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Miranda Sings

Fictional character played by Colleen Ballinger

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Miranda Sings is a fictional character created and portrayed by American comedian, actress, singer and YouTube personality Colleen Ballinger that first appeared on the Internet in 2008. Ballinger displays videos of the comically talentless, egotistical, misguided and quirky character on her YouTube channel. In these videos, the character sings and dances badly, gives inept "tutorials", recounts her daily activities, discusses current events that she often misunderstands, collaborates with other YouTubers, and rants about her critics, reading examples of hate mail directed at the character on social media; she responds to them with her catchphrase: "Haters Back Off!"

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“Miranda Sings” enters the record as fictional character played by Colleen Ballinger. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Miranda, Sings and Fictional can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Miranda Sings” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.