YouTube's Biggest Creep Really Got Away With It 

It pisses me off how everyone just let her go on

I don’t know how anyone could recover from pulling out a freaking ukulele in an apology for literal grooming but here we are.

Dang. If her mostly kid fanbase is still backing her after everything she's done, then parents should really be stepping in more

If you think about it, the ukulele apology is kinda genius, cause instead of everyone paying attention to her allegations, everyone just payed attention to her playing the ukulele for her apology.

This is why "cancel culture" is such a paradox. People had their lives ruined over less serious things, but actual child predators (especially if they're a docile white woman) seem to get away with direct harm. I worry that shes gonna learn nothing from this and groom a new generation of kids, and then pull the same 'Well Im the victim, actually' card when it comes to light again...if these kids even feel comfortable coming forward after how literally nothing was done last time. I feel so bad for Adam and her other victims. People throw around pedos like theyre some dark lore boogie man from fairytales so much that they don't know how to identify a real one, and that one can take the appearance of literally anybody regardless of outward apperance.

man, youtube is really sliping us these days. i have no idea how her and SSsniperwolf are still on the platform.

Sssniperwolf also got away with everything. She was temporarily demonetized, but that was it. These high-profile creators generate alot of revenue for RU-vid.

That’s what happens when your fanbase is 90% children. We can’t completely cancel her because her fanbase doesn’t have the mental maturity to realize the gravity of her actions or even have the outlet to know about them

Casual RU-vidr Apology: *Fake Crying, Sighs* Colleen: Ukulele, Dumb Singing.

Tbh Colleen ballinger honestly did not get enough backlash rather than actually got away with it (most people criticised her apology, instead of her grooming and horrendousness to others).

I don’t know why RU-vid hasn’t banned her account at all. Hell, she should be in jail and we’re all just kind of moving on like nothing happened.

I was worried about this. Cause this is a trend with a lot of RU-vidrs. They get in a scandal, make a crap apology video where they own up to nothing, and they get away with it. James Charles, Logan Paul, Jeffree Star, Colleen and so many more. I hate that only one person took accountability for their actions, and that was Colleen’s ex husband who was also a victim of Colleen.

The whole toxic gossip train thing felt like a horrid fever dream I swear

I'm surprised no one called the police on her considering how serious these accusations are.

disappointing but sadly not surprising. This is the story of the internet. Just look at chris brown. The internet doesn't actually care, it just likes to have someone to direct its anger at for a while. It isn't about actually changing things, it's just about harassing people in an acceptable way.

“We’re evolving, backwards” can be demonstrated by the declining quality of RU-vid apologies. From Logan Paul, to many others, to Colleen, ending with Jirard the Completionist’s charity scandal. It’s a straight downhill chart.

And what’s worse my mom STILL watches her and doesn’t believe the allegations.

“My 14 years old daughter and me (are missing you)”?!! Is she handing her child to a groomer? We have an even bigger issue there

call me a conspiracy theorist, but the ukulele "apology" video was probably intentionally done, in the way that it was done, with the sole purpose of pulling away the attention of everything else she's done and focus the attention elsewhere, and by the looks of it it worked perfectly in her favor

Of course she did, nobody takes women predators seriously. When you hear about women teachers getting intimate with her students, there isn't outrage, just "damn wish that was my teacher". Etc.

That ukulele solo hit different on mute.💀

A 37 year old sent used underwear to an eleven year old, as a “special favor” Why are we talking about dislike ratios rather than prison terms?

Female predators rarely face consequences, but yall aint ready to talk about that double standard

I feel like a lot of people actually forget that a lot of Colleen's viewers on her vlog channel are mostly parents and children now. And that's why a lot of her fans don't care about that whole situation. So, thank you for addressing and explaining it

I think everyone just laughed at her apology, but then no one actually did anything else

So... Basically by doing something absurd that nobody expected allowed her to escape conviction.

Fun fact Colleen; Singing is still saying things since you're still producing words with it!

Calling her “RU-vid’s biggest creep” is a bold statement- I don’t think there’s any single biggest creep on RU-vid, a platform that can give an audience to anyone

This disgust me! As a man myself the fact that this women has got away with literal child grooming, because her victims were MALE, is disgusting! Why is it that when a female is groomed, sexually assaulted etcetera, it is the worst thing ever but when the same thing happens to a male it is seen as hardly an offence! Why are men and women treated differently like this?! And I hate when the agresser plays the roll of the victum. A fricken 30 year old is playing victim agenst litteral children! I can't belive she just got away because she played an "apology" on a fricken ukulele! Disguising!

I find it disturbing how sexism can distort people on who and who isn't a predatory monster. Because they don't want to admit women can be just as creepy, grooming and pedophilic as men. And the fact she's a mother too makes this shit so much worse in my opinion.

Not only is she getting away with it but what is this telling people who are just as bad as her? Things like this don't just exist on a vacuum on RU-vid they affect entire culture and the normalization of predatory behavior. Hate it.

I'll never understand why female groomers get away so easy. Like there was a furry groomer who even admitted to r wording a person, the victim took her apology and all her friends acted like nothing happened. Cases like this and in the video just show that there's smth really wrong in society and it's scary!

Cancel culture doesn't cancel anyone. If anything in todays world people get paid for being horrible.

the entire situation reminds me of the end of Bojack Horseman, where after a while everyone forgets how bad of a person he was except for the people closest to him

She's lost me as a fan the moment that I saw the clips of the reoccurring segment of her live show, where she has a very young boy reach down her pants to get a snack on stage. Absolutely unacceptable. Her inability to apologize for anything is astounding. Truly unbelievable.

Personally, I never heard of Colleen until her "apology" was released. It's a shame that she was able to gain views and comments from one stupid video, and hide the truth of her sexually grooming children from her main audience of mother's and children She knew this would happen. She knew she could get away with it from a social standpoint. The victims need to take legal action.

Her song, Toxic Gossip Train, was purposefully catchy because she just wanted to trick us into believing her.

All it took was one ukelele to quite litterally destroy this woman, its disgusting how she stands loud and proud like npthing ever happened!

It's so sad that most humans tend to judge someone based on appearance alone. Also, Merry Christmas to you, Savantics.

I saw everyone making fun of the "Toxic gossip train", but I didn't know anything about the actual situation until later. What she said in her video happens to people but not her. She deserved what she got (and legal action in my opinion) from the "big hubbub". I honestly think she made the ukulele video to distract from what she actually did. It worked on me for awhile so it probably worked on a lot more people. Not really sure if that made sense. Thanks for the video and I love your channel. Have a good day.

ngl this situation is reminding me of the SSSinpper wolf drama. she did something really bad and RU-vid doesn't rly do anything about it

But she cuts her hairs! That must count, right? God I hate how people have such a short memory

Did Trisha not sue her? It's clearly stated on every creator's page on that wind machine site, that distribution of those paywalled pictures is forbidden by law. And someone like Trisha Paytas surely has the money to set a gaggle of lawyers on Colleen.

There’s a pretentious commentary content creator called Papa Gut who said that Colleen wasn’t actually grooming kids and that what she did really wasn’t as bad as people make it out to be. He used to be really big on calling out channels run by sexual predators, but apparently he doesn’t mind if the predator is a woman. Pretty gross.

Her absurd response is what got her off, people ended up caring more about the stupid response than her grooming allegations.

What's happened with her is almost uncannily similar to what's happened with Shane Dawson - although the majority of people agree he should be cancelled and stay cancelled, he's still making videos like nothing has happened and people are slowly "forgetting" about what he's done 😖

Almost like 80% of people were just drama hungry and didn’t actually care about what she did. What a shocker

"I wasn't doing well, I was really scared and paranoid and I was having bad panic attacks" *OHH BOOHOO, LET ME PRESS F ON THE WORLD'S SMALLEST KEYBOARD* 🥺🥺🥺

The part that upsets me is that I actually forgave her… I take that forgiveness back💀

It reminds me of when James Charles got called out for sending explicit photos and messages to minors l mean he was cancelled for a little bit and was demonetised on RU-vid but when it had all blown over he started uploading and making money again, it would be nice if creators were actually held accountable when they commit literal crimes (especially towards minors) but it unfortunately doesn’t happen which is very concerning

Really makes you think that the only RU-vidrs that have done actions like this and has had their channel taken down was EDP and LowTierGod. REALLY makes you wonder what RU-vid staff think about those channels certain types of content creators.

It fills me with absolute disbelief and rage that people have just forgiven her even after the horrible things that she has done. I feel like people have literally lost their minds to forgive and pity her even though everyone knows full well what she has done now.

I would not assume that the parents don't know about her messed up stuff. I remember back when she was viewed in a much better light, way before she was called out for her predatory behavior, the clip with the boy reaching her pants had dozens and dozens of comments of mothers laughing at it like it was a harmless joke (i even had few replying to me in the same comments that i can't take a joke). So parents probably know, it's just that they can't fathom that someone like Colleen, who pretty much has a uwu soft mom image, is capable of horrid stuff.

I think it's worth mentioning that she decided to come back right before RU-vid would take away her monetization. I forgot where I heard this from, but they did say she came back just before 5 months. So that other apology video was made just so she can stay monetized, so of course she's not sincere. Edit: I finally figured who said it. It was Adam McIntyre. And it's 6 months when RU-vid takes away your monetization, not 5 months, as he stated. So I was wrong.

" mothers sick together " is basically her commitments 💀💀

Welcome to the internet. Its more of everything going by so fast, new trends or drama and people cant keep up. I havent heard about the sniperwolf doxxing situation for awhile

I hate how people just let her slide after that ukelele “apology”

“They told me I couldn’t speak on it so instead I’m going to gaslight you about the horrible things I’ve done through song!”

She know what she’s doing. People still loving her are the problem.

Though I’m not like an avid viewer or anything I really appreciate what you said. The fact that you brought it back to light when at least I myself figured she would never come back. Even though there was a sort of depressing tone at the end of the video your words are appreciated and thoughtful, the victims deserve justice and the sole fact that this isn’t an extremely popular topic yet you still made a video about it is commendable because that just isn’t common. Much love for the video and thank you for letting those of us who didn’t know, know now that not only is she back but she is not a sympathetic figure!

No way she got away with that "apology"

Someone in my life is still an avid watcher, and it makes me sick how Colleen has managed to brainwash people like her. She'll literally mention Colleen casually in conversations like she's a friend of hers, and whenever I try to explain how Colleen is problematic, she doesn't respond.

Im genuinely at a loss I want to see her jailed, but i cant do anything from here. Im sure theres a lot of people that want the same, but not enough to where anything can actually be done But most people are just looking for drama to scarf down and move on

My grandmother plays the ukulele and even she'd be ashamed.

it's annoying how people treat these controversies like they're just inconsequential drama that people can gawk at for a bit then ultimately move on to the next thing when it's not popular anymore. like, it's not some high school gossip she literally committed a crime.

just like in meat canyon's parody song, "don't worry time heals the soul, ya misdeeds will only get old..."

Truth is nobody cares about sex crimes when the perpetrator is a woman.

I will say, the original video was FILLED with support in the comments. It was honestly a little shocking, because what I saw, most of them were the mothers who support her now. It’s really rough.

I used to keep very up-to-date with Colleen's problematicness since around Thanksgiving 2021, but for the past 4 months I really haven't. I did see she came back though and that she said she kept doing the vlogs "for herself" during her break, which to me was kind of disappointing since I think her kids need a break from the camera.

Colleen isn't the problem. The people who watch her are... well both

it seems to either be an audience, company, or both who seemingly don't act/don't keep up. We are flooded with news 24/7, the 'drama' keeps on flowing non-stop. it's no wonder that the internet (generalizing here) kind of just moves on to the next thing.

Everyone is focussed on Dream. Which is interesting because his guilt was never fully proven and he actually managed to provide a lot of proof of his innocence, which just shows that the internet cares more about drama and publicity than actual victims or crimes. Dreams mistake was actually interacting, arguing and constantly trying to prove his innocence, thus escalating the drama and giving his haters more reason to hate and escalate. Meanwhile Colleen, who is evidently guilty without a doubt, got away because she simply didn't give a shit, turning the whole thing into a joke and meme with her brain-dead apology video

There is something concerning about how dangerous of people popular RU-vidrs can be behind the scenes...

It indeed feels very progressive to call a woman a big creep

You are so right! This is disturbing and she should still be held accountable! 😡

I hope her kids are safe.

If EDP lost everything, including his RU-vid for the SAME reasons, why isn't Colleen recieving the same treatment after there was ACTUAL PROOF too? She isn't even taking responsibility for her actions and even tries to joke about it on a ukulele.

these guys know that if u take time off and come back the heat will died down a lot of “cancelled” youtubers do this and come back with a loyal fanbase , its almost like a science

btw, just fyi. like and dislike makes no difference to YT/Algo. Each is simply a net positive in engagement. so say you have videoA with 900 thumb up and 100 thumb down, and VideoB with 100 thumb up, and 900 thumb down. Algo sees both as having 1000 in the "thumb rating" department. There is no direct effect otherwise. (this was at one point in google's own document) At the end of the day it cares about one thing "Does this video keep user on the platform longer? does it attract more users?", if answer is yes, It cares not whether you like it or not. It might be actively trying to change to other directions such as randomly polling users regarding some video they just watched. I don't know exactly how they are using this data. My guess is it is to better match user with videos they would engage with. Just a guess (not really), to a top tier YT designer / decision maker, the goal is NOT "lets match viewer with videos they like the most", the goal is "lets match user with videos they're likely to watch the most", which could be very positive videos, or very negative emotionally charged videos. (if you watch say a negative video about current state of some sad affair, and you get more depressed and you press the DISLIKE button, you leave a harsh comment, it suddenly recommends you more such videos of similar type, because you've shown great interest and engagement. It doesn't care if it's good or bad for your mental health or if such recommendation paints a wholesome or warped picture, it certainly doesn't care if you pressed liked or disliked, just that you pressed something. A quick side point, look at Colleen, because of that apology video, and now this video, she will get more views, engagement, monetary compensation and so on. Unless something extreme (like Cosby level), no attention is bad attention. - insert that trite adage about publicity here*. There is a reason it's such a common saying. Your attention = money and energy, that's it. Justin Bieber's net worth risen like crazy during the era where he is the most hated artist. Kardashians (enough said), Logan Paul (got famous from suicide forest video) leveraged it to w/e at some point (What he has is still more 10x what the avg person would make their entire life), which does take some E/Q. Just keep think about people that is super "well off", and you'll see the only common denominator is amount of attention, irrelevant to positive or negative ones. They don't call this attention driven economy for nothing. Right now if you were to check the analytics graph, after that apology video her chart went through the roof for sure. Every meme, every critic video, is a crap tons of people flooding her channel leave angry comments and thumb downs, all translating to $$$$ and more engagement and higher ranking.

I really hope more people keep talking about this!

While it's frustrating to see something like this it's sadly not as surprising when you realize it's the Internet not everyone is going to be as critical or even look deeper than face value I'm just sorry for these people more than anything.

People broke EDP’s life and went out of their way to, and let Colleen break through. Not defending EDP, he’s awful, but still

Thank you for speaking out about this. RU-vid has been actually slacking lately when it comes to punishing bad creators

The small clip of her talking about panic attacks already grinded my gears. "I had really bad panic attacks. Like, not the other kind of panic attacks" Excuse me, what... Panic attacks are always terrible, awful, and terrifying in itself. What other panic attacks are there that she is comparing with?

“Biggest creep” is a stretch though

she really is absolutely disgusting, i'm worried for her children

How can we modify 'Stranger Danger' for the digital age? She crossed the boundary from para-social to real relationships with way too much ease. The reality that there are adults pulling their children into this virtual world is another level of dangerous.

Hey great videos lately thanks for posting

It pisses me off that this isnt the first time she has been called out, and its not the first time everyone just forgets about it and lets her continue to have a platform.

SHE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!

Great to see you're still making videos

It’s worth noting that if her likes:views ratio is the same as it was before WHILE she’s going through a dislike bomb, it means 1 of 2 things, either her original fan base never left, or she’s paying for bot upvotes

Her lips are upsetting to me

Monthly savantics uploads keep me going

I think the unfortunate hard fact about social media predators is that as much everyone may know what they did, unless the victims come forward (or guardians in some of these cases), and are willing to take the predator to court.... nothing happens.

How isn't she in prison? She did so many illegal things (she looks like The Vegan teacher's daughter lol)

She can’t keep getting away with it!!!!!

gets me chuckling everytime. i mean how insufferable can people really be to this extent

Before the "apology" video I had no idea who she was, and I only saw that on a RU-vidr's react channel.

Unfortunatly, that's just how it works now. For about a week to a month, people will lose their minds about something a celeb has done, making memes, jokes, etc, then when that stuff goes stale, they move on to the next celeb that needs "canceled". The list of famous people, from history to today, that got away with horrific acts just because their famous or did one nice thing will never end. That's just the world we live in.