“Big Clive,” a popular YouTuber who makes videos in which he takes apart various electrical objects, came out as gay this weekend during a live stream.

“The media presents this very weird image of ’gay’ in the sense of they always go for the most extreme examples,” says the U.K. engineer in response to a fan’s question about his sexuality. “Technically speaking, I am gay, but I really don’t fit the gay stereotype. I’m biased towards male stuff. I always choose the most dangerous jobs, the most violent jobs, because, you know, I just like industrial stuff. To me… it’s the sort of ‘bear’ thing, I guess.”

Clive ultimately decides it’s “a complex subject” that requires its own separate video at a later date. “Suffice it to say, a lot of people you work with are really in the same boat,” he adds.

“I’m just very, very male,” he writes in the video description. “I’ve got a very harsh theory that there’s more than one type of human, and some of us are designated as engineers and not intended to breed. I find the whole man-meets-woman thing slightly perplexing, as that emotion (and many others) seems to be missing completely as if it’s an option that mother nature turned off. An extraordinary percentage of technical people seem to fall into the same category.”

Following a brief discussion about gadget explosions, another viewer asks, “Can I explode in your ass?” Clive politely declines the offer.

Clive, who has more than 250,000 subscribers and almost 75 million views, describes his channel as the “trashiest electronic channel on YouTube” and invites viewers to “kick back, grab a beer, and enjoy the ride.”

Watch the revealing live stream below.



