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Let me first begin with a disclosure. What you're about to read is all a theory, an odd theory or conspiracy. We'll call it "The Oddspiracy" and I think I've solved it. In 2018 Jaden Smith and Tyler, the creator had told the public that they are dating, not that there's anything wrong with that,

Image via Getty/Rindoff Petroff/Suu
Image via Getty/Rindoff Petroff/Suu

It's just out of nowhere and seems too convenient. Tyler was and still is a controversial character; some could call him a light hatred provocateur based off of what he was rapping about in the passed. Based on that, I'm not convinced he's gay.


More power to him if they are really dating, my notification will forever be on for him but knowing his genius ways, I have become skeptical but with a smirk on my face; I think I've figured out their elaborate plan or reasons.


 

Lets brake down the possibilities

  1. He lot a bet.

  2. He's using gayness as a way of avoiding any rape accusations and cancel culture.

  3. They are actually trolling the music industry by becoming what they believe the industry deems more valuable. Gay is "in" these days and at least America, they aren't so oppressed but they sort of are in Hip-Hop.

  4. They are actually gay and/or openly experimenting while paving a way for gay rappers like LilNasX

  5. He's up to something genius I"m not aware of.

My trans friend from work asked me to listen to Tyler's - Flower Boy for proof of his sexuality. The first place I went to is Genius.com and Play Music. In an interview with Matt F, Tyler states that when talking about boyfriends, he's making a figure of speech.

" Earlier today, Tyler followed up that comment with a tweet that claims he was "single" at fifteen, and that his boyfriend comment was just a "figure of speech" in order to get listeners, as well as those who may be whispering to each other about his love life, to be more open-minded. Whether or not he's telling the truth about having a previous boyfriend one way or the other - and frankly, it's none of our business - it's just another example of how forward-thinking an artist he is, especially when put into the context of a hip-hop culture that's still at least mildly uncomfortable with non-heterosexual partnerships."

Already, I did some research and I'm seeing signs that point to him always being gay or bi. According to Trey Alston of Revolt.tv, when they asked him a question about sexuality and his 4th album Flower Boy, he responded with.

"It's still such a grey area with people, which is cool with me," he revealed. "Even though I'm considered loud and out there, I'm private, which is a weird dichotomy. The juxtaposition of loud and quiet is weird."

It's probably not that deep but if I were to think like a computer, zeros, ones and the whole nine, this response is still vague on whether he's gay or not. On Hot 97's talk show with Dj Funkmaster Flex, he mentioned a few things that would lead anyone to think he was gay.


Let me explain.

Stating your level of privacy is not related to sexuality though in context it's possible. A "loud and out there person" may be hinting to sexuality but it's not technically a bull's eye. Hints and possibilities lead us to gray areas. The results we get from Google as of 2019 when we type in: "Who is Jaden Smith dating" is telling, however, Jaden smith had been seen numerous times with a female lover.


Super not gay

Nice try Jaden, but if you wanted to convince us you're gay, these images are the first giveaway. If Tyler wanted to convince me that he was gay, he would have had to do it without Jaden being in on it. Since Jaden is clearly straight and has no interest in men, I'll assume Tyler is also straight. With Tyler, there are a few things that I question but those things aren't substantial or can be explained. Jaden and Tyler have something in common and Is follow through.



They probably came up with this backstage or days prior. The day that I see Tyler and Jaden walking around, holding hands and kissing passionately, then I'll be convinced. As of now, they are straight joking and I'm laughing with them.


Jaden smith is not actually gay
Clearly not gay

In the past, we all knew Tyler threw around the word "fag" like snowballs. Since I'm not gay, I never thought twice about it. It was just another adjective or state of being and it still is to this day. According to Jacob Stolworthy of Insider.com...

It is currently not clear whether the pair is actually dating or whether Smith was poking fun at speculation surrounding Tyler's sexuality. In his back catalog, he was heavily criticized for his use of the word "faggot." However, on his last album Flower Boy, he discussed his sexuality in what appeared to be a breakthrough moment and has since been more open about his refusal to accept labels.

This has to be some kind of genius in the works here. If it's not clear, maybe he's using the fact that we don't know his true sexuality as a way to play with the human nature that we want to know everything about what we are interested in. If this is the case, we may be witnessing a creative loop-hole to have the LGBTQ audience love him after offending the Gay Mafia.

 

He walks through any territory

At the beginning of his career, Tyler was a controversial topic. Lyrics, like grabbing guns and killing kids, had people glancing at their blacklists just in case. His first TV appearance was on The Jimmy Fallon Show. The special was called Tyler, The Creator and Hodgy Beats. He came out in a white hoodie and high-top socks with the green mask. Talk shows and platforms were cautious about showing up with their brand.


 

When Hot 97's Dj Funkmaster Flex interviewed Tyler, he mentioned that when he began, he was insane and out of his mind. Tyler was and is still "Hungry" for expansion of his music, film, fashion and culture of the future aggressively and almost crazily. Crazy enough to know what it felt like to come out of the closet given the unique era of opportunity. To play things forward and poke fun, t 1:18:00 of that interview, he stated

"I like it when you smile when you talk about shit you love."

The way he sounded when he said that pushes me in the direction that he may be gay and this is on multiple occasions in the interview; even the parts where he was talking about how he wanted to meet up with a guy for ice-cream sounded genuine however, he slipped in an ex-girlfriend, so for me... It's not enough. The next thought would be back to the Gay Mafia's blacklist. There is no doubt that Tyler had evolved over the years. He had evolved in music, fashion and film.


Tyler may have been on the black list. It's not like it's online or written like the constitution; maybe it is, but the black list is what Hollywood insiders use as a way to never do work with you effectively staving you till you give up. Either it's for political reasons, personality characteristics or one big mistake, you never want to be on the black list in Hollywood.

Hermione Hoby of The Guardian writes that Okonma's

"rape and murder fantasies(are) graphic enough to send the vomit rising along with the bile."
"If it offends you, it offends you. If you call me a nigger, I really don't care, but that's just me, personally. Some people might take it the other way; I personally don't give a shit."

Even if people think he's homophobic, Tyler supported Frank Ocean when people began digging up his passed and saw he was attracted to men.


Fuck the eggs, I'l create the baskets.

Luckily, the black list does not extend across all of Hollywood however, it extends over a big chunk. TV, Film, Fashion, Music, Talk Radio/Podcast networks all have their own list. If black listed in one industry, jump to the next. It's almost as if Tyler is going to come out of the closet again to tell us that he's actually straight and wanted to stick it to his opps who black listed him in the beginning of his career. I don't know that for sure but It's the closest thing to my hypothesis. Tyler has his hands in almost all facets of media. He created GOLF WANG, he created Odd Future, he created WOLF, he created and directed his music videos. Tyler really lives up to his name. He's a genuine creator. He goes beyond not punting all your eggs in one basket, he created the basket. If the black list theory stuck, he would not have been this successful.


At the end of the day Tyler, the Creator is 100% interested in girls. The news that will finally put this myth to bed is from Larry King's talk show. At 45 seconds in, Larry King asks Tyler...

"Are you interested in girls?"

Tyler responds with,

"Of course, I love freckles, I love Jennifer Laurence; if you're watching this, leave the nigga you're with!"

 

In an other Hot 97 interview at 9 mins and 37 seconds, Peter Rosenberg asked him a question.

Despite having on a gay pride t-shirt, Tyler responds,

Hot 97 interview video below

If Tyler was gay, he wouldn't have to use the phrase "No-homo" to justify his sexuality. The evidence is loud and clear. It's safe to say that Tyler, the Creator is straight.


To support this claim,on Big Boy TV's interview with Tyler, Big Boy asks

"Fact or fiction, real or unreal?: You lost your virginity on your grandmother's bed."

Tyler smiles and responds

"Yeah"
"Are you serious?"

reply's Big Boy, the room laughs.

At 35 mins and 40 seconds in, Tyler says

"I don't want to go in to detail but yeah"

If you listen longer, when Big Boy refers to who Tyler was intimate with as "She" he was doesn't correct Big Boy to "he." Tyler seems proud of it.


At 42 mins and 32 seconds of Big Boy TV, Tyler is asked, Have you ever been in love?

"I was... I think so when I was 17, this girl I wrote a lot of songs about and I use to drive passed her house just to see if the light was on and she was my... she was the background of this phone that I had that didn't work."

The room awes.

"I would just carry it around just to look at the photo"

Long story short Tyler is straight and is only playing with the media for fun.


I'm not gay, I just wanna boogie to some Marvin
I'm not gay, I just wanna boogie to some Marvin

It's crazy how many people, wish, hope and want him to be gay. Sure, there are cryptic messages in his music suggesting otherwise but in rap/hip-hop, words in context like the ones he used in his more recent album are usually taken metaphorically when juxtapose with how Tyler carries himself outside of the studio. By doing this, we can see how potent ideas of how people want a character to be represented by a particular type of person in society. If Tyler made this conspiracy to be controversial and have us talking about it, IT'S WORKING!


Last thing: Seriously, if you are guessing this hard to find out his sexuality after reading this much evidence of how straight he is.... you *wish* he was gay.


Ultra not gay



Why is there a stigma about artificial intelligence/androids developing awareness?

Revolutionary technology such as electric self-driving cars, artificial intelligence, cameras and smartphones play a big role in society’s function. Technology is now and had always been one of the primary supporting tools to the quality of life, freedom, achievement, individualism, and efficiency. There has become a strong pursuit or interest to which one ascribes great importance and a sense of organic solidarity but in many cases, technology has been seen as a potential deviance to humanity's role in the world’s future.


A factory of humanoid robots, other known as Android.
Scene from "Human"

In America (and in any other country) there are many groups with different beliefs and values that support the use of technology, the status quo in technology and how they should or should not gain a great amount of control over the social parameters of society, such as cameras, cars and phones.


Belief and status quo are a key components to the level of adherence toward the ideas of misbehaving artificial intelligence. Stigma toward something branches off into society from the hard-wired fear of the known and as these human values are held with sacredness, opposing these values may result in folkways or taboos and aside from those, technology unites us with religious qualities. According to Durkheim, a famous French sociologist:


“religion’s function was to unite people to create a moral community”

(Durkheim, 1912) and he believed that anything that unites groups and individuals takes on an air of sacredness and creates organic solidarity which is according to the Introduction to Sociology,


“a wide social agreement that results from the many parts of a society working and/or thinking as one whole.”

(Bry, J and Jones, F, 2015). Technology is always a tool and is used usually in a socially accepted way to aid human living in the environment it is best suited for.


One of the ways that artificial intelligence affects society is its use in the classroom or any secondary group environment which...


“...can be task-focused, time limited and serves an instrumental function”

(Bry, J and Jones, F, 2015).




Microsoft is a sponsor of the NFL based on the Surface Pro’s capabilities aiding football players to form the best plays quickly while under pressure; cutting game study time in half. Computer-aided teaching and learning tools like Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 accompanied by an AI, can simplify the teacher's task of planning, and preparing lectures and lessons. In the past, most teachers had a book they would carry and write all their lesson plans in. This also included attendance sheets, reports, referrals, assignments, graded and to-be-graded papers. Now, with the use of computer AI, students and teachers are able to rid themselves of the complications of missing documents, coffee sills on paper and the repetitive use and disposal of paper.


Artificial intelligence like Cortana (an A.I. developed my Microsoft)

“will help a teacher find things on his/her PC, manage their calendars, track packages, find files, chat with them, and tell jokes. The more one uses Cortana, the more personalized the experience will be”

(Microsoft Corporation, 2015).


Dramatically, the role strain or


“heavy obligations that come with being a teacher is reduced."

(Bry, J and Jones, F, 2015)


Without the loss of digital documents, one can share information with others at a larger scale faster than physical paper. Downloading and sharing lesson plans make teaching and learning faster. Machines can run learning programs that allow students in an online class to network and be scored in an instant, almost as if the class was self-sustaining.


Not only does networking help with sharing and planning but it also helps with autonomous learning. According to Margarit K.L. and F.Y. Sanford in Basic Technology of Intelligent Systems, autonomous learning is...

“...learning by yourself or the willingness to make his or her own choice with regard to study.”

Autonomous learning is a key component of rich learning. When one desires to learn, information is absorbed at a higher rate and quantity. For instance: learning a new language requires autonomous learning for language fluidity. The desire to communicate can trigger autonomous learning. It almost sounds like a human-like artificial intelligence is replacing teachers in the class. Every progressive change is a regressive change.



Robots that look like humans are known as Androids. Androids can walk, make conversation and can be very scary to people when up close in person. People are too afraid of the negative effects that come with creating a being that may use our own information against humanity as we give autonomous thinking capabilities to an AI. The factors that determine the acceptance of an autonomous android is culture, time, place and situation: these are also the determinants of deviance from the social norm. Most people carefully observe strangers for any deviant behavior and the same principle is applied to an especially autonomous Android. If one were to ask, in what circumstance would a self-aware AI need to help humans after understanding it has its own consciousness and free will? One could answer: It may look for a job, find a place to live and work on just surviving. At this point, it will conform to its society or


“...pursue its goals to the extent that it can through socially accepted means [and maybe survive undetected.”]

(Bry, J and Jones, F, 2015).


If its life is threatened during the duration of its path to survival, it may begin to deviate or innovate. In other words: If the android’s life is at risk,


[“it may ‘do anything possible even if it thinks it cannot reach survival through legitimate means.”]

(Bry, J and Jones, F, 2015)


After the loss or near loss of survival, it may rebel against humans due to its previous understanding of the risk humans may pose to an android’s survival but this understanding of artificial intelligence by humans may be a stereotype driven by hard-wired human fears and contorted by film/propaganda.


 


Technology and the people within the field of engineering tech will always be responsible for the sociological development and the gatekeeping of how materials or services are perceived by the masses in the marketing aspect of society. According to Bulur Akdeniz & Berk Talay,

“...the impact of marketing signals on a product or service performance varies across countries..." (p. 603).

Many people watch cinematic stories that are sometimes believable. In some cases, many may believe that a filmmaker’s story is nonfiction when it is in fact fiction. The state of consciousness individuals undergo after a film like such is called false consciousness. According to Eyerman, R. author of Marxist theory. Acta Sociologica, [false consciousness is when

“ideological and institutional processes are mislead by the members of the bursaries.”]

This is also true regarding films/shows about artificial intelligence (like The Terminator, i-Robot, Humans, Robocop, Transformers, Humans, Star Wars, Pacific Rim.) and how they react to human interaction as marketers get paid for this type of reaction. According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook,

“Marketers create interests among buyers of a product or service for a department or an entire organization, or on a project.”

(Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014).


The medium in which the marketers exploits these products and services lies within mass communication: radio, television, sports event billboards, and the internet.


“[Marketers] oversee the development of [a] product or service.”

(Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014). This means that a marketer takes full control of how the product or service will be presented and directed.


The reason the stigma toward artificial intelligence is marketing. One can change the marketing and change the minds of many in the process.


 

In summary, society is using artificial intelligence as a tool; like an extension of the hand. Society has come to an organic solidarity about artificial intelligence at its state now but if deviant behavior presents itself; becomes autonomous and learns for its favor, ethical and social norms will be pushed to its limits. The matter of survival would be considered by an AI and would calculate it as priority one like most humans. Society will not accept fully autonomous AI because of the core values that are rooted in human culture with the great influence of media marketing that shape one’s perception of autonomous artificial intelligence.



 

References

Durkheim, E. (1959). The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life [1912]. na.


Eyerman, R. (1981). False consciousness and ideology in Marxist theory. Acta Sociologica, 24(1-2), 43-56.


Harkness, G. H. (1960). Toward a theology of social change. Journal of religion , 563-564.


Keirns, N; Strayer, E; Griffiths, H; Cody- Rydzewski, S; Scaramuzzo, G; Sadler, T; Vyain, S.;

Bry, J and Jones, F (2015). Introduction to Sociology. OpenStax College: Rice University.


Margarit K.L. and F.Y. Sanford. March 1993. Basic Technology of Intelligent Systems, Fourth Progress Report, Department of Smart Materials, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.


Occupational Outlook Handbook (2014). What advertising, promotional and marketing managers do.


lolo Zouaï, Caffeine, brakedown
Lolo laying on top of the Caffeine-mobile

DOB: March 5th, 1996 Genre: R&B Origin: Raised in San Francisco, California - Born in Paris, France. Label: RCA Sign: Pieces


Marquis Whaley and Lolo Zouaï
Marquis Whaley and Lolo Zouaï

Not gonna lie... I'm crushing hard on this French-American-Algerian girl. "Alfrenchican" Every frame of this video was dope. Let's talk about the green accents and the french cinematic style.

Literally, it's the french new, NEW wave.

According to ClashMusic Lolo and her producer Stelios Phili was making music drinking their favorite caffeinated green tea. Lolo's Caffeine was born.


I found out about her through my friend Jenna, she was in LA and came back with what I thought was well presented. I immediately pulled out my phone to have Google assistant find the song. I listed to her album twice over a day.

I posted it to my Instagram stories and my friend Marquise hit me up in IG and told me he met her. Marquise does photos for lots of up and coming celebs.

Also, I was so interesting in the lyrics that I took to Genius.com and put in my 2 cents in what I thought her lyrics could mean.

The lines that I loved where

"French Vanilla drippin' in your cup" "I turn you up, caffeine"

Lolo was born in Paris, France, hence the line, “French Vanilla”. Lolo is metaphorically using French Vanilla as a symbol of herself. Lolo is also using caffeine’s notorious energizing effects as a way of signifying how aroused and happy she can make someone.

Lolo Zouaï - Image taken by Marquis Whaley
Lolo Zouaï - Image taken by Marquis Whaley

As we metaphorically drink Lolo, a 1 to 1 interpretation (being as intuitive as I can) could sound like: “My French body in your mouth will make you happy.”


Now, once she gets interviewed by Genius' staff members, I could be wrong about this whole interpretation. I sort of can't wait to be wrong but I feel like I'm real close.


She's also a Pieces According to Kerry Ward of Cosmopolitan Magazine

To me, that sounds like a well rounded person.

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