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itsbansheebitch · 1 year ago

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Hey ya’ll I’m going to have to either edit or delete this because of lies that have recently been exposed. For updated information, here’s SWOOP’s Part 3

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VANITY FAIR & MISINFORMATION

Ya'll I'm done with Vanity Fair. Let me tell you what they did. Colleen Ballinger (36 Years Old, $12 Million Net Worth) has been accused of (In no specific order):

Blackface & Racism (Including behind the scenes on her Netflix show "Haters Back Off")

Antisemitism (Tweets)

Fatphobia & Encouraging Body Checking (To MINORS)

Pulling a girl's legs apart so far at one of her live shows (the 16 year old child was on her back) that the girl (Becky) was worried she wasn't covered up by her romper. She says people in the crowd looked at her differently after she got off the stage especially "older men." She says she didn't feel safe walking back to her car.

Slutshaming/degrading fans at her live shows, encouraging them to dress less for a "bit" where she called them "porn" (as apposed to a girl she pulled on stage that came dressed as her called "not porn")

Basing a character from her Netflix series on a fan with fibromyalgia. (The fan in question, Ella, is a trans girl who was allegedly made fun of by this 36 year old woman behind her back. Collen was said to have made transphobic comments and saying that Ella was "faking" her fibro)

Running a smear campaign against a 17 YEAR OLD for 3 YEARS, begging James Charles to defend her, which made James' fans harass and dox Adam

Hanging out/lurking in group chats with minors for HOURS a day

Taking advantage of her minor fans (one specifically confirmed case ~4 Years) for free labor for YEARS

Taking advantage of fans for barely paid labor during her tours (Minimum wage for summer long tour, more details on Johnny Silvestri's YT Channel)

Gaslighting, manipulation, and love bombing

Using her Children's Cancer Fund/Charity Event as a tax write off and letting the cash sit in her bank account for months to rack up interest (Using Fundly)

Sending lingerie to a 13/14 year old (and then lying about the "context" after, victim blaming him, a CHILD)

Animal Cruelty/Animal Abuse & Not taking care of her Persian Cats

Inappropriate relations & discussions with minors including but not limited to: divorce, virginity, fav sex position, periods, etc)

Inappropriate behavior with her nephew and sister

Inappropriate YT Thumbnails, Videos, and Series (One literally said "I'm a pedophile!" on the thumbnail)

Having distributed pornography (Trisha Paytas' OF Content) to at least one MINOR (A 15 year old and a 21/22 year old)

Hosting viewing parties to make fun of Trisha Paytas' body and insult her ("We saw a whale squirt and I'm not talking about Trisha Paytas!")

Having MULTIPLE books marketed towards children that encourage bad behavior and include inappropriate topics. (More details below on the books & Vanity Fair trying to cover this shit show up)

Oh, and harassing homeless people

If you're still reading you're probably interested, so I'll just let loose. First, the books. I'm summarize the content, however, you can find something more in depth on YouTube. The books content contain:

Jokes about animal abuse/animal cruelty

irl pictures of a kid on a leash (No, I'm not joking, I think it's her kid)

Ableism (The R Slur)

Transphobia

Homophobia

Sexualization of children

Slutshaming children

Jokes at the expense of homeless people

Normalization of pedo behavior

Normalization is incestuous (specifically pedo) behavior. (Lots of "creepy Uncle jokes that are WAY too serious to be a joke)

"Here's how to get a boyfriend: Get a net, gloves, binoculars..."

What a good boyfriend looks like: ok a couple of famous YouTubers, ok, OH GOD, IT'S SHANE DAWSON

Normalizing r#pe culture: "If someone says no, try harder!"

QR Codes to her own videos such as: "Learn how to twerk (but not "be porn") by Miranda Sings"

Telling kids to get a "clean" copy of the book so they can mess with "this" (the one they're reading) one (greedy mf)

Oh, and I learned a new slur! From a "CHILDREN'S BOOK" "Jipped"/"Gypped", coming from "Gypsy" is offensive to Roma people. I had literally NO idea until this 36 YEAR OLD's CHILDREN'S BOOK

Anyway that is one of her books, I haven't covered the other one or really seen much of it. For additional info, when Trisha asked Colleen if she sent her nudes to people, she lied to her face (you can go to Trisha Paytas' video for the full story of see Johnny S's reaction to it). When Colleen was called out for being a creep (not even that rudely, I might add) she pulled out a ukulele. When Trisha had her nudes sent to multiple people against her will, she APOLOGIZED to Adam (15 at the time) and Johnny (In his early 20s at the time).

This isn't about whether you like Trisha or not, whether you agree with her or not, it's about someone who nudes (OF content behind a paywall) were shared against their will with malicious intent. Someone who was lied to and betrayed by their friend. Trisha had the balls to apologize to people she didn't do wrong, thank Johnny (who posted the barely censored proof of the pictures when he revived his laptop), and say "...She doesn't exist to me anymore." on YouTube. Trisha Paytas is more mature than Colleen Ballinger. period!

The proof of Colleen being a creep has been there the whole time. From having bits such as:

"The Date 'Bit' " Pulling a little boy (9 to 11 Years Old) on stage and acting out a "date in the woods," hiding food down her pants to hide it from the "bears" and having the little boy put his hand down her pants. One little boy is quoted on video saying nervously, "I can't believe I'm reaching in there, right now!" When Adam McIntyre (The face of the victims, harassed for 3 years as a 17 year old, doxed, and now 20 Years Old) was 15 Years old, he asked if he could be apart of the bit he was told "You're too old for that bit."

"The Porn Bit" Some people come to the show dressed as Miranda Sings, Colleen's character. Some people come dressed in "skanky" clothing. Why? The porn bit. One of each is pulled on stage and she calls the one dressed "skanky" (usually a child in a tank top and shorts) "porn." She calls the person dressed as her/Miranda (Usually a white top with long sleeves, sometimes a sweater, and red pants; usually the look is completed with Miranda/Colleen's signature lipstick as well) "Not Porn." Sometimes she'll make a "Anti-Porn Unicorn Horn" (usually a cone made of paper) that she straps to her head and uses to hit the child dressed as "porn" in the chest (or chesticles as Miranda/Colleen puts it). It's very vulgar and you can watch several clips of this bit on YouTube, all with different people and in different years. Just let that sink in.

"The Yoga Challenge/Bit" I'll explain this one with Becky's story. She is a incredibly brave victim of Colleen who has recently (In the past month or so) spoken out against her when a video of Becky was circulating online as people started to realize who Colleen was (but before the ukulele "apology," for timeline's sake). Becky came to Collen's show dressed for the porn bit. She wanted to be picked by her idol and brought on stage (totally reasonable thing to want). So the 16 year old came dressed in a romper, with spandex underneath, just incase. She wasn't picked for porn bit, but instead was picked for The Yoga Challenge. Basically, the screen on stage shows a yoga pose, and you have to replicate it, sometimes this requires two people. When Becky came on stage, Colleen's eyes WIDENED when she saw what Becky was wearing. The yoga pose was shown on screen. A pretty obvious parody of a "missionary pose." Becky got on her back, wanting to please the woman she was a fan of, that she trusted, and Colleen lifted up her legs and spread them as far as she could. Colleen smirked down at Becky as a fart sound played over the loudspeakers. Colleen dashed away, "in character" away from the "fart." When Becky stood up, she was worried the spandex wouldn't cover her, instead exposing her to the packed crowd. When she eventually left the stage many men were looking at her in a "predatory" way in which they were not looking at her before. Becky did not feel safe walking back to her car. Although she doesn't call it SA, she says it gives her the same feeling "...to clean out your insides." It is also one of the debates people can't decide on. Backstage, Colleen was being scolded by her stage manager, told that they "had to remove the "bit"" and that "She really shouldn't have done that." She was described as being "unremorseful."

Side Note: Trent Ballinger was ALSO talking inappropriately with Colleen's fans. One of his first texts to Oliver (another victim) was "My family says (I shouldn't/I'm not allowed to) talk to people under 18."

The most recent development was the Vanity fair article (linked above). It was written by Andrew Quintana (public name, with linked Instagram) and is blatantly malicious. It say factually untrue things such as "Adam McIntyre from Brighton, England" (which has since been edited to not be a included line AT ALL), Adam is from Ireland. The article paints Adam as a liar and a STALKER! You know, instead of the 33 Year Old (At the time) who said in 2020, "Context is important," and then removed the context? Which didn't even make them look better, it just victim blamed Adam? Like damn, I didn't know I live in a parallel universe where sending lingerie to 13/14 year old's was ok as long as I make it LOOK like I WASN'T the one who suggested I pay the international fee AND mail it to them.

The article has several key "gems" such as:

"Such success earned Ballinger a Netflix series, sold-out live shows, and, most recently, rapidly intensifying controversy"

"...HuffPost published its own investigative report: “Her Fans Say She ‘Groomed’ Them As Teens.” In the ensuing weeks, Ballinger would be accused of...performing a Beyoncé song in blackface (as Miranda Sings) to texting a sex worker’s nude photo to a minor."

"(Ballinger’s legal team has denied she performed in blackface, saying she was wearing green face paint for a prior cover of a song from Wicked.) Her Sings tour has since been canceled, her career abruptly stalled. When reached for comment, Ballinger’s lawyer replied in an email that VF’s inquiries were “simply a regurgitation of the baseless and unsubstantiated claims that other media outlets and individuals on social media have reported previously.”"

"The reality of some of these claims, and in turn, the broader narrative around Ballinger, remains murky."

"In a sense, this is a familiar story for the social media age. But Ballinger’s downfall is unique. She brought teens into an adult world and made it feel like it was theirs, then saw those fans turn against her."

"...the product of a particular era of YouTube stardom, of a digital persona able to cultivate a feverish and savvy fandom that’s been trained to reverse course—and maybe, seek payback—with the first spilling of tea..."

"In it, McIntyre told several seemingly unrelated stories. One recounted the time Ballinger sent him lingerie in the mail, to his mother’s horror (the lingerie was new and unworn, and Ballinger has since apologized for sending it)."

"Another was intended to debunk the rumor that he was secretly behind some anti–Miranda Sings social media accounts that Ballinger had gotten wind of."

"A third concerned the fallout of a tweet that Ballinger allowed McIntyre to post—as Miranda Sings, from the character’s Twitter account—that led to him never posting on her behalf again. He’d been considered her “social media intern,” he said, with hopes of being employed by her one day in that capacity."

"It might sound strange to hear that Ballinger had put a fan in charge of her character’s Twitter to begin with, but that access went in line with her public image. Ballinger was closely aligned with her most devoted (young) viewers."

"Ballinger painted a seemingly accurate portrait of the Miranda Sings community: a silly place for kids like McIntyre to belong, looking up to an increasingly famous and powerful public figure. “I’m not a monster, I’m not a groomer, and I do not deserve to die,” Ballinger said in the video"

"Meanwhile, Ballinger continued to work on a YouTube channel that was far from her Miranda Sings satire. “Colleen Vlogs” offered wholesome lifestyle content about her kids. McIntyre appeared to seize on this, accusing Ballinger’s brother’s family—“the Ballinger family,” who have a family-oriented channel—of endangering and “exploiting” their children online."

"“How creepy that I feel I watched them grow up,” he said. “It’s disgusting.” His critique gave way to a denunciation of family channels more broadly."

"He had new details, he claimed, describing staying up with her back when they were close, and listening to her talk about her divorce. According to McIntyre, she embroiled him in a hateful campaign against her ex-husband. Then he came to a realization that shocked YouTube: “This woman used me. This woman groomed me.”"

HuffPost’s published allegations of “grooming” flexibly employ the term in a fashion not unlike how it’s weaponized in right-wing circles against LGBTQ+ people; the described behavior does not approach the sexual exploitation or abuse that the actual definition of “grooming” indicates.

"She took out her ukulele to awkwardly sing through her defense, implying the internet seized upon allegations that she’s a groomer for entertainment. She said she wanted her fans to be her friends, admitting that desire was wrong. “I’m not a groomer,” she sang, “just a loser.”"

"Soon, an old video of Miranda Sings performing “Single Ladies” in dark green makeup was unearthed by former fans—to find it, you needed to have a copy of her book with a QR code linking to it—who said it looked like she’d performed in blackface."

"All of this is being filtered into the current YouTube content machine, wrongdoing exposed with a relentlessness that could rival the anti–Amber Heard brigade."

Vanity Fair's Andrew Quintana really just compared this situation's use of the word "grooming" to how right-wing weirdos use the word "grooming." Oh my god, Andrew! A lot of Colleen's (36 with kids, need I remind you) victims are LGBTQ+ dude...

THEN he compares the justified critique and criticism that Colleen is receiving as 36 year old mother, with over a decade of experience on YouTube and access to parasocial minors as a "Amber Heard-esque brigade." Oh my god Andrew, how is the only thing you edited in this article a line about where Adam IS FROM and you didn't even correct it! This is journalist negligence of the highest degree! This is literally, factually, objectively, defamation and slander.

But most of all, I can't even fathom that Andrew @'ed Adam and then turned off comments on his latest Instagram posts. When Adam went the most recent post that had comments on and asked what was going on (rather politely, considering everything), ALL comments got turned off. When Adam messaged Andrew directly, HE GOT BLOCKED???

Like WTF, Andrew???

Like damn, 1, THE AUDACITY! And 2, what a fucking wimp. A coward is what he is. Support the victims of Colleen Ballinger, if you want more resources you can check out SWOOP's doc or Adam's reaction (For context) to the H3 Podcast (Any episode works, but the latest will give you the most updated info). Anyway...