Some people would say that social media was supposed to be about keeping in touch with old classmates and sharing photos of your food. But I disagree with this, as I think that there are far more interesting things than lunch to be posted on a public feed, especially if that something involves gay crossdressing. Luckily, I am not the only one who shares that opinion, as there seems to be a bunch of guys who started posting themselves in thigh-highs and lace, and the formerly known bird app quietly became one of the busiest dress-up places on the web.
TWPornstars is basically a way to attend that party without wading through everything else on the timeline. It collects adult posts from Twitter. That’s right, I am still calling it Twitter, not fucking X. That’s a dumb ass name. I am not even the only one with that opinion, since if you scroll all the way down, you will see “This product uses the Twitter API but is not endorsed or certified by Twitter” in the fine print of the site. This is a rare moment when I can say that the platform is based.
There are around 350 gay crossdressing posts
Since the site pulls in content from Twitter, it sorts them by hashtag, so instead of following hundreds of accounts, you just pick your tags and let the site build the feed. The gay crossdressing combo on TWPornstars gives you roughly 350 posts. That's a small but respectable stash, the kind you could get through over a couple of weeks of casual evenings.
Photos and videos are thrown together in the same stream, but most of what you will see are videos, which is good news if you prefer motion over stills. If you would rather skip the photos entirely, there is a videos option that strips them out and leaves only clips. Since videos are already the majority, flipping that switch doesn’t shrink the list all that much, so it is an easy way to tidy things up without losing anything important.
Because everything comes from Twitter accounts, the content has a very personal, homemade flavor. Guys filming in their bedrooms, showing off a new outfit, teasing their followers with a slow reveal. It is less studio, more social, and that gives the collection a real charm. You are not watching a production. Instead, you are watching someone who decided to share a bit of their wardrobe with the world, and that is a lot more fun than watching someone do it for a stack of cash and not for the love of the game.
Stack them hashtags like Lego bricks
The way you search here is a little different from most sites. Instead of a category, you build your search out of hashtags. Under the search bar, there's a row of related tags you can click to add to your search, things like sissy, crossdresser, dom, and sub. Each one you add gets chained to the rest, and the results narrow down to posts that carry all of them.
It is a fun and refreshing way to browse for content, especially if you know exactly what you are in the mood for. While it might be a bit underwhelming as there are not that many crossdressing videos to narrow down, if you want to explore the site beyond that, I am sure you are going to find something fun to enjoy.
If you stick to your guns and browse gay crossdressing only, and keep stacking the hashtags, the pile can shrink really fast. With only 350 posts, most of this stack can handle three or four hashtags before you run out of videos. It is kind of like adding toppings to the pizza. The first few toppings definitely add to the experience, but then if you add even more on top of that, it can completely ruin the dish, especially if that extra topping is pineapple. Woah! I am only joking, pineapple pizza fans. There is no need to start rioting!
On top of the hashtags, there's a Filter&Sort menu. But you'd better pay close attention, because it is really easy to miss. If you do manage to find it, you can limit posts to the last day, week, month, or year, or keep it at all time. With a collection this size, the shorter time ranges can get pretty thin. Set it to the last day, and depending on how active people have been, you might see a few fresh posts or a whole lot of nothing. All time is the safe default, and month or year are good if you want to skip the oldest stuff.
Sorting lets you go by popular, date, likes, or retweets. Sorting by likes or retweets is a nice touch, since it uses Twitter's own crowd reactions to bring the best posts to the top. If a few hundred people liked a guy's new skirt, you will probably like it too. It's crowd wisdom, and in a niche this personal, the crowd usually knows what it's doing. What is not so wise are the posts related to the one you are watching, as they will lead you to something completely irrelevant, but this is not worth ranting a whole paragraph about.
Something that gave me a good chuckle is that there is a submit button when you are picking the filters. While the filter button looks outdated, along with all the buttons in the dropdown menu, including the submit one, there is actually an animation on the submit button. When you select something, the submit button will start filling up, and once it fills up, your page will automatically refresh and apply the filter. Why is there a load time? It's not a NES game where you have to wait for each screen to load in. It’s a fucking porn site.
The top menu also has links for popular videos, a popular section, all pornstars, and a full list of hashtags. They're handy if you ever want to wander outside the crossdressing combo and see what else is trending on the site, but for this niche, the hashtag search is where you'll spend most of your time.
Ads are as aggressive as they can be
Throughout the years, I think I spent a lot of time fighting ads on the sites because I turn off my ad-blocker for you guys so I can give you an honest review. I think I actually spent more time fighting the ads than the actual sites being bad and difficult to browse. Well, this one was a tough battle, since the ads are very aggressive. There are pop-ups, ads disguised as posts, ads that will come at you no matter where you click, including the filter buttons, and the worst of all ads I have ever seen - the CAPTCHA ad.
That’s right, when you open a post, you will get a big CAPTCHA. Depending on your screen size, it can be in the middle or on the side of the video. The thing is, this CAPTCHA is not a CAPTCHA at all. It is a fucking ad disguised as a CAPTCHA! I literally gasped when I fell for it for the first time, as I was redirected to some random platform. Then, the second time, upon closer inspection, I noticed that there is a small X in the corner of the captcha. It fooled me once, but I don’t fall for the same bullshittery twice!
You would think that this is as annoying as it gets, but if you are browsing the site for the first time, you will also have the video autoplay turned on. You can turn this off, but if the videos are short and you are trying to fight the scammy “confirm you are not a robot” ad, the video might finish, and the next video will play. What happens when the next video plays? A new page loads, which means you have to get rid of the ads and then attempt to find the button to stop autoplay. While it was annoying, I also found it entertaining, since it felt like a little duel I was having with the ads.
Browsing TWPornstars without an ad-blocker is a nightmare, and after experiencing the ads for the sake of this review, I am never going back to that bullshit again. If you cannot run an ad-blocker for some reason, good luck browsing this platform for more than a few minutes before you want to pull your hair out.
Still, if we disregard the ads, I think you can agree with me that this site has a lot of good content. A lot might be an overstatement, but the quality is decent. There's a fun little stash here, especially for anyone who loves the raw, social-media style of crossdressing content. Stack two or three hashtags, sort by likes, turn off autoplay, and keep your hands away from that captcha. Do that, and TWPornstars is worth a follow.
