Accuser Adam McIntyre reacts to Colleen Ballinger’s recent vlog: ‘Hasn’t changed’
Colleen Ballinger, more commonly known by her YouTube character name Miranda Sings, returned to the platform after a five-month hiatus. Her last upload was a poorly received ukulele video in response to the growing number of allegations against her and her family of being inappropriate with young fans.
Adam McIntyre was one of the first Miranda Sings fans to go public with accusations against Ballinger’s behavior back in 2020. But it was his June video reiterating his claims about his experience with Ballinger that set off other fans, and even other YouTube creators, to share similar stories and reexamine their relationship with Ballinger.
Following Ballinger’s recent upload on Nov. 18, McIntyre has since posted a response video titled “colleen ballinger hasn’t changed” detailing why he claims this was her attempt to remonetize her platform and move on from the scandal, rather than offer a genuine apology to fans.
In Ballinger’s new 13-minute video titled “fall vlog,” she spent some time addressing the backlash to her ukulele video.
“Obviously, the last video that I posted on here … it’s really embarrassing, to say the least,” Ballinger says in the recent video. “I was being accused of some pretty awful things, and I just was mad, and I should have handled that situation with maturity and empathy.”
Ballinger goes on to blame her “ego” for her ukulele video and says there were moments of “immature and inappropriate” humor during her “15-year career.” The ukulele video is still available on her vlog channel and has over 16 million views.
“There were times when I did not put enough thought into some of my fan interactions, and because of that behavior, people got hurt,” she continues. “I am so sorry.”
One day after posting “fall vlog,” Ballinger shared another video, titled “What I’ve been up to,” which detailed her newfound “obsession” with rocks.
Social media users across X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, and TikTok expressed their disappointment in her continuing to post videos. The timing also raised a red flag for some people given that November and December are reportedly the highest AdSense periods for creators on YouTube.
colleen ballinger returning to youtube as soon as the highest vlogger adsense season is about to start
pic.twitter.com/xlWAOB9Dao— ? ?????????? (????????????'?? ??????????????) (@haleysversion) November 18, 2023
A good way to support Colleen Ballinger's victims is to not watch her new vlog out of morbid curiosity. She returned to YouTube to make money off of ads during the holiday season. Don't give her the views.
— ella dawson (@brosandprose) November 18, 2023
What in the parasocial is this??? Colleen really said need to post vlogs for holiday ad revenue ?? and she didn't speak out and address. Apologize to Adam and Becky and Oliver and everyone else or get off the internet. #colleenballinger pic.twitter.com/JNjrYPVNoZ
— Brenna ?? (@brennaq222) November 18, 2023
there's no way colleen ballinger came back to youtube with 3 mins of "my last video was embarrassing, i went to therapy bc my comedy many years go hurt people, anyway here's some chickens"
absolutely wild that she still doesn't understand what taking accountability means— amanda (@hellvndbvck) November 19, 2023
Colleen Ballinger back and "apologizing" in time for the vlogmas adsense ijbol you think you slick pic.twitter.com/UKHY3n4ZWB
— em? (@spicytheepisces) November 19, 2023
AdSense is Google’s program through which creators in the YouTube Partner Program get paid. Creators make money through the number of views given to either banner ads across their videos or the unskippable six-second ads called bumper ads.
In The Know by Yahoo reached out to YouTube for verification on whether November and December are peak AdSense months. The company did not respond by the article deadline.
McIntyre speculated that the timing of Ballinger’s video was intentional not only because of AdSense peaking, but also because YouTube’s Partner Program keeps accounts monetized if they upload within six months from their previous video. Google support confirms this, saying: “YouTube does reserve the right, at its discretion, to remove monetization from channels if a channel is inactive and not uploading or posting Community posts for 6 months or more.”
“As a YouTuber, you have six months before YouTube demonetizes your YouTube channel, basically for inactivity,” McIntyre says in the video. “So she has come back just within that window, really close to it closing, so she could keep monetization on her YouTube channel.”
In the video, McIntyre reiterated that he has still not received a private message or a personal apology from Ballinger. McIntyre did not respond to In The Know by Yahoo’s request for comment.
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