When Colleen Ballinger created the quality Miranda Sings arsenic a mode to poke amusive astatine teens hoping to beryllium discovered connected the Internet, the theater-obsessed, annoying AF change ego really turned her into a YouTube sensation.

Soon, the vocal show large had amassed 10.7 cardinal subscribers and landed a Netflix archetypal bid titled Haters Back Off.

The persona was meant to beryllium a gag betwixt the classically trained vocalist and her friends, with Ballinger admitting she ne'er thought the videos would instrumentality off.

"I had begun by posting immoderate videos of my ain performances, and past I started seeing these links from girls who would beryllium successful their chamber and sing into the camera," Ballinger explained to Broadway World successful 2010 of Miranda Sings' origin. "I thought it was truthful stupid, due to the fact that I didn't deliberation anybody got celebrated disconnected of YouTube."

A twelvemonth aft their 2014 vows, Ballinger and Evans announced they were getting a divorce, each posting a video to their idiosyncratic YouTube accounts to code their breakup.

"You've watched america date, you've watched america get engaged, you've watched america get married," Ballinger said successful her message. "We've shown you everything due to the fact that we wanted to, and I don't regret immoderate of that, but, you know, we chose to not stock with you the hard parts of our relationship. And determination were a batch of hard parts of our relationship."

In his ain video, Evans stated, "I privation it to beryllium known that I americium not choosing this divorce. I don't privation this divorce. I privation her, but I genuinely judge she thinks she is making the close determination close now."

Ballinger revealed successful a YouTube video recap of her twelvemonth that she secretly married Erik Stocklin, the histrion formed arsenic Miranda's emotion involvement successful her Haters Back Off TV series.

The mates welcomed their archetypal child, Flynn Timothy Stocklin, that month, and twins Wesley Koy Stocklin and Maisy Joanne Stocklin followed successful November 2021. In a YouTube video, the influencer explained that the babies were calved much than a period earlier than expected and that she had to person an exigency C-section.

"I'm okay. The babies are some okay," she shared. "They're precise small and they're gonna beryllium surviving successful the NICU for a portion probably."

Ballinger recorded an apology vlog successful effect to McIntyre's video, acknowledging, among different things, that the underwear incidental was "completely stupid" and admitting, "I should ne'er person sent that."

She had been unboxing items that had been sent to her, she explained, and she and her person were making amusive of the underwear and McIntyre asked for it to beryllium sent to him, which she did arsenic a joke. "I don't cognize what portion of my encephalon was missing astatine the clip that I thought, 'Oh, this is simply a normal, silly happening to do,'" she continued. "But I americium not a monster."

Ballinger continued making contented some for her Miranda Sings transmission and arsenic a household vlogger.

In a since-deleted video titled "why I near the colleen ballinger fandom…", YouTuber KodeeRants shared screenshots of an alleged substance speech betwixt Colleen and her followers, accusing the comedian of forming inappropriate and exploitative relationships with underage fans.

Per NBC News, the unverified radical substance was named "Colleeny's Weenies," with the performer allegedly asking her fans their "favorite position" during 1 conversation.

KodeeRants has since deleted their YouTube and Twitter accounts and NBC News was incapable to verify the screenshots.

On June 7, McIntyre responded with a bid of videos connected his ain YouTube channel, recalling a clip the then-31-year-old planned to walk the time with him successful Dublin up of a June 8, 2018 show. He said they lone ended up gathering for 5 minutes. He besides claimed Ballinger grooms her fans emotionally. Ballinger has yet to straight respond to his claims.

Despite sharing that her squad advised her to not publically remark connected the allegations of grooming and forming inappropriate relationships with underage fans, Ballinger broke her soundlessness successful a philharmonic vlog.

While playing the ukulele and singing, Ballinger compared the accusations to a "toxic gossip train" headed for "manipulation station" portion the remainder of the net "tie maine to the tracks and harass maine for my past." As she enactment it, "the lone happening I've ever groomed is my 2 Persian cats. I'm not a groomer. I'm conscionable a loser who didn't recognize I shouldn't respond to fans."

Explaining done song, she said that she was attempting "to beryllium besties with everybody" by sending messages to fans earlier successful her career. Though she added determination were "times successful the DMs erstwhile I would overshare details of my life—which was truly weird of me—and I haven't done that successful years due to the fact that I changed my behaviour and took accountability."

McIntyre, present 22, took to Twitter soon aft Ballinger posted her video to respond to the grooming allegations and her philharmonic response.

"im gladsome her video did ONE thing," helium tweeted June 28," amusement you each EXACTLY the benignant of evil pistillate she is, that a batch of america person experienced implicit the past fewer years down the scenes, the disguise has slipped…everyone conscionable the REAL colleen ballinger."

After Colleen issued her connection via song, her ex-husband Evans shared his thoughts connected the controversy.

"This behaviour was my world anytime I spoke up & disagreed with her actions & rhetoric during 2009-2016," the histrion tweeted connected June 28. "I was gaslit too. I was made to consciousness similar I was ever the problem. Any symptom I felt was an inconvenience and was belittled."

The erstwhile YouTuber, who divided from Ballinger aft conscionable implicit a twelvemonth of marriage, past posted a follow-up, clarifying his volition for speaking out.

"I person nary tendency to usage this arsenic a catalyst for a YouTube comeback," Evans wrote. "It's not a harmless spot for me. I'm past that. My dependable is lone present to assistance validate those that are hurting, thing more. I person nary request to marque immoderate wealth disconnected of this. That is gross & not successful my heart, whatsoever."

Trisha Paytas, a chap YouTube prima who co-hosts the Oversharing podcast with Ballinger, was pulled into the contention aft 1 of Ballinger's erstwhile fans alleged that she had sent NSFW photos and videos from Paytas' OnlyFans relationship to him

Johnny Silvestri posted respective unverified screenshots to his Twitter connected July 3 of a fewer of the interactions betwixt him and Ballinger, going connected to assertion that she would big "viewing parties" to marque amusive of Paytas.

In a July 3 video, Paytas responded to Ballinger's alleged behavior, saying she does "not condone, astatine all—sending unsolicited nudes to anybody, enactment idiosyncratic oregon not."

"I deliberation utilizing someone's nudes arsenic a mode to wounded them, marque amusive of them, marque airy of them, beryllium mean, is the lowest signifier of human," Paytas continued. "These weren't a agelong clip ago. This is idiosyncratic good into their 30s who conscionable gave birth, sending nudes. And a period prior, I was successful [Ballinger's] house, gathering her newborn and doing a Mukbang with her."

Paytas past explained she reached retired to Ballinger over the photograph allegations, but that she denied them.

"I did inquire her astir these a mates of weeks ago," Paytas claimed. "She assured maine that she had ne'er sent photos of me, [and] that this 1 instrumentality who was underage astatine the clip would nonstop photos to her."

Paytas concluded her video by saying, "I volition ne'er talk connected Colleen again. She conscionable does not beryllium to maine anymore." Ballinger has not publically responded to Paytas' video.

After YouTuber Paige Christie posted a clip of Ballinger performing Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" arsenic Miranda Sings with acheronian overgarment smeared connected her face, Ballinger's squad responded.

According to instrumentality steadfast Berk Brettler, Ballinger had really painted her look greenish to look similar Wicked's Elphaba portion performing tracks from the deed musical.

"She painted her look greenish similar the witch," the instrumentality steadfast said successful a connection to NBC News. "After that number, she went close into 'Single Ladies' (while inactive wearing the greenish makeup). At that time, she closed each her shows with that Beyoncé number—it was 1 of her astir fashionable bits."

This was not the archetypal clip Ballinger faced accusations of racist behavior. In the aforesaid 2020 video she utilized to code McIntyre's claims, the contented creator apologized for employing "racial stereotypes" successful a decade-old video successful which she and her sister pretended to beryllium Latinx women.

"It is not funny, and it is wholly hurtful," Ballinger said astatine the time. "I americium truthful ashamed and embarrassed that I ever thought this was okay."