Bhad Bhabie

About

Bhad Bhabie or Danielle Bregoli is an American rapper, entrepreneur and internet personality who gained notoriety for her appearance on The Dr. Phil Show in 2016. She was signed to Atlantic Records the following year and appeared on the Billboard Top 100 list twice. Bregoli now owns her own makeup company and is widely known for her feuds with Iggy Azalea and Woah Vicky.

Online History

On September 15th, 2016, The Dr. Phil Show YouTube channel uploaded a clip in which a 13-year-old girl named Danielle appears on the show with her mother, who has turned to Dr. Phil because Danielle is stealing cars. Tired of the audience laughing at her, she cries "Catch me outside, how about that?" The moment, shown in the video below, appears at about the 3:20 mark.

On September 21st, 2017, Bhad Bhabie released the music video for "Hi Bich / Whachu Know." The post (shown below) received more than 84 million views in about six months.

Within six months, on March 27th, 2018, the song had sold more than 500,000 copies, certifying the album as a gold record. Additionally, the album's success makes Bregoli the youngest female rapper in history to chart on the Billboard's Hot 100.^[6]

That day, Bregoli posted a video on her personal Instagram^[20] of herself eating cake off her gold record. She captioned the video, "HI BICH just went GOLD n my birthday cake taste fire off da plaque 📀🎂 📀 thanks to all bhad biches n dumbass hatin hoes 😘 #500ksold." The post (shown below) received more than 1.2 million views and 200,000 likes in less than six hours.

Reputation

As of December 2019, Bhad Bhabie has over 574,200 followers on Twitter,^[3] 17.1 million followers on Instagram^[2] and 7.12 subscribers on YouTube.^[5]

Airplane Incident

On February 6th, 2017, TMZ ^[7] reported that Danielle and her mother had been involved in a violent altercation with a third passenger on a Spirit Airlines flight out of the Los Angeles International Airport. The article contained video footage of the incident, showing the three women engaged in a physical fight following a verbal dispute (shown below, left). Spirit Airlines subsequently banned each of them from flying the airline for life.

Meanwhile, Danielle posted a video describing the fight on Instagram (shown below). The video was up for six hours prior to being removed, but was subsequently mirrored on YouTube.

Also on February 7th, The Daily Dot^[8] published a statement from Spirit Airlines regarding the violent altercation:

"Police removed three passengers from Spirit flight 310 during the boarding process at LAX Monday night following an altercation. The customers were refunded and refused service."

Feuds

Iggy Azalea

Iggy Azalea / Bhad Babie Feud refers to an altercation between rappers Iggy Azalea and Bhad Babie, aka Danielle Bregoli at Cardi B's Fashion Nova x Cardi B launch party. After footage of the altercation went public, it was joked about on social media. At Cardi B'd Fashion Nova x Cardi B November 14th, 2018 launch party for the rapper's fashion line, rappers Bhad Babie and Iggy Azalea got into a verbal altercation that escalated into the former throwing a drink at Azalea. The footage was posted by The Shade Room on Instagram that evening.

Woah Vicky

On October 1st, 2017, the YouTuber Face Reveals channel uploaded footage of Bregoli reacting to the Woah Vicky RiceGum diss track (shown below, right).

On July 15th, YouTuber DomisLive NEWS uploaded a video discussing a feud between Bregoli and Waldrip which garnered upwards of 1.4 million views and 5,300 comments in six months (shown below, right).

On October 30th, 2019, Bregoli and Waldrip were filmed in a physical fight at an Atlanta music studio (shown below).

Cultural Appropriation Controversy

On December 4th, 2019, Danielle Bregoli posted a video of herself in box braids to her Instagram story (shown below, left) and after getting backlash Bregoli defended her braids in another story post saying "y'all hair ain't meant to be straight but y'all glue whole wigs on to your heads" (shown below, right).

That day, Bregoli posted another video and picture of herself in braids to defend herself (shown below). Her photo accumulated over 746,500 likes in a day.^[13][14]

That day, she ended her argument with a video defending herself and a caption which reads "IM NOT SPEAKING ON THIS SHIT NO MORE I SAID WTF I SAID AND THATS PERIOD I DONT GIVE A FUCK HOW YALL FEEL ABOUT ME BUT ONE THING YALL NOT GONNA DO IS TWIST MY WORDS AND CALL ME A RACIST SEE THATS WHERE YOU GOT ME FUCKED UP" (shown below). The video garnered over 1.8 million views in a day.

Related Memes

Cash Me Ousside/ How Bow Dah

Cash Me Ousside / How Bow Dah is a memorable quote and catchphrase uttered by 13-year-old Danielle Bregoli on an episode of The Dr. Phil Show, during which she challenges the show's audience to a fight with the phrase "Catch me outside, how about that?" in a thick accent. Online, the clip has been widely mocked in a series of image macros captioned with various frustrating experiences.

On September 15th, 2016, The Dr. Phil Show YouTube channel uploaded a clip in which a 13-year-old girl named Danielle appears on the show with her mother, who has turned to Dr. Phil because Danielle is stealing cars. Tired of the audience laughing at her, she cries "Catch me outside, how about that?" The moment, shown in the video below, appears at about the 3:20 mark.

The clip, and particularly Danielle's "Catch me outside, how about that?", began spreading through the internet in the coming weeks. On October 2nd, 2016, an image of Danielle with "Cash me ousside, howbow dah?" written on it was posted to Memecrunch.^[9]

Jokes using the image macro began spreading on Instagram in late 2016 and early 2017, ^[10] but did not spike in popularity until Facebook meme page Digital Memes^[11] began posting the jokes using the image macro as well as other screenshots from the Dr. Phil clip. Their most popular post, published on January 5th, received over 75,000 shares and 14,000 likes and reactions (shown below).

I'm About to Start Swinging

As the "Cash Me Ousside" video spread, another screenshot of the video which finds Danielle saying she's on the verge of fighting someone with the phrase "I'm about to start swinging" began spreading as a reaction image.

It quickly became a popular image to recontextualize. For example, one of the most popular posts of the image was tweeted by @ziamalso,^[12] who captioned it "when i go to the park n they have swings." The tweet, shown below, gained over 38,000 retweets and 65,600 likes.

Personal Life

Danielle Bregoli was born in Boynton Beach, Florida in March of 2003 and grew up with her mother Barbara Ann.^[1]

Search Interest

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