kontextmaschine:

Also, even the idea of streamers as findommes or courtesans isn’t honestly all that novel in American culture

If you go back to the original noir period, you know how you have this figure of the nightclub torch singer, who cultivates a sultry look and demeanor, who put on performances of seductive singing and dancing with a stage patter to cultivate a sense of intimacy, for an audience of lonely men who might try to capture her attentions off the stage by doing things for her or buying her expensive gifts?

…well?

Then again, the fact that she was falling into this role naive while he had enough sense of American cultural history to know what this meant was already a plot point in MPDG ur-text Annie Hall in 1970-fucking-7