I had no idea who Jacob Sartorius was, just that Kelton Dumont knew him, before I started the research. According to Google, he's an American media personality and singer, born in October 2002, shoe size 5.
Whoa -- 23 million followers on Tiktok, 12 million followers on Instagram, 1.5 million on X, 1.1 million on Facebook. Apparently a lot of people have heard of him.
"Sartorius" sounds like a pseudonym. It's a long, narrow muscle running across the front of your thigh. Or he may have been thinking of sartor, "tailor" in Latin, as in the famous novel by Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus.
I don't do Tiktok, but Jacob the Muscle or Jacob the Tailor's Instagram is loaded-down with femme imagery. Here he appears to be coming out as trans, or maybe showing trans solidarity.
Nice chest, girlfriend, and I dig the hot pink coffin. You'll make a fabulous vampire.
Jacob the Muscle or the Taylor is so femme, one assumes that he's gay, but fan comments disagree:
"Jacob is not gay! Haters gonna make these vicious accusations!"
"Why does everybody hate Jacob Sartorius? Jojo Siwa is a gay icon."
"Jacob Sartorius admits that he's gay."
"Jacob Sartorius is gay! 100% proof, real, not clickbait!"
"Are you gay? That's so awful, who's even gay anymore? You're just following a trend!"
More Jacob after the break
So, what exactly is this femme non-gay muscle tailor famous for?
He was a teen idol for the social media generation. As a femme boy, he was subjected to bullying and harassment, so he escaped by lip-synching to popular songs on the Vine website. After gaining millions of followers, he released his own single, "Sweatshirt," in 2017:
Baby, if you are not ready for my kiss -- you can wear my sweatshirt
And "Hit or Miss"
Let's not worry about tomorrow, we all good baby
Genius lists 43 songs. The ones I checked were utterly heterosexist, like "Trapped in My Car":
Got all these pretty girls, and they try'na rule my world
As far back as Bobby Sherman and Shaun Cassidy, teen idols have been packaged as pretty, androgynous, femme: more cute than sexy, less threatening to the intended audience of heterosexual preteen and early-teen girls.
Fan comments come from both boys and girls, however. Presumably they're early-teens, not grown-ups:
"I love you so much!"
"You are sexy. I live for you!"
"Jacob, I love you! I want to move to where you live and meet you and kiss you and marry you!"
"Jacob, why you so damn sexy?"
Teen idol careers last an average of five years, the time it takes for the kids who first swooned over him to graduate to real-life boyfriends. After that, the singer must find a way to appeal to a wider audience, or retire.
As of 2023, Jacob was still releasing songs, and still immersed in the "girls! girls! girls!" rhetoric. One would expect "Cowboys," with the line "We could be cowboys, staying up 'til sunrise," to be about guys, right? No, it's a girl making the suggestion.
It's hard to determine if Jacob is actually gay, bi, pan, or straight from his social media posts. He likes masculine-presenting people, regardless of gender.
Masculine women, feminine men, breaking down gender stereotypes. That's queer-coded.
The nude photos are on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends
The Other Two: Cary goes shirtless, Chase twerks, and there's enough bulges and butts for everyone. Teen idol ChaseDreams is based on Jacob.
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