Colleen Ballinger, better known as “Miranda Sings,” apologized to her followers for a series of videos she made over the course of a decade.In a video titled “addressing everything,” the YouTuber expressed remorse over a series of jokes she made in the past.starting with a video she and her sister made pretending to be Latinx women.She admitted that the characters they played were “completely based in racial stereotypes".“It is not funny, and it is completely hurtful.
I am so ashamed and embarrassed that I ever thought this was okay,” she said.“I was a sheltered teenager who was stupid and ignorant and clearly extremely culturally insensitive" .Ballinger also addressed a controversy that started just a few weeks ago .when 17-year-old fan Adam McIntyre alleged in a YouTube video that she didn’t pay him for the content he shared to her Twitter account.He also accused the YouTuber of sending him underwear and bras in the mail.She denied McIntyre’s claim that she ignored him, and confessed that she did send the fan a bra and underwear.but insists they were new and it was nothing more than a joke well documented on a public livestream.Ballinger said she will “continue to learn” from her mistakes and grow as a human being, but asked that cyberbullies learn that words have power, just as she has
