Gabbie Hanna's TikToks prompt concern from followers
TikTok videos from Gabbie Hanna have sparked a discussion on a viewer's and platform's responsibility when a creator appears to have a mental health crisis online.
The concerned comments from Gabbie Hanna’s followers began pouring in on Wednesday.
By that time, Hanna, a social media creator who has more than 12.8 million followers across YouTube and TikTok, had already posted more than 100 increasingly erratic videos to her TikTok, including several in which she made comments that some of her followers called racist and transphobic. She also uploaded videos of her letting someone, who appeared to be a stranger, enter her Southern California home. He eventually left after posting TikToks from inside her house. Since then, it appears Hanna has allowed other seemingly unknown people into her home, and documented it on the platform.
The videos, which many have described as alarming, have sparked a discussion regarding the responsibilities viewers and social media platforms have when they witness someone, particularly a public figure, appear to experience a mental health crisis live online. Hanna’s TikTok posts, which included long, uncharacteristic monologues about religion and claims that she herself is a deity, have also highlighted the app’s ability to launch any person or situation to the top of the internet’s consciousness, regardless of the consequences.
Some on social media urged the platform to step in and intervene, as Hanna continued to post videos at a rapid pace. Her name trended across Twitter on Wednesday. Her TikTok videos, which many said were pushed to their “For You” pages, racked up millions of views.
“[TikTok] when are y’all gonna stop letting gabbie hanna post? how far does this have to go before you intervene?” wrote one Twitter user.
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