lying for clout is wild considering how much evidence there is against her.

[@sierrarobinson4447]

Like we all knew she was a loser, two things can be true

[@RP_76]

It's as bad as saying I was desperate 🤭

[@toadfukawa5947]

Just like those mfs on to catch a predator used to say “oh I just wanted somebody to talk to”

[@Jelloitsme]

Didn’t James Charles say the same thing? Or something similar? I’m going crazy 😐

[@foolmechickensoupwithrice]

Yeah it smells like Shane Dawson in here

[@shbeebop]

Imagine you were accused of inappropriate behavior at your office job and called into a meeting with HR and your boss and you bring a ukelele

[@kxx8855]

This made me laugh so hard 🤣

[@be.A.b]

Predator: Confirmed

[@ryobadwolf4587]

Imagine you accuse YOUR BOSS of inappropriate behavior and he calls you into his office, and he's just sitting there, waiting for you, with a ukulele???

[@MakaykayLAMB]

😂😂😂😂

[@moxiemaxie3543]

I'm not because I don't waste my time and don't do the things shes done 😂

[@madisonwood3379]

Ending a terrible apology video with "fuck me, right?" And a hard cut to black IS ACTUALLY INSANE

[@summermunson9324]

ABSOLUTE INSANITY FOR SURE

[@ronronthebat1740]

wild asf

[@Idontknowwhattodolmao]

37:16

[@tartnouveau3652]

Colleen: gets accused of grooming children and interacting inappropriately Also Colleen: Responds to said allegations in a childish and inappropriate way

[@tirzxh]

fr, this is so unserious💀 she’s not sorry

[@tmarie69]

No fr. If someone accuses you of grooming, the absolute last thing you should do is apologize in a song. THIS LOOKS LIKE HOW YOU WOULD GROOM A CHILD!!

[@abyssoffortitude]

@@tmarie69 THIS.

[@iAMshelberz]

It seems like a ploy to make herself look more "innocent" and not like a grown adult who doesn't want to be accountable for their actions

[@peachy_lili]

@@iAMshelberz she doesn't realize that putting her MO out there for everybody to see isn't the wisest move, lol

[@kyleb7991]

The fact that she says “I’m not a groomer, I’m just a loser” is one of the most dangerous things she could have possibly said. Not only is it just not true, but that allows other people who are groomers to explain away the harm they’ve caused to others by being like “see guys, I wasn’t being predatory, I was a loser and wanted friends!”

[@Crabby-Abby]

THIS THIS THIS. It's DEEPLY dangerous.

[@brieg1891]

Agreed. Also isn't that what James Charles already did? "I wasn't using the power dynamic to coerce fans into sexual interactions... I was just a desperate loser!"

[@TartRobot]

That's literally a tactic predators already use, and she's using it here.

[@wickedgiggle]

Yup, the two are not mutually exclusive. It makes sense that a person who would try to groom kids would in fact be a loser. Obviously that's not always the case but yes, losers can be creepy and inappropriate.

[@FabiolaRVela]

It has the same vibes James Charles gave when he said he was just “desperate” 😬

[@c.ccarlhead5744]

"The only thing I groomed was my cats" Colleen, you asked children their favorite sex positions

[@LuLu24Ayo]

oh and “virginity” oh and “tell me about ur first periods” oh and- it keeps going

[@angxl20]

Still saying that is absolutely atrocious and insane, she's joining forces with Shane now whaaat😭

[@drybones6956]

And vented and burdened them with her adult problems in her marriage and stuff like they were her friends, kids aren’t your therapist

[@taginefc3189]

I’ve watched a decade of famous KZbinrs and their nonsense… clearly no one learns from the mistakes of the past. The absurdity is astounding. 😶

[@Brophie1111]

And her cats look like shit they are not being groomed 😭

[@Melody-td5hd]

What a terrible time to not be able to see dislikes on KZbin. I would PAY to see the number of dislikes on her video.

[@angelic428]

I really wish everyone liked it so the collective internet gaslit her into thinking it worked and she ate with it 😭☠️

[@ishaanesthan9707]

At the moment we got 81k likes to 862k dislikes

[@katherinewren9906]

​@billysnickersYou're a hero, thank you!

[@sourstrapped]

​@billysnickers84 thousand people liked her video?!? That's far too many, way too many for a song from a child predator abt how she's actually just a sad little loser with no friends 😭😂

[@udontsubugay86]

It has 1M dislikes now 💀

[@andi-bo2kt]

someone remind her she isn't a quirky disney protagonist, she's a LITERAL GROOMER.

[@msfluorescent]

OOOOOF you know this is EXACTLY what she thinks of herself as lmao

[@Gnadab]

So a Disney employee then.

[@trsitianniebla]

I'm new to this.... is there proof of this allegation?

[@msfluorescent]

@@trsitianniebla plenty. There are countless screenshots of inappropriate messages she's sent to the minors in her group chat, live recordings of her sending underwear to a minor fan or having a child put their hand down her pants. She is incredibly creepy and has been for YEARS. That's why this video she made is insane because there is so much proof it's not even debatable at this point.

[@GenericUsername1388]

​@@trsitiannieblashe spread a girl's legs open on stage and asked kids if they are virgins and what their favorite sex position is

[@awsome_fada_1975]

“I didn’t realize all of you were perfect.” If Colleen’s definition of perfect is not talking to children about sex, not making a child shove their hand down your pants, not spreading a kids legs open infront of hundreds of people, not monetizing harmful stereotypes and the lives of your own children, not abusing your power to get free labor and forcing your fans who are minors to bully other minors ….. then yeah Colleen, I’m fucking perfect.

[@krushn4]

THIS

[@JDM-is-my-name]

I'm the most perfect person to exist, according to Colleen

[@capycapy8920]

They got my names on the gates of heaven with how perfect I am fr

[@bananaxoonana8131]

same bro

[@cloudydays6374]

Yea like if perfect means not being sexual with kids, then ig I’m perfect!

[@chelseafitzgerald7577]

“I can’t say it so I’ll just sing it” is the punchline of Disney Channel movies…not an apology video!

[@clutterlilly]

YESS LMAO PLS SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS SO CLEVER FOR THAY

[@SilviaHQ]

no because cat valentine actually said almost that exact thing one time. it’s wild

[@aislincole7]

This was not her apology. With the gravity of the situation her team is probably taking their time deciding what to say.

[@theaterkween5791]

The way that it's an actual punchline in Victorious

[@robinbanks7263]

also a punchline in an icarly episode

[@DistantLoner]

I remember Kurtis Conner doing a silly little skit about pulling out a guitar in an apology video, and it winning over the haters immediately. It's funny because it's comically unrealistic. What was Colleen thinking?

[@morganhackworth84]

Do you remember which video? Sounds so familiar

[@DistantLoner]

@@morganhackworth84 I think it was called "Getting Cancelled".

[@morganhackworth84]

@@DistantLoner Thanks!

[@sourstrapped]

Also Kurtis didn't get in trouble for grooming children 😅 like you can be a little more lighthearted with some apologies if it was a genuine mistake and you mean the apology/take responsibility, but not for serious allegations with a lot of evidence. Absolutely insane of her to do this

[@rescuerex7031]

her goal isn't to win over people her goal, is to keep the image that she's innocent to her mostly child audience she's not trying to defuse the situation, she's purposely trying to get her fans to hate on the people rightfully calling her out

[@jesssod]

I never thought I would hear a grown woman sing-yell “ALL ABOARD!!! 👩‍✈️” in an apology video about grooming minors 💀💀

[@natalialondono1356]

Stoppp, 😭 i know! I was not ready for this today

[@natalialondono1356]

Stoppp, 😭 i know! I was not ready for this today

[@Vee-lu7qx]

she's all aboard the pedo train to prison 👮‍♀

[@staciii]

It's not even technically an apology video. She's literally denying everything

[@JuneLotte]

The minors aboarding the boat so she can take them to a place where she can gaslight and manipulate them : 🚶

[@ashley9259]

the fact that she took 3 weeks to write and rehearse an entire song, but not ONCE took a second to realize that maybe this isn’t the greatest idea

[@mackenzy.mp4]

I bet her team is going nuts rn

[@TANATOR02]

@@mackenzy.mp4 yeah they are deleting comments under her video by the second. They are trying to keep the comments at bay. But i think her career is over with this

[@MakaykayLAMB]

Worst fucking idea, dude. Where are her FRIENDS she couldn’t consult ANYONE?!!!

[@meowiestwo]

i got blocked from commenting immediately lol

[@TANATOR02]

@@meowiestwo Damn they are that desperate huh?

[@annikala]

Let’s imagine she’s completely innocent for a minute. Even in that case, this video is still an INSANE choice to make.

[@valentinahenao4527]

yes! exploiting minors is a subject that should be taking seriously, not with a quirky ukelele song !!!

[@MysticLGD]

​@@valentinahenao4527Also love how she brings up that they are lying but provides no form of evidence.

[@elianavelez4678]

^^^^

[@sinjinyte]

⁠@@valentinahenao4527I saw the video 2h after it dropped and when I saw her whip out the ukulele I immediately clicked off and didn’t wanna hear her sing for 10 mins 💀 not only is it a bad mistake but as someone who grew up watching Miranda sings I’ve never liked her singing. So the fact that she responded with singing?? Must show how messed up in the head she is and it’s crazy to know we never realized how psychotic she was.

[@sinjinyte]

How psychotic she was and still is^^

[@mackenzie3009]

I’m 22 years old and work at a high school, and my brain can’t register the students as anything other than children. The idea of sharing any personal information with those kids is incomprehensible to me. Whereas Colleen’s pushing 40 and sharing sexual information (and sending underwear?????) to VERY young minors. How anyone can rationalize that to themselves is beyond me.

[@nathanmedina2809]

High school lol high schoolers are not children dumbo. Maybe learn some biological facts 😂 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ And what does this have anything to do with anything. So off topic

[@axelpevensie6271]

26 and even my 18/20 years old coworkers are kids in my eyes. I call them kids. The 16 years olds who work part time are BABIES.

[@luv4tajhanb]

I’m 30 and 20 year olds and younger register as kids to me, personally. I couldn’t imagine someone my age or older speaking to teens and preteens like she did/does. Ickkk.

[@layneheater2053]

She also spread a kid's legs, had a kid reach down her pants, used illegal child labor, and showed I believe Trisha paitas's nudes, I don't understand how people can like look at a grown woman doing that to kids and not just I don't know putting her in a cell

[@jamj4r]

Fr tho. I got a late start on college so I'm a 26 and a junior and I'm seeing these 18 yo in my dorm and they look like babies. We were all in a video game club together and I helped 3 of these kids to leave it bc the club head was a massive creep to them. I left it too and offered to go with any of them to report the guy if they wanted bc I know what it's like at that age and to be creeped on like that. It's scary to do something about it especially alone. They justed wanted to move on, so I reported only what I saw without bringing them up and the club is now very supervised. Bc surprise surprise not the first time it happened.

[@BeansKneez]

she yoyoed between "this is misinformation, none of it's true" and "i'm only human, don't judge me for making a mistake" so wildly my eyes crossed

[@deathsheadhawkmoths]

RIGHT

[@phishcatt]

And she has an actual apology video out some time ago, apologising for some of this shit, but now she's backtracking. She's seeing lawsuits coming and she's panicking or something? She's disgusting.

[@Lucifersfursona]

Even if I did do anything which I didn’t which if I did how dare you judge me which if I did do it I was just a silly little girl (of 34) which is fine which by the way is fine which I did if I did it wasn’t wrong which I didn’t do it because it’s all made up and if I did it’s being misunderstood which I didn’t which I did which I wouldn’t ever and when I was it was with good intentions and even if I was it was

[@lisaforever321]

@@LucifersfursonaLMAO literally

[@nothankyouplease226]

What got me was the fact that she immediately started off with how "it didn't even matter as long as it was entertaining" 💀

[@dipolarpencil69]

the fact that she was told NOT to make a response really shows how fucked her team knew she was. It's insane that shes not listening to the people she pays to keep her out of trouble.

[@mariac4127]

They probably looked at the evidence and told her “the only thing you can possibly do is try to wait it out and not respond.” And she did… this.

[@janiahpapaya5988]

I woulda quit the second I saw she posted a video tbh

[@daydream5120]

I do have to wonder how her team reacted when they saw this

[@Evalution307]

Probably because if she said sorry for the things she was accused of she’d be in actual legal trouble 😬

[@Anonymous-bi5pv]

If she didn't apologize she still would've been criticized lmfao (rightfully so, she is a sick creep, but still) it's a damned-if-she-does-damned-if-she-doesn't situation

[@goodoldsister6182]

A mistake is parking in the wrong spot. A mistake is forgetting your friends birthday. Mistakes are accidental, and something you do unintentionally and learn from right away. There are no “mistakes” in grooming minors. Hope the victims get proper support and respect.

[@Moo-2310]

My thoughts exactly! Mistakes are forgetting something or doing something small that you regret later. Not sending creepy texts/doing weird things to multiple kids.

[@zainahejles159]

THISSS

[@saddlerrye6725]

"I just made a mistake. I accidentally choked this person to death, but it wasn't out of bad intentions! It's not like I tried to murder someone, I merely wanted to see how long they could hold their breath! Don't pretend that you've never made a mistake before!"

[@alexisd6106]

I love the quote “it wasn’t a mistake, it was a choice.”

[@lun3952]

Imagine calling child abuse and grooming “drama” and “gossip” 😭

[@alliewankenobi]

let alone TOXIC??? ma'am the only thing that's toxic about all this is YOU

[@beccacleveland3116]

the toxic gossip traaaain 🚂

[@taginefc3189]

This goofy song tells me .. she is entitled, out of touch, and doesn’t take the harm she caused seriously. 🤢🤮 gross.

[@IngridComics]

wait, i missed it. she abused kids??? and groomed them???? explain plzzz!

[@aves1099]

@@IngridComicsR/ColleenBallingerSnark has everything she’s done if you’re interested. There’s so much she’s done it’s hard to put it all in one comment.

[@yafriendceko]

don't be too hard on her guys. it's the best apology idea that the 13 yearolds in her group chats can come up with. she might blame the 13 year old if this went bad 😭

[@tirzxh]

then she’ll ghost them and the cycle continues😵‍💫

[@misskayleebugs]

Such an underrated comment lol 😂😂

[@crims0nchin]

😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@FabiolaRVela]

This should be top comment 😂

[@strangeaelurus]

LMAOOO 😭

[@poppymist]

her apology is genuinely the craziest, most out of pocket thing i’ve ever seen 😭

[@Likelyfairy]

I legit can’t believe my eyes

[@mcoofannoyingperson7069]

@kairose2364sienna mae 💀

[@cv6442]

​@kairose2364omfgggg yep!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 This is absolutely in the same vein. I am BAFFLED!!!!

[@doctor-syrup]

I cant even call it an apology, it just comes off condescending

[@snowcity1735]

edp445

[@konstance13]

As a millennial, this may be the most 2012 thing I've ever seen. The ukulele, the rotation between speaking and cursive singing, the facial espressions 🫤, the weirdly timed jokes (my persian cats), the feigned awkwardness, even the fact that its a youtuber I havent thought about since 2012.

[@Sweet_Dee]

It is truly, PAINFULLY 2012! A comment on another video said "Colleen, there are some situations you can't just Zooey Deschanel your way out of" 💀💀 Being right on the millennial/gen z cusp is switching up which one you claim based on who did the most recent cringe thing. So this week I'm aligning myself with gen z

[@nukhbaguloter]

@@Sweet_Deewait what did zoey do??! i’ve never heard about this 😅

[@konstance13]

@nukhbaguloter I don't think Zooey has any scandals, it's that Colleen is feigning this "adorkable, manic pixie dream girl with a ukulele" aesthetic that Zooey Deschanel is known for in a situation where its 100% inappropriate.

[@nukhbaguloter]

@@konstance13 oooh that makes sense thank you!!! I could definitely see Colleen trying to imitate that vibe

[@shekhinasoumokil132]

WHY WAS IT SO THEATERY THOUGH? THE SINGING AND THE STUFF SOUNDS LIKE THEATER MUSICALS (not all but like the sterotype SOBS)

[@incandecsent]

The way that every single facial expression, gesture, ‘dramatic pause’ and sad looks away from the camera are all 100% planned and purposeful is so wild lol this woman is insane

[@ella_roadto3k]

What happened, why is she cancelled? I love her what did she do, are y’all overreacting 🥺

[@julias_tea]

@@ella_roadto3kIt was literally mentioned in the video multiple times?

[@ella_roadto3k]

@@julias_tea I don’t really understand. I heard she sexualized children but I don’t really understand because she is saying she mad a fart joke so I’m not sure where the sexualizing children came from. No need to be mean about it.

[@b_fr123]

I agree she's fucking nuts

[@julias_tea]

@@ella_roadto3k The fart joke was only mentioned by her and was not anything she actually got canceled for. I believe the joke in question was during a show where a fan came on stage and had her legs in an open position on her back when the “fart joke” was made. I believe the criticism was the position the fan was placed in more so than the joke itself. However, in this particular video that part is briefly mentioned whilst Nick mentions the numerous other reasons why she has rightfully been called out.

[@tree4110]

calling this an “apology” is really nice of you nick😭

[@t_ylr]

Exactly that wasn't an apology! She told us all to go fvck ourselves in a very obtuse, roundabout way lmao. Like the thing about being sorry or remorseful is that it shouldn't matter what other ppl think. The fact that she's so hung up on other ppl not caring that she's "changed her behavior" 😒😂 says that she's not really sorry. Sometimes you do some bad shit and ppl never give you a 2nd chance. That's life!!! It's called the consequences of your own actions.

[@oreolover9321]

Fr!!! She didn't even apologize😂

[@misstess._]

fr tho

[@cybilxunrest]

we love a charitable king 👑

[@shaihulud2977]

Apology is more of a genre than just a thing you do on YT

[@Sunflowergazer]

Her video is DEFINITELY NOT how an innocent person apologizes.

[@twiigster8848]

Exactly, all this did was making me more sure shes not only guilty but also is not sorry at all

[@Rayne1bow]

Exactly. lots of resentment in her tone 💀

[@artisticalex1206]

Definitely not! No one apologizes by playing a song.

[@seyeon_knee]

yes!! its how an emotionally abusive professional victim apologizes

[@Adeseo]

To be fair, this also isn’t how a guilty person apologizes (at least normally). This is uniquely insane.

[@Neeko--]

"I'm not a groomer, I'm a loser"... it's okay Colleen you can be both. "At least you're having fun." THE MINORS WERE NOT HAVING FUN GETTING GROOMED COLLEEN!?!?!

[@IronWangCreates]

No one is having fun Colleen. Your video is causing me psychic damage.

[@SeanStrife]

Arguably... that would be redundant because all groomers are losers.

[@Sqwidiot]

@@IronWangCreates its causing me physical damage somehow, i got a cut halfway through it

[@priellaa]

colleen balinger is more like the weird uncle that makes comments on how much you’ve grown and developed when you’re like 13 and then calls you a snowflake for being weirded out by it

[@beth-bi9yv]

Exactly!!!!!!!

[@stephaniavenegas8087]

Big opposite of cool aunt

[@JaseekaRawr]

Yes! She's the creepy uncle 😭🤮

[@volkova6209]

a lot of my family always made comments on how I've grown since they last saw me, i thought that was normal..? i don't see how that's creepy

[@sirkiz1181]

@@volkova6209the key word there was “developed” not grown

[@emilyresch7049]

It's so hard to believe she is a MOTHER. Honestly terrifying

[@mantis-manthegreat]

She pulls up to the principals office like 🎶 *singing* "I heard, "Some kid called my son a nerd, "Thats not okay, "We need to work this out today!"🎶

[@nicolacowboy]

Exactly because is she doing all of this to her own children? I could totally imagine her ranting about all of this to her tiny kids

[@bjhhb3143]

I am actually so concerned for her children

[@louwandmaker]

I feel so sad for her poor kids.

[@joycewible8816]

Oh God I didn't know that 😬

[@finchcarvingadiamond]

By just picking up the ukulele she just put a nail in the 2016 millenial youtuber coffin. End of an era.

[@5bc500]

its almost therapeutic. its finally over

[@littlewyzard]

dan and phil are still around and unproblematic :)

[@FabiolaRVela]

At last!😂

[@Wraiven22]

There are still some good ones! Julien Solomita, Anthony Padilla, Safiya, Jessi Smiles, Ethan Klein, etc.

[@hannah4669]

@@Wraiven22some of those names are not like the others

[@-toadkitty-]

The way that she said ''misinformation'' as if we literally have no evidence of this at all is wild. We literally have seen a video where she gets a little kid to put a hand down her pants and a ton of screenshots of weird things shes talked to teenagers about. She is insane. Horrifying to know shes a parent too.

[@IronWangCreates]

Not only is there a video but there’s also literally a live audience. there were PRIMARY WITNESSES

[@-toadkitty-]

@@IronWangCreates exactly!

[@spectre9340]

She really thought she could gaslight the entire internet when there's so much evidence 😭

[@kennythecoconutcrab2778]

Watching a grown woman with literal children pull out a ukulele and sing a song about how people are toxic because she acted inappropriately toward minors is the most insane thing I’ve seen ✋🏽

[@HeyHeyNingenSucker]

on god is the type of gaslight a groomer would do.

[@be3b3e65]

Fr bro like it’s wild

[@ozzie3126]

and her kids gonna see that growing up…

[@lemonmeat]

WHY DO MILLENIALS WITH UKUELES ALWAYS DO THIS BS

[@xfreja]

@@lemonmeatTHE EMOJI IS TAKING ME TF OUT 💀💀💀💀💀

[@ma_kenz]

“Not in a creepy way” but then compares herself to a weird aunt at a family gathering. The weird aunt is creepy, Colleen.

[@spectre9340]

Notice how she says "aunt"? Because everyone knows the weird _uncle_ stereotype is a creepy p3do. She thinks she's on par as some random unmarried aunt that cries at Thanksgiving because her emotional support parrot died.

[@cloudydays6374]

No fr she’s the creepy uncle who’s under investigation 😭

[@gokairedwillcipher]

*THE WEIRD AUNT IS CREEPY COLEEN*

[@stephaniecriner2796]

Right she literally confessed and then proceeded to call it "gossip" how does that even make sense 😭

[@Frijoles04]

Her cognitive dissonance is off the charts

[@Im_Merobiba_]

If I ever have allegations against me I’m making a dubstep apology

[@Im_Merobiba_]

It’ll be a dubstep remix of fight song

[@pancakebread]

@@Im_Merobiba_audibly laughed at this

[@lov3l3ssvampir3]

The Paul brothers are taking notes rn

[@Im_Merobiba_]

@@pancakebread This is my fight song What I did wasn’t right song

[@krushn4]

MEROBIBA???? IM IN TEARS

[@SKU77_GVTZ]

“i didn’t realize all of you were perfect” YOU DONT HAVE TO BE PERFECT TO NOT GROOM MINORS 😭

[@Magicalmofro]

“My team told me I couldn’t say what I wanna say. But they never said I couldn’t SING what I wanna say 😏” She must think she’s the main character in a Disney show. This is wild

[@Capataro]

Yeah she was so smug I couldn’t believe it. She really thinks this was really clever and quirky

[@Swimming_dolphins]

Girl pulled a victorious

[@desertplanet3253]

like???? you're not air bud, coleen

[@sweetcreamnpeaches9577]

Like that’s literally what cat valentine said in iparty with victorious 😭😭

[@gh0stpuppi333]

@@desertplanet3253THERES NOTHING IN THE RULES THAT SAYS COLLEEN CANT SING ABOUT IT

[@taylorg2320]

"I was told not to talk about it, so I'll sing about it :)!" in response to child grooming allegations is the most dystopian shit I've ever seen in my entire life

[@suds7753]

that line made me physically recoil 💀 she's so smug in this as if she's having her big main character moment it's unhinged

[@spOOkytimes]

It's so staged and rehearsed to while trying to seem like she is riffing. Peak 2010.

[@salemcrow5078]

I could just hear her entire PR team quit at that singular moment

[@RealElongatedMuskrat]

​@@suds7753smug is the word honestly. It seems very like a "ha, gotcha! I'm holding the mirror up to YOU!" attitude. My brain hurts.

[@takethewordss]

Also idk if thats supposed to be clever or she really thinks she did something legally smart. Pretty sure singing is admissible lmao

[@natatatm]

This is it. She won. The ultimate chronically online out of touch KZbinr controversy response that has ever been made.

[@Tom-ul3gb]

more like she Lost , Her Marbles 🫧

[@mxxkms]

shes so sociopathic i cant even

[@wrenmassey6876]

This is at the very least tied with Sienna Mae's interpretive dance apology for SAing her friend, but I think the joking tone pushes it to be somehow worse

[@Memi-cp4yc]

She's like trump

[@Non-Legit]

If this get topped we gotta just delete the internet

[@mikamoe2402]

Her stares are psycho to me. Not an ounce of remorse, let alone some sort of empathetic feelings. Even IF the allegations weren't true (which they clearly are) I would expect myself to be moved emotionally some kind of way. Confusion, exhaustion, even anger but mostly just like omg how could I have been so blind making people that I wanted to make feel good actually feel so bad? That alone would crush me. But in her eyes and her entire face I only see hate. And inconvenience she has to deal with this. No selfawaress whatsoever. Truely disturbing. Besides her traumatizing young humans, I also simply can't get over how she mistreated and spoke morbidly about animals. Y'all know what this is a sign of, don't you.

[@Divinely_Damned]

Her stare has a fucking horror movie quality to it in the whole video. Her eyes feel like, dead and sunken in. It’s definitely something abt the filters she has on to make her look younger (along with the angle of the camera and clothes. She’s trying to make herself look young and small and harmless.) her eyes are genuinely like, terrifying. If I saw those in the woods I would be getting fight or flight reactions

[@toastmysocks245]

@@Divinely_Damnedi had to hide in the comments when Nick paused the video and she was just staring with vacant, hollow eyes 😟

[@sophialima7504]

@@toastmysocks245That’s the exact thing I did!

[@del-tones]

why in the fuck did she think writing a 10 minute milennial 2015 tumblr ukulele song with 4 whole chords would be a sufficient way to respond to grooming allegations i'm going crazy right now holy shit

[@cqlzette]

she might as well have fucking played riptide while singing in cursive

[@megamandrn001]

No, see this actually was meant to be a kickstarter video for her class on dodging accountability but she uploaded it to the wrong channel

[@iangrapher]

ended it on a fuck me right no less

[@mirrortarget5729]

I looked it up and the chords are G G7 C D on repeat. Occasionally, it'll be G E7 C D, and sometimes she slips a c minor in there (I wish I was joking). The chord progression is literally I-IV-V-I, the most generic and uncreative progression in existence. When the G7 is replaced by E7, it's I-VI-IV-V-I, which is only slightly more interesting I guess. I want to read into her musical choices, but that's assuming that she put any effort at all into it. She's trying to elicit sympathy while trying to act innocent but also coming across as very resentful and insincere, and she wrote her song in G major?! Maybe she realized that if she wrote it in a minor key, the jokes would write themselves. For reference, minor keys generally sound more melancholic, so they'd be more likely to make people want to sympathize. It's been a year and I still can't figure out why she chose to respond in this way. Music can be very emotionally evocative, you'd think a person trying to manipulate people would craft their song to influence others' emotions. She failed miserably at this, so I assume that she's just not talented. Hell, looking at people showcasing her horrible "content", I don't know how anyone thought she had talent to begin with. Her only skill was manipulation, which thankfully fails when put under scrutiny.

[@Boop01013]

Asking minors ‘what’s your favorite sex position?’ is not “oversharing”. 💀

[@piesterfr]

OML FR….IT MAKES ME SO ANGRY

[@Tara-cv2kz]

I'm guessing that line was her excuse for chatting about her marriage / other relationship with the kids

[@ultimategameredits]

PLEASE 💀

[@samankucher5117]

it is inappropriate.

[@Boop01013]

@@Tara-cv2kz yes, I agree with that.

[@patty8991]

Colleen: Not in a creepy way, more of a loser way. Everyone: Can't it be both? 🤷‍♀️

[@Aece753]

fr I don’t think anyone would say creeps Aren’t losers

[@yawninglion1677]

Right, I've never heard of anyone being a "cool" creep.

[@WhatWouldLubitschDo]

Trying to be “besties” with children you don’t know as a grown adult is INCREDIBLY COMPATIBLE with being creepy, Colleen 😣

[@zaragreer2594]

The wildest part to me is all of the sneaky humble brags. The face filter, saying "my bony little back" or "two Persian cats", body checking at the "bony back" line, looking away with extra wide eyes in that "cutesy" way that makes your eyes appear bigger and more innocent, constantly turning her face to more flattering angles, not to mention "flexing" her musical "abilities" (tRaAAaiIn). I feel like we're watching someone desperately beg for praise because no one's giving it to her anymore. I'm sure she does feel like shit without her steady supply of attention that she could only ever get before from non-consenting minors.

[@ashegrey3042]

i couldn’t believe the body checking at that line…. & that line at all like ?? but also how she purses her lips together trying to be awkward like “welp everyone hates me i’m the victim” 🙄

[@sierrayea4378]

Someone needs to tell Colleen that there’s more to taking accountability than saying “this is me taking accountability”

[@LillerThatIsMe]

It’s giving Michael Scott “I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!”

[@caseyhansen7914]

Yeah she literally didn't even take accountability lol.

[@Letthembelightpeaceonelove]

All she said was “I took accountability” lmao. Okay then, where is the proof? You’re not even going to start your journey towards forgiveness until people can sense that you actually do understand and can see what you did was 200% wrong.

[@thesilliestsilly]

⁠@aaronbuss8361she shouldn’t have done them in the first place? she’s not exempt from apologizing because “it’s been a while”. she messed people up and gave people trauma, that really doesn’t call for a lighthearted ukelele song. she didn’t applogize. colleen just deflected and played victim. grooming and exploiting (minor) fans is not a joke nor should it be treated like one. we want her to take accountability and genuinely say sorry to those she has hurt. this wasn’t an apology, this was a talent show performance.

[@dia8183]

@aaronbuss8361 to actually fucking say sorry, for one. it would also be nice if she'd do some volunteering or donating for an organization that helps children, given that that's the group of people she hurt.

[@bridget663]

Grooming children is not a "mistake", Colleen. Wiiiild. This is wild.

[@seresafiore.____.]

I know. It’s so invalidating to her victims.

[@giara1615]

Grooming???? How did she do that? Did she sleep with a minor?

[@jenniferescamilla4106]

@@giara1615someone clearly doesn't know what grooming means

[@g.briella]

@@giara1615grooming doesn’t necessarily mean sleeping with. she has extremely inappropriate conversations and behaviors towards minors.

[@kengodwin4360]

That's how I feel

[@pantscar]

colleen ballinger ukulele apology vs. sienna mae dance apology: the ultimate battle of terrible insensitive “artsy” apologies

[@ivyeorii]

i remember a smaller youtuber called cosy kenna or something wrote a poem as an apology for stealing artwork… we got a holy trinity 🤩

[@geoxoxo2414]

@@ivyeorii it’s simply_kenna!! I remember that too. Honestly Colleen got herself in one of the top spots for worst apology with such ease it’s almost incredible to watch

[@kit4114]

both "quirky" artsy apologies were also made in response to sex crimes/allegations too 💀

[@saraajayp]

This is the most top tier comment… I LITERALLY was talking about them 😅 💯

[@gregacen]

The fact that she is trying to diminish a former fan’s traumatizing experience at her show by calling it a harmless “fart joke” is beyond ridiculous

[@DatCupcake]

Not only did she decide that making a non-apology with a corny ukulele song to address allegations of being sexually inappropriate with minors was a good idea (while also lashing out at the victims exposing her), she made sure to drag it out to hit that 10 minute sweet spot so she could maximize on the monetization.

[@kitkat6643]

I was wondering why it was so fucking long…good catch, she’s such a fucking creep

[@vintagearisen]

"Everybody told me not to do this but I'm going to do it but with *music*" man this is a CHOICE

[@EllaShartiel]

I'm pretty sure the mark is 8 minutes these days

[@lizw6952]

performing a theatrically awkward, “clever”, snarky ukulele song ab ~cUlTuRe~ and sOciETy is not only a horrible way to respond to very serious, evidence based allegations.. it is peak 2010s youtube cringe

[@FennecFool]

As a millennial, this is peak millennial cringe. Like I felt like I was transported back to a time for a moment with the quirky ukulele song... But somehow it's the worst version of that that has ever existed.

[@Kristenmimms]

This is exactly it.

[@trystero1729]

yeah this schtick was old and unfunny when jon cozart was doing it EIGHT YEARS AGO. literally unfathomable that anyone is doing it in the year of our lord 2023

[@coolpumpkins453]

This is the best comment on her apology yet! agreed

[@smjaiteh]

The worst thing Steven Universe ever did was legitimize the ukelele as a form of valid artistic expression.

[@yourfavoriteannie]

when she said “i didn’t realize all of you were perfect” that’s when i had to turn off the video 💀 um yeah, we aren’t all being inappropriate towards minors, colleen.

[@adelined]

literally. i’m not perfect in everything but yeah i’ve never groomed kids!

[@hnichole]

Thisssss, I hate the "but we ALL make mistakes" argument people like Colleen use. I regularly work with children aged 7-16 and I have never done anything even remotely inappropriate, so like no Colleen, asking children sexual questions isn't an oopsie mistake. You don't get to compare inappropriate behavior towards children to, like, cheating on a test or lying to your parents.

[@brielledelaporte6658]

Just goes to show you how delusional she is.

[@FabiolaRVela]

@@karahoglundshe’s TEXTBOOK narc, and showed her ass here 😂

[@suds7753]

when did our definition of mistake change? yes we all make mistakes, such as hurting someone's feelings. behaving sexually with kids is not a mistake.

[@KiwiEvilFruit]

I think the thing that makes it even grosser besides the EVERYTHING about it is that she so clearly rehearsed every single line and movement and facial expression over and over. It's so gross.

[@nayamichelle5977]

she’s delulu but fr, like how did she think that this would EVER be the appropriate response to GROOMING accusations. like girl we didn’t ask for your wonderwall cover we asked for accountability 😭

[@cv6442]

But according to her, she already has taken accountability 🙄 Clearly she hasn't... but she thinks she has for whatever reason. 🤯

[@jamj4r]

but dont you just L U V how qwirkie wirkie she is?? ? ?? i L U V it so much i could break my monitor with her face!! ahahahha /sarcstic, obv

[@shai_envy]

Fr is she not embarrassed? 💀 like… cmon…

[@flowerchild2496]

ANYWAY HERES WONDERWALL

[@luminescent_tides]

Wonderwall cover 😂😂😂😂😂

[@isabellabroome7895]

colleen’s rhetoric in her first apology was so white-woman-tears and manipulative and i can’t believe it got worse!!! “i’m not a groomer just a loser” OMG

[@burnt.norton]

right?? she’s acting as if a loser can’t be a groomer lmao. like girl you’re both? pick a struggle

[@catkruz9610]

James Charles like “I’m desperate.”

[@Mixedjournals]

White woman's tears, that are a bunch of black women women who cry and wine all the time. 😂😭

[@okcool7899]

Hi sisters!

[@yassine8935]

I agree however that not white woman tears . Yt women tears is in reference to white women utilizing their race and gender in a yt supremacist patriarchal society to harm blk people when confronted , this phrase only works when he victims are blk or non white , same with the term Karen it isn't in reference to a smug yt women being mean to you at a skatepark it's a racist yt women who also utilize her yt privilege to cause harm to Bipoc especially utilizing law enforcement . I'm just putting this out here bc im tired of seeing aave being used in situations were it's not the definition

[@jessicajusto1929]

She’s such an insufferable theater adult. It’s so insane. I feel like it’s a fever dream.

[@soqqqy]

SHE’S SUCH A THEATER ADULT

[@coolpumpkins453]

HER LITTLE SMUG FACE WHILE READING THE SCRIPT AS SHE SAYS… “ALL ABOARD!!” 🤮🤢

[@brynnarosenberg9361]

As a theatre adult I disown her!!!

[@katia.anderson]

Thank you for saying it so succinctly 🙏

[@florianrott1766]

Imagine calling grooming kids "drama" and "gossip" ... insanity

[@_daturaa]

brb hopping on the toxic gossip train to misinformation station

[@bunnyirl]

“at least you’re having fun” yes colleen. your victims are having fun with their trauma. such a good point!

[@diediedice]

typical blame shaming by the assaulter🥰🥰

[@ninjaturtles12121]

literally Adam has cried several times going through the screenshots etc n this asshole is singing about it as a joke

[@Tom-ul3gb]

this is Wild. Never thought i’d see the day🗿

[@maxw5014]

that is clearly not the demographic her comment was geared towards to... I'm not one of her supporters but be so fr

[@AliceBunny05]

​@@maxw5014it's still sick to imply that people are having fun with this situation when the subject matter is so grim. people are just captivated by it, like not being able to look away from a car crash. she doesn't really make it clear who she's talking to in this video, because she does directly address the victims at some point by saying that they're making things up for clout. so how can you be sure this part isn't also addressing them? you can't

[@charthesmile]

the fact she responded by playing a ukulele and mocking her victims is the most camp thing ever in the worst possible way

[@karinarj5154]

What is a camp thing? Sorry english is not my first language😢

[@charthesmile]

@@karinarj5154 it’s like slang it means something is so bad and so unreal that it’s iconic. so bad it’s good.

[@karinarj5154]

@@charthesmile ohh i got it thanks buddy

[@samb3209]

It’s cursed

[@charthesmile]

@@karinarj5154 yw buddy 👍

[@mette9279]

Being inappropriate towards children isnt a "mistake" Colleen 🙃

[@88lilpoe]

Nah she really said she’s not a groomer... she’s a “loser”.......

[@LunarEleven]

​@@88lilpoehey, she was half right. 😅

[@doggwater]

A mistake is doing something once, maaaaaybe twice. She's got a whole pattern of behaviour documented on the internet forever, that's no mistake that's a personality and thought process lol

[@Ranger881]

​@@88lilpoeshe really thought she was doing smth here when she's BOTH

[@FabiolaRVela]

@@88lilpoeahh I thought she was a silly goose 😂😂😂/s/

[@madfisch473]

i love how she uses the term misinformation like 15 times without ever even attempting to explain what about what was said is incorrect and how “oopie i’m just a smol bean with a bony little back” explains the PAGES of receipts ☠️

[@jnrs15]

Always remember Jenna posting a 40-minute apology about buying the wrong type of fish tank. She took accountability and addressed the issue in detail. We didn't deserve Jenna, and now she's off KZbin. BUT people like Colleen exist and go on.

[@bapiivxx8868]

Tbh glad she's off yourube and living a better life

[@Moniraeanne]

@@bapiivxx8868I agree I miss her videos but I can only imagine how much happier and less stressed she feels!

[@ana7icia]

jenna my beloved

[@stellakreutz8705]

Jenna is an angel on earth she deserves the best 😢

[@angiepangie9106]

it’s leaving that what’s makes people like jenna great though. as much as we want her back it wouldn’t be her if she came back

[@necroflowers2244]

I'm convinced Miranda was never an act. It was a way to fully be herself and express all the fucked up thoughts she had. All under the guise of "playing a edgy character".

[@reindeerage]

Absolutely. Her entire family is a bunch of disturbed hillbillies. She's so embarrassing trying to save face, like anyone past the age of 20 can't see how deranged she truly is.

[@bienkies9152]

she did actually admit that in one of her tv interviews, I can't remember which one though but pretty sure it'll come up when you search for it

[@cranberryrosebud]

her being inappropriate towards her fans actually reminds me of that song she made as Miranda, where she danced around, showing off her pregnant belly (it was weird), and then she made a "joke" about her unborn son being like Trump for the way he was grabbing her or something in the womb - maybe some people see it as a joke, but I personally find it weird to compare someone you think of as a SAer to your own baby. Maybe that's normal in Cali, Idk.

[@charlievanbeek3053]

She admitted this to Stephen Colbert so you're right on the nose. Colleen is VILE

[@elvenbugs]

fr the miranda channel was OBVIOUSLY for children, i watched her when i was little, but she would constantly make fucked up ‘jokes’ and refer to random things as ‘porn’. luckily i didn’t understand it or look it up but i reckon that scarred some children after googling it 😭

[@badger6882]

Her comparing herself to “that weird aunt” and not a weird stranger inadvertently shows how close she feels to her fans. It’s not normal

[@iminaband3351]

it’s also weird because when people say “that weird uncle” you know EXACTLY what they mean… this whole video is admission

[@juliamarques7354]

@@iminaband3351 no bc her comparing herself to that just dug her own grave deeper, like you mean the uncle that harrasses young people? the one that's known as an abuser? god how does someone like her get so much exposure she's sick

[@gracemcnally9172]

@@iminaband3351 funny you say "that weird uncle" because when colleen plays her miranda sings character she has a "joke" where she talks about how her weird uncle likes to tickle her. Like jokes about being molested are not funny.

[@micahjoy20]

that in itself is so weird and she doesn’t see the issue to the point of her admitting to it like it’s normal..she’s so STRANGE. it’s so scary how she’s like “yeah i did message my fans” like no.. that is not okay.

[@mallorydille7113]

yeah that creeped me tf out as soon as she said it

[@samb.8134]

"I'm just like that weird aunt" hits much harder when you know her Selp Helf book has *many* jokes about Miranda's uncle perving on her. Seriously, it's wild, Alizee did a whole video about it and I still can't wrap my head around this.

[@savannahchaput8413]

how dehumanizing to diminish every single victims experience to being a "toxic gossip train".... god what an awful human being

[@livyj7598]

Fr

[@marcotisch2605]

And while SINGING? imagine you were groomed as a teen and you suffer from negative effects to your adulthood and your groomer sings into a camera how you’re a liar and made it all up 😭 this is some serious black mirror shit.

[@justj.c6769]

I would hate to be on her PR team right now. I seriously cannot believe that a PR team with any credibility would okay her doing this.

[@snailsupremacy]

The thing is they DIDNT ok it!! they repeatedly told her not to post anything!!

[@justj.c6769]

@azrieljordan414 That's my point. Even if this was approved, what we are seeing would be after her PR team and editor looked at it. So then the question would be, what was in the video before it was uploaded.

[@songofstorms7]

Her team is all her teenager friends

[@micahjoy20]

they probably quit

[@maryooowoahh]

@@justj.c6769 omg see i didn’t even think of that! i heard her in the song being like “my team begged me not to do this but whatever 🤪” and assumed she was doing this without their permission but with a channel as big as hers they most definitely would have someone review the videos before she posts them. so how did no one go “um lets edit this together to make it sound better” and create an obviously edited “i’m Sorry! shouldNt have DOnE thiS!” LOL (btw i know this is serious and have so much sympathy for the victims but her response is so bizarre i can’t help but make jokes to process it)

[@TheSlipperyNUwUdle]

All of us do make mistakes, Colleen. Most of us just don’t have group chats where we talk about sexual topics with teenagers. 🤦‍♀️

[@earlgreytuesday2454]

Most of us just forget to turn lights off or forget to go to appointments.... not oops I groomed kids and exploited fans !?!? Like what?

[@sinjinyte]

The fact it all happened when she was 31..?? Or atleast around there?? Like girlll don’t you have a husband? Now I’m wondering if the husband is as bad as her?? And also I really hope one of those teens put her in her place like “girl stfu aren’t you a grown ass adult mind ur damn business 🙄” cuz Ik I’d do that LOL. Anyways it’s concerning a thought like that would cross her mind. It’s so sad they’re so many messed up people in this world, good people never win. 💔

[@thesevenkingswelove9554]

Right? Why does she think she would get away with it?

[@via6900]

​@@sinjinyteif I remember correctly she was going through a divorce 💀💀💀

[@yaguchimarippe9449]

and send lingerie to said teenagers

[@zerovstheworrld]

the way u paused the “apology” every 5 seconds to freak out about what she’s saying is the perfect depiction of exactly what i did when i watched this 😭

[@emilyresch7049]

Okay but can we talk about how gross it is that she's calling grooming and sexualizing children a "mistake"

[@koolkraken912]

She’s right, its a mistake. But its also a crime and absolutely deplorable behavior. Her reduction of the severity of her actions is absolutely unacceptable.

[@kylieuchiis]

agreed she is right. But the things she did was wrong.. Like This Apology video is giving I just did something wrong and I hope these people like me now

[@harper2]

@@kylieuchiisbut she took that kid either way and had them put their hands down her pants? Wtf you’re a weirdo too 😅

[@franthewanman]

​@@kylieuchiis So would it be better if it was a 13 year old who she pretended to be on a date and then tell them to reach into her pants for a snack?

[@lisamarkowiak7793]

@@kylieuchiis You don't seem to know anything about the situation. It's not only about he gigs. She texted minors online. What are you trying to say? It's their fault? No they are children.

[@SuperFudgeproduction]

“Im just trying to be friends with everyone.” is a go to excuse when people get accused of grooming and the fact shes SO blind to it and thinks itll save her

[@sanchebuck]

also even if she had been just trying to be “friends” with them like a grown adult influencer being close “friends” with their very young fans is actually weird!

[@jilliansmaniotto2326]

EXACTLY.

[@drybones6956]

Adults don’t need to treat kids like they would their adult friends, kids shouldn’t shoulder your adult burdens, worries, inappropriate questions, that’s not your therapist Colleen, that’s a middle schooler

[@KssN27]

It’s like when pedos get caught trying to meet up with a 14 year old- “we were just gonna go camping and watch a movie, no funny business” Working as a forensic nurse, women can be just as disgusting as men.

[@carnuatus]

Someone who "wants to be friends with everyone" wouldn't be the walking epitome of the theater school mean girl. 🤡

[@severelyworriedmia]

I can’t believe she pulled the “millions of people saying the most hurtful things” card because that’s LITERALLY what she caused Adam to go through for THREE YEARS. AS A 17 YEAR OLD. I am in utter shock. This is insane.

[@sammie3827]

I can’t stop thinking about the fact that Adam was a fan since he was like 13 so really this whole situation of him being manipulated and groomed and then socially shunned by everyone has been the majority of his life. Can’t imagine what the does to u and for the abuser to call it gossip

[@aoefeable]

I think he said he was 9 or 10 when he became a fan. It was around 12 or 13 that he began directly communicating with her. Gross.

[@ZIERRABARFFZ]

love the way she failed to mention that her "fart joke" was her spreading a 16 year old girls legs in front of an entire crowd when she wasn't wearing pants but a skirt

[@Sammiwuzhere]

the way my mouth just dropped

[@jaidansmith2625]

it was a romper but it was loose and still really risky

[@liloreoinya]

😮

[@cv6442]

And that's totally inappropriate, don't get me wrong... but that's actually one of the smaller things she is getting backlash for right? She was literally having private conversations with children about sex. Her answer "I'm just like a crazy aunt 🤪" like yep... some aunts are mentally ill and abusive. Like whyyy you flexing this???? 😄🤯

[@gvni444]

Also never mentioned when she made kids reach into her pants for chips

[@TylerLeeJones]

this was like a non-apology 100% speedrun, she crammed in every possible narcissistic argument tool while also flip flopping between "it's all lies" and "it's true but it's not that bad" so many times I got whiplash

[@kip9631]

Don't forget your in the wrong for critiquing me from a serious accusation because you've done bad stuff too

[@TylerLeeJones]

@@kip9631 i'm actually perfect like she said :---)

[@JaseekaRawr]

It's what narcissists do, there's even a psychological term for it! DARVO: deny, attack, reverse victim & offender(making herself the victim somehow)

[@SuzER08]

Classic narcissists prayer: "That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it."

[@lilyxo6914]

This was right on 🎯

[@rachamanda13]

her even referencing her "bony itty bitty back" is especially nasty bc of the culture of body checking, fat shaming, and ED that she was creating in her fandom (adam mentions this in his particular case, as well as fans sharing their stories of being belittled at fan meetups for being overweight) and is like her bragging, like "oh you are just being toxic and besides, i'm skinny so i'm better than you." absolutely awful.

[@crims0nchin]

Fr she could've just said the word "back" but she just has to point out how teeny tiny she is 😭😭 what a freakshow😂😂

[@melaspink2535]

​@@crims0nchinliterally like wth😭she's weird asf

[@deadlymelody27]

Yeah as someone who used to have eating disorders and was on all the ED instas and stuff, that felt very very ED and toxic. Like she literally didnt need to use any of those words at all

[@FabiolaRVela]

Yeah I CAUGHT THAT

[@jinxed402]

She's back in her ED and I friggin hate that I feel like this time she's doing it to intentionally look frail. I know what restricting feels like and it's always been my control mechanism for life. So I feel sad for her if this lack of awareness on her part is also putting her mind back in a sick space. I wish she'd just grow up and treat the matter properly instead of all this manipulative lying. It would be better for everyone including her.

[@passivepanda3656]

You know, like she could've just said : "Hello guys. During the past weeks there have been many allegation made against me. I know that I wasn't the most thoughtful person in my past. I did act horribly with fans. I got very close to some, and instead of protecting the most vulnerable one, i wasn't on my best behavior with them. I doesn't matter what my intentions were, I've hurt them deeply. While I know that none of what i'm about to say will change anything, I want to sincerely apologize for all my wrong doings. I will reflect on my actions and I will take accountability while working on myself to make sure that none of this ever happen again" Like, it's so simple !

[@Sanhitha]

YES

[@jiminiecrickit4695]

her saying "i'm not a groomer i'm a loser" is the most insane thing its really giving James Charles saying he's "desperate"

[@Tom-ul3gb]

right 💀

[@ivyf0xxes]

​@ville__u must be joking or smth. He was a 15 yr old child.

[@kwtties]

@ville__ He was half her age...

[@madzie111]

@ville__ hmm you're weird for defending her 😵‍💫

[@nabithebutterfly]

@ville__the victim blaming is crazy you keep going in all the comments just to write this are you a kid that you really don't understand the situation or are u just fleeing ignorance to defend her.

[@katiehambrick4079]

“Are you guys having fun😢?” No, Colleen. No one is enjoying this. They’re just calling out your evil shit. That’s not gossip or bullying. God I hate her.

[@Sdk326]

Right!

[@Tom-ul3gb]

netflix needs to Pull Her Show ! this is Crazy😬

[@RedRoseSeptember22]

I'm flabbergasted at her audacity.

[@charliehatch288]

That's all she thinks it is because she is so unable to be objective about her self. Because even if that was true, she should be able to say "I was being inappropriate and I'm sorry" not "it was ages ago and I took accountability" haha

[@feibertz6220]

@ville__ bruh, she shouldn’t have been talking to minors in a group chat as a 30 year old woman

[@brosandprose]

I keep thinking about the fact that Colleen Ballinger is 36-years-old. She is a full grown adult. When children accused her of sexually inappropriate behavior that made them feel violated, humiliated and used, she thought it was appropriate to grab a ukulele and sing about it. That is delusional narcissist behavior.

[@hannah-ws9de]

I can't imagine how this would make her kids feel down the line if they saw this.

[@dermaspaceSC]

​@@hannah-ws9deshe has kids and she did all that?!?!? The crap she's doing I think is inappropriate to do with adults much less children but having actual kids of your own and acting like that and making an apology like this is an new level delusional narcissism unlocked.

[@neondemons]

@@dermaspaceSCoh god no. Now I’m worried about her kids- if she does this to kids that ARENT hers: what the fuck does she do to her own.

[@Emilie1Shortiee]

Right imagine if a man did that.

[@babyqeels]

First thing I noticed was that the entire thing is all about herself and victimizing herself. Very narcissistic vibes.

[@Rhobae]

How is this an apology? She didn’t even apologize once.

[@martinebonita2658]

She apologised for not being sorry 💀

[@Rhobae]

@@martinebonita2658 Right? She’s sorry…. That we’re all fools, and that nobody ever talked to minors as a humanly mistake…

[@mykabetts9454]

To write a literal CHORUS for an apology video about grooming minors is insanely unhinged. Every time she sings it, she's just repeating that she thinks she didn't do anything wrong, meanwhile never once actually attempting to explain herself. It's the equivalent of saying "I'm right because I say so"

[@iosgaming2824]

It has to be the funniest video I’ve seen in years, like I really dislike that she’d get validation if she saw me expressing likeness for it but it’s just too hilarious and satirical vibey to not

[@Gildacapra]

I've seen some bad apology videos but this is the first time I've watched one and thought, 'this person seriously needs a psychiatric evaluation'.

[@Bunnster3]

⁠@@iosgaming2824Honestly. It sounds alright I wish it was about something stupid to where it would be agreeable to ya know? If someone that actually was being crucified over something very small or even just a rumor or something along those lines made it. Instead it’s just being used a a gaslighty mess over being extremely inappropriate with young teens and even younger and just gross stuff. Such a missed opportunity but it is at least a hilarious apology in all the ways she wouldn’t want.

[@rdubdojaclick]

what’s wild is that SHE NEVER ACTUALLY APOLOGIZED

[@Bunnster3]

@@rdubdojaclick 23:10 lol litterally said it was all lied instead. So strange to say with video evidence of things.

[@jonathancangelosi2439]

“It’s all lies” “I made a mistake” Which is it, Colleen?

[@CbOt7]

It's just ~*MiSiNfOrMaTiOn*~

[@emojijoyio]

Colleen Colleen Colleen MAKE UP UR MIND

[@tayshondeeznuts1921]

The grooming her persian cat line was one of the worst responses I have EVER heard in my 21 years of living on Earth.

[@jesshannah6178]

Read this as she said it and lawd I am losing it

[@coralrose5754]

My jaw dropped 💀

[@shelbid6964]

I’m glad this comment got to me before I had to hear tht

[@jiminiecrickit4695]

that was the worst type of response she took 4 weeks off and Thats the best she can come up

[@jiminiecrickit4695]

with*

[@kristinakimtia]

Lying to everyone and playing the victim is one thing. But lying to us THROUGH SONG is truly something else💀

[@TreeFans]

​@ville__????

[@asjahatkinson588]

@@TreeFanscolleen’s burner account

[@TreeFans]

@@asjahatkinson588 makes sense

[@ArtsyCraftYT]

​@ville__you don't have enough sense to be on KZbin ✨

[@thesevenkingswelove9554]

​@ville__bruh what 😂

[@hazespo]

Literally I’m 15 and I could do a better apology: “I may of not had bad intentions but I recognize that my actions still affected people negatively. I’m so sorry for what I did and I deeply regret it. I did not intend for it to cause the damage it caused. I intend to private and publicly apologize to Adam, [other names]. I do not expect to be forgiven because what I did caused actually harm to people and isn’t just drama.”

[@dolfinv]

Literally that simple. Ps Don't worry. I may be 31 but I'm not gonna ask you anything inappropriate 😅

[@MayaMickaMicak]

Imagine your abuser is, instead of an apology, singing about how she's the victim. I feel so sorry for Adam and his family. My parents who were my abusers make fun of me and gaslight and manipulate me when I share my feelings and how they hurt me, but imagine if they were to make a f*cking SONG and sing it in front of me?? This is so cruel to her victims and I can't imagine how they're feeling right now

[@lanceelliott2504]

Absolutely wishing the best for them as this video blows up

[@victoriapullman8755]

I got a little chill when she said people were mad because she made a fart joke 5 years ago - I felt like in that moment I realized she truly is a monster and this is all intentional… she knows this isn’t about fart jokes

[@plz.ask.]

From someone who's been through narcissistic abuse + grooming, this is absolutely something my abuser would do if they had the platform. Deny, deflect, make light of, self-victimize, all with 0 proof and only centering their feelings.

[@JH-yj7kk]

Not to mention playing, of all possible instruments, the fucking ukulele. Lol.

[@theMyRadiowasTaken]

​@@JH-yj7kkukeleles need to be banned im sorry

[@sofiastj]

Colleen: "Not in a creepy way" Also Colleen: "Hey kids what's your favorite sex position"

[@WhitneyDahlin]

Yeah not only is what she said definitely the most creepy things you could possibly ask someone, a thirty-year-old being in a group chat with a bunch of minors is creepy in general. I don't care what gender the adult is this is why you do not have your DM's open or talk to fans or any minors privately at all. Because I do truly believe Colleen was maliciously grooming these kids because she was desperate for attention and liked the power and worship and admiration and ego boost she got from them. But it is NEVER okay for an adult to be privately talking to minors like this, it just is not appropriate. Even if the adult never does anything wrong it's still wrong of to do it. Because you are normalizing that behavior to children. You are normalizing children privately speaking with adults and being emotionally close to adults they admire online. It's a terrible and creepy lesson to teach even if your intentions are totally innocent (and I do not believe Colleen's were). I believe Colleen is an extremely insecure and narcissistic person. I believe she truly believes the world revolves around her and doesn't care who she hurts to get that ego boost. I feel really terribly for her children and victims.

[@yeahreally9185]

So just to recap, this woman: • sent her underwear to a young (underage) fan. Then her best friend asked the young fan for pictures of him wearing them. When called out, her defense was that the young fan "wanted it". Both the young fan and her best friend are gay. • kept in very close contact with her young fans and often asked them, both publicly in group chats and privately in DMs, about their sex lives, and shared about hers. • asked for pictures of their butts • sent them explicit content of Trisha Paytas • trauma dumped on young fans about her divorce and interpersonal issues • consistently used her young fans' ideas for content without pay or credit • used fans for unpaid (or very low-paid) labor on her tours and then denied them beds and hot showers • stood up a young fan in a big city who repeatedly provided content for her after promising a meet-and-greet with him AND • placed all the blame on the same young fan for "trying to sabatoge her career" after she posted a dumb tweet - completely alienating the child from his community and friend group. And this is just what we know from the receipts. More young fans are coming out with very similar stories Edit: added more to the list, because christ there's so much more

[@saigeelizabeth8284]

not grooming related but she also used her special needs brother was inspiration for her character

[@briebee19379]

Don’t forget she also sent that young fan content from Trisha Paytas’ Only Fans 🤢

[@shawnieBaby]

During her very busy child abusing schedule, she managed to fit in lots of animal abuse too.

[@Sanokoou]

im concerned...

[@RockSoulMe]

And also humiliated and exposed her very young fans in her live shows

[@florianrott1766]

Imagine her in court and she pulls out a ukulele... and her lawyer looks at her and thinks: "here we go again..."

[@nightowl7374]

😅😅😅

[@bug6296]

imagine getting accused of impropriety in an office or something and heading to hr with your ukulele

[@roshnipatel2000]

That’s exactly what I was thinking 💀

[@amberadams2935]

Micheal Scott vibes

[@mookchie]

it’s not the same but it reminds me of the guy who sang to the judge “to your honour im sorry sorry sorry 🎶 lmfao

[@Chiara-hr9ip]

This made me physically lol

[@defnemeryemcolakoglu7838]

just applying youtube apologies to an office space can make or break an apology, for example; you wouldnt sigh before starting your apology in your office. OR SİNG A SONG !?!??!?

[@thosefroggyfolks2004]

“Miranda Sings is PG-13, not meant for kids.” Colleen, what do you think the number 13 is representing??

[@nyancat8828]

Right?? Anyone under 18 is... you know, a kid.

[@alistairt7544]

Right?! That really made me vocally say, "HUH?!?!?!" So she thinks 13-17 are adults?!

[@erriinnc]

13 braincells on stage at once

[@matt.stevick]

Someone should be Colleen 📞 the cops 👮🏻‍♀️

[@A2Z83]

she has dyslexia. she thought all her fans were 31 her age.

[@malaizze]

Remember: she chose to have a thumbnail with no uke, she chose to start with no uke, and then she pulled out a uke like a video game boss as her second health bar generates and she enters a new boss phase. Insane energy.

[@Saga_Anserum]

her boss theme sucks, for the record

[@maybemablemaples2144]

Nightmare blunt rotation Elden Ring boss. This is Lake Of Rot levels of f*cked.

[@feralsgoose]

Colleen Ballinger: Conductor of the toxic gossip train. Phase two: Playing ukelele in "A minor".

[@Fluff_Noodles]

​@Jack-px8lf NOOOOOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@annacompton9362]

I just don't understand being a 30 year old woman and wanting to be "besties" with literal children. She doesn't seem to understand that IS the creepy grooming behavior. Normal adults don't want to be best friends with children. I'm 22, and I feel weird being friends with people who are 18 or 19 sometimes. You're not just a loser. You're an adult who chose to put yourself in a room full of children.