Akilah Obviously

Akilah Hughes (born ) is an American comedian, author, and podcast host.
==Personal life==
Akilah has a Bachelor of Arts in broadcasting. She is originally from Kentucky, and moved to New York to do comedy.
In 2016, Akilah contracted , and received a letter from Hillary Clinton about it.
She has a dog named Fauci.
==Hosting==
Akilah co-hosted 's news podcast What a Day from 2019 to 2021, with Gideon Resnick.
In 2019, Akilah toured with the podcast. She has been a recurring guest on HBO's .
==Television==
In March 2020, Hughes began voicing Theresa on “.”
In 2013, she was on .
==Book==
Akilah is the author of the essay collection OBVIOUSLY: Stories from my Timeline. It was published on September 24, 2019, with Razorbill Books, an imprint of .
It is 272 pages long, has 31 chapters, and is dedicated to .
==YouTube==
Akilah uploaded her first video, Akilah's hairrr, on December 5, 2006.
Akilah's first videos were mostly shopping hauls and book reviews. She later decided to just "make fun of [her]self.”
After moving to New York, she got a scholarship to , and made YouTube videos at night.
Akilah uploaded “Meet Your First Black Girlfriend” on December 3, 2013. The video, which was inspired by a conversation about an interracial relationship, went viral. She subsequently left a comedy-writing job at MTV, and started working for . There, she wrote and made videos including the commentary series This Shouldn’t Be News, and The Curls Room, a show about natural hair.
In April 2015, Akilah uploaded On Intersectionality in Feminism and Pizza | Akilah Obviously, which also went viral.
In January 2017, Akilah was nominated for a .
===StopBuzzThieves===
In July 2016, Akilah accused BuzzFeedVideo of stealing video ideas from her and other creators. She started a petition to stop advertisers from supporting them. She pointed to the similarity between Buzzfeed's The Perfect Weekend For An Introvert and her video How To Be An Introvert.
===Lawsuit against Sargon of Akkad===
In February 2020 Sargon of Akkad uploaded SJW Levels of Awareness, which used Akilah's 2016 video We Thought She Would Win | Akilah Obviously which was footage and commentary of Hillary Clinton’s election night party. Sargon does not say anything in his video.
In August 2017, Akilah filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Sargon, pointing out that his video was simply a compilation of clips from hers, in which he did not say anything. In February 2020, Sargon won the case, after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the suit was "objectively unreasonable" and meant to cause financial harm. He was awarded over $38,000 in attorneys’ fees. According to the court, Akilah had admitted online that she intended to bankrupt Sargon.
Sargon made a GoFundMe campaign for his legal fees, which raised three times as much as he ended up spending.
==References==
Category:Comedy YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2006