'When I first became notable online, people generally didn't know I was gay. And as one of the first Asian faces in casts of non-Asians, I had to beat everybody. I had to be better. I had to be stronger...' EugeneLeeYang
Sure, he could use our obsession with the cult of internet celebrity to give"I'm Gay" an initial push, a reason for people to watch, something for his millions of followers and subscribers to talk about.
"I was clearly queer to a general Western, younger audience. Constantly winking at the camera in regards to people knowing I wasn't heterosexual," he says, before crediting his fans — some of whom told him that his videos had inspired them to come out to their parents — as the catalyst for"I'm Gay." For many Asian-Americans, otherness is something we've been conditioned to co-opt as a formative identity. As Yang points out, while every minority group can attest to the idea that we're been trained to view ourselves through the perspective of older, straight, white, cis men, it's"hard to hide our ethnicity," and that became the first hurdle he had to overcome.
"I was always told, again and again by others, that I was different," Yang says."But weirdly, what oppressed me in my childhood was what I could sell in my career."— as a content creator who was forced to embody the quintessential millennial affect of upbeat candor — and occupying this platform at a time when media decided diversity was profitable.
Yang hypothesizes that this is perhaps a factor in his more cerebral work finally been able to flourish — this desire to explore the unique intersections of identity each of us occupy. "[I want to ask], 'What's the dynamite that some of these structures need to crumble?" he says, adding that both of his parents have since moved on and flourished."Mine was the divorce, which was the craziest but most amazing thing that could've happened to my family."
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