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A YouTube video by a man claiming to "expose" _Madden_ streamer and Jynxzi collaborator Sketch's past as a gay OnlyFans model has shocked his fanbase and sparked widespread discourse online. Twitch streamer Sketch has certainly had an interesting morning. Earlier today, images circulating on Twitter suggested that Sketch used to be a gay OnlyFans creator.

Popular Twitch streamer Sketch has confirmed his past as a creator of gay OnlyFans content after images and video of someone fans thought might be him began circulating. Find and save ideas about gay drawing sketches on Pinterest. In a stream today, streamer Sketch talked to fans about the alleged OnlyFans account and addressed several claims made around online images tied to him from his past. The streamer seemed to. But years on from his birth, how do they stand up now, asks Nick Levine.

But nevertheless, his more explicit work retains an unwavering capacity to shock. His posthumous success has undoubtedly been bolstered by the fact that in , towards the end of his life, Laaksonen founded a non-profit foundation with his friend Durk Dehner to preserve and promote his catalogue of more than 3, illustrations. In , the Finnish postal service even celebrated his impact with a set of commemorative postage stamps.

At the same time, Tom of Finland is still more of a cult figure than a household name like Andy Warhol who owned several of his pieces because his art remains incredibly provocative, especially to the straight male gaze. Many of his illustrations show men with heavily muscled torsos and surreally large genitalia engaging gleefully in sex acts. Some early Tom of Finland illustrations depicting soldiers in Nazi uniforms are also inherently problematic.

His influential drawings of men in leather and biker outfits helped to inspire the popular Gay Clone look that Freddie Mercury and Frankie Goes to Hollywood adopted and brought into the mainstream, but also made his work appear exclusionary to other queer factions. Creating a new stereotype.

Laaksonen first drew a man of colour in , and as his career progressed, he included more interracial couples in his drawings — something which certainly made his art feel even more taboo at the time. However, if these elements of his work are inspiringly subversive, the way Tom of Finland plays with imagery from the Third Reich is undoubtedly much more morally murky — even though Laaksonen unequivocally dismissed suggestions he might be a Nazi sympathiser.

I am thinking only about the picture itself.

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The whole Nazi philosophy, the racism and all that, is hateful to me, but of course I drew them anyway — they had the sexiest uniforms! The politics of beefcakes. Though publications like Physique Pictorial were ostensibly presented as bodybuilding manuals celebrating the male form, many were essentially purveyors of gay erotica hiding in plain sight. Unlike gay ography, beefcake magazines could be sold on American newsstands and sent through the US mail.

And without having to maintain the pretence necessary for Physique Pictorial, Laaksonen could make his mail-order drawings explicitly sexual rather than merely highly suggestive. Laaksonen was more artist than businessman, and for many years he was poorly paid for his illustrations by both the niche titles who published them and fans who commissioned bespoke pieces.

By , however, he was earning enough money to quit his day job at the advertising agency and devote himself fully to drawing. His popularity continued to grow during the last two decades of his life, and in he and Dehner formed the Tom of Finland Company to copyright earlier work which had been widely pirated. Fans can even buy a Tom of Finland leather jockstrap , a development which would surely tickle the late illustrator.

Equally, Tom of Finland continues to inspire creatives and fashion designers. Tom of Finland: Love and Liberation at House of Illustration is currently closed but will reopen as soon as it is safe to do so www. If you would like to comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Culture, head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter.

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