Hannah Barron

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About

Hannah Barron is an American social media personality from Alabama. Barron makes YouTube and TikTok videos about hunting, fishing and outdoor activities in her hometown. She runs the YouTube account HannahBarronOutdoors and the Instagram and TikTok pages @hannahbarron96. In March 2024, Barron became the subject of debates among conservatives on X / Twitter, with one group deeming her tomboyish and Southern mannerisms "unfeminine," saying that men who like her are secretly gay. However, other conservatives quickly rose to Hannah Barron's defense, including prominent figures such as Ian Miles Cheong and Alex Jones, as discourse spread online.

Background

Hannah Barron is a social media personality from Alabama who makes videos about her outdoorsy lifestyle in the rural South of the U.S. Her YouTube, Instagram and TikTok presence spans her work with her father's construction company, her proclivity for fishing and hunting, as well as her fitness journey.

Barron's most viewed YouTube^[1] video was posted on August 18th, 2022, showing her "catfish noodling" and gathering over 6 million views in a year (seen below).

Following

As of mid-March 2024, Hannah Barron has over 780,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel Hannah Barron Outdoors,^[2] over 1.5 million followers on her Instagram^[3] and over 2 million TikTok followers.^[4]

Online History

Hannah Barron "Tomboy" Discourse

On March 8th, 2024, X / Twitter^[5] user @SameeraKhan posted a video from Hannah Barron's TikTok page, writing, "This accent needs to be illegal and women should be banned from doing manual labour like this. / There is NOTHING feminine about American women. / American women are literally men." The post gathered over 59 million views, 15,000 likes and 29,000 replies in three days (seen below).

Sameera Khan^[6] went on to post replies to her tweet, encouraging American men to become passport bros and asking a man defending Hannah Barron if he was a homosexual.

On March 9th, X^[5] user @supersaad44 posted a video of Hannah Barron, writing, "Any man that finds tomboys attractive is GHEY."

@Supersaad44 went on to post more videos of Barron, saying, "Tomboys are NOT hot. I REPEAT, TOMBOYS ARE NOT HOT. Attraction to tomboys is H0M0SEXUALlTY," and "You cannot bring illiterate twits like Hannah Barron home to mom."

On March 10th, 2024, various conservative American commentators discussed the criticism levied against Barron for not being "feminine" enough, with Alex Jones^[7] publishing a segment he captioned, "Breaking: Globalists Declare War On Strong Women – Learn The Secret Of Feminine Power." The post gathered over 2,000 likes (seen below).

Also on March 10th, X^[10] user @CantEverDie quoted a post criticizing Barron, writing, "online conservatives are becoming a type of trad that doesn’t exist in real life and it’s making them a new type of gay," gathering over 36,000 likes in a day (seen below, left).

On March 11th, 2024, X^[8] user @DonutOperator shared a post in support of Hannah Barron, "These are real women. They can hold their own in hunting, fishing, and surviving in general. These are kind, strong, women who will have your back in any scenario. You should all be striving to find a wonderful person like this." The post gathered over 12,000 likes in a day (seen below, right).

Response From Hannah Barron

Also on March 11th, 2024, Hannah Barron took to her TikTok^[9] account to say that she was aware of some discourse about her taking place on X and that she didn't care about it given her history of overcoming bullying as a child. Her video gathered over 300,000 plays and 24,000 likes in a day (seen below).