Sweet, unless it honestly is gonna take time or effort away from your usually Pinely's😮😢 ...like pickling rick! I'm not sure. If you remember that one you never seem to bring it up..🤷
Not gonna lie if she was performing for a strictly adult audience I'd have thought that song was funny 😭 inexcusable to behave this way for an audience you know is mostly children though.
She would have done so much better as an adult show character, it would have been funny then, but no, she likes exposing children to this because she’s fucked up and that shit turns her on
Yes flat out saying her “lady parts (she uses the medical term) smell like cat food” in front of an audience packed with 12 year olds (her demographic) is so wrong on so many levels. It’s deliberately boundary crossing with explicit references (which is typical groomer behavior). she constantly/compulsively references s*x, and it’s also body shaming and young girls are especially insecure about their bodies at this age. Colleen is horrible on so many levels.
She said it herself, she thinks kids are dumb, when they aren't usually THAT dumb. In fact, they are extremely quick to pick up something they cleraly shouldn't just yet.
She busts out The Hub about 2 minutes in than vagina shes directly naming these things , there is no sleight of hand of going over the kids heads they are gonna ask their parents after the show what those things are.
The thing that is so disgusting to me is that fans that went to her show were told specifically to dress slutty to be brought up on stage and say "this is porn!!" And she did this over and over again.
@Chachiloveamike Because some parents are crappy and don’t care to protect their child from a predator, especially if that person is a celebrity or has a higher status in society. Happens all the time unfortunately. I personally wouldn’t trust any adult around my child who finds Colleen’s content appropriate for children to witness and/or participate in. It’s sickening to know that audience had a lot of parents in it, and yet they all not only stayed silent, but actually LAUGHED at her sexualizing children and doing/saying highly inappropriate things. It’s really disturbing, and is part of the reason why she flew under the radar for so long.
I was never really a big Miranda fan (or even Colleen) so I had no idea about the specifics of this Netflix special…ummm.. how is everyone just NOW being concerned?…
Because, as you admitted to not being a fan yourself, no one except children watch her. She was originally exposed by a former fan. Like one of her bigger fans.
Those were literal children. Literal actual children who were brought to see her show by their parents. This person thought calling actual children sexy was a good thing to do. Is anyone really surprised by her grooming at this point?
In my mind, to make an adult joke in children's media work, it needs to be two things: 1. It truly needs to go over children's heads, i.e it can't be explicit, it has to be implied. Mentioning genitals, porn etc does not fit this criteria 2. It needs to be funny on a non-sexual level as well, or otherwise be throwaway/unnoticable enough to be just glossed over by a child. Otherwise it will stick out as a weird, unfunny, out-of-place statement to someone who doesn't get it. A good example of this is in the first Shrek movie, when Shrek talks about Lord Farquad wanting to "compensate something" by having this super tall castle. As a child, you think "oh he wants to compensate that he's short!" and as an adult you get that it's a dick joke. It works on both levels and is not explicit. Colleens jokes are the exact opposite of that.
Exactly. Disney have been successfully doing it for years. I'd also add a third option though which is that it has to be a BACKGROUND detail. Because kids are never looking into the background scenes so if an innuendo or something odd that is only visible for a split second then I'd say that's also acceptable. An Easter egg for the adults lol
spongebob has a “don’t drop the soap” in one of the eps. it kinda makes me uneasy because it’s about prison rape after all but kids don’t get it and will take it literally at least
@@VenomousIntentit's extra gross when you pair the two things together and realize the whole joke is "developmentally disabled woman is a victim of repeat abuse [uncle jokes] and is oblivious because she's too stupid"
One time on Good Luck Charlie, Teddy tells her parents “Have fun but not too much fun. We have enough kids already.” THAT goes over a child’s head. Saying v*gina, s*xy and p*rn more times than occurs in adult comedy shows on average does NOT go over a child’s head
her and shane dawson: oh i get it' apparently it's "weird" for people in their 20s and 30s to be very s3xu@l towards literal children as young as s1x........EXCUUUUUUUUSE MEEEEEE FOR NOT BEING PERFECT!
I'm shocked too 😣 It's like no one saw this before, suddenly all RU-vidrs are disgusted by this but I wonder if they didn't notice before that it's sus? I didn't hear of her earlier, I'm not sure if she's popular in Europe but I'm sure she was big in US. I can't believe it was happening and no one saw, I just can't, logic doesn't let me 😒
If you tell an entire audience of children there are going to be sex jokes, they’re gonna know that there are sex jokes…. This is the most self indulgent crap I’ve seen and I watched Amy Schumer’s stand up before
Exactly. I missed sex jokes when I was a kid because I didn't know what they were, but if someone had said, "That there is a sex joke," I would have probably noticed.
@@RU-vidGalPal the parents aren't fully absolved of blame but Colleen KNEW she had a young audience, acknowledged it, and made the jokes anyway (including hitting on that kid that was up on stage in front of everyone).
@@wesshiflet2214I haven’t watched her special but I’ve watched a couple of videos about her books. Her books apparently were marketed towards children but they are 99% consist of sexual jokes, innuendos, and overall inappropriate stuff. Man, I never watched her Miranda stuff but it’s awful, just awful
@@hannahrose6748yeah & her kids will get backlash for their mom’s past. If their classmates parents know her. Then the parents won’t let their kids around her & the children will be hated in class
for the messaging kids part it was likely that they felt pressured to keep it secret because their parents “wouldn’t understand” and they felt like the 30 year old was their friend
Everyone who didn't know that 80% of the Miranda Sings content is saying the word "porn" while talking about any showing of skin, intimacy etc is in a hell of a ride. That's the entire bit about the character, it's creepy, loud, conservative etc.. The worst part is that it's only now being discovered that children have watched this content for years...
I can't imagine how it must have felt to be the girl in the "porn" bit. She must have been so humiliated and embarrassed, in a situation where she can't flee and is being made to feel like she has to laugh it off... Truly awful.
@@victoriasmfh8475 it’s honestly a mystery. Adam posted his story in 2020 and nobody cared. And before that I’m not sure if she ever was majorly called out or not but she has been sexual in her “comedy” since day 1 and it has always been targeted towards kids not to mention her Miranda character being super ableist and it was apparently a cruel parody of an actual disabled person she knew mixed with a cruel parody of her music classmates whom she felt weren’t as talented.
@@penpointexpress true and it's so unfortunate. ESP since people so strongly believed her first "apology" video where she showed parts of receipts (we later find out from Adam what the missing parts she left out read and the story behind them all). I honestly didn't hear about any of it back then because I just wasn't on YT to watch videos and it feels so bad to know all this was going on, it was exposed, and it took 3 years for people to FINALLY believe him. 3 years of Adam getting harassed and shit. Fucking awful. I'm glad she's finally being exposed for how horrible she is. She honestly should be send to jail for some of the stuff she's done.
it's weird we thought it was "just a joke" for grown adults to do weird s3xu@l stuff with kids some who are obviously as young as 6.......it's not if you do it you're a creep.
Colleen was definitely a theatre kid who wanted the chance to sing her favorite theatre songs onstage but people (kids) would show up if she was Miranda Sings so she tried to blend the two
The parents that chose to bring their kids to these shows and then continued to let their kids watch her after seeing THIS, are the problem. How can you watch this and think that its ok for children, or anyone for that matter.
Exactly! What type of parent thinks this is appropriate?! Or maybe they were dragged along with no idea of what their child was into...that would be quite a shock.
@@hsellors While I believe you should pay attention to who yr kids are watching, especially if yr paying money to see them, I can see a naive parent taking their kids to see this not knowing the extent of inappropriate material. But like once you've seen it, you know. If you then make the educated decision to be like "this is fine" what are you doing as a parent?
I also watched CB vlog channel from her pregnancy and baby related videos as her children are similar ages to mine. Never paid Miranda Sings any attention as its not my humour (nor a lot of peoples!) So its shocked me 😱 I've been watching her for years with no idea of how disturbing her content was 😑
@@hsellors I didn't even consider her vlog channel. That's probably why a lot of parents thought she was fine. Saw she was a mother and trusted she wouldn't be bad with kids. Thats so manipulative.
I’ve never seen her Netflix special but sadly the “porn” segment reminded me of going through Catholic high school. The teachers would always point out our skirts, tops etc. There were socks (ankle socks), shoes, and tanks that were labeled “inappropriate”. It was weird how much those adults were fixated on us.
I think the joke was meant to be taking the piss out of this exact idea in purity culture that that showing any skin is somehow inherently pornographic. But Colleen isn't really satirizing this, she's just... exhibiting the same damaging mentality to her young audience in an annoying voice. I grew up in a Baptist community with people who were way too fixated on the length of my shorts, and find there are so many funny ways to critique/make light of the concept, but Colleen's is beyond poorly executed. An actual good example of this done well is the outwardly prudish character, Angela from The Office. She wears outdated, modest clothing "made for large colonial dolls," and makes arbitrary judgmental statements like "orange is whorish" to her appropriately-dressed coworkers, all while having the least scrupulous sex life of anyone there.
@@Sweet_Dee yesss so well said! This is what I was trying to get at. Like I can see what experiences may have led to this - but the execution is terrible. You’re exactly right - there’s no satire here. It’s just passing fwd the trauma 😭
So I've accidentally learned all about this woman the past couple of weeks and kind if wish i hadn't. My main take away is that the Miranda character seems like a creation she made out of spite for people she hates and it accidentally made her popular.
@@writingghost7795and based on women in her college (she went to college for musical theatre) who were untalented yet were so cocky and oblivious about their lack of talent
Miranda was based on other female students in her college (she went to college for musical theatre) who were untalented yet so full of themselves to notice their lack of talent
You know what’s crazy? I’f she wasn’t SO DUMB and awful, she could have actually had a pretty good chance of going on Broadway, she already had a run on Broadway as dawn in waitress and was actually! Good! She’s punching the air right now. Sobbing, shaking, throwing up she spent all this time trying to blackmail and ruin adam, when she should have auditioned for Audrey in Little Shop
@@private755She could be off Broadway. The problem with her is the content of her stuff but she's a good performer. Like she has no problem being on stage, doing crowdwork, and connecting to her audience. Clearly people liked her show.
Broadway does not pay nearly as well as RU-vid, etc. At least at her level of subscribers. I'm guessing that's why it wasn't a main focus after a certain point.
If I’m not mistaken her Miranda sings channel was what opened the door for that guest spot on waitress. So idk how successful she would have been without her RU-vid career.
If I was an adult, and I took my kids to one of her shows, and she immediately starts talking about se× and sh1t. I'm grabbing my child and we're leaving, I can't believe how many parents didn't care that this is the show their kids are watching. There has been *many* red flags about her content that is sadly just now coming to the surface from these past long term fans of hers when they were younger. The fact that when she sung her first song, that first line contained "p*rnh*b" just sets an immense red flag for me. Like I said, I can't believe parents back then just didn't care their children were watching this cringe crap from an awful child influencer..
My thoughts exactly!! Kids get curious so if they see the word “pornhub” or “porn”. They’ll definitely look it up to understand what she was talking about. So then the kids will be probably be exposed to it too early in life until it was time when they hit puberty to know their urges & desires
Yes I thought I was the only one noticing it. Its just like how my teachers mocked my autism as a kid. Obviously the sexual stuff towards kids is worse but still yikes
How could any parent on earth think it was OK or hilarious to take their kids to her shows? Just someone saying the p*rn word in front of my kids sets off the alarm bells and red flags with me. What is wrong with these parents and Netflix shelling out tons of money for this gross lady???
Thank you for covering this!! I feel like no one has seen a lot of the terrible content in this "comedy" standup. Also what really made me cringe is when she said "theres a tiny penis inside of me" when referring to being pregnant with her son.
@@Diamond40000there’s an actual video, I didn’t know she said it in her comedy specials but I’ve seen a clip floating around of her fake crying as Miranda because she’s not “pure” anymore. It’s disgusting.
The fact that when she asks the crowd to sing along it’s like a children’s choir or kid-disco and just minutes prior she mentioned PH, saggy tits and vaginas smelling like cat food. If this was a comedy show for adults, that would be fine but not only does she know and acknowledge there are kids in the audience, she even markets it towards them. In 2019!! People have been cancelled for so much less and Colleen gets to get away with THAT?!
Okay, there's a difference between "jokes that go over kid's heads" and "direct references to sex and porn. Like, I watched Young Frankenstein for the first time when I was maybe eight or nine, and there were a few jokes that I didn't get (like when Inga asks if Frederick would like to "roll in the hay"), but like, there were other jokes in the movie! There were puns! There was slapstick! There were running gags! The movie wasn't all just sex jokes! With this special, it seems like all she's talking about is sex and porn.
this is not at all the worst part of the special, but i think it’s hilarious that colleen did the first half of defying gravity normally and then did all the hard parts of the song as miranda so she wouldn’t have to actually try to hit the notes at the end lmao
I think one of the reasons some of her borderline questionable jokes flew under the radar was because she was always making the questionable jokes as her Miranda character. She essentially decided that Miranda was creepy. The problem with acting out a creepy character is that it blurs the lines between pretending to be creepy in order to get a mocking laugh at the character and actually just being creepy. I think in the past people would have looked at some of her jokes and said “oh that’s just her making fun of this creepy character she’s created,” and now people are looking at it as some thing more real.
I don't understand how she got away with this for so long. I tried watching h8ers back off during the pandemic and i couldn't make it thru episode 1 and had zero clue it was geared towards children at the time. It fully romanticizes incest & r8p, not funny in the least, and its clear the obly way she could ever build a following was by gearing her content to kids then capitalizing on them ince she sucked them in.
Same here! I was so grossed out by her and the “uncle”. Was she trying to normalize incest so kids think predatory behavior is ok? How did she get away with it?
@@AzuleaFlairI actually used to really love haters back off, it was hilarious and relatable to me, I especially related to Miranda in the show, man I hate when content creators turn out this way :/
this is so painful to watch. 😭 (not your commentary--just her show.) and the fact that she sings "defying gravity" every freaking live show to prove she can "really sing" is...ugh. it's annoying and genuinely aggravating. she's always tried winning everyone over with it. i do find it funny that most of her jokes seem to fall flat with her audience. barely anyone was laughing. 💀 glad to see she's being called out for all the inappropriate behavior. the amount of sexual things she exposed to her audience of KIDS...when she pulled KIDS on her stage and sexualized them...good god. i can only imagine what they (and the parents) were feeling. hopefully they stopped supporting her afterwards.
@fionachristy5538 one benefit of the "snowflake generation" I suppose. The older generations just shrugged this gross stuff off and told us to get over it I guess.
Nexflix has never tried to hide the fact they’re okay with exposing kids to inappropriate and sexual content. Remember cuties? How is anyone surprised Netflix would let something like this slide?
I always thought it was freaking weird that the whole basis for the Miranda character is that it’s a kid that gets SA’d, and yet her content has ALWAYS been watched mostly by children, something she was definitely aware of. Reminds me of the fine brothers introducing the millie puppet to their audience of mostly children
@@larissabrglum3856so from what I recall, “hey it’s Millie” was actually a channel made by the fine brothers but they had the puppet in Shane Dawson’s videos on occasion, where Shane would then sexualize the puppet and vice versa
@bamhee-blessed3710 I was in her age demographic when she first started, but I wound up gravitating to gamers like Chuggaaconroy instead. I now see how lucky I was, Jesus christ.
I remember a Donald Glover special where he talks about parents who come to his show with kids thinking "it's the funny guy from Community" and then turning tf around when they realize his set is inappropriate because... it is, and he clearly states his stand-up is for an adult crowd. Colleen has done the opposite here.
I remember watching Austin Powers as a child. When the character Alotta Vagina was introduced I understood the construct of the joke but not what vagina meant. My older sister suggested I ask our mother - so I did. Very educational.
this is single-handedly the most embarrassing, creepiest, confusing thing i have ever seen 😭 like why three sexy men?? why not just "three handsome boys"
Her entire "this is porn" section gave me severe and unwanted memories of being treated like that genuinely when I was younger because I could never NOT have cleavage 😑
SAME i "developed" way faster than the other girls in my class and i never got to live it down and its like the top number 1 reason i decided to get top surgery
The thing about Fred that I can't even say about Miranda Sings is that at least Lucas created the character when he was a kid. Colleen was a whole adult.
Animaniacs, Rocko's Modern Life, and The Amazing World of Gumball are all good examples of kid's shows that manage to sneak in adult humor for the parents. The main difference between those shows and this special is mainly that those shows still had jokes for kids. Meanwhile, all the "jokes" here are only for adults.
Wait she said all this in front of a child audience??? She literally called them all dumb to their faces 😭 If I were a parent I would’ve taken my kid and walked out
At this point I have no more questions about Colleen. She's obviously either a perv or just a bad person with no remorse for her actions. But the parents who allowed their kids to watch her and brought them to her shows should be ashamed of themselves.
I got introduced to her vlog when she was pregnant the first time and fell into tieckst for her show, iwas expecting stand up with maybe a call back to Miranda....the audince was mostly kids. Myself and few other adults found each other during the merch table time and we were all puzzled. When I did a deeper diver into her stuffI had to walk away...and when I saw this special drop I was like WHY?? It's so much worse than I could have ever thought.
I was wondering why she didn't make her shows 18+ but I assumed that maybe adults wouldn't pay to see her. But apparently they would have! She really has terrible judgement.
@@EvilPinely RU-vid was a different place some 10 years ago, now looking back there was a lot of inappropriate content, however we all grew as a society, those creators too. Jenna Marbles is a perfect example of someone who grew so much but people still brought her down for mistakes she made and she was sorry for. I am not offended by Colleen's comedy, where was a market for it and at the time she was appreciated, the main audience just grew out of it.
@cunningchanning3000 this is such a stupid excuse when there was people calling out those horrible youtubers back then. Theres old videos calling out Shane and Onision and many others.
Omg her saying chesticle crack flashed me back to when I was a child and my sister and cousin both did Miranda sings impressions for like a year straight, and chesticle crack was a regular part of their vocabulary, and it’s now I’m wondering why we as children learned this unneeded new word for boobs from a stranger on the internet, which basically conditioned them to include that sort of talk into their conversation more.
What’s annoying is that no one wants to hold parents accountable as well. Correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think those kids drove themselves to that theater.
I've been on the internet since a young age so I'd say I'm pretty desensitized, but somehow this Miranda sings Netflix special has made me feel such a strong sense of discomfort that I don't think I've felt since watching a liveleak video for the first time. How on earth is this on Netflix and more importantly how was this ever even allowed to take place??
I remember turning on episode 1 of 'haters back off' with my parents and in the middle they told me to turn it off because there were too many innuendos. Looking back, im so thankful they did that.
If I was a parent and took my kid to this without first fully understanding the adult content included in Colleen's shows, I would have marched myself and my child out of there ten minutes in. I cannot imagine sitting there and laughing alongside my child while some woman calls a teen porn and publicly shames her, sexualises a young boy, or talks about her funky vag. How were these adults all okay with this? Especially the ones there with nine and ten-year-olds.
What’s so sad about this is the kids really don’t know what they’re watching- they’re just enjoying the theatrics of a Hannah Montana type character. Imagine how many horrified parents were in that audience..
THIS IS SO GROSS. if i went to see this with my parents as a kid they would drag me out within the first 5 minutes and never let me on the internet again. it is disgusting how she's gotten away with this
Agreed. When I rewatch old shows, even Total Drama Island, I would now pick up the innuendos or laugh because I finally understood something. Lines that were actually meant for an older audience really did fly over my head. It fit into the dialogue to me, where I wasn't necessarily confused, I just didn't care or hone in on it. It wasn't blatantly crass and constant like what Colleen does.
Oh my god, she's always been a creep. Thanks for shining light on this because I don't think anyone other than her kid fans (who wouldn't understand why it's so bad) would've even watched this otherwise. This brings the situation to a whole new level of bad
This whole situation is weird to me because I would see her face on RU-vid every now and again but didn’t give it much thought. Then the allegations came out and I was alarmed but not surprised because tons of RU-vidrs get exposed for shady stuff like everyday. Then she posted an ukulele apology video and the entire internet is obsessed and now I’m finding out that this entire time I’ve seen this woman’s face, she’s been flirting with little boys and talking about p**n with underage girls ON A LIVE STAGE SHOW PRODUCED BY NETFLIX. Like, all I had to do was make one click and I’d get exposed to… this.
1:41 true... We've all seen a good amount of adult jokes in kid films that went complety over our heads when we were really young children 2:29 This is so appalling not even a 30 seconds into the song and she already sung about p*rnhub
