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YouTube’s worst apology: unpacking Colleen Ballinger

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Colleen's Grooming Allegation

Adam McIntyre, who was kind of the person who rang the alarm originally, he posted some allegations of grooming and exploitation that he says happened when he was a minor. He's now alleging that she was grooming him. She was sending explicit messages to these people. The screenshots that I have seen have been in the case of like, she was trying to get content maybe. Her mistake there was that she thought that what she was saying was perfectly okay but she just forgot or didn't realize it actually really wasn't.

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