Colleen Ballinger Finally Responds To The Allegations 

I wouldn’t say it’s tearing apart RU-vid and I also wouldn’t call it drama either. Hurting kids is a crime, not a dramatic scandal

The more Colleen tries to discredit the victims, deny the proof they have and so on, it just makes her look more guilty, it’s like she’s falling in a hole she’s desperately trying to claw her way out of

Vanity Fair has had so many issues with journalistic integrity over the decades I wouldn't trust them to report on a county fair, let alone a story like this.

It speaks volumes that this "journalist" didn't bother to reach out to any of the victims, only Colleen's legal team.

ALL ABOARRRD

Honest to God. This is utterly disgusting of Vanity Fair. Not surprising though. OF COURSE they're supporting someone like Colleen. 🤦‍♀️

Love seeing Ethan support Adam, I worry about him, considering how clearly targeted the Ballinger attack is. It makes no sense why Adam is painted as this villain, didn't Cody start all this? Olivia is so thoughtful, intelligent and presents so well.

The writer, Andrew, graduated THIS YEAR and was allowed to write a hit piece in Vanity Fair. His husband also works for Vanity Fair. He’s 23 by the way.

Amazing that her legal team defends the ‘green’ face but not the nude images texted to a minor?

It's not tearing youtube apart, the opposite, it made everyone get together against her. Even the people who used to hate each other are side by side. Even Tana supported Trish against Colleen.

Olivia really broke it down well. It's great that people with platforms and reach are calling out obvious bs like this article or the CB crusade against Adam even though it was Cody stirring the pot.

Colleen really has been gunning for Adam since 2020. This is a direct hit.

That’s the crime, as well. Revenge porn, and sending that to a child? I believe that gets you on a list? The entire family is kind of a case study. That’s the story that takes nerve.

This was yet another poorly researched article this week on an influencer. What really gets me is that none of the victims were contacted and when Adam reached out to this writer, allegedly he was blocked (Adam made a video on this one) by the writer. Got to wonder what the heck is going on. I think it’s time for the victims to make statements to police and let them have at it. They need to get some serious legal advice on the defamation going on.

Vanity fair were the ones who did that Miley Cyrus shoot where they sexualised her at like 15 right? Makes sense that they'd defend a rabid groomer 😂 theyve been doing it for decades

I got to say, I love Olivia, and I love how you guys integrated her in the team and more active as a commentator

It’s giving narcissistic mother who seeks out people who agree with her instead of taking accountability/trying to make us sorry for her. “F** me right?”

I love how child grooming and sexually explicit material being sent to minors is being treated like a scandal rather than an actual CRIME like it REALLY is. I also love how much Colleen and her team are DROWNING in evidence because they can't dispute any of it with how much has been revealed. This shit makes me so angry, but at the very least, it is OBVIOUS who the guilty party is. This also has an amazing aoe where anyone who tries to defend Colleen is getting exposed as well, so....at least there's that (looking at you, Vanity Fair. bombastic side eye)

Don't forget that to her neice and nephews she is known as auntie panties. If that doesn't raise eyebrows and concerns i dont know what. It just shows the ingrained behaviour of all of the family how normalised the over sexualisation related to minors.

I feel like Adam is only getting targeted because he’s basically the only one that has been making videos and videos on this( which he definitely deserves to do!) and one of the loudest speaker on this. So he is the easiest target. They never even mentioned all of his receipts either which is unfortunate. Poorly done article F in my opinion

Random but as a person with Tourette’s I’m really happy to see you openly ticcing it makes me remember that we as a community arent so alone

vanity fair is a joke and has been problematic for years. not surprising.

I lOVE LOVE LOVE Olivia's break downs. I love H3 but over the several months I'm here for Olivia. Love all of them, Ethan, and all the cast, but Olivia's breakdowns are what keep me coming back for me.

Adam responded well to this. Keep it all above board and full disclosure as much as he can. He's aware at this point that anyone who looks at the evidence will come to the proper conclusion, so he's in the power seat. What I can't understand is why Colleen seems to want him there so badly, because she's the one that keeps putting him there.

the more she tries to defame adam for speaking out the worse it gets for her and the more support he gets. i think a lot of this could have potentially blown over if she hadn’t posted that ukulele video and now i’m honestly glad she did because this whole case will get the attention it actually deserves. she dug her own grave by trying to act tough and point blame elsewhere

#FreeBritney is how I found Adam way back in 2020, now this crash of CB is how I found H3, I'm really happy for this weird circle social media has brought me on. #justiceforadam and the rest. They deserve to watch her public shaming and make as much content about it as they want to.

Someone needs to report her to the FBI and let them handle this. Sending children porn and encouraging them to do sexual acts is illegal. She needs to be charged and investigated immediately

I feel for Adam. When that kind of thing happens, I imagine being dismissed and gaslit like this article did would be the most painful and infuriating thing possible. I'm pissed on his behalf. I hope he goes to the police about what she did.

This story is *tearing* my family apart. I don't have a family but i imagine it would. Probably not though.

Do you think her and James reached out to their magazine contacts without knowing the other was taking the same approach? Or did Colleen actually see the James one and go "No yeah, this seems like a good idea"? Cause I feel like if I was planning this as Colleen, and I saw James's PR article fail so miserably, Id cancel the helllll out of mine.

The photos of Trisha were not texts! They were dms from Colleen’s twitter. Trisha verified the photos could only have come from her onlyfans, and the kids could not have seen them anywhere else.

It’s kinda suspicious and weird that Adam was getting a random bunch of comments on his content calling him a “clout chaser” right around the time the Variety article dropped. Almost makes me think she bought bots to try and manipulate the narrative since it worked for her the first time she tried to discredit Adam. Just sayin

And there’s literal video evidence of a lot of the weird shit she did. I can’t believe she’s really still trying to fight and deny this crap. And really can’t believe she has support

This might be one of few RU-vid dramas that has (understandably) had people who probably wouldn't even like each other stand in unison against a person. Does the author have the faintest idea what "tearing apart" means?

“I talked to my fans, not in a CREEPY way, more like in a LOSER way.” Yeah, I’m pretty sure that creeps and losers usually turn out to be the same thing. “You know that girl, Miranda Sings? She’s PG-13.” Oh, so you mean that minors are still able to view her content?

it speaks volumes to me that Adam was actually not the one hellbent on destroying colleen, as VF paints him. if that were the case, he would have been the one to leak the group chat stuff initially, but it was KODEE. who of course, was not mentioned at all.

Weird to me he refers to Trisha as a sex worker. That’s not all she was. She was friends with Colleen and recently started a pod cast with her. So many things are mind boggling about this article.

The reason Colleen and her team have been so defensive about the black face thing is because that’s the only thing that wasn’t true and the only thing she could prove wrong, every other allegation has been proven with screenshots and other receipts

Adam mentioned this on his channel- but it was a good point: Adam could not be lying about sh*t this serious or HE COULD BE SUED FOR DEFAMATION. She knows he has proof. Truth is a defence to defamation.

This reminds me of the Ned Fulmer incident with SNL like how the frick did this get approved

Vanity Fair also did a horribly biased article about the way they treated the director who won Project Greenlight. Olivia you should watch it and spill the tea because there is some serious mean girl behavior on that show. The director was treated so unfairly.

The fact that the original article said he was English and born in Brighton is CRAZY. This is the most Irish man. It's like they never even heard him speak before writing the article

I wish I had the money to give to Adam to sue Vanity Fair for defamation and get some of this evidence before a judge

The author of that article isn’t a fan. He’s being paid LOADS of money by her PR team to give her positive press.

This completely de-legitimizes vanity fair as an entire publication. I think the dude was paid off in my opinion..

The details of Colleen's vile offences is widely and well known amongst RU-vid. It must be so frustrating for people like Adam in particular to have facts and details ignored and twisted because some hack is desperate to defend that hideous woman.

Andrew and VF have taken gutter "journalism " to a new depth! Adam is clearly from Ireland, not England. How Andrew missed all the evidence available to him when young youtubers, as well as Adam, did his work for him, is mind-blowing. It's grooming - ticks all the boxes - they need to look up the meaning. Sending s*xually explicit images to minors is a criminal offence in ANY country! The person whose images were sent, purchased from behind a paywall, said it herself, and she immediately severed ties with the perpetrator after being betrayed herself. Revictimising these young people is appallingly disgusting and a reason why some victims don't come forward. I'm so glad to see young people these days have the sense and ability to recognise and call it out for what it is! Adam is mature beyond his years, and I hope he takes this as far as he can. FBI and, I presume, INTERPOL/UK Law Enforcement needs to work together to prosecute this vile woman to the full extent of the law. I hope she does jail time. And I hope Adam and the other victims will eventually heal from this horrific experience. 🤔🇦🇺 Ms Ballinger clearly paid for this hit piece 🙄 Andrew has also switched his social media private and literally blocked Adam while Adam was live streaming his response. Pretty cowardly. Check out Ballinger's lawyer too - clients include Prince Andrew and other guilty high profile wankers. In regard to Adam "wearing" the underwear, he was harrassed to do it by Ms Ballinger's best friend/sidekick until he relented. He was never comfortable doing it.

The Ballingers are an obnoxious train wreck. It's disgusting that she's dragging this young adult who is telling the truth. Clearly she's comfortable with lying for her benefit.

Boycott vanity fair.

I absolutely love Olivia. I first became aware of her via the initial power point and she's such a gem

Colleen's lawyer likely saw to get the article out there. It's not an unheard of tactic, especially for those wealthy defense lawyers for wealthy celebs.

I'm not emotionally invested in this whole thing (I didn't know who she was beforehand). The evidence I've seen shows she used her "celebrity status" to manipulate minors, interact wholly inappropriately with them and from the response I've seen from her, she has zero accountability and unsurprisingly has made this about how she's been somehow wrongfully targeted by mob mentality and woke culture. Adam was a victim who is now old enough to express how inappropriate her interactions with minors were. And he's backed it up with evidence so even people like myself who had never heard of her had a pretty clear picture. VanityFair writing an article that goes after a literal victim is WILD to me. I don't know that she's an actual pedophile (not that women can't be, they unequivocally can); it seems to me based on evidence that it's more children are easy to target and manipulate and she is so deeply narcissistic and incapable of manipulating adults that she naturally gravitated towards kids. she actually profited in saying sexually geared things for shock value to kids. It must be such a rude awakening for her trying to use the same tactics she's used on children for yearsss to re-write this narrative to adults and have everyone be acutely aware that she's being manipulative. Whether her intent was sexual in nature towards minors doesn't actually matter at all. She deliberately showed explicit photos to minors, she interacted with them in ways that is concerning and she caused a group of young individuals she considered her minions, harm. The fact she has no self awareness, no ability to reflect and an unwavering narrative that this is an issue with everyone else is also wild. There should be legal and financial consequences to what's happened here. Adam certainly should not be targeted for coming forward wtf.

Still have that terrible song stuck in my head

You’d think magazines might be a little more careful it’s not hard to get sued out of existence.

Poor Adam.... what a disgusting article!! Just.... man who wrote this rubbish needs to go back to school!! #BoycottVanityFair

NOT A GROOMER (LOL yeah right), JUST A LOSER (accurate)

So her plan is to make Adam look like a crazy fan that’s obsessed with her?

Colleen is just…ugh. All her team keeps saying is “it’s taken out if context” and false allegations. But NO PROOF. Ever. It’d be easy to give and everything would go away. But she knows she doesnt have any. Her fans who believe her are insane and believe she’s witholding evidence to sue. Which she wont. Obviousky

olivia is so talented man her makeup is pristine every time. it’s cool to see ppl who have perfected their craft, so sharp‼️

"Unsubstantiated" is pretty damn gross. I work at a high school. If someone on the faculty or staff conversed with students in the same manner Ballinger did in that "Weenies" groupchat, there would be at the very least a long discussion to be had. Even some of the more benign content, like joking about having a slumber party with the kids, would likely get a teacher/staff member terminated. You just don't joke about that shit. On top of this, but if another teacher/staff member knew it was happening and did not immediately report it, he/she would also likely get 86'd. Thus, this reporter calling the allegations unsubstantiated despite the contents of those group chats being made public would be tantamount to a teacher at a high school learning of another teacher's inappropriate conversations with students, then deciding "yeah, nothing to see here." Effectively, what Quintana has done in the face of the groupchat evidence would be grounds for termination from any responsible high school yet somehow qualifies as journalism to his editor at Vanity Fair.

The Colleen freaks are here

Vanity fair doesn’t believe what they write, the write what pays the bills and someone from Colleen’s team spent a pretty penny to get this story pushed which shows exactly how guilty she is

Before starting the video I just want to say what a horrible and bad move of Vanity Fair. They are not doing themselves any favors by supporting Colleen and have just ruined themselves too. Being such a huge respected magazine brand, you'd think they'd do better and make better choices. Shame on you Vanity Fair. Now on to the video.

I’m suspicious of every adult who dismissed Adams video and claims in 2020, and publicly defended Colleen, no matter what they think now.

Mainstream media protecting groomers…adds up.

Honestly, I'm still kinda in the camp that she kept the "green-face" on intended as some form of blackface anyway. There's a whole discourse to be had about the whole isolation and ostracization not just because Elphaba has magic but because she is green. And Todrick Hall, noted friend of Colleen with his own issues, in his musical Straight Outta Oz related being "green" and being black....... Was it blackface, not if it was green face paint, but was it an "explainable form of blackface", I think that can be argued tbh. As bad, no, but not great either.

Honestly i cannot believe that article was approved like they didn't even reached out to adam for a comment I think its basic journalism to reach out to both sides when you do something like that

I severely hope Colleen faces some sort of charges. Imagine she actually went to prison. It’d be the best day of my life

Sending Ethan a cease and desist was the worst decision she could have ever made. He will review this to the ground

Ppl need to stop saying "nudes of a sex worker" and start calling it what it is. Sending porn to a minor. I know H3 and team are using the correct terms. I'm talking EVERYONE. Adam is absolutely gorgeous.

If you hire Bill Cosby's lawyer, we've only seen the tip of the iceberg. Colleen's fans are growing up and recognizing the harm done to them. The children who worked for free could probably file a class action suit along with federal charges.

This strangeness also raises serious questions about the editor at Vanity Fair. In my experience, the only people who defend such obvious inappropriate behavior are doing so to try to downplay their own inappropriate behavior.

The lawyers are really grasping at straws here. I can’t believe Colleen and her legal team thinks this would help her image. What an embarrassment.

To me it seems like the author of the vanity fair article is either a fan or friend of Colleen or someone who she paid to write this to once again blame everyone else except herself

I’m so HAPPY that Adam is suing Vanity Fair and I think maybe the writer as well. For defamation. I hope he wins. He deserves to have his name cleared once and for all. He has shown the proof he isn’t lying. I hope Colleen gets dragged into this also.

Just one piece I think should be added. Peter Monn pointed out today that Andrew Quintana’s Vanity Fair piece hyperlinked “grooming” to a NYT article (also behind a paywall) about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell- implying that Ballinger isn’t as bad as others either facing criminal prosecution or serving prison time, which is gross.

The Colleen trolls in the comments are truly disgusting. How are they not embarrassed??

That article is self annihilation at this point. Whether she coordinated or not (likely she did)it’s been 2 days a pr team could have done something. But let’s be real self annihilation start with the grooming. Who is the one cackling in the background I swear he just makes the videos 👌🏻😂

Vanity fair just lost any credibility they had before cause holy fuck

When going to Vanity Fair’s article, down at the bottom of the screen you can click a link that says “See More by Andrew Quintana”, when you click it the link is “Broken”. Funny coincidence

I stopped watching h3 years ago and came back cause i absolutely love Olivia's stuff!!!

colleen literally sent p*rn to children like hello

I noticed no one mentions that Adam is a commentary channel. That’s his job. So when Colleen, being a well known internet celebrity, gets in drama (whether Adam is involved in the drama or not), he’s going to make a video commenting on it. Because that’s his job.

The ballegations 🎉

Repeat after me. Child abuse is NOT OKAY!

This looks like an article paid by Colleen's PR, ALLEGEDLY 👀

You know how Adam said that Colleen would tell him to attack Josh online after their break up, and how Kodee said Colleen told her to make videos attacking Adam online after his video from 2020. This feels pretty similar, someone should check to see if Andrew was a weenie in those group chats.

I've said this before and I'll say it again I wouldn't be surprised if the person who first started the black face stuff was either a) a fake account or b) talked into it by Colleen. The timing felt so sussy and as if it was done on purpose to deflect 🙄 Glad you guys are covering this so professionally and yet personally at the same time ❤️

I love that everyone keeps mixing up variety and vanity fair 😂😂😂

I'm pretty sure you can pay a magazine like Vanity Fair to print an article

So proud to be from the same country as Adam, what a strong and wonderful human who has had to endure so much shit. He deserves so much better

Vanity fair has a customer support number so let’s all just blow it up

It’s honestly sad that she’s reaching out to all of these huge magazines to save her reputation, she needs the RU-vid community on her side, we don’t care what they have to say.

Given the shared lawyer, i wonder how vanity fair have reported on prince andrew

I would be SO interested to find out if the article writer is a friend of hers…

Just imagine HOW MUCH Colleen paid to Vanity Fair to make them do this interview! And this is her lawyer's idea, they KNOW they can't win in this part of the internet, so they tried to go to a more convencional one, like a maganize. Wrong move! REALLY GOOD that H3 made a video tearing them apart!

Love Olivia. Best part of the show ✊

The all aboard part makes me laugh every time

People have found videos of Colleen where she openly talks about her affiliation with VF.

Where's this statement about the lawyer responding to everything? I can't find it