ICYMI | How Coming Out Videos Changed YouTube

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🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Kate Lindsay and Candice Lim are joined by Ingrid Nilsen, an OG beauty lifestyle YouTuber who you may know as “MissGlamorazzi,” to reflect on the 10-year anniversary of her most iconic video to date. Throughout the 2010s, YouTube was the platform of choice for “coming out” videos. During those years, the U.S. saw progress in LGBTQ+ acceptance and representation, including a SCOTUS decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide in 2015. A part of this growing acceptance online included prominent creators speaking up about their own sexuality, creating essentially, an entire genre of YouTube videos. Entering that genre in 2015 was Nilsen, whose coming out video has more than 18 million views, and became perhaps the most memorable coming out video from that era. Ten years later, Nilsen joins the show to talk about the moment before she hit upload, what she’s been up to since, and how the reaction — and backlash — to that video affected her coming out journey. This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Candace Lim.
0:15.0	And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-CYMIMI.
0:18.8	In case, you missed it.
0:20.5	Slate's podcast about internet culture. And if you're a timely I-CYMIMI. In case you missed it. Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:23.0	And if you're a timely I-C-Y-M-I-M-I listener, there's a good chance you're hearing this episode,
0:27.7	the same weekend that New York City is celebrating Pride.
0:30.7	Now, I have to admit I will be in Mexico when this is happening, not to brag.
0:34.5	But, Candace, have you ever been to pride? You know, I got to say something
0:38.3	real sad. I've never been on a corporate pride float. I haven't done the activity. No, you've
0:43.5	never been on like a rainbow chase. I know, I know. I know. You know why? I don't like the traffic.
0:54.0	There's a modern family episode about it. Don't love the traffic.
0:58.6	Well, as Pride Month comes to a close, we wanted to do our own I-C-Y-My style celebration,
1:04.4	but rather than me and Candice explaining what this episode is about, why don't we have
1:08.5	Troy Savon, Joey Grycefa, and more tell you themselves.
1:12.6	Hey, what's to you guys? It's Troy Sivan and this is probably the most nervous I've ever been in my entire life.
1:19.6	But I'm going to deal with it because I have something to tell you guys, as you can probably see by the title of this video.
1:25.6	I want you guys to know that I'm gay. I might as well just say it for real. Um, obviously this has been taken, um, away from the video, um, but I'm gay.
1:40.3	I was born in the wrong body, which means that I am transgender.
1:46.0	So today I want to talk to you guys about that and be open and honest and tell you that I'm gay.
1:53.0	Now I don't want to get your hopes up. This isn't a love story, but this is my coming out story.
2:08.6	All right, um, I guess I am just going to get right to it.
2:15.6	Um, there's something that I want you to know.
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