Colleen Ballinger is responding to allegations with a song.
The 36-year-old YouTuber spoke out following weeks of resurfaced text messages and DMs from her past, with various people alleging she maintained inappropriate and exploitative relationships with fans, including minors.
On Wednesday (June 28), Colleen responded with a 10-minute song sung with ukulele on her YouTube.
“A lot of people are saying some things about me that aren’t quite true. It doesn’t matter if it’s true though just as long as it’s entertaining to you,” she began, adding “all aboard the toxic gossip train.”
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“Rumors look like facts if you don’t mind the gaps that won’t survive in the crash but hey, at least you’re having fun…uh hi everyone I’ve been wanting to come online and talk to you about a few things even though my team has strongly advised me to not say what I want to say,” she continued.
“I recently realized that they never said that I couldn’t sing what I want to say
I am and today I only want to talk about the facts, so I hope that you’ll be willing to listen. Here we go,” Colleen sang.
“Many years ago I 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, but I was just trying to be besties with everybody. It’s kind of like when you go to like a family gathering, and there’s a weird aunt there that keeps coming up to you and going like ‘hey girl, what’s the tea?’ You’re like ‘um…’ That was me but in group chats with my fans,” she said.
“It was weird. I’ve been sharing my life online for over 15 years. I’ve poured my heart out to you, and because of that I feel like I’m talking to my friends, but in the beginning of my career I didn’t really understand that maybe there should be some boundaries there. There were times in the DMS when I would overshare details of my life which was really weird of me. I haven’t done that for years you see, because I changed my behavior and I took accountability. But that’s not very interesting is it? So let’s go on the toxic gossip train,” she continued.
“Close your eyes otherwise you’ll realize that the train is made of lies and that person you despise maybe didn’t deserve to die but hey, at least you’re having fun,” she sang.
“In all seriousness I do think it’s really important to hold people accountable for their mistakes. We should hope that everyone can learn from their mistakes and grow and change their behavior and be a better person. This is something that I’ve always tried to do when I make mistakes. It’s something that I will continue to try to do. What, oh you don’t care? Oh okay I thought you wanted me to take accountability, but that’s not the point of your mob mentality, is it? No, your goal is to ruin the life of the person you despise while you dramatize your lies and monetize their demise.”
“I feel like I can already hear the comments on this video, she’s gaslighting, manipulating she’s a narcissist and a rat I would never make a mistake like, oh I’m sorry I didn’t realize that all of you are perfect so please criticize me bring out the daggers made from your perfect past and stab me repeatedly in my bony little back,” she sang.
“I’m sure you’re disappointed in my sh-tty little song I know you wanted me to say that I was 100 in the wrong well I’m sorry I’m not gonna take that route of admitting to lies and rumors that you made up for clout. Hey everybody I found someone new to harass she did some things that I do not like in her past so everybody gather round cause we’re about to attack but not based on facts,” she continued.
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