The whole Colleen Balinger ukulele apology thing is so funny to me. Literally, I would never even know she existed if it wasn't for that video. If people weren't making parodies and edits, I would never know about her behavior. If she kept her mouth shut, most people would have no idea. But she had to make a stupid self important video "apologizing" that now the whole internet knows about. Like, you could not have fucked up more.
I am FASCINATED by the Colleen Ballinger apology from a public relations perspective. I knew about the allegations for like a week now? And the general reaction was a mix of we need to boost this and oh another YouTube groomer to add to the pile.
But since the video came out it just fucking exploded. Everyone knows about it and everyone wants to talk about it because there is nothing the internet likes more than a bad apology video. People who didn't know about the drama, hadn't thought about her in years and people who never even knew who she was now ALL know about her.
The woman dropped a fucking atom bomb on her reputation. And what baffles me more is that she's ALREADY DONE AN APOLOGY VIDEO FOR THE GROOMING THAT GOT EVERYONE OFF HER BACK AND TARGETED A TON OF HARASSMENT AT HER VICTIMS. From a PR perspective she already did this right, and then she decides to completely ignore her PR people and drop the worst apology video the world has ever seen.
Bad apology videos never leave the internet brain. Never. Do you know how often I think about Logan paul? As little as humanly possible. But that thumbnail is plastered in my brain for all fucking time and I say "I have made a severe and continuous lapse of judgement" constantly. People do nostalgic reflections on the worst of the worst of those things and she just sailed right to the top of that list.
What the fuck was she thinking? I hope her entire pr team left her because she's a completely lost cause. She might genuinely have to do an apology video for the apology video. Insane
STOP I JUST WATCHED COLLEEN BALLINGERS UKULELE 'APOLOGY' I CANT STOP LAUGHING, WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST WATCH.. SHE HAS PEOPLE (WITH PROOF) TALKING ABOUT HOW SHES A HUGE CREEP AND STUFF AND SHE PULLS OUT A FUCKING UKULELE AND STARTS SINGING?? THIS HAS TO BE A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. THIS CANT BE REAL KSJHSKFHSKHJ
I LOVE COOPER FOR THIS BTW <3