YouTube has clearly decided it knows me. The algorithm has me pegged as a femulator, and every visit now comes with a curated parade of transformation videos lined up and waiting.
One trend I keep noticing is the “sister makes over her brother” genre. And I have to admit—some of these results are genuinely impressive. Thanks to family resemblance, the finished look can be uncanny. It makes sense: the sister is applying the same makeup techniques she uses on herself, often with the not-so-subtle goal of turning her brother into a near mirror image.
The brothers, for their part, tend to go along with it. There’s usually some initial joking—one last attempt to cling to masculinity—but it rarely lasts long. Before you know it, they’re fully made over, and more often than not, they seem to be enjoying the outcome.
Of course, the concept doesn’t stop with siblings. There are plenty of variations: girlfriends making over their boyfriends, mothers transforming their sons, wives working their magic on their husbands. Different dynamics, same basic premise.
A word of caution, though. Not everything in YouTube Land is as authentic as it looks. There’s a fair amount of staging and outright fakery mixed in. But if you’re willing to separate the wheat from the chaff, there are still plenty of genuine—and surprisingly compelling—transformations to be found.
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| Luis Montalbert femulating Gloria Trevi on Costa Rican television’s Tu Cara Me Suena. |
I guess there is a certain degree of caution involved when having Youtube open and there is prying eyes behind you. That line-up on the right side can create an awkward situation. I enjoy the transformation videos. My favorites are the transformation of high school boys into young women by girlfriends or mothers for a Sadie-Hawkins dance. I especially like the dances at high schools in states that are foaming at the mouth like rabid dogs for anything smacking of transgender women. I do wonder how many of those cis young women would accept a husband's cross dressing?
ReplyDeleteWish I would have had a sister. Afar as that goes wish my mom would have crossdressed me.
ReplyDeleteI have been plagued with a so called need to know. do you have any thoughts re: as realistic some of the above may be--what motivates the "transformer" to set about with the feminizing process??-emily
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