Welp, that's DeOrio in the shitter. It's 'genderqueer' today and 'it's ma'am' tomorrow.
I'll defend Adam McIntyre a little bit - content vulture he might be and lesbian toupee store mannequin he may look like, but it wasn't just him and it wasn't just Colleen Ballinger, there seem to have also been
several members of her friends and family that were talking to underage fans in ways that were clearly inappropriate even out of context. None of them might be pedophiles, but they did seem to think that it was normal to have extremely candid para-social relationships with her underage fans.
Part of the reason this story blew up so disproportionally is because quite a few of these idiots have a
really generous definition of 'trauma', but there are some more damning examples.
Colleen apparently showed them Trisha Paytas' porn despite them being friends, doing irreparable damage to the reputations of pig-women engaged in sex work everywhere.
There was also an intensely cringeworthy voice memo left in a group chat of minors by her friend and frequent collaborator, Kory Desoto, where he love-bombs and characterizes them as his emotional support and only friends. Kory has since DFE'd, Adam noting he manually purged his Twitter.
Reddit thread with Adam reacting to the recording
This isn't the first time either. Here's 'based' Colleen apologizing for perpetuating racist stereotypes (bad luck, Null) and oversharing her private life with fans three years ago.
Archive
Even setting aside her Miranda Sings persona and that a lot of these former fans are pathetic jellyfish who'd be driven to suicide by a stiff breeze, the sheer number of these anecdotes combined with Ballinger's own past admissions at a minimum indicates she and her friends should at least explore transitioning away from children's entertainment.