ICYMI: Was the MirandaSings Controversy Inevitable?

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🗓️ 17 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim are joined by Franchesca Ramsey, a television writer and producer, comedian, and former vlogger whose videos have amassed more than 30 million views on YouTube. The trio dive deep into the current controversy engulfing Colleen Ballinger, better known as her alter ego MirandaSings. In recent weeks, Ballinger has come under fire for the allegedly inappropriate communications she’s had with minor fans throughout her years long career. Ramsey, Hampton and Lim discuss how one of her accusers–YouTuber Adam McIntyre–has been sounding the alarm since 2020 when he was largely ignored, if not outright vilified, by the MirandaSings fandom. This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton. This Pride Month, make an impact by helping Macy’s and The Trevor Project on their mission to fund life-saving suicide prevention services for LGBTQ youth. Go to macys.com/purpose to learn more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, before this show begins, we wanted to ask for you, the listeners, to help
0:26.8	us out with something.
0:27.8	I'm working on this episode about Queer Love and the Internet for Pride Month.
0:31.5	If you have met a partner at any time in your life on the Internet, it doesn't have to
0:35.9	be a dating app, it can be through fandom, or neopets forums, or even on a BBS, if you
0:43.8	know what that is, hello, take your methamusel.
0:47.9	But can you do us a favor and record a short voice memo telling us all about your love story
0:53.9	and email it to us at icymi at slate.com.
0:57.7	We're hoping the episode will go up at the end of June or so, so the sooner the better.
1:27.7	So I heard through the grapevine that you went to a little of it in 2016, famously a bad
1:57.0	year for everyone, and this event was called VidCon, I'm familiar with VidCon, but for
2:04.6	those who are not, what is a VidCon, who is a VidCon, where is a VidCon?
2:11.6	VidCon is this annual YouTube conference, it's held in Anaheim in SoCal, and it was started
2:18.5	by the vlog brothers, so this is Hank and John Green.
2:22.2	And I was there in 2016, because I was an intern for the Hollywood Reporter, and I was there
2:26.5	for like coverage and roundups and stuff like that.
2:29.2	What was the vibe that year, who, who was there?
2:32.6	Yeah, you know, I remember the biggest story coming out of VidCon, it was that Dwayne,
2:39.2	the rock Johnson was going to start a YouTube channel, like that was it, that was the tweet.
2:44.6	I honestly now want to know what's on that channel, what, what did they post?
2:50.9	What was the rock cooking up for us on this YouTube channel?
2:54.9	It gets more YouTube-y, I remember the schedule also having stuff like Marcus Butler,
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