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Jiyayjt provides insights into growing up as a mixed race boy in Australian and Japanese society, and in an interracial family. His interest in Japanese and broadly Asian popular culture appears a significant part of his diasporic subjectivity, and he offers interesting racial commentary on the figure of the ‘weeb’ as a counterpoint to mixed race Asian identity. This essay argues that Jiyayjt’s masculine performance is shaped by increasingly influential Asian popular cultural representations of soft masculinities, sometimes called softboys, flowerboys, bishonen (beautiful boys), with links to the manga genre of Boys Love. TikTok, like other new media platforms, has been described as a heterotopic space where the values and norms of multiple global contexts flow into individuals’ screens. Transnational conceptions of boyhood or boyishness within contemporary masculinities are evident in TikTok fandoms engaged in Asian popular culture, such as Jiyayjt’s. This article argues that the increasingly powerful influence of Asian popular culture and values offers new possibilities in the construction of mixed race Asian Australian masculinities. These possibilities  \ninclude the reimagining of masculinities through feminist questioning of hegemonic gendered norms.  \nARTICLE HISTORY  \nReceived 15 December 2023 Accepted 16 December 2024  \nKEYWORDS  \nMixed race; Asian Australian; Boys; Softboys; Boys studies; Masculinities; Transnational studies; Asian popular culture; TikTok; Social media  \nThe belowTikTok by the mixed race Japanese Australian TikToker, Jiyayjt, juxtaposes images of his boyhood self against images of his adult self, played to Echosmith’s song‘Cool Kids’. The content creator’s self-identification as ‘an anime kid’ signals an interest that might be read as childish or boyish, as, at least in the West, comics and cartoons are often associated with children. As the title of the clip implies, the continuity between Jiyayjt’s childhood and adult interest in anime, suggests that he is still a kid or boy to some degree. Further to this, he parallels the cuteness of boyhood photos with images of him as an adult looking cute or acting cute, as evidenced by his performance of the anime girl trope of puffed cheeks or ふくれっ面(fukurettsura). This TikTok therefore suggests a certain temporal and conceptual continuity between boyhood identity and adult masculinity that will be a primary focus of this essay (Figure 1) .  \nJiyayjt’s content appears to start at March 2020 – effectively the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. His content appears set largely at home, a","cbCaisCBcE9uniSf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisCBcE9uniSf","pdf",2168979,25,"English","# Abstract\n## Focus and scope\n## Methods and analysis approach\n## Key concepts and arguments\n## Content and timeline","[{\"question\":\"What is the main subject of the paper?\",\"answer\":\"The paper examines TikToks made by Jiyayjt, a mixed race Japanese Australian content producer, and how they relate to mixed race Asian masculinity and boyhood.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article explain Jiyayjt’s masculinity performances?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that his masculine performance is shaped by Asian popular cultural representations of soft masculinities, including softboys and related tropes linked to manga and Boys Love.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper consider TikTok important for its analysis?\",\"answer\":\"TikTok is described as a heterotopic space where values and norms from multiple global contexts enter individuals’ screens, which becomes visible in fandoms engaging with Asian popular culture.\"}]","Soft boys and Mixed Race Asian Masculinity Online - The TikToks of Jiyayjt - Article | PDF",63]