Goody, humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. Here's a dangerous idea for you.

You build up hundreds of thousands of followers on social media using an amusing, slightly offensive, moniker, the worthless twink.

And then you decide to ditch it all, branch out on your own, and re-evaluate your relationship to the gay community and to influencing itself, to what it's doing to our heads, to social media, to other influences, to the entire community, both the community of influences and of gaydom that has been part of your life for so long.

Tim Abbott is our guest today.

He rose to superstardom in Australia a few years ago as The Worthless Twink, a cute, pretty

gay boy making short funny comedy videos on Instagram.

He's moving on now, and we have a fascinating chat about all the things that he finds

right and wrong with those

communities that he's been part of why there aren't more gays in sport his issues with gay

drug use and promiscuity and yeah the question of where influencing is taking us all and what

we can do about it i hope you enjoy as much as I did this chat with the one and only Tim Abbott.

Well, well, then, let's start.

He's hard-hitting questions.

But that's interesting about your mum having worked for the four seasons.

So you were traveling around as like a little kid?

Yeah, as a little kid.

Yeah, we would travel around a lot. And staying in incredibly fancy hotels. Unknown to me, yeah, incredibly fancy hotels. And so... What do you mean unknown to you? You were just like, this is what life is. I just thought that's what hotels were. Yeah, I didn't just assume that all hotels are, you know... not $800 a night sweets.

Exactly.

Was she like a fancy senior person?

Not too sure. just assume that all hotels are, you know. Not $800 a night suites.

Exactly.

Was she like a fancy senior person?

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