Netflix has ordered its first series from a YouTube star. Miranda Sings, a character created by Colleen Ballinger-Evans, will star in Haters Back Off!.
The new series will look at Miranda’s family life, notes Entertainment Weekly. Netflix describes the character as “an incredibly confident, totally untalented star on the rise who continues to fail upward by the power of her belief that she was born famous, it’s just no one knows it yet.”
Ballinger-Evans’ character has been on YouTube since January 2008 and has become a global superstar. She’s toured the world, was on Nickelodeon’s Victorious and appeared in Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. She even wrote a book, which hit the New York Times bestseller list last year. Her channel currently has 5.7 million subscribers.
She also announced the Netflix news with a video called “I’m pregnant” and claimed that she was doing the show as an “act of charity” for a website that’s just starting out.