Colleen Ballinger

How it works: it's like I have a tour, so there's, you know, some income from that. We have merchandise. There's income from that. Then on YouTube, there's ad revenue... so, you know, YouTube puts ads on the videos, and we need a little bit of that. ”

My audience is like my family at this point. ”

When I was in college and reading music and doing ear training, I was a little more advanced than the other people in my choir classes. So to entertain myself and kind of annoy the friends around me, I would sing just under the pitch or just above the pitch. ”

It's fun to just be an awful human being. ”

I have always wanted to tell Miranda's backstory. To me, it's so fascinating that as a YouTuber, everyone knows what we show them. No one knows what goes on when the cameras are off. I always thought, what would Miranda do in her time off? ”

I want to tell Miranda's story more broadly than what I have been in these five-minute videos on the Internet. She can live in a longer format. ”

I share more than most people probably do online. ”

The thing I needed to learn about Miranda was where her motivation comes from when she gets upset. There's been a few times where Miranda's a brat or crying online, and it seems very surface level, and I think that I needed to learn where her insecurities came from, because online she just comes across as kind of bratty. ”

Miranda's this girl that everyone's just laughed at online for years. I want people to empathize with her. ”

For me, Miranda has always been a much deeper character than the three-minute videos I put online. ”