Colleen Ballinger is a comedian and actress renowned for her YouTube videos featuring the talentless character Miranda Sings, which have amassed over 2.3 billion views on the Miranda Sings channel. Additionally, her self-titled vlogging channel has garnered more than 1.7 billion views. In 2016, she began starring as Miranda in the Netflix original series "Haters Back Off." The idea for Miranda Sings was inspired by watching numerous bad singers attempt to get their big break on YouTube. One of her early viral videos was a deliberately off-key cover of Katy Perry's "California Gurls," posted in June 2010, which received over 4.5 million views. In 2015, she published a book in Miranda’s voice titled "Selp-Helf," which became a New York Times best-seller.