This Colleen Ballinger Puff Piece is Psychotic 

An important detail that H3 team missed is that Ethan was reading an updated version of the article. The original got Adam's birth city and COUNTRY wrong... truly written by a journalist who "thoroughly researched the topic." This was also the only correction in an article full of libelous claims, go figure.

i hope they get sued into the ground for this. these are kids we're talking about. adam was a child when this happened to him, and they're somehow painting him as the villain. it's disgusting.

Them saying "this isn't technically grooming" is like the people saying "well, epstein wasn't technically a pedophile!"

Leaving out the name of the actual person, and reducing Trisha’s entire existence to being a faceless ‘sex worker’ was very deliberate. It served two purposes, to dehumanise and trivialise her, and to make it less likely that the average casual reader who doesn’t know the context will look into that particular aspect further. If they used Trisha Paytas’ actual name, there’s a chance someone would Google it, and find that they ***had a podcast together** and watch Trisha’s video denouncing what she did, which very clearly lays out how malicious her conduct was, and how disgusted and disturbed the person who’s images were used was. Furthermore, the reason that claim wasn’t directly refuted is because they (being her legal team) know there is actual proof of this. Denying it on the record could cause them big problems down the line if it escalated further. The whole piece is gutter journalism from top to bottom.

The way Andrew was quick to run to Collen's team for information but not to Adam or his videos detailing the situation is very telling.

She paid top dollar for that. IDC what you say, no one would write that shit without gaining something out of it.

BuT hE WoRe ThE UnDeRwEaR- Because he was groomed? Because that was normalized in the group? Because he was a minor and trusted an adult that thought it was funny? The people defending Colleen seem to not understand what grooming is.

i had watched Adam for a year or so not even knowing about colleen- he had his entirely own identity outside of her! this is classic victim blaming and i suspect the writer is a creep

What disgusts me the most is how they try to cover up Adams age here; "the then 17 year old accused; but she sent the lingerie/made use of him when he was 14!!!!! 14 years old; she met him when he was 9 years old and the lingerie was sent and inappropriate stuff happened when he was just 14 years old.. they just brush over it.. DISGUSTING.

It disgusts me when people try to justify her behaviour by saying that she didn't intend to have an intimate relationship with the minors she was inappropriate with. Because what she then is accomplishing is normalizing this type of predatory and inappropriate behaviour and leaves the door wide open for people who do have that intent, for which the kids are now accustomed to having inappropriate relationships with adults. Colleen's intentions are irrelevant.

The writer blocked Adam when Adam messaged him on instagram…super weird and unprofessional imo

Normalizing pedophilia to kids is sexual grooming. In many of her videos she made jokes about pedophilia and inappropriate situations between adults and children, brushing over the topic as if it were nothing out of the ordinary. One girl even said she had a predatory uncle, but she thought it was normal because Colleen joked about it. She is a sexual groomer to kids, even though she doesn't sexually abuse them personally (as far as we know).

I love how this journalist and so many others who take the stance that what Colleen did wasn’t grooming not only show their ignorance but also reveal how they did NOT grow up with Chris Hanson like the rest of us. They clearly don’t understand that for many predators/groomers it’s rarely about attraction and more about power/control/entertainment. Additionally, Colleen saying she just wanted these kids to be her friends is also telling because of how many predators/groomers all say the same: “I don’t have any friends or anybody!” “I’m such a loser, I have no one.” “No one else cares about me.” 👀

“The scandal that is tearing RU-vid apart” okaaay. Not like it’s tearing lives apart of minors that Colleen groomed and violated 😵‍💫 whoever wrote this article is almost as bad as colleen

How much did Colleen pay the writer to write this terrible article?

This ,to me , is the big media making it seem like it’s less of a crime because she’s a woman ! I’m a woman and as a child I was ritually abused by the very woman that was meant to babysit me and owned a child care place ! It’s like what women don’t abuse children ????? This is such bullshit !!! She even admitted that when writing her book for “children “ , she has a how to draw section that she wanted to look like a bloody vagina. “Because I am a pervert “ was her response to her own question of “why did I do this in the book …” . I feel so awful for Adam and the other victims ! This is disgusting! If a man had been accused and I mean simply accused he would’ve been investigated and no fucking editorial would make light of it !!!! I appreciate and love you guys at H3 ❤️ keep doing exactly what you do !!!

I still refuse to believe she had no idea performing single ladies with paint on her face wouldn’t be perceived as blackface. And that no one on her team saw the correlation there.

Colleen also did sexual grooming. It wasn't only her brother. Her ''daddy saddle'' creepy unkle jokes, among other things, have potentially made many of her fans unable to understand and notice predatory behavior. Her enitire content's [as Miranda] purpose is grooming kids to be desensitized to vulgar, abusive, predatory people and behaviors.

This article is ridiculous. How are you Not going to name Tricia in the article when she literally had a podcast with Colleen. You're seriously just going to frame her as a sex worker???? She's a much bigger star than Colleen and a much bigger RU-vidr than Colleen . If Tricia is a sex worker, Colleen is a clown who works at children's parties . This writer is a clown and should be not allowed to make their social media private because they are sending hate towards public figures like Tricia and Adam.

THANK YOU for covering this, Ethan!!! I’ve always thought Vanity Fair was extremely sketch & 2 faced after what they did to Kurt Cobain & a literal teenage Alexis Neiers. I’m sure they’ve done MANY more people totally dirty. This Colleen article is DEMENTED!! Going after victims that were all young, MINOR, teenagers for one! And then having the audacity to talk about there being no evidence or proof?! When there’s MOUNTAINS of physical evidence in the proof of text messages, photos, videos, etc! And to not even CARE or TRY to contact the victims for their side of the story (aka the actual facts) and ONLY tell Colleen’s side (lies & gaslighting)?! What kind of BIAS, BS “journalism” is this?! Vanity Fair is a joke for running this story! That “journalist” should be fired ASAP!!

Vanity Fair has officially lost all credibility.

But he “asked” for it. Wow. That’s not something SVU detectives hear all the time.

I wonder what her lawyers would have to say if the victims went to law enforcement with their receipts.

on the twitter thing: she approved that tweet at least 3 times. he even had to explain the joke to her because she didn't get it, and she approved it after lengthy discussions. she's so transparent edit: transparent instead of transplant x.x

I feel so bad for Adam :(

any credibility is gone for them. they did this with either no research, or with bias against Adam and that ain't it. there are a list of provable things she did wrong, some of them i believe border into the realm of illegal. the fact this was written this way says a lot about either the writer, or Vanity fair itself. disgusting.

I’ve never understood her being obsessed with the uncle thing… just makes you think she was abused and groomed herself and she’s so broken and narcissistic that she doesn’t see any wrong in what she does but me personally I’m disgusted by her and don’t think she even needs her own kids around her… 🤷🏼‍♀️ makes you wonder if they are being touch inappropriately

The stupid article is so hellbent on the definition of groomer but the fact that she sent Lingerie and Trishas nsfw images to her fans and hosting viewing parties for said images means it was seggsual in nature and it is not only grooming but it’s the same thing Drake bell got charged for: Disseminating Harmful content to a minor. I’m amazed law inforcement hasn’t gotten involved

Well done for covering this and letting more people become aware about Vanity Fair messing up! They really deserve it in this situation

What Colleen did definitely fits the definition of grooming. She exploited kids and caused them harm, at least emotionally. Manipulation and emotional abuse can be very damaging, the abuse doesn't have to be physical to cause harm. She certainly fits the definition of online grooming, "Exploitation to obtain s*xually explicit images and videos", when she made the girl in the romper do a s*xual pose and caused her romper to shift, made the kids reach into her pants for cheese balls, wanted Adam to send a pic of his butt and in the lingerie she sent him (maybe over his clothes, but still- they're a minor!), and had the kids pose with tampons in a suggestive way. On the family channel, the kids would be in suggestive poses, like doing gymnastics, and p*d0s would comment and timestamp all those moments in their vids, so youtube turned off comments for their vids, but the Ballinger family got upset that people couldn't comment, not that sick creeps were watching their children! I feel like that shows they don't care about exploiting kids, and wonder if they may have been having kids do these suggestive things on purpose to appeal to, and make money from, child predators.

Vanity Fair doesn't understand that "grooming" by the definition, is related to all kinds of abuse and exploitation, not just sexual.

this story is insane like i can‘t believe an actual journalist wrote this

I am a Colleen fan… I never watched her Miranda videos. Just her vlogs. The more I watch your videos and all the stuff that is coming out about her is just so crazy and overwhelming. I’m trying to put myself in her shoes and make excuses for her and every time I do I think to myself “I would never say this about someone” or “how embarrassing”. I know that everyone is human and everyone has skeletons in their closets but if you’re going to broadcast your whole life and say the things you have said then have the decency to make a video explaining yourself. Take Accountability!!!! Not sing a damn song!!!!! Bah I’m lost for words.

It doesn't really surprise me that they're trying to equate Colleen to Amber Heard , as Vanity Fair has doggedly stood by her as well. Once I started typing out a longer reply I realized that, despite being two different situations entirely, there's a lot of similar personality traits and things AH and CB have done in their own defense that are actually quite alike. Huh.

Omg not the fake bot comments 😂

Please post more on her. It’s never going to be enough

I would be surprised if Vanity Fair doesn't issue a retraction at some point. How can you write an article about a scandal without speaking to any of the victims? Who does an article on a scandal without even reaching out to the victims making the allegations?

What’s with these weird Colleen fan bots 😂 every ‘positive comment’ is a faceless brand new account.

Hello I’m really hoping that while you’re covering the Colleen stuff you could please call her out for being an ableist! The Amanda sings character is clearly based on someone with some mental disabilities like for sure on the autism spectrum.. even the face twitching and stuff that she does? It’s so wrong and sets a really bad example to kids teaching them to laugh at people like that. How has she gotten away with that for so many years.. it’s disgusting that she’s made a career off making fun of people with disabilities 😔I can’t be the only one who it doesn’t sit right with surely? I’m really hoping you see this and can FINALLY call her out on it!!!!

this is actually insane, who writes this article thinking its the right thing to do? this makes me so upset anyone could post this article

I appreciate the fact that your channel is about the facts . Not leaning left or right but just using common sense and logic .

At the time of the updated version of the article, all of Andrew's socials had blocked Adam McIntyre and his "Author's" page on VF was down.

Did you all see her “Self Help” book from 2015??? Maybe you already talked about it but I just saw some excerpts and OMG

The fact that they originally got adam’s birth country wrong is so fucking telling. Did the author even *watch* one of adam’s videos? Maybe it’s an american thing or something but i feel like you have to be SO uneducated about the rest of the world to listen to adam talk, especially in the original stop lying video, and come to the conclusion that he’s english. Like are you serious?

It sounds an awful lot like Vanity Fair is okay with sicko's grooming kids.

So they left out the “Cody video”, which was the reason for Adam to comment on her again, in the first place?! That’s convenient, VF…

now that soical media has stop talking about it and moved on i'm glad h3 has not because colleen needs to be held accountable and her not responding after the song just shows she hoping this would fade away.

In a way the statement is accurate. The way we are using grooming does give a little more credit to the form of grooming they right use. Even though the way the right is using it is still with the sexual implication without the actual sexual improprieties being displayed. We are using it as in a form of grooming someone to be someone for you to take advantage of in a nonsexual way. Grooming through the exploitation of her power as a star. If she was just looking for friends, she had adults that would have worked. She was training someone to be her punching bag and assistant without the real benefits of someone independently choosing that path for themselves. It's all about grooming them to be the perfect little helper. So while it isn't sexual in nature it is grooming, but that use of the word does take away from the power of grooming as a word, so long as we are all idiots and can't differentiate the concept that words can mean more than thing

What tf is happening in these comments-did Colleen sent out her “weenie gang” to flood them, again?🤣

If you're upset by any of the unhinged comments defending Colleen, I'll give you a tip to help. Just replace "Colleen" with "Kevin Spacey", "Miranda Sings" with "Frank Underwood", and "Adam" or whichever other victim these predator defenders are slandering with "his accusers". Sanity restored 👍

Thank you for covering this.

I still think they should bring on Roo Powell to ask some of their questions about this topic & terms to be / that can be used. Her show is so awesome.

Not sure Colleen should be excused for the black face, because it read as black face, she was most likely aware of that.

Also...they give peoples ages left and right, excepts for Colleens... I think that if they wouldve put into context that a then 29y/o (if not older), social media influencer with a whole career that included international tours, gave her accounts password to a 17y/o, gave her lifelyhood, ppl could understand more why she was soooo in the wrong, how wrong that relationship was. But also, I think she paid for that article and that space on the magazine so 🤷🏻‍♀️. I hope they get sued.

Did the PR team pay for that post or?

Did the same person write this that wrote the James Charles article?😂😂😂😂

Her and James Charles must have the same PR team since both had oddly similar themed articles come out.

Adam and the others should contact Cosmopolitan and tell the real story!!

I can't know Colleen's motivations or intentions but it seems kind of strange that she could costume change from the witch to singing destiny's child without removing the make up. To me, leaving the make up on during the destiny's child bit seems intentional, whether she was trying to portray Beyonce as a witch or wherever.

i didn't notice they used the kids choice ones specifically just to show how 'wholesome' and 'kid friendly' she is wow, manipulation on another level that's sick

If anything I would say the RU-vid community have come together and exposed potentially inappropriate content for children in her past. The black face accusation is such a non-sequitur that they can and will pull out time and time again to deflect from the seriousness of her other actions that are being uncovered. I do believe this is still tip of the iceberg stuff.

Bro my dyslexia has been so messed up recently I have to stare at words for minutes to try and figure out what it says 😂

Can anyone tell me which episode this was? I want to listen to the whole thing

By not naming everyone they are minimizing the number of individuals speaking out. It makes it seem like it’s one person and a few of his followers.

21:44 speaking of her "book", that's another story to begin with. If Andrew Quintana had to mention the book to cite the source of her "green face" video, then I hope that he went through the book littered with pp and vegana jokes (sorry for the awful censoring), creepy-uncle jokes and associated pictures, FOR KIDS BTW, and still wrote this puff-piece. I guess, we now have another person who has outed himself to be unsafe around kids, ALLEGEDLY..... Btw if anyone wants to know about the contents of her book, I would suggest to check out Rachel Oates' channel, where she has painstakingly reviewed both Colleen's books in detail (yeah, Colleen wrote 2 books for kids). Warning - it's crass, to say the least.

It was grooming because she exploited his talent. He worked for no pay.

Was never on the rails

The article puts all the blame on Adam and doesn’t even acknowledge the fact that Adam didn’t start all of this, KODEE TYLER DID! Also the implication that Adam is responsible for the backlash against family channels is insane. People have always been critical of exploiting kids for RU-vid money.

This SCREAMS “Oh em gee I really really need to put something out on a medium where all the moms who pay for my tickets and merch can easily read about what’s going on so I can downplay it all and make it all look like one disgruntled fan got bitter and jealous and is trying to ruin my reputation because I hurt his stupid feeling.” Disgusting. I’m 34 and could never imagine cultivating a group of child fans even though I know that’s where the moneys at. She needs to grow the fack up, admit her wrongdoings & take accountability, and actually APOLOGIZE. My only guess as to why she hadn’t is because her lawyer told her to so she doesn’t self-incriminate. 🙄

I’m loving Olivia’s Kandy Muse blush

I feel like Colleen wrote this herself.

but like adam said, even though she wasn’t necessarily doing blackface, it seems she purposefully chose to do the wicked routine with the green makeup before the beyoncé section so it would appear kind of as though she was doing blackface but could avoid the accusations by saying it was green paint

Ethan having a hard time reading but going through with it resonates with my dyslexic heart.

GROOMING ONLINE IS REAL AND JUST AS TRAUMATIC AND LIFE-CHANGING AS GROOMING HAPPENING IN PERSON.

Amber Heard was not treated unfairly and Colleen is not being treated unfairly. The reactions to their deeds are proportional in my opinion. There are a lot of people out there that I don't think the reaction was proportional to their actions and think it was just cancel culture run amok, but with these two women I believe that they deserve everything that's coming to them! This is definitely one of the times I disagree with Olivia. I don't understand how anyone could watch that trial and think that Amber Heard was treated unfairly. She abused Depp, made false allegations of sexual assault and domestic violence, she tried to destroy a man's life. She would have succeeded too if the judge hadn't allowed cameras in the courtroom, because a lot of the media is still trying to portray her as a poor innocent little victim.🙄

I disagree on the amber heard thing because she was the abuser and Johnny was the victim. If they would’ve found 1 evidence that Johnny hit or abused amber, Johnny would’ve lost the case. But they couldn’t. Because he never abused her. There is hours of recordings of Amber on audio admitting to starting physical fights with Johnny and Johnny running away from her abuse & amber would get mad whenever he would run away from her. There is so much evidence against amber. That’s why the internet went so hard on her, it’s bc none of her stories made sense, they also found a few of her pics were photoshopped, and those audios of her admitting to starting physical fights. She was the aggressor. I don’t agree with the internet making a meme of the case bc this is a serious topic and a serious case about DV and it should never be memed on but there is a reason why people, a lot of victims like myself, don’t like amber bc now because of her, it’s going to be a lot harder for victims of DV, like myself, to get justice bc now people will think “oh you’re just a liar like amber heard” bc of ambers lies. And I find it really gross how this writer is defending two vile women, colleen Ballinger (a groomer) and amber heard (a woman w a history of DV & abused her ex husband, her ex gf and her own sister & spat at her own assistant) and let’s not forget that both women are racists. The writer of that article is horrible and clearly doesn’t stand up for real victims. I feel so bad for Adam to have to read that horrible article that is completely defamatory.

I believe that you are the only serious big ass channel facing this. I am grateful because people is talking about child abuse in a not cartoonish patriarchal way. I care deeply about that topic and I thank you for that

Vanity Fair doesn't even qualify as a legitimate publication imo. Their takes are terrible

The fact that this artical tries to go "Ooooo, look, look! He asked! for the underwear. Baaaaad", but doesn't give Colleen the same treatment for ACTUALLY seeing nothing wrong with it and thus sending him it 🤢. Or are they going to claim that a 30 year old felt so scared/cornered by a young teenager, that she felt like sending it was the only option she had?! Not to mention that they apperently feel like this should just have been kept hush-hush, becaaause, what? Because the genders were reversed? 🤢 Is that what what the people behind this artical feel? Tell me they want to kiss Colleen's ass without telling me they want to kiss Colleen's ass.

Thank you for putting this out there! Remember that this is publisher in the past has also defended Kevin spacey and Harvey Weinstein which shows you just what trash works there I feel awful for Adam and all of colleens victims in this. They have been invalidated and gaslit by Colleen herself already. That non apology song was hurtful enough without this on top of it I just want to know who is being paid by Colleen to allow these articles and who at the company has contact with her

Perhaps this author has a link to Colleen might be worth looking into? My heart hurts for all of those minors and Johnny and Trisha as well! She hurt many. 😢

It's pretty obvious that this guy was definitely a fan of colleen who is embarrassed and disappointed that all his fellow fans have put their morals and justice above their parasocial relationship and fandom

Anyone else notice this article either didn’t make it to twitter or was taken down because this would’ve been shredded to fuck in the reply’s?

Oh NO! Don’t touch me there!! That is my NoNo SQUARE!

AH and JD were both adults, regarldess of what your opinion on that trial is it is NOT comparable to this situation at all

Seagully lound 😂😂😂

i dont know if anyone else thought this but in her apology when she says maybe they didnt deserve to die i dont think she was talking about herself i think it was her way of jabbing at adam for the death threats he got from her entire fandom in 2020 :/

I love this breakdown of the article

They keep saying what she did isn't technically "grooming" because she didn't intend to form a sexual relationship, and didn't get anything sexual/illegal from it. But weren't the kids sending her pics of themselves? Because she made a bunch of comments to them about how skinny they looked. Adam apparently wore that lingerie and sent pics? She was telling them and asking them to tell her sexually explicit things? And sending or showing minors sexually explicit content (Trisha's OF content) is a critical step in desensitizing child victims to make them easier to abuse in more extreme ways in the future. How is her behavior not grooming? Even in a technical sense it seems like clear cut grooming to me. And this is the sort of thing that can start small and escalate over time as the perpetrator seeks more gratification and continues to not get caught. The people coming out with their stories about her now, before she escalates to even worse abuse, are protecting future potential fans. Now, if new young kids start getting into her content, their parents can look her up and see that these allegations were made. It will put them on their guard, and help them educate their kids to keep them safe.

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.

"cocksip gossip train" hahahahahaha

The only thing the lawyers updated was where Adam was originally from 😭

THANK YOU for addressing this

For instance the word molest is often used with a sexual connotation but if went the bathroom and someone fucked with my bagel 🥯 then they molested my bagel. Now it’s not the most common way to use but it can be used to describe basically any kind of physical violation of a person or a object.

It’s tearing RU-vid apart!! Granted the ratio is everyone vs her team. But that’s still a tear 😂

The Uncle. Yeah, the Uncle. I have questions.

Atp ethan’s just obsessed about colleen

I started a petition to get Andrew terminated from his position at VanityFair, not joking.

i cant believe there are people actually defending her…

If it's not technically grooming, it's definitely sexual harrassment and abuse. The official definition of sexual harrassment (since she's using loopeholes) includes iappropriate language, actions, media, w minors. Lets honor her argument and call it sexual harrassment