Social media Hanna began uploading skits to Vine in late 2013 and later gained recognition for her activity on the Vine app, where she accumulated around five million followers. In 2015, Hanna and partner Matt Steffanina won the fourth season of the dance competition web-series
Dance Showdown. After college, Hanna moved to Los Angeles, California, to work with internet media company
BuzzFeed but eventually left to focus on her YouTube and Vine platforms. In December 2015, a video accusing Gabbie Hanna of stealing jokes went viral on Reddit. Hanna responded, stating that she "never ha[s] and never will consider [herself] a comedian". After Vine shut down in 2016, Hanna focused on YouTube. Meanwhile, she was nominated for two
Teen Choice Awards — Choice Web Star: Female and Choice Viner. In late 2016, Hanna joined the lip sync tour
Drop the Mic alongside other YouTubers. A few months later,
Creative Artists Agency signed Hanna and she joined
MTV's social media team. In June 2017, Hanna joined the main cast of web series
Escape the Night as the vaudevillian and appeared in seven episodes. She co-hosted the revival of
Total Request Live in October 2017. In January 2018, Hanna was nominated for YouTuber of the Year at the
10th Shorty Awards and for the Social Star Award at the
2018 iHeartRadio Music Awards. She was nominated for Choice Comedy Web Star at the
2019 Teen Choice Awards. In late August 2022, Hanna sparked global conversation around mental health challenges by publishing hundreds of controversial social media posts (including posts where she claimed to be the second coming of
Jesus) in only a few days.
Music In 2017, Hanna premiered her debut single "
Out Loud" along with its music video and announced plans to release an album titled
This Time Next Year. In November 2017, she released a non-album single, "Satellite", with an accompanying lyrics video. Hanna released her third single "
Honestly" and its encore "Honestly (Encore)" in August 2018. On a 2018 interview on
Genius'
Verified, she sang her song "Monster"
a cappella but due to technical errors, the microphone was unable to record her voice properly. Fans spliced in clips, including vines and voice distortions, at the point of technical error to create a
meme. Hanna has since released merchandise showcasing her singing face during the meme. On February 2, 2019, Hanna released "
Medicate", the first single from her debut extended play titled
2WayMirror. On May 31, 2019,
2WayMirror was released. For a period of time after the songs' release, Hanna peaked at number 5 on ''Billboard's'' Top
Emerging Artists chart. Hanna headlined at the inaugural
Patreon Assembly on November 2, 2019. On November 16, 2019, Hanna released the music video for her song "Broken Girls". The first single from Hanna's second EP,
Bad Karma, "Dandelion", was released on April 17, 2020, and the second single, "Glass House", was released on May 1, 2020. The EP was released on May 15, 2020. as well as restarting and rebranding her podcast. Hanna hosted her first live performance since November 2019 on February 22, 2022. In November 2022, Hanna released "Haircut", the first single from her sophomore album,
This Time Next Year. A snippet of the song was first shared to her
TikTok profile in November 2022. Following the upload, the song garnered attention across the platform, causing Hanna to release the song. On December 23, 2022, Hanna released
This Time Next Year, which peaked at #14 on the US iTunes Chart.
Poetry Hanna has published two poetry books,
Adultolescence (2017) and
Dandelion (2020), both of which are
New York Times Best Sellers. ==Personal life==