She sounds like a 12 year old who just learned what swearing was.

gabbie writes for the teenagers who say "that's the idea" when their parents tell them that smoking kills

she should’ve written her “poems” on twitter instead of wasting trees cause yIKES

This is so disgusting! She’s using “being sad” as an aesthetic, does she think it’s like artsy???

Percy Shelley did not drown at sea for this shit to be considered “poetry”

this isn't poetry. these is just a bunch of bad tweets

Imagine being a tree planted from a tiny acorn and spending hundreds of years growing, bracing the elements and housing small animals just to one day be cut down to be transformed into Adultolesence by Gabbie Hanna. What a sad life.

I'm shocked that she didn't put in: "Real eyes Realize Real lies"

gabbie hanna: when i close my eyes, i can’t see. *cries in 14 year old girl*

This book literally sounds like a satire tumblr post making fun of people who pretend to be depressed

This makes Wattpad look like Shakespeare’s plays

I showed my sister this video after she preordered Gabbie Hanna’s next poetry book. My sister canceled the order. Thank you for saving her money.

Imagine all the talented authors who are actually qualified to write a book being turned down by publishers only to see this be published.

Who’s her publisher? If he can publish her, he can publish my 13 year old brother’s homework

im surprised “my love for you was bulletproof but you’re the one who shot me” wasn’t in there

The fact that she only went after Rachel, who gave constructive criticism, and not anyone who openly hates her work really confuses me..

“Time is relative, beauty is relative, family is relatives”. The profundity is astounding.

this book shouldn’t be classified as a “poem” instead classified as “i want money, heres some awful quotes that don’t even belong on tumblr.”

She could have just tweeted all this instead of wasting all those trees.

A limerick poem about how bad gabbys poems are: Gabbys poems are quite bad But she thinks they are rad They are trash They gave me a rash They’re so dumb, it makes me mad

She single handedly wasted an entire forest to make this book.

We all wrote like this. However, we had the sense To delete Wattpad.

Dark humor was fun and edgy when it wasn’t in the mainstream. Daria was that classic show full of sarcasm, satire and dark humor that utilized historical references and literature books but the dark humor today is legit just about dying, hating and complaining about a so called entitled life in the first world country.

"I've never been so tired before. So tired of your s h i t, Gabbie. " The only true piece of poetry in this entire video.

Gabbie is the kinda girl who thinks everything is so deep, and thinks having depression is quirky, but she’s a 30 year old woman

This "poetry" is basically everyone's 'deep' and sad facebook statuses when they were 13

5:18 The following excerpt is from Doc Luben's 14 Lines from Love Letters or Poetry Books: " My grandmother was still alive when I was 5 years old and she asked me to check and see if the iron was hot enough yet so I pressed my hand against it and it was red and screaming for hours. 25 years later, she would still sometimes apologize in the middle of conversations, "I feel so bad about making you touch the iron" she'd say, as though it had just happened. I cannot imagine how we forgive ourselves for all the things we didn't say until it was too late. But how else do you tell if something is hot but to touch it?" See, there /was/ a metaphor. Gabbie, it's your job as a poet to find that, seriously wtf.

Synonyms for the word Synonym: adequation. Same alikeness. compatibility. conformity. correlation. correspondence. equality Etc...

Her poems are like those t-shirts that say “ me? sarcastic? Never!”

"sometimes... when you feel hungry, is because you didn't eat" -Gabbie Hanna

Hannah baker's poetry in 13 reasons why was better. And she actually killed herself

It’s the 12 year old emo poems putting suicidal ideation in teen’s heads for me

This is frustrating 'cause some dedicated writers spend years trying to get published and this gal just throws something together and calls it poetry??

75% of these “poems” could pass as tweets

I feel like I understand poetry. I feel like she barley understood the minimum and assumed she was a genius. Poetry is not random dead brains thoughts, there needs to be message and content.

“family is relatives” *hmm yes the floor here is made of floor*

she was poetry, but he couldn't read. his name was jared, 1 9 - gabbie hanna, probably

It’s actually so sad to see someone promoting how they want to “kill themselves” when suicide is an actual problem

It's probably just me, but I'm pissed the "i"s aren't capitalized

Is the “hiaku” at 11:01 an actual typo? Like gaby couldn’t even bother to check the correct spelling of haiku? Wow.

she really used “u” instead of “you” and “2” instead of “to” in a published book-

Surprised we didn’t hear ‘real eyes, realise, real lies ‘

I clicked this video To have some fun But what happened here Just felt badly done As someone who Can't write for shit The poems here Made me cry a bit I watched talent die And it's blood pour out A scarring experience As bad as rotten trout The whole concept of this book Has just made me sad And that's coming from me Who writes fanfics on wattpad

Best vid reviewing the worst poetry ever. As a poet, I was offeNdeD by this “poetry” but the way you word how ridiculous it is makes it hilarious and for that I thank you. I thank you for finding a LeGiT use for this book.

"i'm not like other girls bc im depressed" isn't a personality trait, gabbie

im embarrassed for her, she's a whole different level of cringe

This book is more of a “things NOT to do when you’re writing a poem book”

“Cause I’m f-ing dope as sh-t” No Gabbie, you really aren’t. You aren’t a holo-charizard You are more like a mimikyu, trying so desperately to emulate “oh I wish I was dead so I’m cool” stereotype

Lana Del Rey wrote a poetry book and sold it for £1 because she said “thoughts don’t have a price”, her poems were amazing too.

as an English major and a poet, if she submitted any of those “poems” to an English professor, she would get laughed out of the classroom.

does this book even count as poetry? (there's maybe a couple poems. but there isn't enough to count as a poetry book) I'm related to a couple famous poets(distant), and they would most likely be horrified by this book of "poetry" my ex had this book, and it was her favorite book. so glad I left her if THIS stuff is her 'favorite book'. I'm pretty sure she read the "poetry" more than she read my, actual, poetry

"no one collects Pokemon cards anymore!" me; **nervously sweats while looking at my piles and piles of pokemon cards.

I just kept thinking “surely it can’t get worse.” but it did.

the way all these “poems” are just her twitter drafts.

She legit only did this because Bo Burnham did it and she’s obsessed with him to the point he probably should get a restraining order.

Her book is just basically r/im14andthisisdeep in book form

this is just devastatingly disrespectful to actual poets

I hate how every page is using words like “u,” “ur,” and, “wut” with no punctuation or capitalization. It’s a book, Gabbie, not a text.

My grocery shopping list sounds more like poetry.

She sounds like those girls in middle school that claim their depressed because a online test told them

Still can’t believe she’s 28 years old, and she wrote this garbage.

I’m surprised she didn’t include “real eyes, realize, real lies”

Haha suicide jokes in a "poetry" book are so funny. Not triggering to people at all wtf Gabbie

Goes up to Gabbie: "O my gosh Danny Devito I love your work!"

I'm an English teacher and I'm going to show my students these "poems" as an example of what not to do.

She thinks being “depressed” makes her quirky and not like other girls... I genuinely feel bad for those people who are actually depressed because people like Gabbie make it seem like a joke.

I swear Gabbie Hanna is trying to be a Gen Zer and failing miserably

Her book gives me ‘I’m 14 and depressed’ vibes.

This doesn’t deserve to be in the poetry category. These “poems” are pins that 13 year old girls who are “depressed” get from Pinterest and post on everywhere

Gabbie: Sad -isfied Me: die -arreah

Her book is an inspiration to aspiring poets because every time I read it I remember how my own poetry literally cannot be worse than hers.

I’m not surprised if one of the pages said “[ADD TEXT HERE]”

Why'd she write this like she's texting in 2010

Just.... and the fact that she was so “proud” of this book and acted like she worked so hard on it

“Really goes down well with a cup of bleach” LMAOOO I screamed

Sometimes i need someone educated tear down a shitshow , sometimes i cry that trees have died for this.

Let’s get something straight, these aren’t poems if anything they are awful cheesy one liner jokes with horrible punchlines and corny overused tumblr quotes and phrases that everyone has heard before, nursery rhymes at its finest

"Roses are red. My name is not Dave. This poem makes no sense. Microwave." Even this pinterest "funny poem" has more meaning than these atrocities.

"Link in Bio" Shakespeare is SHOOK

most of the poems are just stolen memes but even worse

I can’t believe how bad this is, and english is not even my first language

It sounds like some 60 year old imposter wrote this pretending to be a relatable youth....

Waiting for the "S(he) be(lie)ve(d)" poem

honestly, her poetry does not bring smiles to peoples faces but only promotes the thoughts of suicide. she is teaching young children that wanting to die is 'quirky' and 'cool'.

I wish "influencers" would stop talking about mental health and suicide like it's cool

I can't believe trees had to die for this.

I'm a journalism major, and I've taken 5 different writing composition/literature classes. Now I'm writing my own book of poetry, and hearing Gabby's poems make my teeth hurt and my head ache with embarrassment for her. The chick should've stuck to KZfaq.

Actually, the illustrations aren’t even gabbie’s. They’re her sisters’, which she stole without permission and claimed as her own.

These remind me of those Asian shirts that are translated wrong.

As a writer, I find this so frustrating. There’s so many talented people out there who will never have their work read because they don’t have the popularity. 😔

Although great poetry is diverse, there are some undeniable features. The first is an absence of cliches/platitudes. If there are seeming cliches, they're subverted (immersed as they are in strange contexts), such that they're no longer cliches. The second is surprising metaphors/images/associations. The third is depth, ambiguity - which allows for multiple interpretations. If the poem can be entirely understood after a first glance or reading, it's probably not worth much. (Note: ambiguity is NOT the same thing as obscurity which in many cases is a defect.) The fourth is a unique or unmistakable style. If you read Emily Dickinson, you can see that nobody else writes like her (assuming you're well read). The fifth is technical and artistic mastery (or near-mastery): no word is out of place, the expressions are concise yet the poem's well developed, and the highest accomplishments SEEM effortless. (Just consider Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening".) If the reader detects labor in the poem, a sense of striving, it may be a decent work, but far from great. A rich and hypnotic type of music is certainly desirable, though not in all cases appropriate - depending on the subject matter. Extremely important is memorable lapidary language. One mistake a lot of aspiring poets make (including seasoned academics who've won awards) is that they're far too attached to their own views/beliefs; there's no distance between what they believe and the "poetic expression". (Which is why, for example, so many political and religious poems flounder, devoid of artistic merit.) There's no room for ambiguity or layers: we simply have the personal view/belief of the poet expressed. It often winds up sounding like a rant or form of propaganda. Deadly is the poet's attachment to what he/she considers "truth" because too much insistence on that winds up sounding dogmatic and stifles word-play and the imagination. Whatever depth the poet reaches is done indirectly, suggestively (usually), though direct statements can be powerful, with good timing. In considering what is or is not an excellent poem, one needs to make a distinction between likes/dislikes AND good/bad. Oftentimes, people (even critics) conflate the two categories. It's possible for me to like a poem that perhaps is not great, while disliking a far superior one. A possible reason for this is that the former's views/beliefs agree with or confirm my own. The poet may have had good intentions; the thoughts expressed are comforting. If I'm a feminist and the poem empowers women in that way, then I may like the poem - to the point where the line between "like" and "good" becomes blurred or they become synonymous. But they're not so. Just because I'm moved by a poem, it doesn't necessarily follow that it's a good one. Suppose that I read a lame, pedestrian poem about a cow. If I haven't read a lot of great poetry, I may nonetheless be moved by it because it triggers a nostalgic memory of, say, my favorite cow that I had while growing up on a farm. The poet may have used a lot of cliches; the voice is generic; the poem lacks layers, ambiguity and memorable phrasing. Yet I'm moved by it. So in addition to being moved, one needs to examine how well the poem speaks to an educated sensibility. And even then, because the educated individual has biases, his judgement may still be skewed. If, however, one keeps in mind what I said in the 1st paragraph, one can spot an excellent poem, regardless of personal likes/dislikes.

The amount of narcissism this book has inspires me to feel confident about myself.

The fact that she probably a thought a lot of these were “deep” makes me cringe.

Pretty sure all these “poems” are stolen from tweets/memes/other corners of the internet I feel like I’ve heard them all before somewhere!

this is a book full of uncompleted tweets that she way overcharged people for it

Midway through I was already expecting something akin to "Here I sit, Brokenhearted. Came to shit, But only farted"

Why do all of these literally sound like a middle school diary entry

The worst ones are the ones where she is trying to make being greedy edgy.

I think my brain committed suicide

Half of it aren’t even poems, they’re bad dad jokes. Wait... did Gabbie’s dad help her write this one?