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Dom Gabriel is living proof that authenticity shifts culture.
An emo-skater kid from Toronto with a love for anime, music, and nail art, he never fit the mold of what masculinity was “supposed” to look like. That refusal to conform became his super power. And his visibility, a lifeline for millions of fans who see themselves in his style, emotional openness, and fearless self-expression.
When Netflix put him on The Mole and Perfect Match, he flipped the script by being something most men on reality TV refuse to be: vulnerable. He cried. He loved too hard. He refused to sanitize himself for the cameras. And audiences loved him for it.
When the haters called him a “cry baby,” he tattooed it on his body and turned it into a streetwear collab with Peace Collective, literally flipping a dig, into streetwear currency.
Beyond TV, he fronts DØNTCALL, a band that fuses emo and pop-punk into vulnerable anthems that, like him, wear their hearts on their sleeves.
In a culture still obsessed with boxing men into an emotionally limited “hard but hollow” facade, Dom’s unapologetic vulnerability is both infectious and liberating—for anyone questioning rigid gender norms, and for everyone who sees a bit of themselves in his refusal to play by the rules.
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