Not sure whether it demonstrates anything other than right place-right time (and that production values are good and the kid, ID'd as Joey Flores in the video, makes a really cute girl), but what seems like fairly routine subject matter -- older sister makes up and dresses up kid brother -- has gotten more than 40,000 YouTube hits in the past week -- that's about one every 15 seconds, if I calculated that right -- and 1,200,000 total.
3:39, titled "boy turns to girl", located at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhDK6o12u3o&feature=related .
Actually, one difference from the norm: Joey's clearly enthusiastic about the whole thing, and the video is on his own page, not his sister's (assuming she has one). Another, that now that I look at it may be more relevant to all the hits: comments every few hours wondering if he's actually Justin Bieber.
Eric
Video of CD Young Teen Goes Viral
Hope the kid's family and friends are ready for the impact.
May Your Light Forever Shine
=D
Pay no heed to the comments on the main site, they're mostly from people who don't deserve to feast their eyes upon such loveliness.
Did she give him some padded panties, or does his butt naturally look that great in a dress? ^_^
Unsure
While the situation here would have been something I'd have given all my baseball cards for as a kid, I still find this video somewhat disturbing. Maybe its because it is a video on YouTube, a very public place, coupled with the outfit, but to me this is illustrative of two points, first, a sad loss of innocence and second, the sexualisation of kids in today's society.
In a very real sense I'm glad I was a teen and a crossdresser back in the 70s as opposed to today.
Amy-Lynn
A great point...
....the whole thing about the internet is that nothing is ever private again once it arrives on our computer screens. While he might make a pretty girl, it is a loss of innocence in a way. The kind of thing meant only for sharing with supporting family turned into someone else' laughing stock, perhaps? And I didn't collect cards, but my Spidey 1 and Fantastic Four 3 would have ended up in someone else' hands.
Love, Andrea Lena
True enough, but there are far worse things posted these days.
I think it was something that came across more or less as a lark. I doubt it will haunt the young lad for the rest of his life. While he was clearly enjoying himself, it was in a silly way.
I woudn't try to read into it that he is Transgendered at all. It ends with the sister and her friends, thanking him for being willing to go along with it which implies it was there idea.
He could cerrtainly claim that it was just a bit of fun to see if they could do what they said they could.
Hugs,
Kristy
those were my thoughts
those were my thoughts exactly :--)
grtz & hugs,
Sarah xxx
In the Fairly Unlikely Event...
...that someone going through old Forum entries decides to try and look this up, Joey Flores took down his YouTube page about two years after this was posted. But somebody posted a mirror site of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USWrGiMImNY , which apparently was popular enough to justify having an ad attached to it. It's been up since 2011, with 176,352 views as I write this on 2/15/2021.
The last time I saw the original it had about 2,500,000 hits, which was a bigger deal back then than it would be now for a non-celebrity. He certainly wasn't an "influencer"; nothing else on his site had more than 1000 hits and IIRC most were in low three digits, except for another one a year later with the same title, that turned out to be nothing more than a thank-you, marveling at the number of people who'd seen the original. It seemed clear that he would have had more trouble passing by that time; both his voice and his body had developed a lot over that year.
No idea what happened to him, assuming that was his real name. If he was 13 early in 2012 he'd be 22 now; the people named Joey Flores who came up on Google Search don't seem to be in that age bracket.
Eric