Colleen Ballinger is now further monetizing on her 10-minute ukulele song addressing grooming allegations, putting it up on streaming platforms

Colleen Ballinger is now further monetizing on her 10-minute ukulele song addressing grooming allegations, putting it up on streaming platforms.

The song featured in one of Colleen’s blogs, titled “hi”, where she strongly denied allegations of grooming and making fans feel uncomfortable during events.

The video, which saw her sing about “manipulation station”, was widely ridiculed for mocking the allegations and making light of a very serious situation.

Following the report, as old videos supposedly showcasing Ballinger as her Miranda Sings character being similarly inappropriate — and making racially insensitive jokes — began to resurface, much of the internet was all aboard the toxic gossip train.

As opposed to the typical hour-long, tearful apology video that’s come to be expected of cancelled YouTubers, Ballinger pulled out a ukelele and sang through her side of the story. In ten minutes, she admits to talking to fans in group chats, though she denies that it was ever sexual. The very millennial apology also suggested accusers were spreading “lies and rumours” for clout.

Now that the apology has been dragged across the internet and analyzed in countless other videos, Ballinger has seemingly uploaded the track to Apple Music and is claiming copyright on it. Because of this, she now has the power to take down response videos that use the song — as YouTube rules state that creators can’t use content “that someone else owns the copyright to, such as music tracks.”

Popular YouTuber Ethan Klein, also known as H3H3, posted the news to Twitter, with screenshots showing that the song has been uploaded to the CD Baby music streaming site. The song also has a dedicated page on the Genius lyrics site.