Sivan spoke for eight minutes, striking a tone that was part sleepover, part press conference. “But I feel like a lot of you guys are, like, real, genuine friends of mine.” “It feels kind of weird to have to announce it like this on the Internet,” he continued. Three years earlier, he explained, he had told his family that he was gay. “This is probably the most nervous I’ve ever been in my entire life,” he said. His new video, filmed in his family’s home, in Perth, was more confessional. Sivan, a goofy, self-confident eighteen-year-old, had amassed nearly half a million YouTube subscribers in six years, with videos such as “Funny Halloween Costume Ideas” (in which he put on an orange wig, held up a bagel, and declared, “I’m the Ginger Bread Man!”) and “Life’s Unanswerable Questions” (in which he wondered, “If there was an earthquake on Mars, would it be called a Mars-quake?”). On August 7, 2013, the Australian vlogger Troye Sivan fixed his bright-blue eyes on his camera and pressed Record.
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