Book chapter
Do I Look Like a Woman to You? Twitch, Irony, and the Female-Presenting Breast
Mediating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the GenZ Era, pp 110-121
01 Jan 2025
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Abstract
Popular Twitch streamer F1NN5TER was temporarily banned in 2023 from the live video streaming platform for, according to him, “prolonged touching of female presenting breasts.” F1NN5TER markets himself as the “Most popular ‘woman’ (male) of all time - Genderfluid,” because although he speaks with a masculine baritone and goes by male pronouns, he wears feminine clothing and makeup during streams. F1nn’s burlesque sexual performance differs from drag in that it caters more to the straight male gaze. F1nn emulates camgirls, performing reluctant intimacy with her audience and adopting a cutesy feminine persona while simultaneously insisting on his masculinity. This kind of playfulness with gender represents an ironic engagement with gender norms endemic to much of the largely GenZ audience on Twitch. This analysis applies gender performativity to F1nn’s streams, his temporary ban from Twitch, and the discourse among his GenZ audience on the r/f1nn5ter subreddit.
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- Title
- Do I Look Like a Woman to You? Twitch, Irony, and the Female-Presenting Breast
- Creators
- David S. Frank - Drexel University, Communication
- Contributors
- Rachel R Reynolds (Editor) - Drexel University, CommunicationDacia Pajé (Editor) - Providence CollegeSienna Medina (Editor)John Gigante (Editor) - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Mediating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the GenZ Era, pp 110-121
- Series
- Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 12
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001691790700009
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105023758481
- Other Identifier
- 991022170459104721
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