Colleen Ballinger is an American actress, comedian, and singer who created Mirandasings08 on YouTube in 2008. Ballinger displays videos of the comically talentless, egotistical and quirky character on her YouTube channel under the username mirandasings08. On these videos, the character sings badly and rants about her critics, the “haters”. Ballinger also featured the character on a second YouTube channel, Mirandavlogz, in videos where the character discusses a topic or gives a tutorial of the day.