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Abigail has also had various acting roles and has written and starred in ''The Prince'', an Off West End Play. In March 2024, she announced that she would appear in ''Series/TheAcolyte'', making her the first transgender performer in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' franchise.

Abigail has also had various acting roles and has written and starred in ''The Prince'', an Off West End Play.

** Abigail herself also cameoed in WebVideo/SomeMoreNews TheMovie as British Cody.

--->''"Do not '@' me, astrology twitter; this is the pettiest hill I will die on!"''

* SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish: Abigail is actually [[OopNorth Geordie]], but speaks in RP in all her videos (though mostly because it's just plain easier to understand if you're not British).

** Across multiple videos, she will attempt to read a dictionary definition of a word, only to deadpan read out something unrelated. In "Confucius", she tries read how the Oxford dictionary defines certain Chinese words, and gets a letter from someone demanding a ransom for the dictionary. In "Violence and Protest", she tries to read the definition of "violence", and says "Your subscription to the Oxford Online Dictionary has expired, click here to renew". In IIRC her "Ignorance and Censorship", she reads a definition as "isn't the use of dictionary definitions played out?"

* Across multiple videos, she will attempt to read a dictionary definition of a word, only to deadpan read out something unrelated. In "Confucius", she tries read how the Oxford dictionary defines certain Chinese words, and gets a letter from someone demanding a ransom for the dictionary. In "Violence and Protest", she tries to read the definition of "violence", and says "Your subscription to the Oxford Online Dictionary has expired, click here to renew". In IIRC her "Ignorance and Censorship", she reads a definition as "isn't the use of dictionary definitions played out?"

** Twice over in "Confucius". One is the appearance of a posh Brit historian, Sir Nigel Piss, who repeatedly states the Chinese "never had a secular enlightenment" and endlessly praises Great Britain. Another is Abigail reaching out to read how the Oxford dictionary defines certain Chinese words, only to read a letter from someone demanding a ransom for the dictionary.
** Similarly, in her "Ignorance & Censorship" video, Abigail (in a library of all knowledge, including "my romantic failures, ordered alphabetically") repeatedly tries to translate the Greek roots of philosophical terms, but ends up quoting the names of her romantic failures.

** According to her ''Marxism and Witchcraft'' video, Abigail doesn't believe in God. Or magic. Or astrology. Cue ''{{GASP}}!'' and booing.

* OutDamnedSpot: In ''Elon Musk,'' Pontius Pilate is re-imagined as a Steve Jobs/Elon Musk-type 'comprehensive designer' who has a breakdown trying to get the blood off his hands for killing Jesus Christ (a metaphor for the inadvertent harm brought by consumer capitalism, even when used by liberal personalities).

** ''Violence and Protest'' has Abigail summarize the plot of ''Literature/TheIliad'', which abruptly and seemlessly shifts into a summary of the second half of ''Anime/DragonBallZ''

* UncannyValley:[[invoked]] Abigail invokes this in "Identity: A Trans Coming Out Story" by having the bulk of the presentation as a familiar Philosophy Tube video...where the host, her old male persona, is played by a different person doing a very good job acting and looking like Abigail used to. This resonates with the perspective she delivers on how living as a man had been a role she played like an actor since another person can play the role just as well, and the not-quite familiarity of the performance for viewers connects to Abigail's own lack of identification with her old persona.

Abagail has also had various acting roles and has written and starred in ''The Prince'', an Off West End Play.