YouTuber Gabbie Hanna begged her stalker to leave her alone in a series of tweets

• YouTuber Gabbie Hanna openly tweeted to her stalker and pleaded with them to leave her alone.
• She posted two tweets on May 9 explaining how scary it was to know they were out there.
• She said it was hard to engage with her 6 million fans when any of them could be the stalker hiding behind a different identity.
• She begged them to leave her family and friends alone, and that she didn't know what they wanted.
• "PLEASE let me live in peace," she said.
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YouTuber Gabbie Hanna made a very public plea to a stalker who has been making her life a misery on Twitter. She posted two tweets on Sunday asking her stalker to leave her, her family, and her friends alone.

"The worst part of having a stalker is the paranoia," she wrote. "It makes it hard to engage with fans because you never know if it's the person that hurt you behind the keyboard."

You can keep on blocking accounts, she said, but they always find a way to contact her.

"They always find a f---ing way," she said.

Hanna begged the stalker through the tweets after clearly reaching the end of her tether.

"This is me pleading with you, knowing you're reading this," she said. "Please, PLEASE leave me alone. Leave my friends, family, and fans alone. I don't know what you want from me, I don't know what you're looking for or waiting for. PLEASE let me live in peace."

Hanna has publicly talked about having a stalker before in a storytime video from 2015. Someone pretended to be one of her best friends with a new number, and then started asking her intimate questions and tried to trick her into making adult content.

It's unclear whether this is the same stalker or a different one, as Hanna receives an inordinate amount of negative attention online.

She spoke to Insider for a previous article about her struggles with body confidence, saying she doesn't even look at her comments anymore despite loving that close relationship with her fans.

"I feel very detached from social media," she said. "I basically use it as a job where I post and then I go and then that's it. I don't harp on what other people think or say because it can get very hateful and I'm just not at a place in my life where I'm willing to deal with that type of energy."

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