Colleen Ballinger's Children's Book Is CREEPY and GROSS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Hi all, today I'm reviewing Colleen Ballinger's book, written as Miranda Sings, 'Self Help' which was published by Simon and Schuster Children and is AWFUL in every way.
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I feel like even having the word “porn” in a kids book SPECIFICALLY during the Internet age could be problematic, just because if they ever look it up…
Most children have seen hardcore porn by the age of 10- sadly.
@@moirasoma2863 Can I get a statistic on that??? That sounds really, really extreme even if not totally unbelievable. But it's also irrelevant. Just because children have been exposed to something, doesn't mean the flood gates are open and you can talk and joke about it with them.
@@moirasoma2863yeah… but putting it in a kids book is definitely way too encouraging and more kids would just end up looking it up. And using the word, when they shouldn’t
I saw porn at 10….don’t let them see it at that point
I was 14 when I first heard of the word and I looked it up but thought I got out at a wrong page so I didn’t believe the search results and only really found out about the meaning at year 18
her saying “im not a groomer just a loser” has the same energy as james charles saying “im not a pedo i was just desperate”
I don't care how bad my life gets, I would never ask a 13 year old for some booty pics
Fr
Funny enough, she was showing public support for James during that time
@@CatieAndHerCats ironic af
What did I miss with James Charles and when did this happen?
The fact that she has the word "PORN" on a children's book tells me all I needa know
That she's a comedian making fun of groomers and pedos?
@@Freakazoid12345you mean...a pedo and groomer making fun of pedos and groomers as if she isn't one? It really be your own colleagues fr...
@@jirachiswish690 "It really be"
Is english your second language?
Also, why are you defending pedos?
@@Freakazoid12345Is English YOUR second language? Not once did they defend pedos, you need to up your reading comprehension
@@tallic967 english is my second language, actually.
Last time I tested, I was in the top 1-2% of the country in terms of vocabulary.
Let me guess, english is your first language and you still can't speak it well or understand it?
Why are you defending pedos?
edit: also, I was talking to your first account. Not your second alternate account. Respond from your first account, please.
how the hell is she allowed to label this as a kid’s book while talking so much about sex ????? how was this allowed this is insane
It was also heteronormative maybe that helped?
Always gets to me how the lgbt community get absolutely rinsed with accusations of pedophilia for just existing outside of social norms but baby grows with “future ladies man” on them are considered fine
Yet any book about gay couples is EVIL AND CORRUPTING OUR YOUTH 🙄
@@vanl.9519 I don't know how that would have helped her publish a "children's" book with porn references.
@@MeemahSNbec people have banned books just for having a gay character or teaching kids about gender while this thing is allowed on store shelves and can be labeled as children's material
the uncle jokes are especially bad bc if a child that is actually going through this while watching her content they're gonna think that it's "acceptable" and that they should endure it and not complain. i hate this so much
I DIDNT EVEN THINK OF THIS! if their youtube idol says it’s okay to cuddle and have you’re uncle touch you they won’t think to tell anyone because it seems normal and appropriate to them because their idol says so.
I feel similarly about the tampon comment, too. Lots of young people, specifically young girls, are not taught about their bodies, or fed outright misinformation about their development. I remember feeling deeply ashamed, disgusted, and scared by what was happening to my body during puberty, and I consider myself to be very, VERY lucky that I had a family that was both open-minded and informative. Many young people are not so lucky. Girls coming from conservative families are often taught that their bodies functioning as they ought to during a normal stage of development is a sign that they're dirty in some way, and in many cases, are outright told that tampons are inherently sexual (they absolutely aren't!) and that using them makes you "impure" in some way.
Having a beloved TH-camr confirm this horrifying belief, even jokingly, in addition to making sexual abuse from a family member seem like a joke, is unbelievably dangerous for a kid. Christ alive.
Edit: almost forgot about the subtle homophobia here and there! Not terribly surprising, and certainly not the first piece of children's media be homophobic, but again...yikes. :(
I have this really horrible gut feeling she did that on purpose 😖 To help out other creeps
@@tash4270I hate how you watch dead meat too. Not on your opinion here but your lifestyle
@@tash4270Well she's a creep too, so...
I owned "Selp Helf" as a 13 year old in middle school. I remember reading it with my mom and having to hide certain parts from her because I was worried I would get in trouble, get the book taken away, or that it would just get uncomfortable/awkward. I feel like that's saying something.
Oh wow! That’s definitely a huge red flag for the book! Thanks for sharing your experience with us
And that's how it should have been recalled but instead people defended her like you did. Not blaming your child self at all, but imo it's quite obvious how she got away with it: sheer dumb luck
yup i had the same exact experience. my mom got me the dan and phil book as well so she thought itd be similar. she was very permissive (too permissive in some cases) but even i hid that book in the bottom of my shelf and never touched it LOL
OMG WHEN I WAS LIKE 8 I READ IT WITH MY MOM AND I WAS SCARED LOL
I got that book when I was about eleven because I was a big fan of Miranda Sings at the time and when my grandparents saw the content of the book they took it away and hid it from me.
Colleen in a disturbingly matter of fact tone: "I murdered a dog" *turns to her friend and smiles*
Me, at age 8, playing with my hamster and he fell and broke his leg and had to be put down: *probably the most guilty ive ever felt and I still cry nearly every time i think about it*
Damnit I made myself cry
I'm so sorry Ralphie ❤ I wish I could've saved you from that fall
@@britann9539not that it's likely going to make you feel much better, but hamsters are hell-bent on offing themselves at any cost. I've never known a species more prone to getting itself into dangerous situations other than human toddlers
@@britann9539 my mom made me kill a mouse when i was young because she is DEATHLY afraid of them. I LOVE them though. Ill never forget.
@@Romanticoutlaw aww
Well giving hamsters to human toddlers as a common first pet sounds like a recipe for trauma, then 😬
@@chrisrubin6445 I have nightmares about having to kill an animal to put it out of misery or something 🥺 I'm so sorry. Virtual hug for our shared rodent trauma ? 🫂
The fact she was so happy while talking about ruthlessly abusing her dog is so frightening. She was grinning ear to ear while explaining how she got her dog killed.
It is so jarring isn't it? Like she thinks it's exciting
Her whole incest "jokes" with her uncle are not only disgusting and unfunny, but dangerous. Is she intending to normalize this behaviour so kids think it's ok? Someone explain to me how this was published and marketed for kids?
Exactly
Exactly because how are kids supposed to know the uncle is an abuser ? They don’t understand the framing of the character and probably take it more literally
It's actually scary. Especially if they're kids who take things very literally like I did
@@ilikebunnys3543
They are littered here and there throughout the video but Rachel goes through (most of) them near the end (from 45:55 to 48:45).
@@ilikebunnys3543 Both in her “children’s” book and her Netflix show she alludes to $ex with her uncle…. repeatedly, as if the first time wasn’t unfunny enough.
Is it just me or does Colleen seem to have a weird...fixation on periods/puberty?
She does. It comes across as a fetish to me, but that's just speculation.
@@ladycaticorn2950I wonder if her very religious parents made her feel ashamed (whether directly or indirectly) about her own menstruation and puberty and it led to that.
@@ladycaticorn2950 yeah, that’s the vibe I got from her behavior in those dms. This book only makes me suspect it more
A lot of predators do
It’s a kink I’m sure
Colleen: “My content isn’t for kids!!”
Also Colleen: *Makes books aimed at children*
RIGHT
It's clearly not aimed at children.
@@ThatRedhedd Girl did you watch the video at all? Or are you just being blissfully ignorant?
(The book is literally advertised as being for kids… despite it having gross ass content like the incest jokes all sprinkled in the shitty multicolored construction paper background, who the hell is it aimed at then.)
@@ThatRedhedd Please tell me who else other than a child would the main audience for a TH-camr book… I doubt many adults would buy “Self-Help by Miranda sings” especially due to it masquerading as a children’s book. (With the loud bright colors, little games here and there, crude spelling drawn in crayon… I can’t see an adult reading this and enjoying it especially given the content in it being creepy as hell.)
Also also Colleen: uses an eight-year-old for a date night skit involving putting his hands down her pants on stage
This book is the perfect example of “When someone shows you who they are, believe them”.
1000%
Man, it shows just how terrible the dog story is when her 'yes man' looks disgusted by her story and finishes it by quietly saying "that's sad" instead of giving her the laugh she's going for.
Why do so many people pay attention to that one my mom back then was in the vet field(even worse storys now since she works for animal control) and if you heard or saw the stuff she showed you've be crying on the floor as if you saw your whole family die if you act like this just for one dog
@@thatonesaxophoneguy I don't think that's the point, it's not about what animals have been abused worse, its the fact the she did purposefully harm a dog that caused the dog to react in a way that inevitably got it put down, and she thinks it's funny, THATS the point, she showed no remorse or sympathy. Besides the person was just making a comment about it. It could've been worse sure but in the end its still an awful thing.
@@thatonesaxophoneguy she abused an animal and took away its life
right? he looked so uncomfortable
@@thatonesaxophoneguyBecause she told it as an entertaining storytime and showed little if any remorse.
“miranda sings is pg13” but parts of her book are aimed at literal children under 13
That claim in her song was so blatantly false, it blows my mind that she thought anyone would swallow that.
To be fair, the actual PG13 rating doesn't just ban anyone under 13 from watching a movie with it. That'd be stupid since it's an arbitrary age (11 and 12 year olds are in the exact same age group as 13 year olds).
But if Miranda Sings actually had a rating, it would be DG, for Disgusting Groomer.
As if her stuff is appropriate for 13 year olds anyway 😒
Such a dumb thing for her to say when there's video of her pulling a 9yo on stage to reach into her pants
I was thinking the same thing it's so frustrating seeing this book CLEARLY shows who her targeted audience was
Speaking as a therapist… She needs to be evaluated for complex trauma yesterday. And no, her potentially being traumatized isn’t an “excuse.” Human behavior is a result of environment/experiences and genetics. Understanding why a person does what they do is essential to helping them change. Someone saying “she probably has trauma” isn’t a reason to say “yeah so she can’t help it” or “she’s broken,” it means “she needs to get treatment so she can become a better person and not hurt anyone else.”
This ^ I’m so tired of people using their trauma as an excuse. Yes, what you went through was horrible but it never is an excuse to act as a terrible person
If you were a therapist you'd understand this woman needs jail, not therapy lol
@@divine555
Pedophilia is a disorder. Doesn't make it oaky, but it has a cause. Obviously she needs jail but she also needs to be psychologically evaluated (which isnt the same as therapy) because it's apparent she doesn't understand why her behavior is unacceptable. If that gap is filled, it can prevent her from doing these things in the future, hence protecting more kids.
@@divine555
Also, many pedophiles (who haven't acted on the thoughts) do end up hospitalized in a mental institutions. It's a real thing. It's a preventative.
@@milkywaycafe. Doesn't matter, all p*d*'s should be k****d off lol
"I'm not a groomer... just a loser" Aww don't say that Colleen. You're both!
HAHA I BEEN LAUGJING AT THIS FOR AN HOUR
I genuinely want to be your friend after reading this😭😭
There's something to be said about her calling herself a "weird aunt" with all the uncle "jokes" she made in her book and in her Netflix show.
Right? She needs a full on investigation and im co concerned for her kids
I first watched the video with a friend’s and we agreed that there was a *reason* she said aunt and not uncle
What is there to say?
She basically said she's a weirdo pedophile without saying it
She had a damn Netflix show?
the audacity of this woman arguing that her content isn't "intended for kids" and she therefore wasn't a groomer is WILD when this exists
But will also argue that her channel is "PG-13" (self-awarded rating), so it's not her problem if kids are exposed to it because it's not her problem. Which, while it is parents' job to monitor their kids, very little about her channel is truly PG-13. It quickly falls into R territory. And all of that *is* her responsibility. Especially since she can see her viewer's age demographic.
@@Izzy-cp8ytexactly! i wish youtubers would start taking accountability for the content. if you KNOW your audience is mainly children then you have a responsibility as the adult to NOT create inappropriate content that you’re aware children will be watching. it’s so weird to produce inappropriate or sexual content knowing you have a largely underage audience
And yet she wrote a children’s book lol! But it’s not for kids…?😆
ive always wondered, if her content isnt for children then why would she pull kids on stage during her shows ??
@@bunnylacy2097yes because kids are supposed to magically turn into adults when they watch her videos! /S
After seeing this, there is no doubt in my mind she is a child predator. NO adult would present this to kids unless they had bad intentions. So disgusting and heart breaking for the kids/fans.
Some of the jokes reminded me of the kind of jokes Jimmy Savile would make about kids.
Its crazy her making that apology has caused me to go on a deep dive on other problematic things she has done, which is the total opposite intention of an apology video.
Love your eyeshadow btw
literally same. which makes us realize there’s been something wrong with her all along and it’s sad most of us didn’t see it sooner. it’s sad she ever had the platform to do any of this and possibly(most likely) traumatize every kid who’s come across her content. it’s crazy to think that i used to be one of those kids and so many of us did. and we found enjoyment in it. now we look back and just cringe at ourselves. why did why find any enjoyment in this?
Honestly yeah, I remember one video she was opening up a perfume bottle that had a naked lady. She didn’t blur it for one scene so you saw it all. I can’t believe I actually used to find her funny. I was in 6th I believe and i lovedeed her. I watched her show again recently are realized how awful everyone is and how sexual it is. Pretty sure her mom and uncle dated in it too. Very odd. It’s disgusting how I thought all of this was somewhat okay. And that calling kids sluts and hoes and porn was cool.
Same tbh I watched two videos doing a deep dive on the situation one was over three hours and the other was over two hours
Now I’m staying up late watching a video about how gross her books are. Her “apology” didn’t even help her in this situation, it made the situation even worse 💀
The same thing happened by me. I was never interested in Colleens content then right now. She was finally exposed to being a problematic person
That ukulele video wasn't an apology. Even the most insincere youtuber apologies admit _some_ wrongdoing and say that they will try to be better on the future (an empty promise). Instead, Colleen said the accusations against her were false and that the people accusing her on-line don't care about helping victims or even punishing wrongdoers, but instead are all "haters" who enjoy making people more successful than them suffer... is vile
To anyone who might think this wasn’t calculated and intentional:
I was groomed online at the age of 13. It all started with him making innuendos as “jokes” and dropping inappropriate words in conversation; he wouldn’t outright tell me to look at pornography or explain WHAT these words meant, but he repeatedly referenced them and put them out there so they were in my mind. If I asked him what it meant, he’d just respond with “it’s funny because it’s adult and edgy, your parents just don’t want you to know adult humor”. It only escalated from there, and once he had conditioned me, I didn’t question any of his comments and requests because he taught me that it was all “just funny jokes” and that he wouldn’t do any of the awful things he did in seriousness.
Even if it isn’t in the context of “hey kids, go to this website and watch porn!”, it’s STILL a calculated tactic of grooming children. If anything, hiding these references between innocent children’s activities and jokes is a telltale sign that Colleen is trying to normalize these themes to kids. To unaware children reading this book, all the references blend together and they view EVERYTHING in this book as something that’s okay for them to see. This woman is absolutely sick.
Great points!
And I am so sorry ❤
I agree 100%. These ARE common tactis for groomers, I've seen it before. So sorry for what you went through, hope you're healing now
I was also groomed online and my groomer used similar tactics. She exposed me to “cartoony” pornographic content and conditioned me into thinking sexual jokes about me were normal. This video was honestly concerning because she reminded me scarily of the woman who did it to me. It’s horrific, tbh
I hope you’re healing, I am so sorry that happened to you ❤ much love
We had a groomer (he was more than that but I won't say it) in the family; this book just stands out as a huge red flag to make children EASIER to groom by, in this case, their own family members which is deeply horrific to consider.
I'm so sorry to everyone sharing their stories, they're saddening and familiar 😢
The creepy uncle is also a character in her Netflix show. The fact that this character is such a long running joke in her content, including the content expressly targeted at children, is beyond gross.
It bothers me so much
ew she has/had a netflix show?? why??
@@cricketandgraham8644idk i watched it when i was younger and i can definitely say it was very weird. it was pg 13 i think but it was still inappropriate feeling on so many levels i’m surprised nerflix had it up for so long
I only knew about her bc of the Netflix show and now I’m mad that I watched it :(
As someone who is a CSA survivor via a "creepy uncle" I find the jokes super not ok, especially for kids.
Like if this was set up to be for adults only and we were warned it was super dark humor that would be one thing, but its clearly targeted for kids and no warning
The fact that she HAS CHILDREN makes it so much worse
In our current world where anything representing diversity gets the "groomer" label and yet shit like this has been on shelves and out there with actual grooming tactics explicitly prevalent, i can't say that I'm feeling particularly good about our future.
ikr it’s almost like you can dress up and entertain people of all ages _without_ grooming children 🤯 drag queens have been doing that for generations but i guess colleen didn’t get the memo
It’s because the people calling all queer people groomers don’t care shout ending sexual assault- it’s deeply ingrained in the cultural and political landscape they’re actively protecting and trying to expand. They just want to hurt the queer community by evoking a deeply rooted cultural stereotype about us.
Actual groomers exist, and somehow people think only trans people can be groomers
literally the only people i’ve heard talk about the colleen grooming drama are youtubers and leftists. suddenly the right doesn’t care about grooming, i guess? 🤔🤔🤔
Not, "anything representing diversity".
"Diversity" just means anti-straight white male, correct?
Grooming mostly occurs in churches and the gay community, correct?
Two gay guys were involved in managing Colleens social media accounts when she was accused of, "grooming" by making fun of groomers like ASAP Science (two other gay dudes).
Also, child sexual abuse is 5x more common in the gay community, correct?
on another note: Don’t buy books with bad spelling! Especially not for children, because by reading words we also learn how to spell them and this book will ensure that your spelling gets worse :/
@AliceMalice499I imagine if their only concern was the bad spelling, they wouldn't be watching the video about grooming, hmm?
That’s what my mom hated about Junie B Jones, with the bad grammar. But I loved those books 😂
@AliceMalice499Woah there let’s take it down a notch; they said “on another note”, acknowledging the main grievances.
@loftlovers I used to love the Junie B Jones books
@AliceMalice499 Seems like you were affected by bad spelling in books as a child. Clearly you didn’t read this comment properly. “On another note”. ON. ANOTHER. NOTE. 😐
I honestly feel that the question "Who is this for?" is almost never asked anymore, whether it's a major publisher or a studio.
Imo the question now is “who can we trick into buying this?” lol
(sigh) Everybody knows that Velma is made for nobody who cares about Scooby-Doo.
As a mixed teenager living in eastern Europe, hearing her joke about romani people breaks my heart. One of the thing I struggle with daily, is hearing people saying things like 'all gypsyes are bad, and they steal, and they are disgusting'
Or even
'All gypsyes should be killed'
(Got told that multiple times)
If I wouldn't have been edutacted of racism by my mother, I might would just believe that I am a disgusting person not worthy of life just because I was born with romani heritage.
I was born without very strong romani features, my skin is a bit darker than my friends, and most people in my country, and (I am sorry I can't explain it well) my face could pass as a white non mixed, non roma person, but if you look at me more observingly, you can see that I am in fact mixed. But still, it hurts when people, my friends, my family makes fun of romani people, let alone a white woman writing a self help book for kids...☹️
it made me feel the same
I’m so sorry that you went through that. I hope you’re doing well and finding happiness in your life. 💕
A lot of Americans don't really understand the context, they don't understand how deep and severe the racism against Romani people is in Europe. A lot of people don't realize that Romani people are a real people that exist, they think of "Gypsies" as a romantic fantasy thing, like pirates, ninjas and cowboys. Many people don't even know that millions of Romani died during the holocaust.
In a somewhat cruel irony, the weird racism many European countries have against Roma people leaked into my own country by cultural osmosis, but people got confused and mixed up Roma and Romanians. As a result a bunch of people have negative stereotypes about Romanians that clearly were originally about Roma. Actual Roma are largely ignored, besides in a couple cities where the Roma community is associated with begging. Very strange, if a bit sad that people still hold these prejudices.
Ironically, exposing minors to age-inappropriate or mature content is one of the biggest red flags to identifying grooming.
As someone who was targeted sexually by a member of my immediate family, the bits about "Miranda" and her uncle made me SO uncomfortable. They're not funny, they're terrifying. I can't imagine how many of her child fans could have or HAVE been groomed by family using her content. Internet content about incest is why I was targeted, so it's not out of the realm of possibility. It makes me sick.
I'm SO sorry you went through that, friend. You are in my prayers and heart, and I hope you're getting help with healing. Happy to listen if you need someone to talk to or support in any way. 💞
That is absolutely sick. The internet is so destructive in the hands of people who don’t know the kind of power they wield. I’m sorry you went through that.
That absolutely sucks. I hope wherever you are that you’re okay and safe from stuff like this. You’re absolutely right, this book could be used by predators.
I haven't had any bad experiences with my uncles, yet it makes me INSANELY uncomfortable. I can't even imagine how uncomfortable it would make people who are victims. Colleen is disgusting
As someone who was groomed by my uncle, I felt the same way. It makes it seem normal and it's disgusting. I am so sorry you had to go through the same thing.
This reminds me of Shane’s repulsive and cruel “Hey Milly” series that mocked a child who had been SA’d by her father and was hypersexual. “Joking” about incest as if it’s normal to children is going to harm kids being abused or who have been abused making them feel they can’t tell anyone without it being seen as a joke or normal 😢
It was a collaboration with the Fine Bros.
I read a comment from a former fan who talked about how watching the "Hey Milly" videos normalized adults talking sexually to children. That fan was later groomed and sexually abused by an adult in their life but thought it was normal because of Shane's content that they were exposed to. There are literal victims of Shane's normalization of child SA and grooming.
@@Sunzu49Once I found out that they’d done those videos, I was as disgusted as could be, and I dropped the React channel like a hot potato. If any parents saw those videos and still let their kids work with Benny and Rafi on React videos, then they’re horrible parents!
Them and onion boy were/are fiends....🤢
@@Sunzu49disgusting, I was a fan of them as a kid. Stayed very far away from Shane so this is news to me. So many kids in the aughts and '10s learned the hard way to kill their heroes, myself included as a one time fan of a certain few Minecraft creators...
growing up, a lot of my peers liked miranda sings, and i never liked her. i was the “weird kid” (im just neurodivergent) and was always bullied-by the same kids who watched miranda sings. it felt like everyone was in on some joke that i was the end of, but i didn’t understand what they were making fun of me for. from the clips of the miranda character i’ve seen, it really feels like she’s making fun of the naivity of ND kids, and making us the butt of her character.
I also found her annoying but never really knew what neurodivergent was. I just found her irritating but had to watch her when my sister wanted to
xd
THIS!!!
Back when Shane Dawson was being exposed as a creep, I watched a video that coined the term "parasocial grooming" to describe the way Shane basically corrupted his audience of children. I think something very similar is happening here.
I was also thinking about that! A video by korviday
I believe this! I didn’t know what some porn site was (can’t remember if it was xvideos or redtube) was til I heard it mentioned in a Shane Dawson video. I was like 9…
There's something about lonely nerds who used sexual humor to gain friends in childhood- but now that they're adults, they're still making "friends" with children in the same way.
You can tell where they're stunted by looking at the age group that they pursue. Her response was immature. Like a kid.
I don't think she knows what she did was wrong. She didn't ever try to hide it, she just lied after the fact.
@@misscookie5528 I remember that! Didn't he say that in reference to a face a kid was making?
He also constantly swore and joked about STDs and bj s. Not a single thing was ever kid friendly.
I never watched him in front of my parents. E V E R. 🚩🚩🚩
@@illiatiia i remember him saying something like “don’t look this up, kids!” Or something like that. That scumbag knew his audience and was still exposing them to inappropriate content
I feel bad for Colleen’s kid, I can’t imagine having a mom that thinks stuff like this is appropriate
i keep forgetting she has a kid holy shit 😭😭😭😭😭
@@uglyaniimals3 of them 😭
YEAH, the part about naps and avoiding playing with your kids? Like, tell us how you really feel about parenting 👀
Yeah..I used to watch her but then stopped because she got annoying. She was such a people pleaser, but guilt tripped the comments all the time. She would let Flynn (her son) watch an inappropriate music video over and over again bc he was asking for it. And she said she let him bc she was all for body positivity but still felt a bit iffy about it. That was when I realized she actually has no concept of what is appropriate and what not
She has a kid!?? Call 9-11
I feel for the dude next to her while she was telling the dog story. Imagine your friend just telling an extremely dark story that happened to an innocent creature with no punchline and laughing about it, expecting you to laugh as well. She’s definitely a sociopath.
Don't be sorry for him, a channel showed proof of him talking to the same kids Colleen talked with on that group chat... Where he sent... A porn vid to at least one of them.
@@evasl Aw, wonderful. Bad people usually hang with bad people. It’s like an unknown Sixth Sense.
The uncle section, the suggestive photos of LITERAL children and her as the Miranda character made my stomach turn..especially the cuddling image. These aren't just edgy jokes, this is the reality for so many children. How could anyone laugh at the idea of one of the most vial things a person can do to a child. Thank you for another eye-opening and important video Rachel.
agreed' it kinda seems like shane dawson where the "jokes" just feel like a way for them to do s3xu@l sh1t to children and have an easy way out if they get called out.
It really itched my trauma, some of them even made me physically feel sick. I’m in a better mental position rn as an adult, idk how I would’ve reacted reading that as a kid or even a teen. I’d imagine it could harm me futher as a kid by making me think it was normal and funny, or it’d ruin my mental health further as a teen newly realizing the trauma and still struggling with new things.
Yes, I didn't know the extent that these jokes went until this video. It's really just beyond words
genuinely these kind of things normalise this behaviour which in turn causes children to get groomed because they think it’s normal to do.
When I was younger (I want to say 10 or 11), I watched Haters Back Off! on Netflix. I adored the show, and it made me cry. I found a few moments funny, but for most of it, I really related to Miranda. I'm autistic, and many of her experiences reflected my own because I was often socially unaware and felt like I was living in my own world. I'm now 17 and looking back, I realize that the character Miranda Sings wasn't meant to be relatable, but meant to make fun of me.
Although this isn't as bad as most of her other allegations, I felt like it was important to point out another thing she did that was harmful. While there were people who related to Miranda and found her comforting, everyone else was laughing at her, and people like me were never in on the joke. It really highlights many of my experiences feeling like I'm doing everything right but somehow I'm still "weird" or "offputting" and never in on the joke no matter how hard I tried. Miranda as a character basically encouraged people to continue to make fun of neurodivergent people.
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Yup. The character is incredibly ableist.
This is what i have been thinking too. When I found out miranda was a complete character it made me feel so uncomfortable. She is literally a parody amalgamation of people and traits that Collen dislikes. With a lot of those traits ringing true for actually autistic people and overdone caricatures. This makes my stomach turn knowing she has profited so much from this and as (as far as i know) she is allistic. The whole show was weird to watch from what i remembered.
I made a video a few years ago on tiktok about how I think miranda is offensive as a character to autistic people (including myself) and I was destroyed in the comments by her fans so I ended up deleting it.
@@sirmantotallyadude She has mentioned ADHD, OCD and anxiety iirc as the different diagnoses she has so neurodivergent but allistic.
I don’t get how she wasn’t immediately cancelled when this book came out?!
Most likely because people don’t really like colline and just ignored her book. Like another TH-camr making a bad book is nothing new, but. Yeah i wished people blasted these books at release, it’s very not ok.
it's crazy that the word slut appears multiple times in a children's book
Just a pet peeve of mine: I hate when books targeted at children have misspelled words and grammatical errors. Children's books is how I learned to spell both in my native language and English, so I think we should leave that "joke" to the adult audience which already know the proper spelling. Also, I know the market for kids is profitable, however this book is clearly written for people in their 16 (maybe?) and over.
no fr especially since the ones reading it (kids) are probs not entirely in on the joke/ bit😭 just all around a bad book even it’s quality as a book
Not to compare this trash to Alice Walker, but The Color Purple is the only book with grammatical errors that I respect, because the errors are actually a meaningful feature in how the author uses language, unlike in this case, which feels unnecessary and just plain dumb.
only time i've seen it done decently is in this book i loved as a kid called junie b jones (i may be biased bc it was legit my favorite book series as a kid) where there were sections of the book that were in her handwriting and she'd spell something incorrectly, but then the incorrect one would be crossed out with the correct one next to it, it was like how a real kid would write but still had the correct words
*children’s books *are* how…
@@shannond1511 hi petty
“Its just jokes” cool cool Colleen! Telling inappropriate jokes to kids is a huge groomer tactic
That literally is what groomers do to test boundaries and push the limits in order to go farther. She’s so gross
Um... She's not a groomer just a looser haven't you heard the apology song? /S
@@jennydm7711honestly, this whole situation is bringing up some memories ive buried....that im now realizing are a lot more messed up than i realized.
@@froggyspritecan’t imagine that’s easy to deal with, i hope you at least have a good support system around you. Sending hugs, take care
@@jennydm7711yea she really is a boundary pusher. How is it that she’s been crossing the line for yearsss, like obviously this isn’t a mistake
The pages where her "uncle takes pictures of her sleeping" is so deeply disturbing. It made me feel sick
'im not a groomer, I'm just a loser." Aww don't sell yourself short,colleen. You're both!💛
Hate how she says "so I murdered a dog" as if that isn't what actually happened or it's an exaggeration. Like yeah Colleen. You murdered a dog. You did that. You are the reason that dog was killed.
Also the fact that the guy who usually goes along with whatever she says and always agrees with/defends her looked so uncomfortable/disgusted
she says it so casually too like girl you need therapy.:
That clip about her dog physically enraged me. Not only did she abuse her dog, she blamed her injury on a dog that eas probably frightened and pained and lost his life over it. She is borderlining psychopathy.
Holy shit. The fact she just admitted that in front of another person TO THE ENTIRE INTERNET so casually and with silly misic over it??? There is something so insanely wrong with her
To be fair, we can’t hold abusing her dog or blaming the dog for biting her against her when she was 3 years old. But the way she talks about it as an adult was super insensitive.
@@sharpeningtheaxe i completely didnt catch that she said it happened when she was 3 so thats less bad but im still like ???? How did her parents not do anything
@@kirbykinnie3691well she did what kids do. she probably didnt think the dog was going to get put down for biting her, so she just lied about hurting the dog first probably trying not to get in trouble. i think this probably something that actually mightve traumatized her to a certain degree so she laugh about it like a lot of people do about things they think shouldnt have traumatized them because they dont want other ppl thinking it traumatized them. like not trying to make excuses for the woman but i couldnt imagine a child knowing about people euthanizing dogs that bite and her having planned maliciously to have her dog killed by abusing it with the intent on having her bite her like some people are making it out. she literally just having a normal truama response, laughing while describing something that you found traumatizing, and people are acting like shes a psycho over it. just reveals that ppl care way more about dogs than kids.
@@Jack-px8lf She was laughing about it as an adult like it was a funny joke, that doesn't seem like something she would do if she really felt bad for it.
I feel like her Netflix show is also evidence for her weird and borderline predatory behaviour. In one of the episodes, she stalked a kid and publicly humiliated them as well as harassing them online.
and didn't it also shows the silhouette of her and her uncle getting undressed
@@katlovegood4921 WHAT 😭😭😭😭
my jaw dropped when I heard the storytime of her innocent dog being put down. I hold so much guilt over putting down my parent's dog that attacked me and my brother. we each had to get 2 dozen stitches bc he was a big boy, an English Mastiff, but it still feels like we could have done something different to avoid his death, could have tried harder. hearing Colleen being so flippant about her story definitely hurt my heart. it also doesn't help that she has that vlog of her making fun of a dead cat on the street. I have absolutely no respect for someone that has that little empathy for animals, not to mention all her other horrific behaviors. She and her ukulele can go to hell
I'm sorry she WHAT to a dead cat on the street?!?! What a sick sick person she is.
i know!! im surprised that so little people are talking about this. she literally dug her nails into the dog, got stitches because it bit her, then put the dog down because it was "aggressive", and bragged about killing a dog on her youtube channel. that is so horrible and disgusting.
@@brianagillustrationYes AND the cat belonged to her friend and that’s how her friend found out her cat was dead. It’s wild how crazier Colleen gets the further you dig
@@mochiibubbles it 100% felt like bragging! that's the perfect way to put it
That downright psychopathic..i dont understand how someone could be that cruel and unempathic
Wouldnt be suprise if she would on purpose run over a cat of a friend but as a joke. She is that kind of a person
I had a ton of puberty and like self help books for kids 11-14 and they were super helpful! Labeling tampons as “sinful” to a child that doesn’t get the joke is NOT helpful
same!!! the worst shit they said about tampons in those kinds of books was literally just the realities of "not intuitive on the first try", "not for everyone", and the most important TOXIC SHOCK and then they moved on 🤦♀️ imagine having an opportunity to write something like what's in those self help books that tell kids important stuff and explicitly repeatedly state that you're NOT GROSS and instead you tape a tampon in, write "4 sinners" on it, and release it genuinely claiming to be a comedian.
actually thinking back on it i think even the self help books i had that were literally supposed to be just informative about health had more jokes. definitely more jokes that landed....
I got my period when I was 9-10 and this book is HORRIBLE for girls.
out of context but i rlly like ur pfp whos the artist?
Shout out to American Girl's "Care and Keeping of You" and its sequel
Hell, my mom gave me Christian puberty books and none of them actually made moral judgments on tampons vs pads. It's a little surprising to me that it was so matter-of-fact about it.
The worst part is she expects to get away with it because "Miranda is autistic" and I can say as an autistic person, not only is that not an acceptable excuse, but it is also majorly offensive to people like me who are on the autism spectrum. I get in some cases it can be really severe and people can have learning and filtering issues, but those people aren't faking it in a character to the point its offensive and using it as an excuse to do horrible and inappropriate things.
Another thing is as a lesbian, I can say that for me at least, the Leonese would have been fine, had she not been almost pushing the whole I'm not lesbian and if you are I'm not going to be able to help you thing onto young children. Like if 12 year old me saw that whilst I was still questioning it would have effected me severely and I probably would not have been able to accept myself the way I had. Especially if it came from someone I looked up to.
Also why the hell would anyone in their right mind let a book with talk about porn in it be advertised for children. The whole thing is just disgusting.
Edit: Spelling mistakes.
Honestly this reminds me of the Elsagate scandal. As in... it LOOKS like its for kids: bright colors! funny mispelling! Kids section of book stores and Netflix, even! but when you look just BARELY beneath the surface, just give it barely a second glance, its horrific and even terrifying. Its normalizing disgusting and horrible things. Its teaching kids horrible things, and worse, grooming them. And people took far, far too long to notice their children were being harmed, all because it was packaged in bright colors.
wtf why did she sound so proud while talking about “murdering a dog”???? girlie…
I hadn't heard that one before. That was upsetting.
Fr, she sounds like me when I brag about an accomplishment I made or I tried something cool
@@tasmeenbaker9912it feels like a supremacy/superiority thing to me. Like, she’s proud that at 3 years old she had power over the life and death of the dog. Or she’s just absolutely dissociated and expressing cognitive dissonance but like.. That doesn’t make her any less dangerous.
that one was absolutely disturbing, i have a dog and the thought of ever doing that to my puppy makes me physically sick to the stomach
If you watch the guy next to her too he just looked horrified and uncomfortable the whole time! The way she was so flip about it too was jarring
Edit: even the music edited in after is so cheery? A dog died
It's not a bandwagon Rachel. It's the "toxic gossip traaaiiiin 🎶🎶"
I've had this damn song stuck in my head all day!! I hate it 😐
@@stacyragland3123Me too! It even invaded my dreams 😐
@@RachelOates lmaoooo 💀💀😭
A few days ago, I didn't even know that woman, and now this song keeps on steamrolling all over my brain for at least 48 hours. Please help!
Everyone with it stuck in your head, just change it into the "da da da da daaaa" section of "You'll Be Back" from Hamilton. It helps.
The amount of uncle/inc3st and p0rn mentions in this book are so disturbing. This is literally conditioning children to make p3dophilia seem normal. I can’t say it enough, this is gross and I don’t know how she’s ever been allowed near kids 🤢
I just had flashbacks to my sibling’s elementary school friend constantly calling everything “porn” in the Miranda Sings voice. I had no idea what it meant so that’s why I did not really remember it until now.
When Colleen was like “apparently it’s my job to decide what’s appropriate for everyone’s kids” what she doesn’t get is that when you market things towards kids the kids that are allowed to watch it will repeat it and reenact it to the ones who aren’t allowed to watch it. My sibling’s friend would recite Miranda sketches to my sibling and then my sibling would recite them to me. I’ve never actually watched a Miranda Sings video but I still was exposed to it against my will.
I feel like Miranda as a character being portrayed like a literal child is incredible uncomfortable too.. both because of how weird she is with kids and because it’s a harmful piss take of those with learning disabilities and autism
Funny, IMHO: When adults pretend to be child characters for an adult audience, and the point of the joke is that children can be annoying and weird (to adults) and/or that they don't understand the adult world. IMHO, the perfect skit in this regard will ideally cause us to sympathize with both the adults and the child simultaneously in different ways.
Unfunny and annoying: Adults acting like kids for a child audience. I hate it because kids love it, and then they end up repeating the most irritating bits ad nauseam.
Unfunny, mean, and cringe: Adults acting like undeniably-neurodivergent-coded kids, where the joke is just that "weirdness" is fundamentally bad.
Miranda's "humor" is frankly creepy, because she's doing clearly-adult bits for a younger audience who'll just end up repeating the parts about porn or having blood in your stool because they're taboo and edgy.
I don't think Miranda is necessarily supposed to be a portrayal of someone in the autism spectrum or with innate learning disability. More just very sheltered and traumatized. Which can absolutely lead to stunted emotional development.
@@EclecticallyEccentric either way isn’t really funny and is harmful
@@dinosaysrawr Yeah. I'm sure there's a special place in Hell for monsters like her.
One of her tour employees said that Colleen based Miranda on her disabled relative
This is wild… the word porn has no no no no place in a childrens or teenagers book.
I personally don't agree 100%, I think porn can be a topic in a book for teenagers IF it is educational. Porn is a part of many teenagers lifes ( even if they don't consume it, it might come up as a topic) so I don't think you should leave it out categorically.
well most teenagers already know about it, but yeah kid-kids no. and in this context it's pretty unnecessary regardless.
@vogelchenzwitschert8754 definitely, I'd say it's a topic that, depending on the child, shouldn't be brought up until between age 13 and 15, by their immediate caregiver or similar safe, trusted adult, and in a purely educational sense.
I disagree about the teenager part. The way colleen is doing it is in a groomer way, but you also can't treat a 16 year old like they're the same as a 10 year old. In a book, it's appropriate to talk about sex in the context of the characters themselves having conversations about it. So there is a healthy way to approach the topic. I'm a teenager and I think it's condescending when media acts like as a 17 year old you're a child, but as an 18 year old you're a full adult.
@@Izzy-cp8ytbeing exposed to it between ages 8 to 12 ruined my life. would definitely recommend it being explained after 12 especially if kids are curious and internet savvy since they can and will hide their searches.
How was she able to make children’s content for years when it’s all so blatantly inappropriate and creepy?
A big issue that I had with this book was the fact that the kids I’d babysit were taking the advice literally. One of my kids got her first period really early and I gave her the choice between pads and tampons until she started panicking. Kept repeating “only in, not out” to the point where it felt cultish. I also noticed that the crude humor they had was completely different from ours- growing up, I thought farts and butts were hilarious and made jokes about them all the time. These kids talked about foot size and lip color, if you know what I mean. Colleen was one of their favorite content creators, but once I realized she was a big reason why these 6-10 year olds pretended to be hyper sexual I stopped letting them play her videos. They were furious until I put on SpongeBob, the Amazing World of Gumball, etc. They calmed down and developed the harmless potty humor I had as a kid. Needless to say, it was a month long struggle to reverse the damage Colleen did on these kids. As a content creator, everything she said or did resonated with the kids deeply. Maybe one day she’ll realize the depth of her negative impact on children.
How did that book ever get approved to be for children??!??! I’m seriously appalled. I didn’t know anything about her before this and I’m so disgusted.
The fact that she either doesn’t see why her actions are wrong or she’s lying, is insane.
It got approved for children becuse these days literally everything is.
I saw a youtuber make a chiderens book about literal poop and how important it is to poop using a satirical superhero and it got approved by publishers. It had curse words inside.
@@ahniandfriends123 WHAT 😮?!
There was this weird period in like 2014-2016 where a bunch of youtubers got book deals even if it didn't fit with their brand or goals. Pewdiepie, Grace Helbig, Hannah Hart, Zoella, Shane Dawson, Lily Singh, Ryan Higa, and Smosh all had book deals around that time. Some of them genuinely wrote the books, and some were part of marketing teams that put stuff together or hired a ghost writer. It was around the same time that TH-cam channels all decided to make their own movies?? Honestly, the first decade of TH-cam was a fever dream and I'm glad we're finally talking about it.
It really shows how twisted her mind is
Honestly if anyone hasn’t watched Adam Mcintyres videos about Colleen please do so it is astonishing the amount of stuff she swept under the rug and lied about
And Olivia did a great slideshow putting the whole timeline together on h3h3.
That and Swoop’s documentary of part 1
@ville__you're STILL at it???
@ville__I actually gave your "video" a chance, it's a fake discord message, not written in Adam's voice at all, that's not how he talks and he doesn't have funny videos, get your information right. I'm sure Adam is aware of you and will make a fool of you soon too
Him Ukeleleing her back was an absolute king move.
This is just disgusting, sick and twisted. I can’t believe this got published by a children’s publishing company. It’s disturbing, I wish this could have been caught sooner and she could have been canceled sooner.
Good thing my KINDERGARTEN self didn’t watch this chick and buy her book.
I was a big miranda sings fan growing up and i asked for this book for my birthday one year. I remember hiding it from my parents and not letting them open the book cause I felt that I would get in trouble for reading it. that’s not normal for a “children’s book”
I spent 20 mins trying to put a new toilet seat on today in 90 degree heat while toxic gossip train looped over and over again in my head this woman has made my life hell
its stuck in my head too omg its driving me nuts. ive watched too many youtubers react to it
@@QUEERVEEART Glad to hear I am not the only one
I spent all day working on a plumbing project while that stupid song ran through my head. It was terrible.
OMG I was doing a new toilet seat today too! Had a temper tantrum and dropped the spanner down the loo! I blame the song…!!! 😂
It was stuck in my head for my whole 10 hour shift yesterday 😫😫
Not to be crass, but referring to menstruation as “being leaky” is way more disgusting than any period disaster I’ve ever had.
Edit: I made a bunch strangers on the Internet like my comment! Are you proud of me yet, ma?!
Just started the video. Thanks for a sneak peek into the hell I'm in for. I hate it.
@@ivy7417 You’re very welcome. ☺️
You would hate that my boyfriend calls me his little ketchup packet once a month lmao
@@JENNIFAFAA But that's actually funny, because it took more than two seconds of thought. The lack of effort disgust me just as much as what it's referencing.
@@JENNIFAFAAalso, your bf is referring to someone he personally knows and is an adult. Colleen is saying this about kids.
All of this book's contents were horrid, but oh my god my stomach sank during the "uncle" section. How did any of this get through? I would have been 18 when this originally came out and I'd be just as disgusted as I am at 26.
Everything I was curious about could be answered through a google search when I was a kid, it wasn't much different in 2015. This whole book is just pure negligence, and really adds another layer to what we already know about Colleen.
As someone who became an uncle at a very young age (11 or 12) those “creepy uncle jokes” stuck with me because for a while I genuinely thought all uncles were like that and obviously I didn’t want to be one of them. So thanks Miranda Sings for making me extremely worried about becoming an uncle 👍
Great video, and great points! Such a disgusting human, and a disgusting book. I still cannot believe she’s a mother.
I know the feeling of “not the normal family dynamic “. I have 7-year old brother+sister in laws. This happened because my father in law remarried and wanted to start over. No shame, they’re a wonderful family, it’s just so weird calling a baby my in law.
Also, my husband is a literary editor, so I know firsthand the restrictions that are put on writers, in terms of what they can and cannot say, allude to, etc when writing children/YA content!
How in the HELL did this get published?!?!
I’m truly stunned.
Self published? Idk how aware are you of Onision but that guy did few books too and they are utter garbage so and I'm pretty sure he himself published it
Nah this was actually published through a children's book publisher 😬
@@Andjelka99Nope. Simon & Schuster are always publishing sick GARBAGE
because she's a jew worshipper
@@georgia860 Yes it was, and I think we need to take a good hard look at the publisher and ask them why they published a book about child abuse.
colleen hoover and colleen ballinger should have a problematic colleen party
Someone should write a book about it called The Colleen's Curse
Colleen, Colleen, Colleen, Coll-EEEEN
Stop your bullshit, it's getting out of hand
@@Keznenstg if I could retweet this I would 😂
@@Keznenthis is an under appreciated comment
@@Keznenyour clothing is shein ware. With patchy lips and ratty hair...
this has to be the first children book where "genital warts" are mentioned
I actually take issue more with Simon and Schuster Children for going ahead with publishing this without a lot more editing. Ballinger clearly has scant self-awareness, but her publisher had an opportunity to rein her in and they didn't.
This book is almost like if "Morel Orel" tried to be on Cartoon Network instead of Adult Swim. I say "almost" because Morel Orel has actually well-written and developed social commentary viewed through the lens of a naive, undersocialized child while being very clearly made for an audience of adults. Whereas Miranda Sings is an adult pretending to be naive and undersocialized giving bad takes on "society" for an audience of children.
This is an amazing comparison holy crap i love seeing Moral Orel be utilized in modern day discussions
@@trooperstoons? what do you mean utilized in modern conversations? the show only ended in... 2008... only.. its been fifteen fucking years? 😢
@@trooperstoonsExactly, Moral Orel is so underrated and doesn't deserve to be!
You’re totally right!!
don’t compare my boy to this
Honestly, Colleen should just be grateful she wasn’t canceled way earlier…..because she’s been this awful forever.
Heck, she should be grateful that she hasn't been arrested and imprisoned (or killed by a concerned parent) for this trash. Monsters like her deserve the worst.
When I was young I refused to watch anything with Miranda Sings because I was creeped out and had a feeling she would be found out for doing bad things in the future. As with other people I got the same feeling from, I was right. I don’t know how I predict this stuff because none of it appeared in a dream I had and that’s how I usually predict things.
How is this Miranda woman not under criminal investigation? She's creepy.
How is this book not getting more attention? Out of all the stuff coming out recently this has to be one of the most disturbing. To think she wrote this knowing kids would read it... I wonder how she'd feel if it were her children being exposed to stuff like this. She's honestly awful. Thank you for covering this!
im scared that she DOES expose her kids to stuff like this and probably even worse. if she was willing to ask an 8 or 9 year old child to put his HAND down her PANTS in front of an audience of HUNDREDS of people who knows what she does behind closed doors..... she scares me and i think she is a danger to her children
I don't know either, Jazzie. I'm trying to get this to trend on Twitter because hardly anyone in the tag is talking about it or seems to know that it exists. I don't understand how this wasn't considered child exploitation material, especially the photo of the baby.
She probably would like it because she clearly has a problem. I hope her kids can get taken away from her because there is WAY too much proof of her being weird with minors, incest, etc., way more proof than even most people who abuse their kids because she just can't help herself and let's it escape on the internet. She knew the KIDS she was talking to could easily save the conversation, she just didn't care. People who don't care and so brazen are beyond help, because they are not even admitting what they did was wrong. Of course I would never want anyone to hide it (I know how it feels coming from others and a family member), but damn she's just to apparent with it. Most people try to hide it, and with what she has shown, imagine all that she has succeeded at hiding? It makes me sick.
I think the whole “I’m a loser I have no friends” thing is a tactic of groomers to gain sympathy, James Charles did the exact same thing when he was called out.
Yeah, I think people would prefer to be seen as "cringe losers" than actual sexual predators. I understand why'd they try to do that as a last ditch effort to save their career... but it's clear that they think their audience is fucking dumb if they think they can pull off something like this
"Im not a pedo, i was just desparte" yeah so are nonces mate, you can be both
@@juste.une.mouche I think it’s more that young kids will go “aww 😢 James Charles is sad because he can’t get a bf” and it endears James to them because they pity him
Ive never been a fan of her content but learning about her long running Uncle incest bit she has kept up as Miranda is truly disturbing. Aside from all of the other disturbing behaviors and allegations against her, the fact that she has repeatedly normalized CSA throughout her entire career in such a blatant and open manner to a child audience no less literally makes me feel sick to my stomach. I don't know how nothing was ever done about her before now.
I hate realizing how much me and my friends were groomed as kids on the internet by adults who made us feel special and more mature than the rest of the kids who didn't understand us.
Sick.
As a child, I used to consume her content and books and now I realised how messed up there were and how creepy she was 😳
Bro same
i think me and my friends were around 7-8 when we were fans of her 😟
Me too.
Her humor in the book is like that of a cruel bully laughing at miranda's innocence. Miranda the character is kind of innocent and has a traumatic childhood, but the horrible thing here is the point of view. It forces the reader to become that cruel bully that laughs at this poor child for being so clueless.
and miranda isn't even supposed to be a child character, she's supposed to be a grown 39 year old woman, which imo might make it even worse
Dang you nailed it. I really never thought about it like that but you’re totally right and I guess that’s why it was such an easy way for her to make a joke out of sexual predation and have it looked over…
@@MaxGreen111how do you not see that part that's the whole joke part that the little girl doesn't know anything just like in the old fred shit it was all glossed over because people actually had spines back then "anyone can be a youtuber" is a saying no one can say anymore because any joke that was funny back then is now "offensive" the transphobic jokes were counted as funny back then (still are in my opinion)
that's so true, and it's why so many of the jokes aren't funny to people with empathy
Oh shoot, I can see that
I'm not a fan of Miranda Sings. A roommate in college showed it to me, and I was just incredibly confused. I'm wondering if the creator of this character (I forget her name) has repressed abuse trauma and/or grew up in a home with a lot of toxic masculinity. It baffles me, this book, and I would never show it or this creator to my children... My oldest child was watching a Minecraft video the other night, and there was a BDSM scene in it! Parents today have to be so insanely on top of everything, and having conversations with kids, to counteract the effects of these inappropriate things. Creators are flawed humans, but the fact that no one on her creative team really fought her on some of these choices just baffles me...
i got this book in the third grade, and like every 8 year old i just thought she was funny. i remember bringing the book to my class and doing the first day quiz with my friends for fun, and if you got the lowest amount of points the book called you a slut. so being 8 and not knowing what that word meant, you can imagine my teachers shock at hearing me throw around such an offensive word at only 8 years old 😭😭 yeahh looking back that was a weird ass book
There is a pretty effective Lesbian/Lebanese joke in The Golden Girls - I feel like Colleen on the other hand does not…understand jokes? It’s like she never really matured. And don’t even get me started on her treatment of cats, it is absolutely horrifying. Thank you for these TH-camr book reviews, if I ever write one I will absolutely know what not to do. ;)
I love that joke so much! I love the adjacent Vine version Lesbian/ I thought you were American
i think the joke also shows up in mean girls
Or Bend It Like Beckham’s “I thought she was a Pisces!”
This is completely off topic. But when I was a kid I didn't know what the word lesbian meant and I often mixed up the two words "zombie" and "lesbian". I have no idea why but in my pea brain those two words sounded similar.
My dad introduced me to the one of the very first zombie movies, night of the living dead (I think? The one with one of the first interracial couples) and apparently for days afterwards my parents said I kept talking about lesbians. They got a huge kick out of it LOL. Asking if lesbians really came out at night etc.
As an adult I am part of the LGBT community so this is in no way meant to disparage anyone, only to say I was a dumb kid.
Also I would never intertwine those two words as an adult who knows better, even as a joke, the community gets enough disrespect.
@@pandamandimaxHAHAHHA that’s actually hilarious lol. the fact that ‘do lesbians come out at night’ can be an actual sentence that makes sense 😭
In 6th grade my friends were super into Miranda Sings (I didn't watch her but I used the "Miranda Sings voice" to make them laugh, which is horribly unfunny in hindsight) and one day one of them bought Selp-Helf, and brought it to school. We all huddled in the back of the classroom reading through the pages for the first time, and when it got to the menstruation section the owner of the book blushed and slammed the book closed. A couple of the moms found out what we had been reading, and the owner of the book got into huge trouble for reading such an inappropriate book. At the time we saw it as this huge injustice, of adults "not getting it", but looking back on it, yeah we shouldn't have been reading that.
And that’s the problem. She allows children to consume her content when they are not at all mature enough to realize what’s wrong with it. I was also in 6th grade during the whole Miranda Sings thing (I recall her cover of Uptown Funk coming out at the time). Too many of my classmates did not realize how inappropriate she was.
Children wetting themselves could be a sign of SA. Potentially UTI.
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Aww that kid shouldn’t have gotten in trouble. It is literally designed to look like it is for kids. It’s disgustingly marketed towards underage fans, so it’s not their fault if they bought it to read it. It’s the fucking people that made it and sold it that should be in trouble 🤢 they knew exactly what they were doing
Awkward
I was in middle school when she was at her peak popularity. (I’m in college now, crazy right?) I thought she was hilarious and asked my parents to get “Selp Helf” for me. When I read it, it bothered me, especially the weird incest humor and bizarro character humor regarding sexuality. Honestly, I brushed past it and tried to convince myself that this was just some sort of edgy but acceptable humor. Looking back though… absolutely not. I can imagine pretty easily that some kids who weren’t as lucky as I was would could have their ideas of a normal relationship be very damaged by this humor, and easily set up to be hurt.
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She should have been canceled the second she said she murdered her dog. Wtf. 🤦♀️😬
Technically she didn't say she murdered it but she was clearly responsible for the death
I remember bringing this book into school when I was like 11, and I was showing to one of the after school care teachers and she was so shocked that the word slut was in the book. At the time I felt embarrassed, now I feel embarrassed and disgusted. I remember Colleen teaching us “cuddling” positions and other creepy stuff. It sorta feels like I was groomed by her via her book.
parasocial grooming is a term I heard being used to describe what she did
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WHAT?? How were sexual positions allowed into a children's book?
As a person working with kids in an Elementary school, who has had tons of abuse/neglect/questionable training. The book as you describe up until the 18-minute mark is mostly pre-grooming types of behavior which include vaguely inappropriate comments or topics, and engaging in "naughty" topics to see if the receiver is open to questionable ideas or behaviors. This is how a predator finds out which child is vulnerable. It is, in fact, something that I as a Paraeducator have been taught to watch out for as a pattern in the other adults with whom I work. Predators do end up in many positions associated with children so they can have access to their prey. It is incredibly disturbing to see this book being put out by a major company. I am aware of some of the controversy surrounding the author and this makes me think the author is definitely a danger to vulnerable children and young adults. Thank you for doing this...I bailed at the 18-minute mark...deal with abuse and neglect of children in real life...
so true. behavior like this is genuinely dangerous to normalize
It is disturbing to be sure. At the very least she has the sense of humour of a disturbed 9 year old. At the worst she is a child sexual abuser
Honestly. I didn't even start the video. I try to stay FAAARRRRR away from these topics because I lived too close to them. This kind of stuff went on in my house, it went on in my close extended family, my parents have stories about crap like that going on over GENERATIONS on one side of my family, and even today as an adult we've had an uncle AND another cousin (unrelated to the afore mentioned lot) go to jail for such things.
I've had family sleepovers where at 10 I would wear a belt and jeans to bed to be "less easy access" not realizing that my cousin next to me had actually been a victim already. I KNEW what was going on, and IDK how I made it out of that shit untouched.
This Coleen shit has been a roller coaster ride and the best thing she could have done for herself is NOT put out that stupid apology song. At first I was like "Ok, she was inappropriately talking about personal issues to children. Creepy for sure... over the line potentially... hmm..." then I find out about Miranda Sings and I was like "Gosh I hope this isn't one of those youtubers that sings in cartoon character impressions? :C ", then I started learning about the character and was like "..... so this is obviously an adult channel right? This is dark humor aimed at adults? And parents just weren't paying attention to--" BUT NO IT'S FOR KIDS?!?!? DID NOBODY LOOK AT IT BEFORE GREEN LIGHTING IT?!?! I've only seen couple second clips and I won't watch any more than that. Even if it were adult aimed dark-humor I've got a low tolerance but knowing that crap was being MARKETED TO KIDS. No. It takes me to a dark place I don't want to be... and that's just me being close to it... not actually a victim of it...
She's sick. She's not well. It's not a joke. It's not funny. And to think that was appropriate for kids or teens is just insane.
As someone in a behavioral position at a elementary school I second your comment. Something is definitely wrong here.
I watched Miranda religiously when I was like 15. I legitimately became afraid that using tampons made you lose your virginity (especially cause I grew up religious) and I ended up panicking to my mom asking if I was "impure" for using tampons.
I cannot believe I never noticed how HORRIFICALLY inappropriate and nasty Colleen/her character is. YIKES.
My mum got me this for Christmas at 14, she or I didnt watch YT at the time and didn't know who Miranda was.
I was so embarrassed by it, i didnt even tell my mum what was in it I was so embarrassed. That book was left under my bed for the longest time.
I really did feel so weirded out by it.
If you still have it, please burn it for all of us
@@LeeLuvid it was thrown out after enough time had passed that i wouldnt feel guilty for putting a gift out 😂
Feels extra righteous is hindsight.
At this point I'm actually scared about what Colleen might have gone through as a child / teenager.
Yeah she needs to get off TH-cam and seek legitimate help
Yeah she really didn't deserve what she probably went through, no one does. Obviously it doesn't excuse her behaviour today as she's a fully grown woman
@@LadyMacaroonCharacterActress I've been wondering to what extent she's actually cognizant of her (possible) trauma, and how much of it is unconscious and she's acting it out in these disturbing ways. She's been open about her dermatillomania, which is a self-harming behaviour; and animal cruelty is also common in children that have been abused. She has been in therapy, but from what I've seen in her vlogs, ADHD was being used to explain a lot of her symptoms, like said dermatillomania. I can't help but feel there are other things at play, aside from ADHD and postpartum depression.
@@LadyMacaroonCharacterActress theres also a clip out there of colleen at one of her shows and she admits on stage that miranda is based off of her.
this yes!!!
Colleen admitted to Stephen Colbert that what Miranda says or does is exactly what she thinks but isnt socially acceptable. Im guessing she is just using this character to say what usually would reprehensible but she really believes.
so this is how i find out she’s been on colbert???💀 wtf
I agree. Through the creation of the Miranda persona, she compartmentalizes the inappropriate and predatory behavior. Convinced herself she’s not responsible for what her character does or says.
This reminds of a russian children book I read and loved as a kid.
It's written by Grigory Oster - famous and beloved kids book writer - and its name would be something like "Bad Advices: a book for naughty children and their parents". Basically, it's a satire on a nature of unruly kids that would, if told any good advice, do it absolutely backwards. So it contains many various funny rhymes encouraging those kids to do everything from making a soup out of mum's perfume and dad's shoes to breaking the lightbulbs to save on electric bills.
The nature of modern kids' entertainment is that, once in a while, somebody re-invents that book. But instead of making it clearly satirical or funny, they make it absolutely disgusting and tell every advice with the sraightest face imaginable. People just refuse to consider what made them laugh as children and go "well kids nowadays love gross humor, so let's just pack this media full of it, that would be so clever and hilarious and there would be no need for actual comedy or good writing" and that is insane to me.
It is insane how there are good children books out there, but this garbage is what takes the spotlight.
OMG AS A RUSSIAN I LOVE THAT BOOK SO MUCH GRIGORIY OSTER HAS ANOTHER STORY WHICH IS CALLED «Легенды переулка Лаврова» ITS ALSO SO FUNNY AND COOL though it’s not similar to Bad Advices
This is the first video I’ve seen of yours. Totally off topic but I love the octopus plushie behind you! Your entire background is really nice:)
The creepy uncle bits are so disturbing to me. There’s videos where she mentions him as well. She was trauma dumping to literal children.
Just because some one jokes about something doesn't mean they've been through it
colleen gives me the same vibes as dan schneider shows. like i was uncomfortable by certain things as a kid but thought i must be dumb for feeling uncomfortable and tried to just laugh it off like everyone else. but then we all grew up and realized all of us were uncomfortable about the same things.
ok as i was typing this you showed the clip of her talking about the dog she physically attacked, lied about it biting for no reason, and laughing about it being put down. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK how was she not cancelled for that alone???
this comment is all over the place sorry but my mind is just blown by this woman. i knew almost nothing about her 3 days ago and i can't believe how deep her insanity goes.
Agreed with the Dan Schneider comparisons. Istg society needs to do a better job of monitoring this bs.
The dog thing, the way that she did the storytime is horrible, the actual event happened when she was 3, so at that age with her self described anger issues it is more why did her parents leave her alone with the dog.
@@amandamandamands oh wow ok her being 3 is definitely important context that i missed lol that's definitely less bad but still odd behavior for a child.
@@Dave102693 yes! and it's crazy that gen z is calling these creeps out the most like where were the adults 10 years ago…?
@@catie7466 beinh groomed by cable tv and the early internet
I'd like to know how the children's publishers actually let this book get released.
About the "buy another copy" part. You just KNOW she did it to get kids to by more of her books. When I was a child, someone gifted to me The Little Prince and on it's back was written something like "this book is not for children (...)" clearly meaning that it had existential themes that could be enjoyed by adults. But being the literal literal kid I was, I refused to read it until I was a teenager because I actually thought it was an actual warning for children not yo read it.
Kids may get things literal and not understand a joke or undertone. Such (consumerist and sexual) predatory content should NEVER be in a kids book.
the only thing i’ve ever groomed is my two persian cats
-colleen
in a post shane dawson world we can’t really joke about grooming cats
-adam mcintyre
That line by Adam is literal perfection
"context matters!!1!1!!1!1!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" - also colleen
She meant brushing, but it still doesn't make it OK.
@@Alice-inkyyuh groomin means brushing same word same thing tomatoe tomato , she's still weird
That clip about her dog really broke my heart and made me angry. I've had to put dogs down before (because they were sick/dying) and it's the hardest thing I've ever had to do. To watch/hear Colleen just play it off as some kind of funny anecdote, I can't put into words how disturbed I was.
that was truly truly disturbing, i could never imagine ever doing that to my precious puppy. it just shows how messed up she is as a person. she needs serious mental help
I’m absolutely disgusted and horrified by her “funny anecdote”
That literally made me want to vomit
I have horrible anger issues too, for me I scream or throw things and kick when I need to get it out. But I would NEVER even consider taking that aggression out on a living being. Who the hell does that and thinks it’s funny smh
R. I. P to all those Puppers 😢💔
As someone who was sexually assaulted for many years of my life, if I had gotten this as a kid, I probably would have cried reading it or just felt extremely uncomfortable. It's insane how she thinks this is normal or acceptable, especially when some children are particularly sensitive to some of these topics due to experience. Disgusting.
Edit: I got to the part of the uncle position. I was assaulted like that, so I definitely would have cried reading it or never wanted to look at it again.