Colleen Ballinger “Grooming” Backlash Leads to Canceled Tour and Podcast

The recent allegations against YouTuber Colleen Ballinger have cost her the rest of her tour and a podcast with fellow YouTuber and media personality Trisha Paytas.

According to NBC News, Ballinger’s tour as Miranda Sings, her comedic alter ego, was set to stop in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Durham, North Carolina; Omaha, Nebraska; and St. Louis, Missouri. All of the stops have now been cancelled.

While some of the theaters hosting her declined comment to NBC, others, such as the Sheldon in St. Louis, issued an addendum on the ticket listing on their website, writing that the show was canceled “due to unforeseen circumstances.”

Ballinger and Paytas’ podcast Oversharing launched its first episode on May 23, and its third and final episode was released June 6.

Paytas announced the end of the podcast in a YouTube video on Sunday (July 9) entitled “this is embarrassing.” In the video, Paytas said, “When I say I’ve never wanted a chapter in my life to be over faster than this, even though it was a really small chapter, I mean it.”

“I didn’t know I was so triggered,” she continued, explaining how the allegations against Ballinger “personally disturbed” her; Paytas experienced inappropriate relationships with teachers and older figures whom she trusted in her youth.

Paytas also posted a video last Monday (July 3) entitled “colleen,” ripping into Ballinger for sharing NSFW photos and videos from Paytas’ OnlyFans account with a former fan, per E News. Acknowledging that over the past few years she has “really taken a step back from having to comment on everything” said about her online, Paytas explained that she “think[s] using someone’s nudes as a way to hurt them, make fun of them, make light of them, be mean, is the lowest form of human.”

“I think that’s so inhumane, I think that’s so disgusting for anyone,” she said.

Ballinger has come under fire in the last few weeks for allegedly fostering inappropriate relationships with her younger fans. She recently responded to the allegations with a ten-minute song, which only resulted in further scrutiny.

A video also recently resurfaced of her performing Beyoncé’’s “Single Ladies” in what many believe to be Blackface, but what some have argued to be green face make-up. Nonetheless, the news only added more fuel to the fire.

You can watch Paytas’ most recent YouTube video above.