I had no idea who Jacob Sartorius was, just that Kelton Dumont knew him, before I started the research. According to Google, he's an American media personality and singer, born in October 2002, shoe size 5.
Whoa -- 23 million followers on Tiktok, 12 million followers on Instagram, 1.5 million on X, 1.1 million on Facebook. Apparently a lot of people have heard of him.
"Sartorius" sounds like a pseudonym. It's a long, narrow muscle running across the front of your thigh. Or he may have been thinking of sartor, "tailor" in Latin, as in the famous novel by Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus.
I don't do Tiktok, but Jacob the Muscle or Jacob the Tailor's Instagram is loaded-down with femme imagery. Here he appears to be coming out as trans, or maybe showing trans solidarity.
Nice chest, girlfriend, and I dig the hot pink coffin. You'll make a fabulous vampire.
Jacob the Muscle or the Taylor is so femme, one assumes that he's gay, but fan comments disagree:
"Jacob is not gay! Haters gonna make these vicious accusations!"
"Why does everybody hate Jacob Sartorius? Jojo Siwa is a gay icon."
"Jacob Sartorius admits that he's gay."
"Jacob Sartorius is gay! 100% proof, real, not clickbait!"
"Are you gay? That's so awful, who's even gay anymore? You're just following a trend!"
So, what exactly is this femme non-gay muscle tailor famous for?
He was a teen idol for the social media generation. As a femme boy, he was subjected to bullying and harassment, so he escaped by lip-synching to popular songs on the Vine website. After gaining millions of followers, he released his own single, "Sweatshirt," in 2017:
Baby, if you are not ready for my kiss -- you can wear my sweatshirt
And "Hit or Miss"
Let's not worry about tomorrow, we all good baby
Genius lists 43 songs. The ones I checked were utterly heterosexist, like "Trapped in My Car":
Got all these pretty girls, and they try'na rule my world
As far back as Bobby Sherman and Shaun Cassidy, teen idols have been packaged as pretty, androgynous, femme: more cute than sexy, less threatening to the intended audience of heterosexual preteen and early-teen girls.
Fan comments come from both boys and girls, however. Presumably they're early-teens, not grown-ups:
"I love you so much!"
"You are sexy. I live for you!"
"Jacob, I love you! I want to move to where you live and meet you and kiss you and marry you!"
"Jacob, why you so damn sexy?"
More Jacob after the break. Caution: explicit.