Gabbie Hanna

About

Gabbie Hanna is an American YouTuber, former Vine star, author, actress and musician. She is known for her comedic sketches and pop music. In 2018, she appeared in several memes revolving around both a Genius video explaining the lyrics to her song "Monster" and her appearance in YouTube Rewind 2018. In 2022, many thought she was having a bipolar, manic episode after she posted hundreds of manic TikTok videos in late August 2022.

History

Hanna was born February 7th, 1991 in New Castle, Pennsylvania.^[1] She began her Vine channel in late 2013, eventually gaining over 5 million followers by the time the site shut down.

In 2014, she began her YouTube channel, gaining over 6.4 million followers in four years.^[2] She briefly worked for Buzzfeed, eventually leaving the company to focus on her social media career. In 2017, she began expanding into the worlds of acting, publishing, and music. She published a collection of poetry and autobiographical narrative, Adultolescence, on September 19th, 2017. On September 6th, she released her debut single, "Out Loud" (shown below). She joined the Social Media Team of MTV that year and also hosted Total Request Live

In 2018, she was the subject of several videos by The Fine Brothers (examples shown below).

On August 15th, 2018, she released the singles "Honestly" and "Honestly (Encore)," which reached number 1 and 2 on iTunes, respectively. The video, which pairs the two tracks, gained over 7.5 million views (shown below, left). On October 26th, she released the song "Monster," gaining over 3.3 million views on YouTube (shown below, right).

Online Presence

In addition to her 6.5 million YouTube subscribers, Hanna also has 3.9 million Instagram followers,^[3] 2.72 Twitter followers,^[4]

Genius "Monster" Performance

On November 19th, 2018, Hanna appeared in a YouTube video for the site Genius in which she explained the lyrics to her song, "Monster." While singing the chorus, it appears as though the high note in the title lyric is edited in.

This moment led to several edits in which the note is replaced with various audio clips. For example, Twitter user Xtopherized posted an edit that gained over 230 retweets and 610 likes (shown below, top). User @nofucksgiven247 used the Big Enough clip to parody the moment (shown below, bottom).

On December 9th, YouTuber Devin Corwin posted a video compilation of parodies from Twitter about the clip (shown below).

YouTube Rewind Appearance

Hanna appeared in the 2018 YouTube Rewind video uploaded December 6th, 2018, saying about other YouTubers, "I am so proud of this community." The moment was used as a reaction image mocking the inane content on YouTube. For example, Redditor joe_cesar412 posted it as a reaction image to a screenshot of a child electrocuting himself (shown below, left). Another using a still from a Filthy Frank video gained over 1,400 points (shown below, right).

Fake Coachella Attendance

On April 19th, 2019, Gabbie Hanna^[6] posted a series of pictures of herself seemingly at Coachella to Instagram garnering over 500,800 likes in four days (shown below). She also posted a series of Instagram stories about being at Coachella.

On April 22nd, Gabbie Hanna posted a video to YouTube^[7] entitled "Faked Going To Coachella…" in which she explains how she faked her Instagram pictures and why. She explained that she wanted to illustrate how easy it is to fake things on social media. The video garnered over two million views and 109,000 likes in two days.

Gabbie Hanna Manic TikToks / Mental Health Concerns

Gabbie Hanna's Manic Episode, also known as Gabbie Hanna's Manic TikToks or Gabbie Hanna's Psychosis, refers to online speculation that former Vine star and YouTuber Gabbie Hanna has been in the midst of a manic, bipolar episode since the beginning of 2021, made evident in her seemingly unhinged Instagram Stories, TikTok videos and tweets. The discussion started when she likened her manic state to the "H" in ADHD. Online reactions surfaced again en masse in mid-2022 when she posted excessive amounts of TikToks in one-hour spans, filming herself singing in the mirror and talking about her delusions. People speculated that she might be promoting new music, however, after Hanna said perceivably racist comments about Black mothers and people, internet users did not know what to believe. Additionally, she let a stranger named Nicholas into her home shortly after the cops arrived and cleared her.

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