Smokey Glow

Hannah (born: )https://x.com/glow_smokey/status/1495641076526469122https://x.com/glow_smokey/status/1628193779554430977https://x.com/FamousBirthdays/status/1628059110502440962, better known online as Smokey Glow, is an American YouTuber.
==Content==
While Hannah began as a beauty YouTuber who mostly posted chatty Get Ready With Me's, she pivoted over time to commentary style videos that discuss YouTube-related drama as well as other pop cultural topics. In terms of beauty content, Hannah still posts makeup hauls and reviews along with a conversational segment called TALKtorial Tuesday for over 400,000 subscribers. In terms of commentary videos, she has been very critical of YouTubers who she feels use their platforms irresponsibly, expressing that they should be more conscious of their job as role models. Hannah was very critical of fellow YouTuber Haley Pham, who she called entitled and out-of-touch due in part to the fact that she became a millionaire at 18.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjgWM7vUfy0&ab_channel=SmokeyGlow She was also very critical of Olivia Jade following the admissions scandal "Operation Varsity Blues", and predicted that "she would never learn" following her lackluster response to the broad criticism her and her mother faced for their participation in and orchestration of the scandal.https://youtu.be/o_lLeGG52v8?si=7Xr4Qjzt3Ph8cAkq She has also made her stance on family vlogging clear as well as her support for online child actors to have rights. Due to this, she has criticized many family vloggers that seemingly exploit their children for monetary and political gain, such as the Labrant family.https://youtu.be/FQroSKiSa_8?si=5rwluD20Bh_m1qnF
==Personal Life==
In 2013, Hannah graduated high school and began attending her first year of college to study communications and dropped out after one year. She cites her struggle with class attendance, low grades, her dislike of her chosen major, and developing alcoholism as her reasons for doing so. Before her second attempt at a bachelor's degree, she took a three year gap.https://youtu.be/_RXML7hiPqI?si=7MT2ZdhUNFoQljjj During this time, she briefly worked for her uncle's catering business in Virginia before volunteering to teach English in Nepal for two months. She has described this as a life changing and unforgettable experience despite the challenges she faced. This inspired her to begin working at a daycare to continue working with children and later pursuing social work.https://youtu.be/iO-LmSEygoQ?si=x7QJ9pSngfHgjd6yhttps://youtu.be/y5yYERXqfX0?si=isXOGgtWdQWhUlIe After spending some time working on and off and taking community college classes, she applied to go to college at the State University of New York at Brockport (aka SUNY Brockport). She was accepted as a communications major, but had to jump through additional hoops in order to get into the social work program due to her O.0 GPA from her first attempt at college. She graduated with a 4.0 GPA and a bachelor's in Social Work from SUNY Brockport in 2020 and won a departmental award for her activism.https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2040653149369370 She went on to pursue a master's of Social Work and later graduated. 
Around 2015, Hannah met a man named Charles through the dating app Tinder. They had attended the Gov Ball music festival in New York City a few feet from each other and lived on the same street in Rochester, NY, but had never met.https://youtu.be/l5wLvFtwBmM?si=igd376J6fjDh1mzI After six years of partnership and two years of engagement, Hannah and Charles got legally married in a small ceremony in a park in March of 2021 that was only attended by their parents and Charles' brother as the officiant. This was partially due to excitement and partially due to Hannah losing her health insurance. They rescheduled their summer 2021 wedding celebration to July 2022 due to fears related to Covid-19. In fall of 2021, the couple began having marital problems, and Hannah announced that they had bought a house together in November.https://x.com/glow_smokey/status/1460295765117517828https://youtu.be/DJHiXvEP_LQ?si=ck3lQ-7gXdjZ6hdT They later decided to separate in May of 2022. Hannah revealed in a video in June of 2022 that shortly after their separation, she suffered a traumatic miscarriage while on her would-be bachelorette trip in Costa Rica.https://youtu.be/J3VS-qbqhcM?si=zOTaVH3fnwXaORTn The couple canceled their wedding celebration, and Hannah tweeted a notes app statement in July of 2022 that Covid had caused a strain on their relationship, that they had separated in May, and would soon divorce.https://x.com/glow_smokey/status/1552709993983508484 Charles moved out of the marital home in fall of 2022. Hannah describes the divorce as incredibly amicable, and describes Charles as her best friend that she can still always call on. She has two Boston Terriers, Oliver and Stella, who she "shares custody of" with her ex-husband. 
Hannah has cited her mental health struggles on several occasions as the main reason why she has taken steps away from her YouTube channel.https://youtu.be/rnz89rDziyo?si=hcQVfPumUH4yURAOhttps://youtu.be/olE6bEe8Ooo?si=GomywtI7W3JrATll She has been a vocal advocate for mental health awareness and mental health resources, including access to therapy and medication. She has used her platform to open up about her experiences related to her history of mental health struggles, processing grief and trauma, attending therapy, being institutionalized, her miscarriage, her divorce, imposter syndrome, and being a survivor of sexual assault. 
In the past, she has openly talked about her sobriety journey in many videos across her channel. She suffered from alcoholism during her first attempt at going to college, and she cites using it to cope with unprocessed trauma as the cause. In July 2024, she posted a video opening up about her experience relapsing into alcoholism after 7.5 years of sobriety as a result of turmoil in her marriage, severe grief from the loss of multiple loved ones, her divorce, her miscarriage, and other mental health issues. She began casually drinking again in 2021-2022 which developed into a severe alcohol dependency. She was institutionalized and later sent to Silver Pines in Pennsylvania to get fully sober, where she had a very positive experience. She has also spoken positively of attending multiple types of therapy to deal with unprocessed trauma as well as getting on medication. As of July 5, 2024, she achieved 100 days of sobriety.https://youtu.be/BRWZesXTtCA?si=MI3TqOW7yLBgPW3- 
Hannah has spoken passionately about social justice issues in her videos and uses the "Social Justice Spotlight" in her video descriptions to bring light to educational resources and links to donate to various causes. She has spotlighted racial justice, support for aid in Gaza, mental health resources, voter registration, pro-choice causes, and more.https://youtu.be/sUwYicRsxdU?si=RzzNdKcW2CWCMp5K She also has a second channel, titled Hannah Glow, that features "more casual" videos. It has been inactive since 2022.https://youtube.com/@hannahglow1917?si=lMQtMT9qhk7x63yg Hannah also has a channel called The Glow Show, formerly called "The Middle Ground Podcast" which she hosted with her now ex-husband Charles. Almost all of the content from that channel has been deleted except for an episode with her best friend and at one point acting assistant, David.https://www.youtube.com/@theglowshow2135
Hannah is close friends with fellow YouTubers Nisa (nisipisa), Lacie (spookylipsandfathips), Theresa (Theresa is Dead), and Abby Williamson, with whom she has made collab videos.https://youtu.be/_y3fr5VYSRw?si=S1e8GEEz1w6ISsRVhttps://youtu.be/veL-HYwNmhw?si=IeG6wLVE82nbC3Jfhttps://youtu.be/Py0fZt-FiHo?si=sS2kdCthGSTT_WCXhttps://youtu.be/teebTWRyFA0?si=fnZnNyddF8Vvytaz She is also friends with and has collaborated with Georgia Harris, who no longer makes YouTube videos and has deleted her YouTube and Half Cousins Podcast channels.https://youtu.be/NGiHhPwSz7k?si=UILNHMnTS7VczCXyhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ2fd8HJ8s9_S5KiV2TobBghttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnia1tCz549eNjS1tJf_Xnw
In January of 2020, she revealed the collaborative Smokey Glow collection she created with Midas Cosmetics. This included an eyeshadow palette, three lip glosses, and a highlighter duo.https://youtu.be/Fg8iCO4l5LY?si=ch09sdnzU27-RDM5 Midas Cosmetics announced their impending closure on December 31, 2021 and were selling off items at a discount to clear product, including the highlighters and glosses from the collection.https://www.instagram.com/p/CYKo9-qJKz-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgcL70blHxF/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Midas is still currently defunct as part of their rebrand to Mydas Cosmetics, and the collection is no longer available.https://www.instagram.com/mydascosmetics/
==Controversies==
===Feud with Angelika Oles===
In August 2020, Angelika was called out for offensive comments she made towards disabled people.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXekjO53cQ0&ab_channel=DianaPlantana When she faced backlash, she made a public response where she cut out the offensive parts of her videos.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaySoxhpo94&ab_channel=AngelikaOles A friend of Angelika, Smokey Glow, cut ties with her over the remarks and was met with mixed reception, as some people thought that it was too far, as well as others who thought that Glow was practicing what she preaches. Angelika would then make a response video to Glow, where she exposed private dms, reddit threads, past comments and more to show Hannah's hypocrisy of creators who had said similarly problematic things. Hannah made a response where she admitted all her mistakes, and then talked about the other problematic creators.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaySoxhpo94&ab_channel=AngelikaOles
==References==
Category:Beauty YouTubers
Category:Commentary YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2017