Can SOMEONE (anyone!) explain this crazy-ass
Japanese gay-porn-mashup craze? WTF is going on? It started with all
those Billy Herrington butt-smacking-retro-gay-workout videos—you
know the ones, with the seizure-inducing techno music and the weird
floating happy-baby heads covering all the naughty bits. The ones with
the deliberately bad translations of the lines from his old movies
(“like embarrassing me” translates to “you are sloppy recently”?! WTF,
WTF, WTF!). There are thousands of mashup versions on YouTube (my favorites: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) and Nico
Nico Douga, a Japanese video-sharing site. Some of the descriptions of
the videos are equally baffling. One such description, for “Don’t Stop
Billy Now!!” a video with Herrington that uses a Queen song instead of
the typical techno music, states: “I only want to show honor to Queen
and Mr. Billy Herrington, so I contribute this movie. This movie
doesn’t encourage to discriminate the homosexuals.”

And they do show Herrington a lot of respect. He’s an internet meme
hero now. Most videos affectionately call him “Aniki” (Big Brother),
“Mori No Yousei” (Forest Fairy), and “Tetsugaku” (Philosophy). He’s
appeared on Japanese talk shows and even has a weird-looking
(diaper-wearing?) limited-edition action figure coming out.

WTF, Japan?

Now, more recently, jumping on the Herrington Forest Fairy bandwagon
is RuPaul. The video for “Jealous of my Boogie,” the second single off
his new album, Champion, mashes XXX star Tommy Gunn and a creepy
makeup-wearing bouncing baby RuPaul head with some cutesy anime-looking
kittens. WATCH

Is this a new never-ending trend? And which gay porn star will be
next to be honored, immortalized, and gay-kitten-baby-head-ified?recommended

Kelly O—formerly a Stranger staff photographer, music writer, Drunk of the Week columnist, and more!—finished art school and a soul-crushing internship at a corporate advertising agency in Detroit,...

6 replies on “Porn!”

  1. How much do chicks get paid to have a load sprayed in and around their mouth?

    I’d have to guess 20, 30 grand. But I know it’s not that much.

    Any guesses, people?

    Kelly’s article is lame…

  2. Kelly…go rent “I.K.U.” right now. It’s a vision of japanese porn and it’s very loosely based on Blade Runner. It’s got everyting!

  4. “This movie doesn’t encourage to discriminate the homosexuals.”

    Sometimes “Jinglish” (bad English translation of Japanese) is irritating, like in a Subaru owners manual, but sometimes it can be very cute…

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