I know this isn't the kind of thing this forum is generally interested in but here it is. I like checking out CD content on Youtube and I started getting recommendations for someone called F1NN5tER doing CD videos. The name sounded really familiar. He's a 20 year old British gamer who has a pretty big following in the world of Minecraft, that's where I knew him from. Some time ago one of my nephews who loves minecraft told me he was their favorite youtuber, and he definitely was not dressed like a girl in those videos. Thing is that Finn makes an incredible girl, his CD skills are really on point, but he makes no effort to hide his voice. Many of his CD videos involve tricking people on Omeagle and chatting with his fans, but there are many videos where he's just doing the kind of stuff the CDs do, you know like makeup tutorials, or getting dolled up and walking down the street.
Now I admit that I grew up in gamer culture but left it long ago. Finn's videos are in this hyper kinetic, rapid fire style, with so many inside references that someone over the age of 20 really struggles to even understand it. Over the last few days I've been trying to piece together this story.
Twitch is a popular streaming platform, gamers play games and talk, and their followers chat and occasionally donate money towards the streamers. Apparently one can make a living doing this... Anyway it is apparently common for popular streamers to receive gifts from fans and merchandise from companies in hopes the Streamer will show the items in their streams. Finn would open these items in his stream. At some point in the not so distance past Finn was opening a package and found it contained dresses from a Chinese company who wanted him to wear them in his channel. Finn's fans went crazy and soon he was receiving tons of donations driving him to wear the dresses. It is apparently common for streamers to set up donation goals, so if I receive Y dollars I'll do X.
SO Finn wore the dress, but it didn't' stop there, his fans wanted more. Makeup, eyelashes, breasts, wigs. Soon he was receiving gifts in the mail, more clothes, more wigs, he even received a silicon chest plate. While his main youtube channel only seems to have one video from 6 months ago about it, his current streams are almost entirely him dressed, and looking incredibly hot. In comments on his videos there is tons of discussion about his sexuality and motives, he gets lots of support and lots of hate, but many seem to think that what started as a joke has had a profound impact on Finn.
I find this story fascinating on many levels. First off the whole concept of essentially turning your life over to your fans for money is so ethically messed up, but then again isn't that what most jobs are. There is the classic story of an unsuspecting man getting a slight taste of femininity and wanting more. Then there is the cross dressers dream come true of having stuff sent to you, being paid to wear it, and a huge audience wanting to see it. Then finally what can we really believe about this story? Did Finn actually get dresses sent to him? Did he somehow overnight learn how to look like a very pretty girl? Did he manipulate his fans into paying him to do something he wanted to do and get millions of views in the process.