JT LeRoy

So I felt like it was...

There's a lot of kind of hype around the whole kind of modern, gay, seedy, like, lifestyle stuff that is, like... um another thing we were talking i was mentioning earlier before we started recording was jt leroy who i actually don't think i've ever read either but as a teenager i was obsessed with the well i was aware of the whole narrative which was basically for those who don't know which was there was a a woman in her like mid-30s writing supposedly autobiographical stuff about like a queer kid, like a gay or trans kid who like, and it was, you know, because it was the 90s and 2000s, it's not like really delineated what was, what their identity was.

And it was kind of all their experiences of abuse and drug abuse and being in the system and all this stuff.

And then it was supposedly autobiographical, actually written by a woman in her mid-30s or whatever.

Yeah,

it was like a play on existing tropes.

JT Leroy has been a thing already.

Who's that girl from, you remember that YouTube page where it was like, it was like one of the first ever YouTube series where it's like this girl who's like just webcamming and then they started adding like narratives and people

There was that famous memoir that was written supposedly by a sort of non-binary rent boy who was sucking people off in truck stops.

JT Leroy, that was it.

And it was exposed as a fake.

And I think that's kind of the peak of that, this sort of weird obsession with people whose lives are a mess.