Hanging Out At Home As A Lifestyle (in the time of COVID-19)
As city-wide lockdowns and home-isolations kicked in across various countries in the past few months, more and more people took to social media to muse, gripe, reflect on the new…
Tag: YouTube
Minahs and Minority Celebrity.
I have been working on this article since 2016 and it is finally ready to meet the world in Celebrity Studies. It studies YouTube parody Influencers as feminist and anti-racist…
Yes Homo: Gay Influencers, Homonormativity, and Queerbaiting on YouTube
I have a new journal article published based on my AoIR2018 talk, and with thanks to Jude Elund for shepherding this half Special Issue. Abidin, Crystal. 2019. “Yes Homo: Gay…
A Reading List on Parody & Satire, Social Media, and Political Commentary
Last week in Singapore, a government-initiated campaign featured a Chinese actor wearing brownface to portray a Malay woman and an Indian man. The ad was called out by various citizens…
E-Pay brownface ad, and Preetipls & Subhasmusic’s rap video
In this post, I archive screen grabs of the source materials in relation to ‘Minority influencers, Satire, and Subversive frivolity’ for teaching purposes. * This is the offending brown face…
Minority influencers, Satire, and Subversive frivolity
On 26 July 2019, a state-owned broadcaster in Singapore published an advertisement featuring a local Chinese actor who had his face painted in a much darker skin tone (i.e. brownface)…
K-pop social media, (Anti-)fan labour, and Networks of (mis)information
I am an anthropologist of young people’s internet cultures and have spent the past 13 months learning (from scratch!) about K-pop fan practices on social media through intensive reading of…
When exploiting kids for cash goes wrong on YouTube: the lessons of DaddyOFive
In light of the recent DaddyOFive controversy, Tama Leaver and I have a new commentary out on The Conversation, reproduced below. In this piece, we call for greater transparency in labour laws…
