When I got to YouTuber Gabbie Hanna’s $2.2 million Studio City home in Los Angeles last month, I rang the doorbell and was promptly told to let myself in. “Door’s open,” her boyfriend told me through the intercom. Their two cats sitting on a tall scratching post barely lifted their heads, leaving me to walk through Hanna’s home on my own, hoping to find her. She wasn’t in the living room, which had a framed print of the word “cunt” written in cursive sitting next to an emerald couch. She wasn’t in one of the two recording studios in her home where she records her podcast Burnout With Gabbie Hanna, one of which is decorated with awards from YouTube and a framed printout of her placement on the New York Times bestseller list. (She has published two poetry collections, 2017’s Adultolescence and 2020’s Dandelion.) I finally found her upstairs in her bedroom, getting her makeup done for our photo shoot, wearing cutoff jeans and a vintage Queen T-shirt while her publicist, the makeup artist, and the photographer’s assistant made a semi-circle around her.