Breaking Down Colleen Ballinger's "apology" Video | Spoiler, It's Trash! 

She doesn’t want to be held accountable for older words and actions of her because she was young (19+ years old) but she wants to hold Adam accountable for things he said and did at ages 13-17????

“No, I shouldn’t have sent a fan underwear” A minor, Colleen. Not a “fan.” A kid. A minor. Someone’s child. Stop. Diminishing. The. Seriousness. Of. The. Situation. That is not and never will be okay!! The way she apologizes but then sneaks little deflections in there and downplays it. She is just plain CREEPY.

Her language and thought process sounds immature because this entire apology was probably written by 14-16 years olds 😂

There is no context where an adult sending a child lingerie is okay. This woman has to do a whole lot of mental gymnastics to defend her predatory behavior.

Abuse has no gender. Colleen needs to be called out for sure.

This doesn’t sound like an apology, it sounds like a plea not to get cancelled.

Colleen is currently 36 years old . So In 2020 she was 33 which would have made her 19 at the time of said racial videos .. barely a teen … However when she was dealing with Adam it began when he was 13 ..which he is now 20 so that’s just 7 years ago so most of their events happened while she was 29 and while she was in her 30s .. let this sink in .. a 30 something year old woman and a child between the ages of 13-17 …

The ease at which she jokes and relates inappropriately with minors is really creepy to me.

She completely tried to ruin Adam and manipulate him into feeling like he did anything wrong when he did NOTHING wrong. Colleen is an adult child

She's excusing everything she did back then because she was only a CHILD, but she wants to hold Adam, a CHILD at the time, accountable for his actions? Can she not see the hypocrisy or is she just delusional?

The big doe eyes and soft spoken, calm apology with forced eye contact screams “I’m trying to manipulate you.” She’s a theater kid, she knows how to act.

The anger in her voice and face says everything. She has zero remorse about what she did, only that she had to make a public apology. What a scumbag.

The silence from all her social media this week is LOUD! She hasn't posted any viedos........so excited to watch her newest deflection/apology video (on this channel of course).

I was a part of the fandom then. I was in an 18+ gc with her called Colleen’s Grannies. I explicitly remember thinking she wouldn’t interact much with us bc we weren’t minors.. the “Grannies” were like 18-22 lol I’ve always believed Adam from the start and I’m so thankful this is finally getting the attention it deserves. ❤️

Wonder which under age person helped her with this one?

They always apologize to the fans to save their reputation BUT don’t apologize to the ones they harmed

the fact adam has receipts for EVERYTHING makes me so happy, she can’t escape this

She's so gross. She needs to log off the internet forever and move on learning from her mistakes & give her kids the private life they need amd deserve. Sadly when they grow up they will find this out about their mom. She needs to get professional help and stop getting validation from strangers online.

I have a 15 year old son and if any woman were to send him anything (including a bobby pin, a dirty shoe or a piece of toilet paper) I would lose my shit. Now if a woman were to send him lingerie I would be in jail. Context not required, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

Her defence for a weird interaction with a kid is… that she has lots of weird interactions with kids?

She’s 36 now. If that apology video is from 3 years ago, and the video of her and her sister making fun of Hispanic people was 14 years before that, she would’ve been 19. Yes that’s still a teenager… but you’re a young adult. She made it sound like they were like 14 or something.

Stunted emotional adult who thinks that she is above everyone else. She passes judgment on those who do not agree with her ideals;but has zero issue injecting herself into another parent’s child and thinks she has no responsibility in all of it.

"He asked for them" gives me "she liked it" vibes. 😢

When she inevitably comes out with her new, manipulative apology video, I hope everyone reminds her that she’s already been proven to continue behaviors she apologized for publicly with this video. I really hope she doesn’t manage to manipulative the small following she still has, or, worse, manipulate the people that are just now finally seeing the truth and leaving her fandom, into returning to it 😢

She is also downplaying the relationship that she had with him. While he was probably highly insignificant to her, he had a very intense parasocial relationship with a “star” that he was a big fan of. She knew he was a very devout fan, and still manipulated him, used him, and then tossed him when it started to come out. She took advantage of his immature brain and got weird gratification out of having these devoted followers. The fact that she gave him her TWITTER password that had probably millions of followers shows that he wasn’t just “some fan.” She’s acting as if he wasn’t involved in her life, but she was snapchatting him, meeting him for burgers in Dublin, sending him LINGERIE, and offering to fly him to Los Angeles. How sick 🤢

The stalker violin. And forehead wrinkles on fire. This person needs to be held accountable. And Adam 100% deserves compensation for what he has been through and for helping her with her content.

Josh, I hope your safe with these wildfires up there. The smoke has come down to us in NYC so I couldn’t imagine what it’s like by you.

Seems like she wants to be cool to teens because she wasn’t a “cool teen.” Inappropriate behavior.

If she was truly sorry, she would show more emotions than she did. It sounded more like a script than something from the “heart”.

I watched Kodee’s video about this too. The whole “Flynn” thing, was Adam asking how Colleen would feel if someone took advantage of Flynn the same way she was taking advantage of Adam. Honest question!

Can we please stop using the word”CANCELLED” what this woman did are ACTUALLY CRIMES PUNISHABLE WITH JAILTIME. It desensitizes people when we reduce ACTUAL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN with canceling someone…and not watching her videos.WHAT SHES DONE IF ANYONE IN THE REAL WORLD LIKE A TEACHER,pastor or a police officer or if she were a man and did these things they’d be arrested.

Just lie, after lie, with her. All the nasty victim blaming and grooming she's done is unforgivable, her victims were literal children, she needs to be deplatformed.

I think Josh is on the right path about her "personality disorders" and adult woman having a child's mindset. (not diagnosing her!) And I think Josh is right about Miranda caracter is somehow Colleen herself. Something is seriously wrong with her and partially admits her traumas, childhood problems...

I hate the “I was a teenager” thing. I knew what racism was as a teenager.

One thing that was my first cue that something was wrong years ago was when she started out one of her tours by talking about how mom's don't like her. Trashing mom's in particular for a good 10-15 minutes, in front of hundreds of her PAYING fans (who included mom's and parents). That was an intentional groomer move.

Her niece and nephews call her “Auntie Panties” which is so odd to me!

I found you about a year ago when you started covering the Doughertys and I just wanted to say I now watch every single video, and look forward to them. My husband even likes your videos too. Always well done and articulate. Keep spreading awareness DCP ❤🎉

The double standard is beyond disturbing. Gender should never matter, a predator is a predator!

Lets also keep in mind, she not only had male victims, at least one young woman has also spoken up. She clearly doesn't seem to have a gender preference, just an age preference. Easy to manipulate, super fan minors. I'm not even going to say "allegedly" bc both Adam and Kodee at least have shown proof.

As someone officially diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder/multiple personality disorder - we don’t claim her. Or Miranda Sings.

Josh, I have a masters degree in forensic psychology. I think you’re correct in that the psychology terms you used are arrest development and dissociation. Usually, these behaviors arise from psychological trauma. Such as, abuse, neglect, and other traumatizing events such as natural disasters. These types of traumatic experiences can lead to personality disorders. Some of the most common personality disorders are borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and histrionic personality disorder.

So 14 years ago Colleen was still 22. So she’s not a child nor a minor

As a 33 year old woman myself, she was wrong for this. She addressed nothing. She was actively in group chats with children at this time dumping her issues on them and getting them to defend her publicly. The person she was then is not far from who she probably is today. I cannot imagine talking to 14/15/16 year old children in this manner.

I remember when this apology came out. Even as a teenager her sense of humor disgusted me. A lot of people at my school were shattered by this video because her content was a big part of their tween years. I can't emphasize enough how much she has influenced young kids and teens. Maybe I didn't like her because I avoided her content till I was older and could see things differently.

She is so vindictive and all this apology was was gaslighting.

it really struck me when this apology first came out how fucking angry she sounds, she’s SEETHING that she “has to apologize”

Please talk about her fundraiser scam. It NEEDS to be called out and investigated by the authorities

I don’t think Colleen got the memo that an apology video is supposed to include an apology lol

If someone is so out of touch that they think there is an “appropriate” context for an adult to send minors lingerie… they’re probably beyond helping. It’s not funny, it’s not “weird” and “stupid” in the way she’s saying. It’s “weird” in the way that you should be on a FBI watch list. The fact that she is willing to defend that in any way is insane. The fact that she is willing to post receipts proving that she sent the lingerie to a minor ON A DIFFERENT DAY - meaning it wasn’t a temporary total lapse in judgment on a livestream- …yeah, I have no words.

its the same as an apology that goes like " i am sorry YOU feel like i wronged you" . I have had to explain to grown adults that there is a difference between say sorry i bumped into you at the store and it being fast and done. And someone you are supposedly invested in be it a coworker, family, friends and or friend of a friend. Dont say your sorry if you arent that is abusive in its own way and if you truly are sorry make it known you are the who, what , why and how you will be better in the future

As someone who was groomed at 14 and had a "relationship" with said groomer for a year and a half, everything about this is triggering but also very frustrating, for lack of a better term. The behavior of colleen was exactly what my groomer did. By not telling Adam to tell people about their chat is a big old red flag. Thank you for covering this. I hope Adam can heal. I still have not healed fully and it happened over 15 years ago.

The fact that her comment section is now super clean and positive again after she deleted "all the negativity" just says sooo much about her narcissism. I have been in a relationship with one unfortunately... its always the same behaviour, the same symptoms...

So glad to watch this on my birthday!! Your videos always make my day, your reactions to the absurd and horrible actions of family vloggers crack me up, but also teach me how I can protect my future children from danger online

Its so true that if genders were revered she'd be in so much trouble

I commented yesterday that she couldn’t apologize because she doesn’t know how, when you imply that “if you took offense by what I said” is NOT AN APOLOGY!!!

Justice for Adam!! 💜

She's talking so fast! Makes her seem like a child trying to get out of trouble

Adam and his story impacted me too last night. I subscribed to his channel and watched some of his videos.💕

What really makes me mad about this video is that she’s not apologizing for sending the lingerie to Adam, she’s trying to justify her actions. She says well I did this this and this, I thought it was a funny joke, he wanted it, etc. Not once does she apologize to Adam and own up to her mistake, nor does she even address him! She’s talking about him like he’s some random fan she sent it to and I believe this was after she had developed a friendship with him. She likely met him on several occasions and spoke to him both publicly and privately, she clearly knew who he was!

it blows my mind how someone could be so inappropriate to children in SO MANY DIFFERENT ways, yet still not take any accountability, or even have it held against her til very now

This is just gross. She needs to be held accountable for her offenses against minors. She needs to stay away from all children, and seek some serious mental help. I hope Adam gets justice and all those she has groomed. These influencers that prey on children and committed grotesque offenses and hide behind their cash and cameras are scary and shouldn’t have a platform and be banned from all social media.

I think you've hit on something insightful: Colleen's emotional development seems to have been stunted around 14 or 15. She's stuck there. It's in the immature way she dresses; it's in the character she created and inhabits: Miranda is very much a teenager; it's in her dark and unhealthy relationships with her young fans and the inappropriate delight she takes as a middle age woman in being the queen bee in her hive of willing minors (the dream of a 13 year old in middle school). This arrested development--complicated by what I believe is a raging case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder--has informed so many consequential decisions she has made. The toxicity is redlining, and there's no hiding or deflecting. There's only one way OUT, and that's THROUGH. If she weren't so tragically corrupt, I'd almost pity her now. The road ahead's gonna be nasty and painful.

Colleen has never understood appropriate boundaries. She has a video where she and her sister literally eat candy underwear off eachother, another where they kiss... the whole family are weird.

She is also friends with JoJo siwa. 4 yrs ago she did a reaction video to the birth of her son with a then 16 yr old JoJo! (Best friends before that apparently.) Why? Apparently they have been friends for a while. I remember I said to my daughter why is a grown woman friends with a teen? Also the dog incident, kodee (Adams friend) covered that in one of her videos and in the video Collen admits to having anger issues/outbursts when younger. She said she got the dog around its neck and dug her fingers in, so the dog seems to have bitten her face in self defence. Some say she was too young to realise her actions ok to a point fair enough maybe but to then say proudly "I killed my dog" because he was then euthanised for biting her face, cancels age out. Why even tell that story. What is wrong with people? And by the way Ive had 3 kids, and all at that age grew up around pets respectfully and with care. As far as that apology video, sorry lady caught out red handed. Why are grown adults even allowed to have private grps with kids anyway? Nope and nope! Good work Josh, throughly enjoy your vids. 👍

Colleen directly admitted to Fallon that Miranda says things she wishes she could but would never without the mask x

Watching this video back 3 years later feels like that scene in Goonies when Chunk is confessing everything he's ever done wrong in the sloppiest stream of consciousness to the Fratelli's....only, not sincere at all.

Adam and many others deserve justice💕

One of Colleens best friends is Jojo Siwa who is the same age as Adam. Truly bizarre.

I’m so angry also. She’s a child predator and she’s a mother that exploits her babies. God this is not good.

you're not a drama channel, you're an educational channel at this point. thank you for bringing awareness to these sick people and these shitty influencers.

This is simply amazing that she is admitting to everything in that shitty - not apologetic at all - video

Colleen referring to Adam as an employee or someone she hired which means he is protected under employment protection laws especially for minors and California is very strict about that stuff

Tbh when Adam came out with his story back then for the first time I actually did and still believe what he said. It really just didn't surprise me.

Short version to her video: I'm sorry (that I got caught). Which is the most basic narc template sentence. She never truly apologised, just feels very sorry that she could not continue that easily what she was doing before. That is why after every statement she needs to tell another lie and demishing what she already admitted. BULLSHIT COLLEEN, SHUT UP OR DO BETTER.

Her high pitch and raised eyebrows she uses in this "apology" video kills me.

She and her family still make fun of this panty situation. They literally call her AUNTY PANTIES 🤷‍♀

I have watched plenty of her videos in the past and know what her voice normally sounds like, and this isn't it!! She's 100% using her customer service voice!! Lmao!! You all know you have one too, Lol! That just makes this "apology" video that much less sincere.

This whole apology video gave the same vibe of when Adam was saying that she was like ugh for having to pay for the person who had cancer!

People over explain and add unnecessary details when they're attempting to fabricate a lie

She's definitely disassociating herself from the issues that SHE caused .. What a clown 😂

Josh!! Did you see Kodis video where she shoes a bunch of old clips/tweets and stuff where she’s got tons of “jokes/satire” about rape. It’s gross. Adam covered the video too.

Also "I am not a monster, I am not a groomer" All you have to do is look at the Sam and Labia videos she made with Kory, they are traumatizing and disturbing, borderline porn and she made those KNOWING the age of her audience, she should be in jail for that alone

Colleen- "Context is everything" Me- idk, im pretty sure sending a child lingerie is disgusting no matter what the context but okay...

I can not wait ive been waiting for another colleen ballinger video!

She did not apologize to her victim she apologized to the internet so she can continue making money . Gross.

The tiny violin…. I’ve never seen it before…:. I literally CANNOT!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Something has to give. These predators need to be treated as such.

I agree with you 100% Josh. If this had been a man doing this to young girls he would have already been in jail. It is so infuriating how many double standards there are. Thank you for covering this!

Josh, you need to get the FBI involved with this. In the US, child grooming and predatory behavior falls under the jurisdiction of the FBI

Josh you’re right: she seems defensive and hostile rather than humble.

We also should talk about her friendship with JoJo Siwa when she was a child. NOW jojo is hosting parties with mostly young children attending. It just doesn’t make sense

It’s super convenient that she wants to protect minors so much now that she won’t share any conversations between herself and the minor who she was having inappropriate conversations with, using and abusing. “No I won’t share that not bc it incriminates me at all but bc I care so much about protecting minors!” Girrrrrllll stop

😂😂😂she did an Amber Heard...." I pledged to employ him"😂😂😂

Cannot wait for this one. Who am I kidding love DCP EVERYTHING you do is Great.❤

Josh is going to have a field day with this one!

You have a new subscriber. You dissected everything PERFECTLY. Plz do a series on breaking down online apologies.

She can't even make her lies sound coherent. She said she was a tennager, a kid, 14 years ago, 12 years ago, etc etc. "I have grown and learned so much about my ignorant mistakes as a teenager" right after saying it was 14 years ago, sooooo she was 19-21! WHERE'S THE TEENAGER, THE KID?!

Thank you for covering this so well. But WHY IS NO ONE ELSE??? I pray you’re just the first of many.

Colleen is 36-years-old now, so fourteen years ago would have made her twenty-two…not a teenager…is this an old apology?

Promising things like VidCon and not going through with it is a classic manipulation tactic used by narcissists called future faking.