The Gabby Story

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Title:	The Gabby Story [Or something to that effect] (shortened on Fanlore for clarity)
Creator:	MadiYasha
Date(s):	09 October 2010
Medium:	DeviantArt journal
Fandom:	Total Drama
Topic:	Total Drama BNF fanartist, fanwriter and DeviantArt club organizer Fckn
External Links:	The Gabby Story (Or something to that effect), Archived version on DeviantArt
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The Gabby Story is part exposé, part informational journal post regarding Total Drama BNF Fckn, a.k.a. Gabby. She had been ostracized from her friend group prior to the journal for being rude and for tracing ayOObrix3's Total Drama fanart, who was a friend of hers, and passing it off as her own. Shortly after the journal was posted, on around November 2nd, she deactivated her DeviantArt and left the fandom.

News of the journal spread quickly. A post was made to the largest Katie/Noah DeviantArt club, which she founded, about how she's "probably gonna be on hiatus for... a realllllly long time" the same day the journal went up. Although her fanfiction is still on her Fckn FanFiction.Net account, much of her fanart originally posted to DeviantArt has since been lost.

Because Fckn was most well-known for popularizing and practically creating Katie/Noah, her floucing may have led to the ship becoming a rarepair by 2011.

Topics Discussed in the Post

• How MadiYasha and Fckn first met.
• Online friends in general, (and by extension online fandom.)
• Gabby being self-centered and obsessed with the show.
• An unrelated incident regarding a stalker of MadiYasha's and how Fckn reacted to it poorly.
• Evidence for art tracing (all photo links are broken, however, as of 2024.)

Excerpts

It was approximately two years ago when I met [redacted], otherwise known to deviantART as "Fckn." At the time I had a small following on YouTube within the Total Drama Island fan base for the videos that I made. Gabby had a similar following because of her art, and as far as I could tell she carried some watchers over from her previous account--used for SP fan art. I talked to her, telling her she was a cool person. She wasn't like a lot of the people in the fan base--she appeared to have a rational mind and didn't just blindly judge anyone who didn't agree with her. She spoke like a /b/tard, and I guess that command of the wonderful "internet meme" language was what drew me to her. I could relate.

Months went by and our followings started growing into fans, into friends, into regulars. I was one of the most famous people in the TDI fan base, competing only with Saradomin and Thecartoonremix, two TDI uploaders. Gabby's ranks were also rising on dA, our charisma was unstoppable. Last summer, Jordan and I decided to create a forum. Nothing better to do, we did--it was called Total Drama Fantic, and you could say that was where the real story started.

So, you can imagine that it's been the same since that long summer ago. Gabby was one of these people--one of these friends who I loved and cared about. She was in Skype with us. We drew pictures for her and she did the same for us, we watched TDA and laughed and cried and had loads of fun. I could honestly say that I loved her.

I hung up and cried to my dad to call the police. I was absolutely terrified. He had guns, I'd seen them. He bragged all the time about going against Canadian law, how he hated the cops, etc. He wasn't smart enough to use a proxy. I'm sure there were tons of things that didn't make sense about the situation, but I was 13 years old and all I knew was that I was terrified.

So I did what I'd do in any other situation--I logged onto skype, where I bawled my eyes out to my friends. I was given many comforting words by my friends, and when it came time for Gabby to do her part as a friend, she failed. I can't remember exactly what her words were, but it basically consisted of her telling me to hit the man who was going to kill me with a shovel. Nine times. She then started going on about some picture of Trent she was inking and colouring in Photoshop.

Memories started flashing through my mind of when Gabby would come into the chat and whine about her family, or her living situation. We had a bit of an unspoken rule in skype that the worst you'd been through was the worst you'd been through--we were there for you regardless, but no matter what your issue was, someone else had it a million times worse. Gabby's problems were very trivial, but we always listened and comforted--as good friends should.

So here I was, crying my eyes out to the most amazing people in the world in my eyes, and one of them doesn't even understand the validity of the situation. I struggled to explain to her that I wasn't joking around, and she said nothing.

I left in a blind rage.

With my final ounce of anger, I posted this journal:

"If Gabby aka Fckn is telling you we decided to just stop being friends, it isn't true. There's some shit I've been meaning to tell the general public of dA, but haven't been able to say it without sounding mean.

There was no random decision to stop talking, I got really sick of how conceited she was. She's the most self-centered person I know, all she cares about is making herxNoah canon, she's delusional, is dating HERSELF on dA, and on top of that, every time someone on skype would have a problem with our lives, she'd ignore us and start talking about TDI.

That's ALL she cared about was TDI, TDI, TDI. Not in the sense that most of us fans do, I mean she is obsessed with it to the point of where she puts it before reality and doesn't consider that the skype group has lives beyond it. There was literally a time when I was going to be killed by a potential assailant, I went on skype and told them and Gabby merely rambled about some picture of Trent she was drawing. Then when she bitches about how terrible her life is and BAWW and all that, we're expected to give her attention.

She's one of those egocentric kids who disguises herself as those of us who are different--the problem is she's so good at putting on an act as a normal individual that no one sees what me and a lot of skypers do. We all loathe her; I'm just the only one that was brave enough to say anything. Everyone thinks she's so sweet, and so kind, and adorable with Noah and blahhh. But she pressures us to say what she wants to hear, and I don't like that. She doesn't treat me or anyone on TDF like friends, she treats us like objects to lean on as proof that she's accepted--and if she thought about us rather than herself for once, maybe I wouldn't mind all that.

I don't like feeling pressured and I don't like being used, and with here, that's all I was.

Thanks to those of you who have expressed your loyalty to me in all this. To those of you who haven't then whatever. I'm honestly not trying to be mean, it's just... I'm usually really kind to everyone, regardless of how different they are--but in this situation, I really just can't stand being around someone so narcissistic. She's the biggest Girl!Justin I know--but she's one hell of a Heather if she can hide it so well."

Still, she kept us all blocked. More and more people started turning on her, and after apologies were demanded, she wrote the exact same one for all of us and copypasted it into each note. She did not send me or Abby one. Weeks passed, and finally I got this:

"I know we all make mistakes, but what I've done to you was probably the biggest one I've ever made. Last year, I've done something terribly wrong, and I never really knew what was going on until just recently. Thinking back, now I know what I've done to hurt you.

I'm so sorry for ever offending you in any kind of way. I'm sorry for hurting you, leaving you betrayed, using you. I know that this is all my fault, and I always thought I was right; now I know that I'm wrong. I've done a lot of stupid things in the past, but I'm slowly changing, and I'm trying my best into becoming a stronger person. You're a great artist, an excellent writer, and very intelligent. You would make me laugh every day, and I ruined it. We don't have to be good friends like we used to before this all started, but it would be good enough if we would just resolve the problem and respect each other for who we are and what we do.

We don't have to be so cruel, we really don't. All I'm trying to say is that what I've done was really regretful, very stupid and immature. I could be a better person than that, and to care more for my friends than just to myself. I have a lot to learn, and I too felt uncomfortable the time we would be so mad at each other, not knowing it was my fault. This is coming from the heart, and I really care. My apologies to you, I'm sorry for how cruel I was towards you, and how miserable I made you feel in the past. I'm deeply sorry for what I've caused. I just hope we can respect each other again.

-Gabby"

Notice how she never even explained what that "thing" she did to me was. This was only a variation of the note she sent to everyone, we all compared them over skype. We decided that the only reason she apologized was because she was told to.

Personally, I find it insulting that Gabby could think someone is that stupid. If you're going to trace, don't trace artwork your best friend did (she should know that, she traces official TDI screen caps all the time...) It's a little hard to believe, but the evidence is right there.

Reactions

TDIfanart Oct 9, 2010
... Wow.
Honestly, I've never liked Gabby. So this whole journal was extremely enjoyable for me haha. Even before I had any type of conversation with her, I just didn't like her. I thought her art-no, her gallery in general-was quite laughable compared to her amount of pageviews, watchers, ect./, and I thought her liking towards TDI was disturbingly obsessive.

Actually, I remember the only time I ever had a decent argument with her was over the Hetalia series, under a poll she made where she bitched about all the TDI fans converting over to APH, as if every TDI fan's 'fandom' was any of her goddamn business.

Eh. What'ah douche.

ayOObrix3, a.k.a. chickenmcnuggie Oct 9, 2010
I showed this to a lot of her supporters.
Excellent explanation, Madi.
Gabby's sinking so low right now. She's running away from her problems again, thinking of nothing but herself. There are STILL a few people who support her on here; they all miss her and want to talk to her about it. Her being the person she is, she doesn't even remember them.

I noticed that me and you, the two people who were probably hurt by her the most, are the one's who bash her the least. We really speak from the heart.
Call me crazy, but despite all that she's done to me, I still care for her.

TDIn6teenPwn Oct 9, 2010
Okay, you got me. I didn't protect Gabby at all, but seeing this won't exactly make me try now. I'm not gonna go all hate on her like that one troll (n/o), but it's clear to me now that all you said about her is true.

I suppose I should thank you, because I considered her as a friend, but I guess I was wrong.

diopsided Oct 11, 2010
Thank you ♥

This explained so much to me. I was pretty good friends with Gabby, we talked on MSN quite a bit and drew some gift art for each other. But the tracing thing...I hadn't seen the picture before I read this journal, but that was just low.

musicstorestandee Oct 12, 2010
I'm so happy I signed on today...this is just like high school, though i'm glad you ahave the guts to go against...let's call her the 'popular group' in an extremely mature way. Usually people just out of the blue start being extreme jerks, but you slowed into it. I for one am very impressed.

I remembered the good old days of Skype (oh my god great great summer :'D), this made me miss that. But anyway I don't want to go into my personal opinion about Gabby because I don't really think it's my place but I'm just writing this because

*people look over here* this is how you handle someone.

DunGwenLover Oct 30, 2010
I've been wondering for a while what was going on with the TD fanbase and "Gabby," and now I get it. I can't believe someone could actually do ALL that....thank you for laying this out.