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* GenreShift: "Things Only Cat People Understand" begins as another advice video, [[spoiler:until Congress marches in with a giant robot suit, and Anna must prevent him from taking over the universe.]]
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* ThemeTuneRollCall: "I Have Six Cats" consists mostly of Anna naming and describing her cats.
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'''Anna Akana''' is a Website/{{YouTube}}r and short film creator/writer/director/actor. She currently has over one million subscribers from her comedic life advice videos and her short films. In 2013, she starred in WebVideo/RileyRewind. Her [=YouTube=] channel is [[http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnaAkana/ here]].

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'''Anna Akana''' Anna Akana is a Website/{{YouTube}}r and short film creator/writer/director/actor. She currently has over one million subscribers from her comedic life advice videos and her short films. In 2013, she starred in WebVideo/RileyRewind. Her [=YouTube=] channel is [[http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnaAkana/ here]].
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* MusicalisInterruptus: Anna's Epic Rap Battle between a scientist and her clones runs shorter than an ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' video, [[spoiler:because an Anna from an alternate universe barges in, and shoots everyone.]]
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* ToiletSeatDivorce: Inverted in "The Little Things", which ends with [[spoiler:Anna proposing to her then-boyfriend/roommate Ray William Johnson, who always put the toilet seat down for her.]]
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* ParodyCommercial: Anna made one for "Rape Prevention Leggings", camoflauge-patterned leggings that promise to render the wearer's bottom half, including her vagina, invisible to rapists.

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* ParodyCommercial: Anna made one for "Rape Prevention Leggings", camoflauge-patterned leggings that promise promoted to render the wearer's bottom half, including her vagina, invisible to rapists.
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* ParodyCommercial: Anna made one for "Rape Prevention Leggings", camoflauge-patterned leggings that promise to render the wearer's bottom half, including her vagina, invisible to rapists.
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* GenderFlip: "All Female Cast", written in response to the controversy surrounding ''Film/Ghostbusters2016''[[note]]a movie that Anna would later end up finding too much of a mixed bag to really love[[/note]], demonstrates sexist men's worst fears for all-women remakes of ''Film/RushHour'' and ''Film/{{Entourage}}'', until the men admit that [[Film/BrokebackMountain one movie]] might actually [[GirlOnGirlIsHot prove interesting]] if given that treatment.
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* BerserkButton: "Whitewashed" movies, that cast white actors in roles conceived as another ethnicity, get Anna riled up.

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* BerserkButton: "Whitewashed" movies, that cast white actors in roles conceived as another ethnicity, [[WTHCastingAgency get Anna riled up.up]].
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* BerserkButton: Movies that cast white actors in roles conceived as another ethnicity get Anna riled up.

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* BerserkButton: Movies "Whitewashed" movies, that cast white actors in roles conceived as another ethnicity ethnicity, get Anna riled up.
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* BerserkButton: Movies that cast white actors in roles conceived as another ethnicity get Anna riled up.
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* BreakupSong: In "Screw You", Anna calls out [[YourCheatingHeart a boy who cheated on her with other women]], then boasts that she found someone {{bigger| is better in bed}} and better.
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* CoolGuns: Anna loves to show off her prop gun.
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* InherentlyFunnyWord: Anna admits in "How to Get Fired From Phone Sex" that the word "penis" makes her giggle.
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* ExactWords: "''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' Ruins Lives" eventually culminates in Anna's character making a DealWithTheDevil for a Pikachu. [[spoiler:He doesn't let her ''catch'' it.]]

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* ExactWords: "''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' Ruins Lives" eventually culminates in Anna's character Anna making a DealWithTheDevil for him to bring her a Pikachu. [[spoiler:He doesn't let her ''catch'' it.]]

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* ExactWords: "''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' Ruins Lives" eventually culminates in Anna's character making a DealWithTheDevil for a Pikachu. [[spoiler:He doesn't let her ''catch'' it.]]



* ProductionPosse: Has a group of friends who are actors that she sometimes collaborates with in videos.


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* SkewedPriorities: "''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' Ruins Lives" demonstrates some of the dangers of placing catching Pokémon as the utmost importance.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After Anna learns that the expression "Over my dead body" dates back to at least the 1800s, she decides to look up what passed for a joke back then. She finds one amusing {{Pun}}[=-=]centric anecdote, which she acts out for the viewers. [[spoiler:A child sees his mother making bread, and calls her "very lazy", explaining that making bread "...is neither more nor less than ''loafing''!" As punishment for the insult, the mother denies him "hotcakes" for the next few days.]] Anna then calls this "comedy gold" by that period's standards.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After Anna learns that the expression "Over my dead body" dates back to at least the 1800s, she decides to look up what passed for a joke back then. She finds one amusing {{Pun}}[=-=]centric anecdote, which she acts out for the viewers. [[spoiler:A child sees his mother making bread, and calls her "very lazy", explaining that making bread "...is neither more nor less than ''loafing''!" As punishment for the insult, the mother denies him "hotcakes" hotcakes for the next few days.]] Anna then calls this "comedy gold" by that period's standards.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After Anna learns that the expression "Over my dead body" dates back to at least the 1800s, she decides to look up what passed for a joke back then. She finds one amusing {{Pun}}-centric anecdote, which she acts out for the viewers. [[spoiler:A child sees his mother making bread, and calls her "very lazy", explaining that making bread "...is neither more nor less than ''loafing''!" As punishment for the insult, the mother denies him "hotcakes" for the next few days.]] Anna then calls this "comedy gold" by that period's standards.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After Anna learns that the expression "Over my dead body" dates back to at least the 1800s, she decides to look up what passed for a joke back then. She finds one amusing {{Pun}}-centric {{Pun}}[=-=]centric anecdote, which she acts out for the viewers. [[spoiler:A child sees his mother making bread, and calls her "very lazy", explaining that making bread "...is neither more nor less than ''loafing''!" As punishment for the insult, the mother denies him "hotcakes" for the next few days.]] Anna then calls this "comedy gold" by that period's standards.
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* PolarOppositeTwins: The futuristic short ''Miss Earth'' stars Anna as beauty queen Victoria Young (the titular Miss Earth) and her sister, intergalactic competitor Arden Young.

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* PolarOppositeTwins: The futuristic short ''Miss Earth'' and ''Miss 2059'' stars Anna as beauty queen Victoria Young (the titular Miss Earth) and her sister, Young, twin sister of intergalactic competitor Arden Young. Young (played by Anna in ''Miss Earth'', and Nikki Soohoo in ''Miss 2059'').
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* Miss Earth (2014)

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* Miss Earth (2014)2059 (Pilot released in 2014 as Miss Earth; Official series runs 2016)
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After Anna learns that the expression "Over my dead body" dates back to at least the 1800s, she decides to look up what passed for a joke back then. She finds one amusing {{Pun}}-centric anecdote, which she acts out for the viewers. [[spoiler:A child sees his mother making bread, and calls her "very lazy", explaining that making bread "...is neither more nor less than ''loafing''!" As punishment for the insult, the mother denies him "hotcakes" for the next few days.]] Anna then calls this "comedy gold" by that period's standards.
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* SplitScreenPhoneCall: "When You're Unfriended" has one in which [[spoiler:the split disappears near the end of the scene, allowing the callers to share an actual hug.]]
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* KindheartedCatLover: Anna has five cats which she seems to spoil rotten, and often features in her videos. However, she refuses to call herself a CrazyCatLady.
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* AlliterativeName: '''A'''na '''A'''kana.

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* AlliterativeName: '''A'''na '''A'''nna '''A'''kana.
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* DirectedByCastMember: Usually stars in a main role in her short films.



* OneOfUs: Often wears shirts and dresses that reference series like ''Series/DoctorWho'', ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', ''Literature/HarryPotter'', etc.

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'''Anna Akana''' is a Website/{{YouTube}}r and short film creator/writer/director/actor. She currently has over million followers from her comedic life advice videos and her short films. In 2013, she starred in WebVideo/RileyRewind. Her [=YouTube=] channel is [[http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnaAkana/ featured here]].

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'''Anna Akana''' is a Website/{{YouTube}}r and short film creator/writer/director/actor. She currently has over one million followers subscribers from her comedic life advice videos and her short films. In 2013, she starred in WebVideo/RileyRewind. Her [=YouTube=] channel is [[http://www.youtube.com/user/AnnaAkana/ featured here]].






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* DespairEventHorizon: In her video on religion, she stated that her little sister's bullying-induced suicide essentially broke her, disconnecting her from things such as the devout Christianity she was raised on, which made her go atheist at the time.


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* DownerEnding: "Emergency Call". [[spoiler:A terrified Anna desperately reaching a 911 operator from a dark room trying to hide from a killer is eventually found, and the operator is ultimately unable to do anything but listen to Anna's tortured screams in horror.]]


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* IronicNurseryTune: Her song "Against the Darkness", a rap from the perspective of her talking to her late little sister, ends with her coldly narrating a grim variation on the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" nursery rhyme that instead has the spider drowning itself in the rain from the water spout. [[NightmareFuel It's very disturbing.]]
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* SpeechBubbles: Sometimes Anna uses these to emphasize the important parts of her videos. Other times, she uses them for a more comedic purpose, such as translating her cats' meows.
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* MamaBear: Exaggerated in ''You Wouldn't Understand'', in which Anna becomes enraged at anything that could prove the least bit dangerous to her baby (eg, a pesticide-ridden lemon peel, a sharp plastic knife).

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* MamaBear: Exaggerated in ''You Wouldn't Understand'', in which Anna becomes enraged at anyone who presents anything that could prove the least bit dangerous to her baby (eg, a pesticide-ridden lemon peel, a sharp plastic knife).
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* MamaBear: Exaggerated in ''You Wouldn't Understand'', in which Anna becomes enraged at anything that could prove the least bit dangerous to her baby (eg, a pesticide-ridden lemon peel, a sharp plastic knife).
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* Command Center (2015-)

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* Hipsters (2016)

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