About six months ago, Trisha Paytas and Jessie Smiles made videos addressing their issues with Gabbie Hanna.
Trisha revealed that Gabbie had told Trisha's boyfriend at the time (Jason) that Trisha had an STD. The STD was something brought up to Gabbie by a friend, and instead of confirming the information first, she told Jason that Trisha should get tested. Trisha felt she needed to make this video because she didn't think it was right for Gabbie to talk about her without knowing the facts.
More people brought up issues they had with Gabbie, mainly that she betrayed her friend, Jessie Smiles, by supporting her rapist.
Jessie decided to expose Gabbie's behavior in a youtube video after she found out Gabbie was DMing a fan private messages from Jessie.
Gabbie did not respond to Jessi's video but messaged another fan about the drama.
Alx James also spoke up about Gabbie, making multiple videos talking about his truth and stating that both Jessi and Gabbie don't have anything to support their side of the story, but he did.
What he did mention is that Gabbie had pulled a horrible prank on him, which I don't know how that correlates with the rape allegation, but okay.
Jessi's friend Jen also claims that Gabbie told Jessi that it was hard being Jessi's friend because of the Curtis situation, making it difficult to network with certain people.
Jessi uploaded a new video after being gone from youtube for four months, answering questions about where she's been, what is happening in her life, and about Gabbie. Jessi mentioned that Gabbie had not reached out to apologize, but Jessi never thought Gabbie would, also stating that she does not wish to speak about the situation anymore.
Gabbie decided to address all the allegations made against her.
People found it weird that she decided to address the situation now as she then proceeded to releases a new song. Gabbie said that the only reason she chose to talk about it now was that she was on Jessi's thumbnail. Which didn't sit well with Gabbie as she thought it was for clout.
After receiving a lot of backlash, Gabbie uploaded another video discussing the effects that cancel culture has had on her.
Her video ' Watch somebody burn and crumble' shows her having a conversation about the hardships of being in the public eye. She starts to sing about how she feels when people tell that her emotions are not valid.
She talks about how she is perceived, how hard it is to change a narrative about her when it's already set in stone. The video shows how distraught she is and how cancel culture takes its toll on her mental health.
"No matter what I say or do, it's like you're the victim, you're the martyr, you're trying to pretend you're somebody, you're ignoring it... no matter what I do, what action I take its just your a bad person; you're manipulative. You literally want me to disappear, and so do i."
Just seeing how much this hurts her, makes me wonder why cancel culture still exists. It's visible how much cancel culture affects people, yet its still a thing. How are we able to value someone's worth by whether we agree with them or not.
If we were also in the public eye, will we finally understand its toxicity? Do we need to experience it to get rid of it eventually, what will it take to stop cancel culture.
