u/pearl_buzz

I was checking out Joji’s Instagram and stumbled upon this post; I also saw a video of him performing a while back with an LGBT flag draped over his back. I find it kind of funny because, if you first discovered Joji through Filthy Frank, the last thing you’d expect is to see that same guy years later performing with an LGBT flag and showing support for the community. (I say this because Filthy Frank was a character created to be chaotic, absurd, and intentionally offensive, though it’s worth remembering he was just a character, so you can’t simply take everything he did back then and treat it as a perfect portrait of who Joji is as a person.) I don’t find it strange in a bad way; actually, I find it entertaining to see the contrast between the character he played in the past and the public figure he’s become today, it’s quite an unexpected evolution. It’s not a case of him being a bigot who changed his ways to support the LGBT community; rather, the Filthy Frank aesthetic and persona were so deliberately absurd, aggressive, and politically incorrect that you don’t immediately associate that version of him with the Joji of today

Why is this community photo? Like, you know that's not joji, right?

This video is behind the scenes