This research tackles the alter community or a collective of Filipino Twitter users producing and circulating amateur porn in the form of videos or text. This article analyzes the ways in which Twitter’s features and user practices enable and constrain the production and circulation of porn, as well as its implication in understanding gay masculinity and sexual politics. By looking at Twitter’s affordances and the dynamics in the alter community, I argue that the alter community is a site where Filipino perform and validate their masculinity. This takes place alongside commodification and ghettoization that fits neatly into restraining attitudes on sexuality in the Philippines. This article contributes to a more complex and nuanced understanding of pornography, as well as the ways in which technological affordances and dynamics in distinct virtual spaces impact our understanding of gay masculinities.

这项研究针对的是菲律宾Twit​​ter用户的另一个社区或集体，他们以视频或文本的形式生产和传播业余色情。本文分析了Twitter的功能和用户实践如何启用和限制色情产品的生产和流通，以及其在理解同性恋男性气概和性政治方面的含义。通过查看Twitter的收费能力和替代社区的动态，我认为，替代社区是菲律宾人表演并验证其男子气概的站点。这与商品化和贫民窟化同时发生，恰好适合限制菲律宾对性行为的态度。本文有助于使人们对色情内容更加复杂和细致入微，