Gabrielle Jeannette Hanna Kroner (born February 7, 1991) is an American influencer, singer-songwriter, and YouTuber. She rose to prominence on the video platforms Vine and YouTube. She released her debut single, "Out Loud", in 2017, followed by the EPs 2WayMirror (2019) and Bad Karma (2020). She later released her first two studio albums, Trauma Queen and This Time Next Year (both 2022).
Early life Hanna was born Gabrielle Jeannette Hanna on February 7, 1991, in New Castle, Pennsylvania. She is of French and Polish descent on her mother's side; her father has Lebanese ancestry, and she self-identifies as Middle Eastern. In 2013, Hanna graduated from the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) with a degree in psychology and communications. While at Pitt, she was a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority.Noted in her biography on the website for music venue The Vogue , accessed January 14, 2022. After college, she worked for a marketing company that sold products out of a Sam's Club; she became the top salesperson in the US for the company and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, to help start a new branch of the company. However, she departed after realizing that they relied on a pyramid scheme.
Career 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 2014, she set up a YouTube channel under the name The Gabbie Show, which was changed to Gabbie Hanna in 2017 after the release of her debut single "Out Loud", but was later changed back to The Gabbie Show in 2021.
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. At the eighth Annual Streamy Awards, Hanna won an award for Storyteller and was nominated for First Person and Audience Choice: Creator of the Year.
Hanna reprised her role in the fourth season of Escape the Night and portrayed a Hollywood Star. 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.
In 2024, she returned to the internet with an apology video.
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.
Following multiple controversies with her former friends and collaborators, Hanna has taken extended breaks from social media on a few different occasions. To celebrate New Years, Hanna returned to social media and released "Rewired", a single from her debut album, Trauma Queen. She later announced that she had scrapped This Time Next Year and Trauma Queen would be released on July 22, 2022, putting the album up for pre-order, 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 Hanna has spoken about having OCD, ADHD, anxiety, and bipolar disorder.
Hanna took a social media hiatus from February 2023 to March 2024. She made her first public appearance since the break in July 2023, joining American rapper Prince EA on his podcast Sauna Sessions, where she cited mental health issues as her reason for stepping away from the public eye. Amid her social media disappearance, she has since re-emerged as a YMCA fitness instructor in her hometown of New Castle, Pennsylvania. She married Robbie Kroner on May 25, 2025.
Filmography Film and television YearWorkRoleNotes 2014 Access Hollywood Herself 1 episode 2014–15 Sanders Shorts Friend, girlfriend 2 episodes2015 Anxt Herself Full series Teens Wanna Know Herself 1 episodeDance Showdown Herself Dancer; won the competition Occupy Alice Melissa Krass Short filmOscar's Hotel for Fantastical Creatures Snow Pea 1 episode Janoskians: Untold and Untrue Herself 2016 Laid in America LindseyDance Showdown Herself Judge (6 episodes) AwesomenessTV's Betch! Laura 1 episode 2017Escape the Night The Vaudevillian 7 episodes (season 2) Fantasies Herself Guest star (1 episode) MTV Video Music Awards Herself Backstage host 2017–18 MTV's Total Request Live Herself Rotating co-host 2018 Escape the Night The Vaudevillian Season 3 season finale (flashback clip) Shane Dawson's The Truth About TanaCon Herself Miniseries. Cameo in a clip in part 3, "The Real Truth About TanaCon" MTV's The Vault Herself Guest (3 episodes, season 1) MTV's Creator to Watch Herself Special guest (1 episode, season 3). Responsible for choosing the season 3 host, Megan Batoon 2019 Escape the Night The Hollywood Star 5 episodes (season 4) 2019–2020All My Plants Are Dead Herself HostIce Cream Therapy Gabbie Series by Funny or Die 2021Red Table Talk: The Estefans Herself Guest
Discography
Studio albums Title Album details Trauma Queen Released: July 22, 2022 Label: Independent Format: Streaming, digital download, CD This Time Next Year Released: December 23, 2022 Label: Independent Format: Streaming, digital download
Extended plays Title EP details Peak chart positions US USIndie USHeat AUS BEL(FL) UKDown. 2WayMirror Released: May 31, 2019 Label: FrtyFve Format: Digital download, streaming 126 4 — 76 174 31 Bad Karma Released: May 15, 2020 Label: FrtyFve Format: Digital download, streaming — — 22 — — —
Singles As lead artist Title Year Peak chart positions Album US Bub USDigital AUS Hit CANDigital NZHotFor peak positions on the NZ Hot Singles Chart: For "Medicate": For "Butterflies": SCOFor peak positions in Scotland: For "Out Loud": For "Satellite": For "Honestly" and "Honestly (Encore)": For "Medicate": UKDigitalFor peak positions on UK Download: For "Out Loud": For "Honestly": For "Medicate": "Out Loud" 2017 — 30 6 39 — 47 60 rowspan="6" "Satellite" — — — — — 65 — "Honestly" 2018 21 10 — 24 — 61 81 "Honestly (Encore)" — — — — — 86 — "Monster" — — — — — — — "Monster (Reborn)" — — — — — — — "Medicate" 2019 — 31 — — 32 80 97 2WayMirror "Butterflies" — — — — 37 — — "Dandelion" 2020 — — — — — — — Bad Karma "Glass House" — — — — — — — "Call Me Crazy" — — — — — — — rowspan="3" "Shut Me Up" — — — — — — — "You Oughta Know" 2021 — — — — — — — "Happy (in the End)" — — — — — — — Trauma Queen "Rewired" 2022 — — — — — — — "I Sold My Soul" — — — — — — — "Head in the Clouds" — — — — — — — "Trouble" — — — — — — — "Haircut" — — — — — — —This Time Next Year "Where Did I Go?" 2024 — — — — — — — rowspan="6" "Creep / Special" — — — — — — — "Everlasting Love" — — — — — — — "My Sun" — — — — — — — "Alone in the Universe" — — — — — — — "Exodus" — — — — — — — "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.
Promotional singles Title Year Peak chart positions Album USComedyDigital USRapDigital "Roast Yourself" 2018 1 19 rowspan="2" "Antisocial Media" 2020 — — "Warning Shots" 2022 — — Trauma Queen "Hangups" — — "Dandelion (Live in Studio)" 2025 — — Bad Karma
Guest appearances Title Year Artist(s) Album "F Pacing" 2021 Landon Tewers Frontal Lobe Submission
Videography Title Year Artist(s) Director(s) Official music videos as lead artist "Out Loud" 2017 Gabbie Hanna "Roast Yourself (Harder)" 2018 Peter Macaluso "Honestly / Honestly (Encore)" Ryan Parma "Monster / Monster (Reborn)" "Medicate"2019 "Butterflies" "Perfect Day (A True Story)" "Pillowcase"Spencer Sharp "Broken Girls" Nayip Ramos "Dandelion" 2020Hok Konishi "Glass House" "Bad Karma" "Special" "Happy" rowspan="2" "Goodbye, for Now" "Call Me Crazy" Hok Konishi "Antisocial Media"Jerize Bravo "Shut Me Up"Hok Konishi "You Oughta Know (Alanis Morissette cover)" 2021 Cameo appearance "Bitch, Please!" 2014Jessi Smiles Robert A. Dobbins "Sad Song" 2017 Scotty Sire 80Fitz "My Life Sucks"(Lyric Video) "Gateway" 2019 Elli Moore Nayip Ramos
Awards and nominations Year Award Category Recipient Result2016Shorty AwardsYouTube ComedianThe Gabbie Showrowspan="6" Teen Choice AwardsChoice Web Star: FemaleChoice Viner2017Shorty AwardsVlogger of the YearThe Gabbie Vlogs2018iHeartRadio Music AwardsSocial Star AwardGabbie HannaShorty AwardsYouTuber of the YearBest YouTube EnsembleVlog SquadStreamy AwardsCreator of the YearGabbie Hannarowspan="2" First PersonStorytellerrowspan="2" Ensemble CastDavid's Vlog 2019Teen Choice AwardsChoice Comedy Web StarGabbie Hanna rowspan="2" Streamy AwardsEnsemble CastEscape the Night: Season 4
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