We say ‘she’, since it seems appropriate – but Constantinos, like the cross-dresser mentioned in his video, is a gay person, not a transwoman. “You mad doggy!” – then throws back her head and laughs heartily. She does a little moue, peering at the camera in amusement: “Are you lost?” she purrs in English. “I’m basically straight,” they insist – Foxy does a deep voice to denote this possibly in-denial fan, then responds as herself: “Oh! Okay… So who are you looking for in my DMs, angel?”.
Another video (63,500 views) opens with a disclaimer that often turns up in the DMs (direct messages) she receives from men.
If a straight guy dresses up in drag for Carnival, notes one vid, everyone laughs and thinks it’s cool if a gay person does it, everyone’s like ‘Oh, he wants to be a woman’. Some of the best – and most revealing – Foxy videos are the ones where she points out hypocrisy and double standards, especially as regards sexuality. Last week there was even a video (it has almost 83,000 views) on being vaccinated herself but declaring solidarity with the unvaccinated. Her main topics are relationships and online discourse itself, things like people griping when you message them a smiley face instead of an emoji – but in fact she talks about all kinds of subjects. Foxy has her catchphrases, like the ‘ zouzounakia’ – her pet name for fans and followers – roughly translating into English as ‘little buzzy bees’, and ‘ poulo’, a vaguely phallic insult for someone who’s being… well, a dick. The (relatively few) Instagram videos are more tentative – but the ones on TikTok, mostly clocking in at less than a minute, are uproarious, rattling off comebacks and observations in Cypriot dialect (with occasional translation for any stray Greek viewers). She’s also funny, that’s a big part of the following.