{"id":12399,"date":"2015-01-01T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/what-to-do-with-gay-click-bate\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T05:00:05","slug":"what-to-do-with-gay-click-bate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/what-to-do-with-gay-click-bate\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Do With \u201cGay\u201d Click-bate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>What To Do With \u201cGay\u201d Click-bate<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>The <span>Interplay<\/span>&nbsp;is a special biweekly series exploring the intersections of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a>, pop culture, and current events.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>BY&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/charles_pulliammoore.html\" target=\"_blank\">CHARLES PULLIAM-MOORE<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Over the past few weeks <em>Buzzfeed<\/em>&rsquo;s squad of &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tryguys\">Try Guys<\/a>&rdquo; have made a dent in the internet with a series of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">videos<\/a> designed to go viral. The formula for the series is fairly straight forward: each <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">video<\/a> features the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> trying something you&rsquo;ve probably never seen the average <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">man<\/a> doing in the middle of a work day.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As a series Try Guys reads a lot like your average TLA coming of age dramedy: lacking in plot, but rich in fleshy, softcore nonsense. It started with the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/zackevans\/weird-things-guys-do-to-one-up-each-other#.nw31d9nxn\">trying to out drink one another<\/a>, and then waxing philosophic about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/justintan\/straight-guys-review-hot-guys#.cgyzyMZoZ\">hottest male celebrities<\/a>. Soon they were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/eugeneyang\/guys-try-drag-for-the-first-time#.av592xMeM\">trying drag<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/christopherguerrero\/guy-best-friends-see-each-other-naked-for-the-first-time-and#.oxdEvr1G1\">seeing each other naked<\/a> for the first time, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2014\/12\/what-happens-when-guys-kiss-other-guys-for-the-first-time-video.html\">experimenting with same-sex kissing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> in these <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">videos<\/a> are coded as straight, and that same straightness is meant to make the clips as &ldquo;funny&rdquo; as they are titillating. Whether or not Try Guys accomplishes either of its goals is open for debate, but what seems rather obvious is <em>Buzzfeed<\/em>&rsquo;s newfound fondness for queer clickbate (it&rsquo;s like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2014\/10\/yes-nick-jonas-is-sort-of-queerbaiting-his-gay-fans-so-what.html\" target=\"_self\">queerbait<\/a> and clickbait but&#8230;racier.)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Try Guys both is and isn&rsquo;t standard fare for publications like <em>Buzzfeed<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/shirtless\/\" target=\"_self\">We&rsquo;re no strangers<\/a> to sharing clips of hot <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> doing silly things here at Towleroad. Content like this drives traffic, and hey&#8211;who doesn&rsquo;t like little bit of eye candy? There comes a point, though, where one questions the intentions of content like Try Guys that isn&rsquo;t clearly operating from expressly queer-positive perspective. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.j_bryan_lowder.html\">J. Bryan Lowder<\/a> writes in <em>Slate<\/em>, <em>BuzzFeed<\/em>&rsquo;s clickbate reads simultaneously as provocative and laughable:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> are clearly feeling bashful about activities that, from a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> point-of-view, are laughably low-stakes, so it&rsquo;s hard not to feel a certain amount of puppy-dog pity for them. That <em>BuzzFeed<\/em>&rsquo;s producers have been able to cast and shoot these micro-docs in a way that encourages responses both erotic and tender is a credit to their powers of manipulation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Though Lowder sees the Guys&rsquo; &ldquo;first time&rdquo; experimentations as endearing, there&rsquo;s something inherently off about treating <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> intimacy like a low-budget episode of Fear Factor. We&rsquo;re living in a gilded, glittering age where depictions of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> kissing, touching, and being close with one another have almost become the rule, rather than the exception. Not only that, but today&rsquo;s objectification of the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> body is infinitely more open.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2014\/11\/cosmo-launches-new-series-hot-guys-do-amazing-things-shirtless-video.html\" target=\"_self\">shirtless guy baking cupcakes<\/a>? Cosmopolitan knows (and is banking on) the clicks of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> and straight <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> alike. The actors and models vying for our collective attention may not be <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> themselves, but their intentions are clear. Our gaze as <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">men<\/a> is invited, and in that invitation there&rsquo;s an implicit affirmation of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> desire.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Though it isn&rsquo;t setting out to be malicious, Try Guys is trafficking in an all too common narrative. The intended hotness of the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">videos<\/a> is undercut by the fact that the <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> in it, and the overall theme, is supposed to be a spectacle. &ldquo;Look at this straight <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> doing <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> things, how novel!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>That isn&rsquo;t to say that <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">gay<\/a> <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a> and the media built around it can&rsquo;t be funny&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/iramadison\/ranking-the-10-most-overused-gay-porn-scenarios#.mgXyAK7p7\" target=\"_self\">quite the opposite<\/a>. Rather, when we&rsquo;re mining the internet for scantily clad <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">guys<\/a> who can give us a good chuckle, we&rsquo;ve got to make sure that we&rsquo;re thinking with two heads as opposed to just one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=50LTqc9V-T0:y6WIWOy4jH8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=50LTqc9V-T0:y6WIWOy4jH8:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=50LTqc9V-T0:y6WIWOy4jH8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=50LTqc9V-T0:y6WIWOy4jH8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?i=50LTqc9V-T0:y6WIWOy4jH8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=50LTqc9V-T0:y6WIWOy4jH8:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=50LTqc9V-T0:y6WIWOy4jH8:YwkR-u9nhCs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=YwkR-u9nhCs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~4\/50LTqc9V-T0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nCharles Pulliam-Moore<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2014\/12\/what-to-do-with-gay-click-bate-1.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.towleroad.com\/2014\/12\/what-to-do-with-gay-click-bate-1.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What To Do With \u201cGay\u201d Click-bate &nbsp; The Interplay&nbsp;is a special biweekly series exploring the intersections of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">sex<\/a>, pop culture, and current events. BY&nbsp;CHARLES PULLIAM-MOORE Over the past few weeks Buzzfeed&rsquo;s squad of &ldquo;Try Guys&rdquo; have made a dent in the internet with a series of <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">videos<\/a> designed to go viral. The formula for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/what-to-do-with-gay-click-bate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What To Do With \u201cGay\u201d Click-bate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What To Do With \u201cGay\u201d Click-bate - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/what-to-do-with-gay-click-bate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What To Do With \u201cGay\u201d Click-bate - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What To Do With \u201cGay\u201d Click-bate &nbsp; The Interplay&nbsp;is a special biweekly series exploring the intersections of sex, pop culture, and current events. 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