Something is happening online. They are still called “vlogs” or video blogs but the contents have become intensely personal. They follow long threads of tales that lead to epic narratives as the vlogger does not remain alone but is linked with other vloggers. It is as if the story of one is pushed by a similar story from another. Or, they take turns in sharing episodes in their lives until their vlogs assume the excitement of a melodramatic TV series or drag as some series do.
Everything starts with surfing online. Triggered by a narrative, the algorithm of social media takes over and manages the flow of things. There is this transgender from one of the island provinces of Bicol. S/he lives in a small house, impoverished. S/he dresses plainly, eats dried fish with her bare hands. Constantly eating, she talks with morsels of food showing from her mouth. Lately, she has developed a narrative—that of a woman looking for her male partner. She walks barefoot in her neighborhood, the surroundings dank and dirty, the overflow of the seawater flooding the streets around them.
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