A couple of weeks ago, Instagram didn’t allow us to publish a story with the text “suck his dick” because it was not in accordance with its community guidelines. After 10 minutes trying to find a spelling that dodges the filter, we ignored the warning and published the story with the configuration “$*ck h1s d*ck” knowing that, most likely, it won’t be shown to our followers because of the guidelines violation. Then, the whole absurdity of the situation struck us; if we are going to talk to an empty room, we want to do it on our own terms. If invisibility is the result by default when talking about sex, we want to at least properly write suck his dick! The story was about Heated Rivalry.
This blog is an attempt to reclaim autonomy and a response to the idea of content. We hate content, or more specifically, we hate the belief that everything should be content, because it is not true. Although one can make content from everything, the perception that all online material needs to be scroll-stopping with a strong hook is a discourse pushed by the platforms, which aims to make them the main channel of communication for people, but not necessarily how said people consume the media that connects them to their contexts. Proof of that is the increasing number of creatives who are starting YouTube channels, podcasts, and newsletters, trying to escape the constraints of the 3-minute videos, looking for formats that allow them to actually develop the ideas that might relate to people on a deeper level.
Which brings us back to this blog. In the paywall era of Substack, having a public blog can be seen as outdated and not the most monetization-smart move. However, we would like to remind everybody that we are a Latino project, which basically means we like free stuff and public information. We learned digital art with a pirate version of Adobe, and we got the first legal version of Microsoft Windows just 4 years ago. Hence, we will keep the free spirit as long as we can. Rather than a new way to profit, this space should be understood as a public learning about finding the voice of a project that has been on hiatus for a couple of years now.
So, what to expect from Poppers Before Breakfast? Grammatical mistakes -English is not our first language-, videos, sex, songs we listen to while drawing, porn, images we like, podcasts we like, complaints, and all the context that make this project El Corruptor. We won’t rate places or movies, we won’t tell people what to do, what is in or out, we will only share ideas around material as a way to process them. Regarding the name, we will expand further in another post. For now, we can only say that our favorite type of poppers is isoamyl nitrite (cas 110-46-3), we like liquid colors, meta amyl, Amyl, and Everest.
