Her goal is to increase queer visibility in popular culture and to show queer teens and youth that there is success and happiness to be had in adulthood. Gaby Dunn’s activism is a prominent aspect of her public and private life. The author only entered the literary publishing game in 2017 when she published ‘I Hate Everyone But You’, the debut novel she produced with Allison Raskin. She tries to show the difficulty online celebrities face in their efforts to profit off of their fame. She talks about the perception that people have about YouTube personalities and their financial success. The podcast has seen Gaby talk about her own issues with money and debt. Many of Gaby Dunn’s fans also know her for ‘Bad With Money’, a podcast the author launched in 2016 to try and analyze the embarrassing money problems that many people face but refuse to talk about. Their show ‘Just Between Us’ has them play two characters who give out advice on love in between sketches, and it has garnered quick success for the pair. She created her own YouTube Channel with fellow BuzzFeed Video Colleague Allison Raskin. Though despite the attention it brought her way, Gaby was forced to abandon BuzzFeed because she felt it stifled her creativity. That recognition grew with the author’s efforts as a part-time writer and director for BuzzFeed Video. While the ‘100 Interviews’ project was largely deemed a failure, Gaby Dunn got the recognition she sought. And she eventually garnered a reputation for the rather desperate and self-promoting social media techniques she deployed in her attempts to accrue interviews of note from the likes of R.L. Gaby lacked the credibility necessary to access the celebrated personalities she sought to interview. Gaby Dunn created a Tumblr Blog called ‘100 Interviews’ the purpose of which was to publish transcripts of a hundred interviews within the span of a year. It wasn’t until 2010 that the author’s name gained prominence in the public sphere. Her work involved driving to crime scenes in the dead of night and creating detailed reports of the occurrences she encountered. This was during her sophomore college year. Gaby’s foray into journalism began when she joined the Boston Globe as a crime reporter. She delivered a successful auditioned, joined the troupe and began to refine her acting and writing skills.
When a former boyfriend got sick and lost his place with the troupe, Gaby was encouraged to try out for his spot. Gaby had circled the Chocolate Cake City troupe for a while but fear kept her from auditioning for them. A student of Emerson College from where she acquired her degree in Multimedia Journalism, Gaby’s foray into the entertainment business began when she joined a sketch comedy troupe while at Emerson. The author has written for everything from The Huffington Post to The New York Times. It wasn’t until she exited BuzzFeed that Gaby’s work as a comedian, activist, and writer came to light. Gaby Dunn is an American author and journalist that is best known for her online work as a blogger.įor the longest time, Gaby Dunn was known for her efforts on the YouTube Channel BuzzFeed.
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