Drew Afualo Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Drew Afualo
Derw Afualo is an American author, podcaster, and influencer. She was born September 18, 1995 in Inland Empire, California. Drew is best known for her TikTok videos responding to and roasting men with their fatphobic and misogynistic viewpoints, which is often punctuated with her distinctive high pitched laugh.

She characterizes this laugh as being a natural Polynesian laugh, saying its unmistakably Islander.

As an influencer, she has provided red carpet coverage for such events as the 95th Academy Awards and the “Black Adam” premiere. Drew hosts “The Comment Section”, which is produced by Brat TV, and “Two Idiot Girls” with Deison, her sister. Both podcasts were nominated for the 15th annual Shorty Awards in the Comedy Podcast category.

On “The Comment Section”, Drew interviews fellow online creators and media figures about feminist issues, empowerment, misogyny, and relationships. Some notable guests have included Chappell Roan, Brittany Broski, Jackie Aina, Melissa Ong, Kamie Crawford, Manny MUA, Trixie Mattel, Pokimane, Johnny Sibilly, and Tefi Pessoa (InStyle social media host).

Spotify signed Drew to do this podcast exclusively on her platform starting April 5, 2023. The first season of the show on Spotify saw guests that included Tess Holliday, Meghan Trainor, Bretman Rock, Shea Coulee, and Monet X Change.

“Two Idiot Girls” is centered around Deison and Drew discussing topics like media representation of minorities, internalized misogyny, racism, and mental health in both light-hearted and serious ways. In January of 2023, a live show was held at the San Diego House of Blues.

She grew up in a Samoan family, as the middle child between younger brother Donovan and older sister named Deison. Her dad, Tait, grew up in Samoa and played professional football, like her grandpa, uncle, and many other men in her family. She has described her child self as being a “know it all”, “strong willed”, and “bossy”, and she credits her family and Samoa heritage for instilling her self-confidence, feminist viewpoint, and sense of humor.

She initially sought a career in sports journalism as “the next Bob Costas”, Drew went to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she worked for the school’s athletic department, was the sports editor of the student newspaper Ka Leo O Hawaii, and appeared regularly at Pac-12 Conference and March Madness sporting events. Drew graduated with a communications degree in journalism and sports.

At the age of 23, she was hired by the NFL as a digital media coordinator and content creator, which is something that she had seen as a dream job. However she became disillusioned with the job and was laid off after 10 months, shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic.

At her boyfriend’s encouragement, she joined TikTok in March of 2020, as he had seen her rants about college life that she had posted to Snapchat. She initially ran her account casually, only posting a handful of personal dating stories for a tinier audience, before she went viral early in 2021 with a video where she listed some “very specific red flags” in men. The video attracted a large volume of hate comments from male viewers, and Drew’s series of humorously insulting response videos to these comments gained her a newfound audience. From this, her follower count subsequently expanded from 1.5 million to 4 million in the span of just 2 months.

Starting in the middle of 2022, she has been a content creator on a full time basis, earning her living from advertisements, views, and brand sponsorships.

She was one of several online influencers that was spotlighted in eTalk Daily’s “Influenced” television special, which included Jaboukie Young-White, Megan Statler, Alex Cooper, and Donte Colley. Drew was also included in TikTok’s International Women’s Day creator spotlight along with Dylan Mulvaney and Molly Burke in the app’s Discover List in 2022, as well as in Meta’s “Creators of Tomorrow” list.

She is a fan of Disney films such as “Ratatouille” and “Monsters, Inc.”, the video game “Ghost of Tsushima, and of rapper Megan Thee Stallion. Drew has also noted that she is more laid back than her persona online.

She uses daily affirmation in order to help maintain her own self-confidence, she is often the subject of online backlash and criticism.

“Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve” is a non-fiction book that was released in 2024. The patriarchy-smashing, empowering, inspiring first book by Drew Afualo, the Spotify and TikTok star.

Drew Afualo is best known as the “Crusader for Women” and is at the head of this new generation of entertainment’s rising stars. This is part manifesto, part memoir, and part manual. It makes it clear that behind her fearsome laugh is her life philosophy and mission, this strategy for self-confidence from the inside out, and a pathway to once and for all remove men from the center of how femmes and women think about themselves.

Drew has amassed over nine million followers across all her social platforms. When she first began creating content back in 2020, she realized that men on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter, as well as the other apps were creating this sexist content aimed at disparaging women, and also containing rampant racism, fatphobia, and other various forms of bigotry, with some real-life consequences.

It didn’t take very long for her to step right into the role of unofficial watchdog for misogyny, and her own signature laugh is now recognized as a feminist call to arms, and is a summoning cry to rid the internet (and out minds, hearts, and lives) of “terrible men” and to create a space to fight those outdated patriarchal ideals.

Drew’s light, power, and hilarity all shine through from beginning to end, and should be required reading for every adult. It is great to be able to experience Drew’s essence so well throughout this well edited and written book. It was written like a big sister is offering advice on finding your voice, dating, being true to yourself, and what you should do whenever you mess up. Sprinkled in is pieces of her own life, while feeling like you are having a conversation just with Drew.