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She creates conversations between opposing characters that, depending on your politics and preferences, irritate or seduce, as if one had wandered into a stylized art-house dream (or nightmare) with Socrates, Freddie Mercury and Virginia Woolf as hosts. “I am an evangelical transsexual,” she slyly jokes in one video. Wynn’s mission mirrors our technological, gender-restless, self-revealing culture. Her videos are as transparent as they are clever, tracking not only the evolution of Wynn’s ideas and production aesthetic but of her insecurities and transformation from a young man in a flannel shirt to a decked-out philosophical diva with hormone induced breasts and feminization surgery that reshaped her jawline and removed her Adam’s apple.

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“It’s the big question mark in my life,” says Wynn, whose most recent video explores gender dysphoria, identity and beauty. “How do I handle the fact that I have two different gender identities that are immortalized on the internet? It’s what makes this channel so bizarre. I feel trapped sometimes by this old self I have represented online.

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The whole process of transitioning is so difficult and awkward that I don’t watch my videos. Her earlier videos suggest a vulnerability while she navigated toward a moment of change.

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