wow... @fancybum thank you!!! You're amazing. Your labour of ..um love? is very much appreciated.
*sighs* I wish she had a live-in assistant (reads minder), at least to monitor her well-being. She's so self-destructive in so many ways.
Gabbie Hanna
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I don't really follow this story much, but I'm interested enough that I listened to a Patreon-only episode of the You're Wrong About podcast that was about Gabbie. What I liked about it is that it was from two people like me who are fairly neutral outsiders, inclined to some sympathy toward Gabbie, who are more interested in analyzing the dynamics of how something like this happens and how celebrity works for people who come to fame on platforms like YouTube. One of the threads of the conversation is that maybe the mistake Gabbie has made is engaging with fans to the degree she has; that allowing that sort of accessibility is part of why these various scandals have escalated the way they have. They also are critical of fan behavior, too, and bring in the experiences they've had as hosts of a pretty popular podcast and how fans have negatively impacted them and how part of dealing with that is developing ways to basically ignore fans. Their ultimate conclusion, really, is that people aren't built to exist in this sort of celebrity.
So for those of you who follow Gabbie more than I do, would it be better if Gabbie started not responding to fans and closed that door some?
So for those of you who follow Gabbie more than I do, would it be better if Gabbie started not responding to fans and closed that door some?
Well she hasn’t been doing a whole lot the past several months. She did her first live show a while back and hired people to film/edit it so she could put it on YouTube, but then on ig stories a few days later ranted about the people being unprofessional scammers or something. She claimed the footage and/or sound was unusable, and the people lied about their editing skills/experience, it was a whole thing. Leading up to the live show she released some weird podcasts (just 3 of them that are like 10-20mins long and mostly crying-voice self-obsessed rambling from what I remember). Oh, her friendship with Irene ended at some point and now they ignore questions about each other online. (Irene used to be in her older videos and co-hosted Gabbie’s podcast, but then moved on to focus on her own channel/podcast and iirc they initially met because Irene was Megan Batoon’s assistant or something? And now Megan Batoon seems to be Gabbie’s last friend left, somehow).
Anyway, it’s been a while since her meltdown last summer-ish, and she’s been (comparatively) kind of chill, so that’s probably a good sign, right? Maybe she’s done a lot of self-reflecting and growing as a person, even starting to accept responsibility for her past questionable behaviours or something, idk. Hm? Oh, she was recently on a podcast? Cool, which one? Some drama podcast from the founder of Barstool Sports who has SA allegations against him? ….Oh. Why does she only go on grimy men’s podcasts? You know what, whatever, it probably doesn’t mean anything, not one. single. thing.
It’s fine, let’s just see how her growth as a human being has been going:
She talked a LOT but said very little, so tl;dr:
-she went on a drama podcast but didn’t want to discuss drama (and the people hosting the podcast mostly had no fucking clue about what drama she’s been involved with in the past anyway—why have her on? Did she reach out to them? And for what purpose when she’s not even using the opportunity to promote her music that she cares so deeply about, or properly explain her upcoming charitable (..?) Fuck Money Fund which she described as “something I’m creating to just sort of have this bank of money to do whatever the fuck I want with” and to which she’ll donate 50% of her earnings for life and beyond, but also she won’t profit a penny when she collaborates with others for it (??). So far her most specific plan regarding this fund is to sell an NFT for 20 billion dollars in 500 years after she’s dead, which will be so helpful for no specific charitable cause she can think of
-she was gaslit by the internet, she had to research her own life to figure out what was true, she realized halfway through her expose series that she didn’t need to make any of it public, whoopsies. When directly asked why the internet was doing all of this to her (because the hosts are clueless af), she laughed and said “I don’t know”
-she expressed empathy for Will Smith for having had some kind of 'spiritual experience' that compelled him to slap a comedian at the most prestigious awards ceremony of his career. So the 2 people she mostly feels bad for are herself and the famous Oscar-winning millionaire Will Smith (because she's projecting on him), for anyone keeping score at home
Hard agree with this: Oh and Joey Graceffa discussed Gabbie/ETN on some podcast in April:
They start talking about it at 28:10
Some Joey quotes: "she's very good at manipulating, like she's so good at making you feel bad for her"
"it was weird because I felt bad for Gabbie at the same time"
"the thing with Gabbie is like- we were friends, and there's still a part of me that really cares about her"
"like I want to maybe mend this relationship in the future but the thing is I don't know if she would ever get to the place where she could apologize"
"there is a part of her that is really good, but there's just something that- it's hard for her to wrap her mind around her being in the wrong"
"she could've ended this so quick if she just admitted her faults and moved on"
And her album is coming out soon, I think? She's been doing a terrible job of promoting her singles so far, but maybe she'll ramp it up for the actual album release. k that's all I've got.
Anyway, it’s been a while since her meltdown last summer-ish, and she’s been (comparatively) kind of chill, so that’s probably a good sign, right? Maybe she’s done a lot of self-reflecting and growing as a person, even starting to accept responsibility for her past questionable behaviours or something, idk. Hm? Oh, she was recently on a podcast? Cool, which one? Some drama podcast from the founder of Barstool Sports who has SA allegations against him? ….Oh. Why does she only go on grimy men’s podcasts? You know what, whatever, it probably doesn’t mean anything, not one. single. thing.
It’s fine, let’s just see how her growth as a human being has been going:
-she went on a drama podcast but didn’t want to discuss drama (and the people hosting the podcast mostly had no fucking clue about what drama she’s been involved with in the past anyway—why have her on? Did she reach out to them? And for what purpose when she’s not even using the opportunity to promote her music that she cares so deeply about, or properly explain her upcoming charitable (..?) Fuck Money Fund which she described as “something I’m creating to just sort of have this bank of money to do whatever the fuck I want with” and to which she’ll donate 50% of her earnings for life and beyond, but also she won’t profit a penny when she collaborates with others for it (??). So far her most specific plan regarding this fund is to sell an NFT for 20 billion dollars in 500 years after she’s dead, which will be so helpful for no specific charitable cause she can think of
-she was gaslit by the internet, she had to research her own life to figure out what was true, she realized halfway through her expose series that she didn’t need to make any of it public, whoopsies. When directly asked why the internet was doing all of this to her (because the hosts are clueless af), she laughed and said “I don’t know”
-she expressed empathy for Will Smith for having had some kind of 'spiritual experience' that compelled him to slap a comedian at the most prestigious awards ceremony of his career. So the 2 people she mostly feels bad for are herself and the famous Oscar-winning millionaire Will Smith (because she's projecting on him), for anyone keeping score at home
Hard agree with this: Oh and Joey Graceffa discussed Gabbie/ETN on some podcast in April:
They start talking about it at 28:10
Some Joey quotes: "she's very good at manipulating, like she's so good at making you feel bad for her"
"it was weird because I felt bad for Gabbie at the same time"
"the thing with Gabbie is like- we were friends, and there's still a part of me that really cares about her"
"like I want to maybe mend this relationship in the future but the thing is I don't know if she would ever get to the place where she could apologize"
"there is a part of her that is really good, but there's just something that- it's hard for her to wrap her mind around her being in the wrong"
"she could've ended this so quick if she just admitted her faults and moved on"
And her album is coming out soon, I think? She's been doing a terrible job of promoting her singles so far, but maybe she'll ramp it up for the actual album release. k that's all I've got.
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She got bugs tattooed on her neck.
and said it took 10 hours (because she was anxious about the placement and kept "making small corrections" as they went). The patience of whatever tattoo artist had to put up with her for that long omg.
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whatever she tipped that artist wasn't enough
Uhhhh she’s having a terrifying day on tiktok, she’s posted 70+ times today (so far) talking about being the mother of god and the second coming of Jesus and a lot of other very concerning and nonsensical things. Cops did a welfare check earlier tonight but left and she’s still going strong. In one video she said friends/family had been reaching out with concern, but she’s the happiest person on earth and doesn’t need help. I’m legit freaked out along with most of internet and hope a friend or family member will get through to her sooner rather than later.
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