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Revisiting Queer Portrayal in Popular Culture: The Historiographical Significance of Şokopop in Turkey

Popüler Kültürde Queer Temsiline Yeniden Bakış: Türkiye’de Şokopop’un Tarihyazımsal Önemi

Deniz Gürgen Atalay(BAHÇEŞEHİR ÜNİVERSİTESİ)0000-0001-9252-6365
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2025-09-27
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Through textual analysis, it contextualizes Şokopop’s narrative strategy as a means of reclaiming queer representation in recent popular culture history.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Launched as a YouTube channel and Instagram account in 2018, Şokopop quickly became a prominent popular culture phenomenon in contemporary Türkiye.
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Key Findings & Data:Spearheaded by digital creator Ekim Acun, Şokopop delves into Turkish tabloid news from the 1960s to the early 2000s, reviving the bold and provocative landscape of past popular culture through contemporary digital media.
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Conclusion & Impact:Through textual analysis, it contextualizes Şokopop’s narrative strategy as a means of reclaiming queer representation in recent popular culture history.
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⚙️Variables:Popular Culture · Digital Media Studies · Media Historiography

Abstract

Launched as a YouTube channel and Instagram account in 2018, Şokopop quickly became a prominent popular culture phenomenon in contemporary Türkiye. Spearheaded by digital creator Ekim Acun, Şokopop delves into Turkish tabloid news from the 1960s to the early 2000s, reviving the bold and provocative landscape of past popular culture through contemporary digital media. The series offers a nostalgic yet ironic take on celebrity scandals took place in recent past of Türkiye. While the channel’s content spans various aspects of Turkish celebrity culture, its most striking discourse emerges in its representation of queer figures within the popular culture. This study examines Şokopop as a historiographical performance that reconstructs the media portrayal of queerness in Turkish popular culture between the 1960s and early 2000s. This research analyzes the narrative and formal characteristics of biographical episodes on prominent queer figures Bülent Ersoy, Zeki Müren, and Huysuz Virjin. Through textual analysis, it contextualizes Şokopop’s narrative strategy as a means of reclaiming queer representation in recent popular culture history.

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2018 yılında bir YouTube kanalı ve Instagram hesabı olarak hayata geçirilen Şokopop, kısa sürede Türkiye’de önemli bir popüler kültür fenomenine dönüşmüştür. Dijital içerik üreticisi Ekim Acun’un öncülüğünde ortaya çıkan Şokopop, Türkiye’de 1960’lardan 2000’lerin başına kadar uzanan magazin haberlerini derinlemesine incelerken geçmişin cesur ve kışkırtıcı popüler kültür atmosferini çağdaş dijital medya aracılığıyla yeniden canlandırır. Acun bölümlerde, geçmişin magazin olaylarını eleştirel ve performatif bir perspektifle drag kostümler içinde anlatır. Kanalın içeriği geniş bir yelpazeye yayılsa da en dikkat çekici söylemi populer kültürde queer figürlerinin temsiline dair oluşturduğu anlatılarda ortaya çıkar. Bu çalışma, Şokopop’u 1960’lardan 2000’lerin başına kadar Türkiye’de popüler kültürde queerliğin medya temsillerini yeniden inşa eden tarihyazımsal bir performans olarak ele almaktadır. Bülent Ersoy, Zeki Müren ve Seyfi Dursunoğlu gibi queer figürlere odaklanan biyografik bölümlerin anlatısal ve biçimsel analizi Şokopop’un tarihyazımsal önemini Türkiye popüler kültür tarihine kattığı queer perspektif üzerinden açıklamayı hedeflemektedir.

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Atalay, D. G. (2025). Revisiting Queer Portrayal in Popular Culture: The Historiographical Significance of Şokopop in Turkey. Fiscaoeconomia, Volume: 9 Issue: Toplumsal Cinsiyet Özel Sayısı Special Issue. https://doi.org/10.25295/fsecon.1641109

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