THE MORNING LIST
Social networks are today the first source of information for young people. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram… Who are the content producers who are doing well? Small eclectic selection of creators of videos, drawings, texts or images which meet with great success and tell the story of today’s youth.
- Chloé Bidault, the voice of “body positivism”
Celebrating the body in all its forms, tackling the diktats of beauty and advocating self-esteem: for four years, Chloé Bidault, known as The Ginger Chloé on Instagram (today 211,000 subscribers) and TikTok (458,000 subscriptions), has made it his profession. The 26-year-old influencer, a graduate of Sciences Po Toulouse, is one of the figures of “body positivism”, a movement that has grown since the end of the 2010s, encouraging women to love themselves as they are. And which finds a strong echo among a youth who, on social networks, is, most of the time, watered with images of retouched and perfect bodies. Chloé Bidault, she does not hesitate to expose her body in all its curves, hiding neither her cellulite nor her rolls, and dissects in short videos the aesthetic injunctions that women undergo.
- Timothée Curado, or how to de-dramatize coming out
Physics teacher in a high school in Clermont-Ferrand, Timothée Curado has nearly a million subscribers on TikTok. Internet users appreciate his anecdotes about his daily life as a teacher, tinged with benevolent humor, and his outspokenness. Since he revealed his homosexuality on social networks, Timothée Curado has above all become a reference on issues relating to coming out, or even the harassment of which certain young people are victims. How do you know if you are gay? How do you talk to your loved ones about it? The 28-year-old teacher answers the questions of those who wonder about their sexual orientation, but also that of many fellow teachers who do not dare to assume their homosexuality.
- Clara Victorya, fashion in a salvaged version
“Thrift Fashion Influencer” : this is one of Clara Victorya’s jobs. At 25, the Parisian is renewing the genre by moving away from the big brands and the « fast fashion », whose impact on the environment it deplores. Her shopping, she does it in the shops « vintage » and showcases her finds (tartan blazers, 1970s floral blue dresses, checkerboard sweater) on Instagram and YouTube, where she has 130,000 and 215,000 subscribers. From this community, she hatched a small business. After opening a point of sale in Paris (Relique, in the 3e district), Clara Victorya has just launched a participatory mobile application, Unique, to locate second-hand clothes shops all over France.
- Jüne Pla, orgasm at the end of the pencil
It is here about masturbation, orgasm, cunnilingus and fellatio; we also mention the prostate, vaginismus and even love… Nothing escapes the line of Jüne Pla, Instagrammer and creator of Jouissance.club. As the words are sometimes difficult to pronounce to express her desires, the young woman decided to draw. The illustrator shares and exchanges her experiences with a community of nearly one million subscribers, with one goal: to expand the circle of creative lovers and popularize inventive sexuality. Also an attentive ear, a meticulous observer and a curious explorer, she puts her drawings on the unsaid to encourage sharing and provide keys for those who would like to… but who don’t dare.
- Victor Habchy, root of « street food »
Here, delicious burgers for less than 3 euros, there a very good Chinese restaurant that still offers “what to blow your belly for less than 5 bucks”over there bubble tea, falafel, pasta or ramen unearthed in a street corner… Everything that Paris offers street food international and inventive, Victor Habchy proposes, almost every day, to introduce it to his 1.6 million young subscribers. on TikTok and some 400,000 on Instagram. A street food which, according to him, “part of pop culture, such as music, dance or theater” : the young Parisians who follow him “are looking for an experience by testing new addresses, as if they were going to the cinema”. He proposes to be their “Latest guides”.
- Emile Coddens, videographer and winemaker
Perpetuating traditions in 2022: this is what Emile Coddens, a 24-year-old winemaker, is striving to achieve on TikTok. Cap screwed on the head and generally dressed in a sleeveless down jacket, he tells the underside of this profession that he knows after joining the wine estate of his uncles. Between two clips of blind bottle tasting, he explains in video what is settling, the distinction between fruity and sweet wine or what the vintage means. Its account the.winemaker is followed by 530,000 subscribers. His slogan – “Wine is something to share! » – is also the title of his first book, published by Editions des Equateurs, in 2021.
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