“Dá um like e se inscreve no canal!”: problematizando discursos de gêneros e sexualidades em vídeos do youtuber Felipe Neto

Abstract

This study analyzed the speeches of gender and sexuality present in some videos from youtuber Felipe Neto. Sexual and gender identities are part of our composition as subjects, are present in our lives and permeate the relationships we establish with ourselves and with others. Therefore, it is important to problematize how individuals construct their identities in our society and the mechanisms that participate in this process, taking gender and sexuality as discursive, social, cultural and historical constructions. When thinking about the ways in which YouTube channels are placed in our society, it is possible to problematize that they are educational cultural artifacts, through which different knowledge circulates. Youtubers deal with subjectivities, form opinions, work on concepts, disseminate patterns ... What they do and say is seen and heard by millions of individuals. Therefore, it is important to reflect on these productions as educational devices for the subjects. For this discussion, I was based on Poststructuralist perspectives, Cultural Studies, Foucaultian Studies and Gender Studies, which analyze the relevance of the cultural scope in the constitution of the individuals, taking into account how the relations of knowledge and power participate in these processes, defending the problematization as a tool of thinking and research. To delimit the field, I consulted children from 6 to 11 years old from a state school in Juiz de Fora, with the objective of knowing which youtuber channel most watched by them, obtaining as a result the name of Felipe Neto. Faced with the question “How are speeches of gender and sexuality disseminated on the channel of youtuber Felipe Neto?”, I used the discourse analysis of Foucauldian inspiration to problematize the statements present in the videos.