Colleen Ballinger: The Tragedy of Cancel Culture Strikes Again

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Colleen Ballinger (AKA Miranda Sings) has been the latest target of cancel culture and her case serves as yet another Rorschach test of whether your moral compass has turned against her crimes or the way she’s been regurgitated and spit out by an internet mob mentality.

For those who don’t know, Ballinger was recently accused by a teen of being groomed but he also accused her of free labor for her running her Twitter feed. She also sent her underwear. Ballinger’s defense is that she interacted a lot with her fans in her early days and got jokey. The underwear was a joke.

Now if this is true, this is an optics situation: Not a situation with an actual child predator. Now, let’s compare the current climate to how celebrities acted years ago. As recently as ten years ago, celebrities would sleep with fans and that was a societal practice that was near universally accepted. Ballinger never did that.

It’s important to note that, because a vast majority of cancel culture victims are straight men, it’s easy to assume that this is a defense of men, or that the #notallmen hashtag is what those of us are really after who want to fight against cancel…