2 Gabriel’s Twitter feed is an assemblage of porn videos, narratives of everyday life, stories of sexual encounters, and musings about his romantic desires. In the words of Gabriel (not his real name), who has more than ninety thousand followers, he lets his porn videos do the work of increasing his followers.
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Instead, they simply release portions of their recorded sex videos in a series of tweets and wait until they get more followers. Meanwhile, other pornographers in the alter community do not ask for retweets and more followers. Unfortunately, it seems that he deactivated (if not outright deleted) his account. I tried returning to his profile after three days to get screenshots of this and to see how his farewell fared with his followers. In his last tweet, he thanked his followers and bid goodbye to the alter community. In a tell-all thread, Anton narrated how he is tired of feeling embarrassed because he was “begging” his followers to like and retweet his porn videos. In late 2020, a Filipino gay pornographer named Anton (not his actual name) tweeted, “You want to see me getting fucked by this hot and muscular athlete? Follow me and retweet for more.” 1 After a few days, the tweet did not go past his target of two hundred retweets, and he claimed he did not garner enough followers.
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This article contributes to an understanding of how pornographic images and serial narratives fit into consumerist culture and how platforms exploit long-standing affective needs of sexual minorities to ensure extended production and consumption of contents. Thus, serial narratives can resolve present and urgent affective tensions and needs that unravel within an ongoing life narrative rather than working toward supporting a plausible ending, as seen in other serial forms. Serial porn images are strategically and carefully constructed narratives of sexual encounters aimed at garnering higher social engagement and validation. Furthermore, this essay proposes that serial porn on Twitter brings new insights to how seriality is conceived. As Twitter renders older tweets ephemeral and quantifies social engagement, seriality enables gay men to satisfy the aforementioned needs longer. These needs, this essay claims, stem from long history of minoritization of homosexuality. In situating seriality within the context of gay amateur porn economy, this article argues that serial pornography is instrumental in satisfying both present and long-standing affective, sexual, and social needs of gay men. This essay analyzes data from online observations, content analysis of tweets and profiles, and interviews and is informed by theories on seriality, gay sexuality, and Internet studies. In the case of Twitter, the platform’s short form formats and real-time content generation fosters a particular kind of seriality. Seriality is influenced by technological features and affordances of a media platform.
The alter community is prominent among Filipino gay men who satisfy their need for sexual arousal, collective identity, and validation of their sexuality in the alter community.
This article examines the notion of seriality in the context of the Filipino alter community, a network of Twitter users producing, distributing, and consuming pornographic images.