TikTok sensation Gabbi Bolt’s warning to rising social media stars

TikTok sensation Gabbi Bolt’s warning to rising social media stars

By Matt Demarco For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 03:59 BST, 3 August 2023 | Updated: 04:00 BST, 3 August 2023

Comedian Gabbi Bolt has given a serious warning to aspiring social media stars.

The TikTok sensation, 26, sat down with 9Honey to talk about her sudden rise to success and to offer advice to anyone following in her footsteps. 

Gabbi told the publication that the comedy scene in Australia is ‘incredibly gatekept’ with no ‘transparency from higher ups’ and that ‘trying to find what you’re worth, particularly professionally, is really tricky to navigate.’

As a result, Bolt warns emerging stars not to take free gigs: ‘Don’t do it, it doesn’t help you and it doesn’t help anybody around you.’

Bolt’s viral videos, offering musical parody renditions of politicians and journalists have become popular not just in Australia, but overseas as well.

Comedian and TikTok star Gabbi Bolt has given a serious warning to aspiring social media stars

Like many young content creators, Gabbi has found fame on TikTok, which is a Chinese-run social media app that last year exceeded 1 billion active users. 

The Bathurst-born musical comedian got her first inkling of fame during lockdown, when she posted a steamy love song version of an exchange between then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison and former ABC Political Editor, Andrew Probyn.

She also wrote an old school hip-hop song to promote Kevin Rudd’s call for a Murdoch royal commission.

But it wasn’t until she answered a TikTok prompt asking ‘what if the 2007 animated film Ratatouille was a musical?’ that she shot to worldwide fame.

Gabbi crafted a song about the rodent protagonist’s father called ‘Trash is Our Treasure’ and uploaded it, then said she completely forgot about it.

Bolt’s viral videos, offering musical parody renditions of politicians and journalists have become popular not just in Australia, but overseas as well 

The next morning, she woke up to 85,000 likes and a month later a Broadway production company approached her, saying they wanted to workshop the song with industry professionals.

‘It just felt like I was living in two completely different worlds at that time. Very wild,’ Gabbi told 9Honey.

The Aussie social media creator’s rise to comedy stardom was as much a surprise to her as anyone else.  

‘I didn’t even know I was capable of being a comedian because I really didn’t have much room to stretch that muscle at all… I very very very much fell into comedy,’ she said. 

Gabbi now boasts 217,000 followers on TikTok and hosts her own podcast focused on issuing musical advice to pop stars. 

Bolt warns emerging stars not to take free gigs: ‘Don’t do it, it doesn’t help you and it doesn’t help anybody around you’ 

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