Twitter is a popular digital space for circulating amateur gay porn and sexual narratives
of gay men. These two-minute porn videos command thousands of views, and their
anonymous owners boast thousands of followers. This paper investigates how attention
economies work within a neoliberal framework in porn economies in Manila and Hong
Kong. Using interviews and case studies, this paper argues that the conditions created by
Twitter foster a particular kind of attention economy where users are expected to be
creative and entrepreneurial in curating their profiles and presenting their pornographic
content. This research argues that it is within these neoliberal spaces that gay men find
the freedom to socialize, build communities, and inventively present themselves. The
paper ends by offering insights into how we can think about the utility of pornography and
sexualized self-presentation in queer sexual politics in the Asian context.