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Jojo "Colleen is not a groomer, I've known her since i was 12 years old" ...

I wish Jojo would just sneak away to a foreign country, go to college with people her own age, and not contact anyone she knew from childhood from a few months. I think it would give her a VAST amount of perspective.

JoJo has been groomed since the minute she stepped foot on dance moms. I feel like people need to talk more about that in this whole thing

Also if she was groomed, she may honestly not aware of the abuse. Unfortunately, abuse is sneaky and involves brainwashing.

As a disabled person, id LOVE to hear what Jojo thinks miranda sings did for the internet other than ableism in shit lipstick. Id really love to hear how the hell miranda sings was positive in literally ANY way

the moment a kid starts to think "i'm suuuuuper mature for my age/i feel like an adult in a kid's body" that's a BIG red flag for grooming.

Unhealthy relationships between kids and adults can be so insidious. They can make you feel an obligation to defend the adult and downplay their actions.

How Jojo's parents were ok with this grown ass woman talking about porn and vaginas in a video with their 12-13 yo is beyond my level of understanding.

I honestly don’t care what JoJo says, Colleen being friends with her AT ALL, is WEIRD. Why would Colleen be friends with a minor period. That’s not okay.

I was groomed at age 15, I am now 26 years old and have only just started realising how serious the situation I was in actually was. I definitely think Jojo was groomed, and I think because she is still surrounded with these people, she does not realise. I hope Jojo can see the truth soon

I believe Jojo was groomed multiple times in her life. Being a child star, constantly in the spotlight and being on Dance Moms, a show with lots of controversy for a lot of reasons, and having to collaborate with big influencers so young, it’s very likely that she’d have a messy relationship with adults around her. I feel bad for her, but I think Jojo is getting to an age where she should be starting to realize how messed up this stuff is. I don’t hate Jojo, but it’s so frustrating and sad that she’s going along with this.

Rachel is much closer to jojo than colleen, they hang out without colleen ALOT. Not excusing colleen, just giving rachel the spotlight she deserves for her wierd behavior

People like to say Colleen’s “grooming” isn’t S/ual, because they compare her grooming style to the usual grooming we see from *men*. Women predators get away with a lot of S abuse due specifically to people assuming women abuse the same way as men. Often, it’s sneakier, less obvious, or completely ignored because they are women. Her obsession with talking to young girls about their periods, pro-ED bodies, virginity all scream CSP to me. But because she’s a woman, and not doing what male predators do, it’s pushed aside as not s. But most of my abusers were women, and a lot of them were and talked exactly like Colleen. Just because she’s not physically assaulting them, does not mean she doesn’t get some sort of personal physical gratification from seeing young kids talk like this.

It doesn’t matter if there *aren’t any sinister intentions with Rachel and Jojo. The fact that she’s making inappropriate conversations normal for Jojo is part of the definition of grooming.

To have an entire "circle of friends" who were adults is inappropriate enough, *but* it is worse. All of them *especially Colleen* created content with JoJo that was *all* sexual innuendo. Colleen and her ridiculous character Miranda was nothing but sexual innuendo, race baiting, elitist, ableist, ageist content. And that was kicked into high gear with JoJo. It's like she thought all of her sexual innuendo was definitely funny if it was directed toward children. I was never - in real time - familiar with Colleen or the Miranda character but after becoming more familiar with it, I honestly don't know how this was ever successful. First... it was just dumb and *embarrassingly UNfunny* . But also, there was not ever one parent who was like ... _hmmm she seems like a nice enough woman but I am not comfortable with this kind of sexual exchange she is having with my child_ Really? There was never any question? This definitely shows how *easy* is it for a woman to be a groomer and/or to be sexually inappropriate with children, and in general, the ease with which we excuse "celebrity" misbehavior.

Jojo saying Colleen isn’t a groomer because she’s known her since she was twelve is the WILDEST argument

I do believe that young adults can be friends with teenagers without being inappropriate. I think it can be beneficial to teenagers without older siblings specifically to find friends among older people. However, colleens approach to her friendship with Jojo was absolutely not appropriate. And at one point Jojo will have to recognise that.

For my two cents, I think Jojo grew up in that warped child celebrity world that distorts their understanding of the world. Us that are grounded are looking at this from the outside and can see the bigger picture. From Jojo's perspective, she knows nothing different.

"27 year old in an 8 year old's body"... isn't this exactly what groomers like to convince their victims of?

My sister is 14 and I’m 28. I have ZERO in common with her and her friends beside the sibling relationship. I cannot imagine befriending any of my sisters friends because we are in such different points of our lives that there is zero common ground. Anyone who excuses colleen/Rachel or any other creepy ADULT who was besties with Jojo need to be held accountable. Jojo may not even realize that those relationships where not normal as she has never had any time to be away from that.

Honestly at 20, I had absolutely not processed the grooming I went through as a teen. I don’t think Jojo victim blaming is ok, but I also think that’s important to recognize that victims will defend their abusers when they are unable to process their own experience. Adam is incredible and brilliantly articulate, and his self insight at his age is something to be proud of, but I think a lot of 20 year olds who have been through a live like Jojo’s are going to be able to understand everything at that point as well as he is.

Jojo has been manipulated, brainwashed and used by so many adults that should have known better, it might take years but I hope she wakes up and realises how messed up these situations she was in.

This is REALLY reminding me of the Sia situation with Maddie Ziegler. I feel so bad for Jojo in that regard, and I hope she can one day understand that she has been brainwashed and essentially groomed as well. This isn't remotely okay or acceptable.

Rachel has been frustratingly left out of this controversy. Thank you for putting her in this.

I’ve been working since I was 8 and started off working as a child musician. My first music teacher was a covert version of Abby Lee Miller and my mother is an abusive narcissist on top of it so, as you can imagine, my early years were an absolute nightmare and living hell. The neglect from Jojo’s parents and the parentification of Jojo by the adults around her caused her to mature early no different than I experienced as a child. I 100% agree with everything you said in this video and honestly fear Jojo is at risk of becoming a groomer herself because of the people she associates with like James Charles, Colleen Ballinger, Shane Dawson, etc. Each of these people have displayed behavior that is predatory. She sees no problem with the behavior now as a result which is why I can see her becoming the very thing we are saying is bad right now. I hope she doesn’t, but it’s a concern.

i work with 14 year olds and i truly have nothing in common nor have any desire to and im only 23 i can understand if you're trying to be a mentor or a "big sister" figure but in those relationships you need to keep the child at an arms length because you know better than to get too close bc kids don't have boundaries you need to set them for them

Adults behaving in a way that makes children comfortable with having inappropriate conversations with them is literal gr**ming. I hope JoJo sees the truth eventually

Jojos family absolutely failed to protect her from this monster.

Accidental paranormal activity caught on camera. Vangelina: Can you not?

I really think she's in a state of denial because once you acknowledge it she will have to confront the multiple inappropriate relationships she's had with adults which will be traumatizing. And she very well could be blocking out memories which is a common trauma response.

I think soon everyone will notice and wonder why we didn't see Rachels creepy behaviour with Jojo being right in front of our face. It always felt weird, a grown woman having a friendship like that

I think adults and kids can be friends and it shouldn't be that weird. But the adult shouldn't treat kids like adults and should also remember that they are adult themselves and they have to be responsible and mindful with their interactions with children. Jojo was clearly treated like an adult and it kinda feels some of these adults wanted to feel and act like teenagers themselves. Also I hate all competitive hobbies/"hobbies" children are put into and especially the truly creepy ones like pageantry and often dancing that sexualise children.

Colleen’s “friendship” with Jojo always kinda gave me the ick.The only thing I could think of is that they wanted to be “friends” with her for her fame….because honestly,I feel like that whole family wants to be famous….but now they’re infamous

I can't help but feel so much empathy for JoJo. She was sold to the entertainment industry as a toddler basically, forced into this weird exaggerated sparkley box even into her adulthood. A world trying to keep her a child forever, but forcing her to work and behave as an adult because it makes them money. It's easy to see why she latched onto the Ballinger's. They *look* like a perfect happy family, something she probably hasn't experienced much of. It sucks that they have been using her just like so many other people.

Honestly, there's a seventeen year difference here. I don't think we should give a full pass to Jojo for backing Colleen, but I will be very unsurprised to find Jojo realizing how much she was groomed years from now.

I understand that Jojo may have been groomed. My question to that is, at what point should people start holding her accountable for the people she protects, the things she says?

I do have *some* sympathy for JoJo. She’s still young and clearly all the adults around her have been taking advantage of her for her whole life. I think maybe accepting what Colleen has done wrong would mean reevaluating a lot of her relationships and realising some very troubling things about them. She’s obviously not ready to do that yet. But that sympathy ends where she dismisses the victims as liars.

Colleen was not FRIENDS with JoJo. I am a year older than Colleen and I know people who graduated the same year as me and have a child the age of JoJo Siwa. You CANNOT be friends with someone young enough to be your child. You can be friends with the parent and it’s your friends kid and you could even take your friends kid to the mall or for smoothies or whatever but it’s babysitting. I mean I babysat kids who are older than JoJo. Again, you CANNOT be friends with someone young enough to be your child. You can’t talk to them about your life or your issues or relationships. That is abusive.

For the longest time I thought Jojo and Colleen were relatives and that's why they hung out a lot and did videos despite the age gap...

The ghost of Colleen’s ukulele is haunting your lamp 😂 No but seriously, I wish JoJo had any self awareness to see that not only is her many relationships with 30-something year old KZfaqrs not right at all, but those adults do not have innocent intentions with her. They all have either used her for views, money, or to be a pawn in their war against their ex. Colleen did all three 🤦🏻‍♀️

Its not false allegations of black face just because it was dark green and not black paint. She had paint on her face and instead of taking it off when she switched her clothes, she left it on to sing the Beyonce song. She CHOSE to keep dark green face paint on while singing a black womans song. Thats still blackface.

I don't think that colleen has dirt on Jojo. I think Jojo has been looking up to her as a role model and a dear friend after Jojo got burned by her friends and rolemodels in her dacing carreer. Jojo had people in her life at a very young age who did more horrible things to her that she probably never noticed that what colleen did in those videos was inappropriate and she probably can't see it now bc that would mean that yet another friend and rolemodel let her down. And if colleen can't have let her down then obviously all those other people must have overreacted or played things up for views or what ever. Jojo needs to believe in colleens innocence.

25:49 the term “Brace yourselves” comes from the Middle Ages, you see, knights would wear these braces on their arms under their armor when going out to battle. So when knights were told to brace themselves, it meant that they needed go get suited up and ready for action

I think this probably boils down to if Jojo admits that it happened, she has to admit it happened to her

There are a lot of abusers in the entertainment industry. But there are also a lot of enablers. Enablers ally themselves with abusers, and they are a big part of how its all gotten so bad.

Thank you for being the only creator ai’ve seen cover this so far to recognize that, while an adult now, Jojo Siwa is just barely an adult and a victim herself in many ways in this. She may well look back on this in five or ten years and only then begin to realize the ways she has been exploited by creators and her own family. We have to meet victims where they are. Jojo just isn’t there yet.

The only reason I can think why Rachel reached out to JoJo is because JoJo can get her clout/money/fame/whatever.

Watching this, I feel like they're laughing every time something inappropriate is said. It feels icky

See I understand collabing with jojo cause she’s very famous? But to be FRIENDS and constantly hang out is so weird!!! I hope jojo realizes it soon.

About the paint thing, I personally feel that it was black face no matter what colour of paint she put on her face because why would she need to paint her face for a Beyoncé impression?

I turned on my PS5 which makes a noise, then coincidentally you started looking straight at my PS5 looking for a noise, this made me laugh.

Brace yourself is like tensing your body in preparation for an impact. I'm sure you've already googled this, but I like educating people about fun little phrases. Also, this distracts from this horrifying content.

my gosh colleen is literally a master groomer, jojo is like “i defend her because i dont want to be shut out for a year again” “she told me secrets about her marriage that stayed between us” “colleen says im mature for my age” these all sound so disgustingly familiar like theyre right from the groomer textbook

30:12 The toxic gossip ghost entered the chat

Re: things Jojo said as an adult, I don't know if it's completely fair to say "Jojo's an adult now, she should know better" if nothing in her life gave her the opportuntiy to learn that lesson. The real "should" here is she should've had a better upbringing and positive role models.

She is a child star so I kind of get why she seems to be trying to yank her own career

if shane can get in trouble for making genital jokes, colleen can get in trouble for them too :D

Hearing about Jojo’s mom makes me think about the stories told about my aunt and grandma. This was during the 70s where they lived at the time was Malibu, CA. My aunt would have been 9-10 in 1975, and she was left alone for photo shoots and on sets to be an extra. I don’t know if she was ever apart of a children show. However, she is apart of a case as one of the handful of girls that were sexually taken advantage of. From the pieces I have gathered, it was from then on that my grandmother called my aunt a bad daughter then a witch at age 15 and still that today. I do not know if that is the dynamic Jojo does or would have with her mother, but it does make me hurt that Jojo might never see how wrong this was for her like my aunt did

I hope people give her the empathy she deserves when she realizes what happened to her. And I do hope that if she was repeating and continuing the cycle of inappropriateness with her own fans she realizes how wrong it is and doesn't let it get this far

I definitely think everything JoJo said was fed to her by Colleen. I’m sure that’s what Colleen said to her behind the scenes & now we’re just hearing her repeat it. Very sad, I hope one day she realizes what’s happening..

I have 30 nieces and nephews, once they reach the age they get cell phones I get their numbers and they have mine and I check in with them from time to time. It also gives them a direct line to me if they ever need me or if there’s something they’re scared to tell their parents I’m another trusted adult. They are part of my family thorough, they aren’t children I call my friends. This is so strange.

And, the interview Jojo gave was worrisome to say the least. The misbehavior she was surrounded by was normalized from such a young age and I really don't think she is quite mature enough to understand how deeply inappropriate so many adults were with her. I hope what happened to Jojo didn't go past the her being so hypersexualized by Colleen (although that is certainly terrible enough on its own). At some point she is going to realize just how *wrong* the adults around her were but until then, I do wish she hadn't publicly spoken on it at all. She was obviously driven to take that too far. Regardless of anything else, it is terribly wrong of Jojo to disparage victims. I wouldn't be surprised at all if she is taking this public position at Colleen's urging, which if true, would mean Jojo is still being abused and exploited by Colleen.

As an autistic adult I always want to be on the side of the children who want to be friends with adults, then I realize that neuro typically children have nothing in common with adults, and feel the extreme uncomfortable situation with an adult being on the other side. Remember that children want to be as grown up as possible, and any healthy adult, neuro typical, or divergent knows that boundaries are essential for any relationship to occur. The boundaries comment in the infamous ukulele video infuriates me to no end.

15:28 just so you guys know, in the Spotify version of the podcast, Rachel does actually confirm that their "friendship-break" was because of Colleen's divorce

Here not because I have any interest in the topic, but I like listening to your voice and how you formulate opinions and edit your videos. Would love if u had a podcast!

See friendships like this in the workplace I feel is kind of normal when everyone has a strained relationship with their family. For example, I’m 20 and my friend is 17 but I feel like our friendship is like a sibling relationship. we want the best for one another and will always help each other but we’ll tease each other. I’ve never put her in a situation where her mental, physical or emotional well-being can be compromised. Ive also set boundaries where I do not talk about sex with her. With colleen, it’s weird because you know she doesn’t have boundaries and will expose these children to things they shouldn’t know. Now with her past being exposed, I feel extremely uncomfortable with the relationship she has with JoJo. At first I thought it was a coworker turned friendship but now it’s just plain weird.

Im sorry but im going to judge the people who dont recoil immediately at the idea of a grown ass woman being "friends" with a child the same way they would with a man in the same situation. It absolutely is not understandable at all that people would somehow think that's ok, but only because shes a woman. Because it comes from preconcieved internal biases that only men can be predators, which just isn't true. People need to let go of the idea that all women are safe and cant be predators, or because it "happens less frequently" (it doesn't, it just isnt reported as often as it is for male predators so you cant use statistics as smoking gun evidence of this claim) it somehow "isn't as bad" and is totally okay to immediately judge a man but give a woman the benefit of the doubt for doing the same thing.

Telling kids they act older than they are can be hella creepy and very problematic tbh. It gives the kid this false sense of maturity and makes them think that it’s okay participate in adult conversations and activities. It’s a tactic used by groomers to make the Child think there’s nothing wrong with being treated inappropriately for their age bc they “have the maturity of a 30 year old”. That’s simply just not true, ever. Kids can be mature but they are still children at the end of the day

I only recently realized I was groomed from 13-19. Im now about to be 22 in a week and having to cope with the fact that I was unaware of it and that I have to go through therapy and deprogramming as well. I have so many holes in my memory and have thoughts that I shouldn’t have. And my family is now aware as well in this past year. I feel so bad for JoJo. I hope she realizes in a non traumatizing way.

I will say this: I don't think it's healthy that nowadays we think it's categorically not okay for adults and children to be friends. It's a weird, relatively modern setup where even different age groups of adults have different spaces, and it would be much healthier if there was more interaction between generations. Not to mention that there are also cases and communities where children need that adult support because their parents are unable or unwilling to give it to them. (Also, the nuclear family is a construct, etc., but that's a whole other conversation.) That being said: yeah, a lot of those specific interactions are weird and inappropriate. 🤷

When I was 24, one of my best friends was 16. But she was like my pseudo little sister. She was very wise for her age and we actually had a lot of things in common. My husband had grown up next door to this person and felt as if she was also his little sister. We always looked out for her and always had her back- even when she had breakups. She would come to our house crying and we'd talk her through it. It didn't feel weird. It just felt like we were supporting a family member- a little sister. Her mom loved us...and still does love us to this day. Sadly, our friend passed away at the age of 27 from accidental drowning. But we are still in touch with her mom and actual sister, who ended up adopting her son when she drowned. I'm not defending anyone in this JoJo/Ballinger situation, I'm just saying that it is possible for adults to be friends with a child and for it to not be weird at all. I will say, however, we never asked her what her favorite position was or asked about her tampon useage or made her fish snacks out of our pants. THAT is weird and just gross.

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Omg! The way JoJo was super excited to get a call from Colleen and yearned for a “friendship” again. Example of grooming: she has a strong hold over JoJo - a child AND the entire family. So ducking twisted.

Im pretty sure Lucas Cruikshank tried to do a collab with Jojo but it was SO AWKWARD (probably due to the age difference among other things) he and she never released their videos.

21:35 omfg?? Imagine if this was two guys sitting on a bed while a literal child is mad about being referred to as a child, and they joke about 'cuddling when she's 18'. Jesus Christ.

I’m not the parent of a famous KZfaqr, but I am a parent, and it’s a downright shame how so many parents of child celebrities sell their children’s childhood innocence for fame, clout, and/or money. I would NEVER under any circumstances allow my child to interact privately with an adult I do not know on a personal level. My child doesn’t even do sleepovers unless it’s with family or close family friends. I understand KZfaq is a different kind of work environment. Most people film from their homes, so doing collabs is awkward already. But everybody has an image to uphold as well, so why wouldn’t you be there to watch what your CHILD is filming? When my child started to watch KZfaq, I watched with her. All her friends were watching JoJo and so I watched some videos first. JoJo’s content was not what I would deem child appropriate although she was a child herself. And I just couldn’t believe her mother thought these videos were okay to post on the internet. None of these children were protected and kept safe. None of Colleen’s victims, including JoJo, were protected by her, her family and associates, or their parents. Sure JoJo may be 20 now, but she’s still too young to understand how all the adults in her life failed her, how they were not her friends, how they should have protected her, how they used her for clout and likes. This doesn’t absolve her, but it explains how and why she would defend someone as vile as Colleen.

"Oh I did not like that... eugh" is completely unrelated to the story and yet sums it up perfectly

Rachel is so cringe. She needs a reality check. Why is she so friendly and inappropriate with a literal child?

I feel like Colleen manipulated Jojo, there's something that happened behind the scenes we don't know, probably a lot of love bombing.

The worst part about Jojo's statement is that kids who idolize her will see that and not know what to look out for in an abuser because they won't use Colleen as an example. One can only hope that parents will be there to tell their kids to disregard what Jojo is saying. Will that upset them being told not to listen to their idol? Maybe, but I'd rather they know the truth and be able to protect themselves as much as one can instead of thinking that Colleen is 1% in the right!

I was stupid enough to hang out with a coworker who was in her 40s while I was in my mid-20s. It's a loneliness/clinginess thing. I'm used to hanging out with older people in general, so I didn't find it weird, but it became annoying when she wanted to hang out ALL THE TIME!!! At one point, she randomly brought up that her husband was upset about us hanging out, so I seriously told her that we should take a break and she should spend time with her family and friends. She immediately said, "No! No! I don't have anyone else to hang out with!" She got very clingy, whiny, and toxic to the point where I, in my 20s, felt like I was dealing with a child. I had been hanging out with five different people, plus my immediate family, while keeping myself occupied in my spare time, while she in her 40s, married with kids, only had me to hang out with? Around the time I officially ended our "friendship," she befriended a little girl 18 or 19 years old, and they started a dramatic incident around me.

Jojo's mother should be in jail. Imagine dropping a teenage girl off, alone, to go to a bedroom with two grown men. She didn't even know if anyone else was in the house. She didn't even ask. Trisha has said basically the same thing (that Jojo's mom was nowhere to be found when they filmed their collab), and Colleen has mentioned the same thing. Is it any wonder that Jojo has no idea how badly she's been mistreated when her own mother doesn't care enough to do the bare minimum and be present? Cannot imagine dropping my kid off to make money for me like dropping them off at school. Jesus.

Oh I agree with you wholeheartedly. The relationship Jojo has had with other adults is and was inappropriate. Her parents were not there for her and unfortunately Jojo raised herself. I applaud her for that but it is rough upbringing (from experience). @VangelinaSkov if any abuse happened while she was under the influence of Colleen or Rachel etc, I don't think we will ever know. I think that Jojo would have a hard time admitting to herself that it was inappropriate and has compartmentalized it. Even though I'm not a fan of Jojo Siwa (i'm an adult...why would I be) I do hope she finds a balance in her life where she can still be young and free but remember that she's an adult. When you've grown up as a child/adult your actual adulthood can be confusing. You learn relationship dynamics later than most but mature while still allowing yourself to remember the inner child or can even go the opposite end of the spectrum and be a toxic individual who never grows up. I hope for Jojo's sake its the former rather than the latter.

It's so bizarre. My partner and I (both 33) run a Warhammer gaming group. We meet once a week, as well as once a month on a Saturday. We have two 14-year-old boys and a 17-year-old girl who come along, as well as some adults. We like hanging out with them, we get along with them, have a good time, have some laughs. BUT I cannot imagine hanging out with them outside of our hobby group. We have a Facebook group with 30 people, and the kids are a part of that. We'll all post pictures of our miniatures, and we'll comment on each other's pictures. Any chats are limited to discussing the upcoming meet-ups, seeing who's coming, who's bringing what. My partner and I have talked about how we have no interest in developing real relationships with these kids (because that's what they are, KIDS). They're our gaming buddies, but that's it. We hang out, we play Warhammer, we paint. But we don't talk about the serious details of our lives, we don't talk about our relationship, we don't even talk about difficult or negative things in the world because we want this group to be a safe place where these kids can be kids, with no pressure to be grown up. And if you're an adult, trying to be friends with a child, you're taking away their childhood, and that is just not fair. It's also just weird... I hear these kids talk, and I have no interest in getting their opinions about work or relationships or anything serious about my life in the way I would from a friend. Dude. They're still developing their sweet baby brains, I want them to keep stressing about their homework and the kids at school and whether their hair looks fuzzy and what to do when they finish school. I'm not going to put my shit on them, that'd just be cruel and weird.

I kinda hate that Colleen's sister keeps laughing so uproariously during her podcast with Jojo. I wish people would realize that they don't have to laugh constantly during podcasts. It really does nothing to make the podcasts more informative, interesting, or entertaining. It's ok to take things seriously sometimes.

I think part of why “we never noticed it” a lot of the people watching the vids were that age or younger, so they wouldn’t realize that’s not how an adult should be talking to a kid. I don’t fault anyone young for not noticing, but I wonder what parents thought about it. Like I know some kids just have unrestricted access to the internet, but that’s not every child. Was there not a parent who saw the videos and raised concern? I guess not because we see parents at the Colleen shows where it’s right in front of their faces

JoJo was never allowed to be a child. She unfortunately may not have the best perspective because of the life that she was made to live. She is likely to side with the adults in her life because she has had to do this since she was a child.

I agree with so much of this video but saying that Jojo is an adult now at 20 but was a child at 18 doesnt make sense to me. Legally speaking I understand but from a maturity standpoint both of those ages are children.

That WHOLE family is very inappropriate with minors and it all started with Colleen. She gave her sick family a platform with hundreds of thousands of literal children who would throw themselves in front of a moving bus if it meant one of the Ballinger family members would talk to them. SMH They knew these fans were young and they knew these fans would do anything for them. Its gross and i really don't like any of it.

I have no comment except i love your shirt Vangelina. It has the vacation vibes

"Her creativity is incredible" Jojo, her "creativity" is on level with the way kids in school used to make fun of disabled kids. And as an autistic person it really isn't that creative.

Completely agree with your analysis. I felt like I was losing my mind when people were taking Jojo's take at face value without analyzing the perspective that she has due to the consistent debatably inappropriate behavior she's been exposed to throughout her life. She's the same age as Adam roughly, yes, but imo she's still too young to fully recognize that the way she's been treated throughout her life isn't normal and isn't necessarily healthy. I don't think she'll be able to reconcile all of that until she's at least 25 and her brain is done developing if ever.

Jojo is very friendly with family channels with very young children. Calling these kids as young as 5 her friends. She also has an all girls pop group. Colleen has appeared in a few videos with the all girl pop group. I'm not saying Jojo has done anything wrong. If anything Jojo doesn't know any better because how she grew up and how young she is. Jojo's mother also had a podcast with Colleen for years.

I really hate when popular figures are exposed for doing awful things. Abuse, grooming, etc. So many people go "Well this cant be true because I spoke to The Abuser for 5 minutes once, and they didn't abuse *me* so the victim is a liar and at fault" Jojo is doing that to others who have proven without a doubt they were abused. And the sad part is, she likely was as well and doesn't realise it.

the ghost of colleens carreer is haunting your lamp

I genuinely believe JoJo is going through something I did when I was an older teen which Is pretty much deny that a person who groomed you is a groomer because that would mean having to admit to yourself you where groomed. which can actually be really hard if you don't have people in your life holding up a mirror in front of you telling you what happened to you is unfair, not okay and disgusting. I don't think what jojo is doing is okay because of this. but i have a lot of sympathy for her, I know exactly the feeling of denial of viewing your groomer in a positive light just to cope and not face the heartbreaking truth of someone you love and care for being a monster that is hurting you and others.

waiting for the day jojo comes out with her own “i’m glad my mom died”

Jojo litterally said "I was friends with these people when I was a child, so its totally false, that they're overly friendly with kids and oversharing".. Jojo is so weird. This is all just.. weird

I always thought it so weird that they were friends and with the entire family. From Colleen’s mouth she was a huge fan of Dance Moms but I think it’s more calculating than that. JoJo was the biggest draw for tweens… the audience that Colleen knew she needed to target since her Miranda shtick gets old after watching the first video.