“All the most famous people got famous on the internet,” Miranda, protagonist of new Netflix Original Series Haters Back Off, informs her skeptical mother. “Justin Bieber…Susan Boyle…that cat that fell off the table when it got scared.” Add Miranda Sings to the list, a character invented and played by Colleen Ballinger, to that list. She’s at least as famous as the cat.

With seven million subscribers on YouTube and 2.36 million followers on Twitter, Miranda Sings is undeniably popular on social media. She aspires to be famous, and is completely unaware of her comical lack of talent. Despite her grating voice, she has boundless confidence. Her Youtube videos feature performances, tutorials, and guests (usually other YouTubers). Part of the humor of these clips is that the Miranda Sings character parodies the Broadway hopefuls of Youtube. But Ballinger’s act doesn’t quite transition to the half hour television show format as well as she may have hoped.

Though the first season of the show begins with her uploading her very first video (she accidentally uploads it as “My Fist Video”) and ends with her first viral video, the show does not focus exclusively on her posts. It introduces her family, new additions to the Miranda Sings universe: her hypochondriac mom Bethany (Angela Kinsey, “The Office), overinvolved uncle Jim (Steve Little), and actually talented sister Emily (Francesca Reale).

Miranda Sings fans may be put off by the muted colors, overall Napoleon Dynamite feel, and sometimes depressing commentary on our obsession with fame. Newcomers may be just as disconcerted by Miranda’s jarring singing voice, exaggerated speech pattern, and high energy. As someone who knew of Miranda Sings but was never a fan, I found myself enraptured by the show’s downright weird combination of comedy and tragedy. Should we laugh at Miranda, who is clearly delusional but also incredibly sincere?

I may be one of the few who enjoyed the show’s whole first season. After all, it did receive a 43% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But I found its absurdity and surrealism refreshing. What other show features a backyard production of the musical Annie in which Daddy Warbucks and Annie are love interests? None that I’ve seen. And yet the hyper-realistic style of the show made me believing how plausible both Miranda’s character and her morally condemnable productions of Annie are.