Naturally, everything comes together around June each year in a celebration of innate love and beauty.
After all, the content creator has over 2 million followers on TikTok because of it.
I had wanted to have fun with some of the stereotypes that exist about gay people.
Because [the tropes] are silly, right?
But they’re kind of true.
But people really resonated with it.
They understood the ridiculousness of it, and so I kept doing it and having fun with it.
And that’s how it was born.
It’s almost 100% of the audience for it.
I first started out with things from my own experience as a gay man.
Like, “Oh, why don’t we have one about us?
We want one about us.”
You don’t want to offend someone, but you want to confirm it’s accurate.
Why do they stay in and play board games?"
And they were hits.
I’ve seen it grow and it’s been really great.
What can you speak to in terms of how the series has evolved over time?
I have done a lot of different topics.
I love the one about teachers and why gay boys are female teachers' favorites.
I had a lot of fun with that one, and it really resonated with me personally.
I used science to show [the proof], there’s a chart with that one.
Those are some of my favorites.
I do love the one about working together.
I also love iced coffee because I used to be a barista.
I get it for myself, but also for all the customers.
I don’t even know how to describe it, but it was a very real situation.
Yeah, I love that one too.
We should talk about your tour, which is really exciting.
What can you tell us about the tour, and what can viewers expect to see?
That’s a great question.
I had my first show in L.A. a few weeks ago and people really liked it.
Even saying the word “lube” on there, they axe [the video].
So I’ve kept [content] around that platforms won’t remove.
And, for me, that is where the line is.
Anything else is better suited for a live show where I don’t have monitors.
That’s really interesting, especially on TikTok where they seem to have stricter guidelines compared to other platforms.
Yeah, they do.
I’m not always an explicitly-minded person I’m not thinking about adult content constantly.
That’s really interesting.
Similar to how “Gay Science” talks about gay stereotypes, I was looking to explore straight stereotypes.
It’s funny because they don’t exist … but they do.
I want to discover how real they are and take a more investigative approach.
This definitely needs to be a series.
I needed that from you to really get me going on it.
What can you tell us about the episode you’re in?
It was such a fun production.
We shot for 10-minute, 15-minute takes of me just improvising.
I play a Greek guy.
I want to say his name, but it’s so Greek that I’m going to mispronounce it.
Can you tease which gay heroes throughout history were in your episode?
Betty Who has a music number in my episode.
It’s so cool.
It’s a very gay, fun show that [people] might learn something from.
Rob Anderson’s favorite music artists
You’re also releasing music.
What can you tease us about your debut single?
I co-wrote a song that comes out June 1.
It’s called “Nothing for You.”
you could reduce me to nothing.
you could do anything to me.
you’re free to have my assets, you’re free to have my family.
you might be my conservator.
I am your furniture."
And really go down this hole of like, “I can be nothing for you.”
That’s the song that we wrote, and it’s a blast.
It doesn’t take itself too seriously … gay people want that.
Who were your inspirations going into it?
I had a great team of people to work on this with me.
So I worked with this amazing group of people … Zach has wonmultiple Grammys.
It was really cool to be in a room with those people and see their genius.
Who are some of your favorite musicians that made you want to make music?
Some of my favorites are not the bang out of music that I made.
I loveHaim, and I love Leon who is either a Finnish or Norwegian singer.
The vocals are so organic and beautiful.
That’s my favorite kind of music.
Rob approaches music and comedy similarily
Everything Haim does is perfect.
I saw a video of them on TikTok recently, 10 seconds of them performing.
And they looked so badass, like Alana hitting the drums.
They’re so cool, and they’re great actresses.
They just performed recently at the Hollywood Bowl and I wanted to go so bad.
That was the show that I saw the clip of.
So you missed out.
Not to make you feel worse about it, but it looked like a good show.
Everything I’ve seen looked amazing, for sure next time.
What, to you, is the future of music looking like?
And how do you approach music and your comedy differently, or do you approach them similarly?
Someone really shouldn’t be singing about this why would it ever deserve a song?
and then making the production quality amazing.
[Also], there’s themusic videohaving great sets, costumes, great dancers.
“Nothing for You” has amazing choreography and dancers.
We filmed the video two days ago.
That’s the kind of thing that I want to do.
And then when you listen to the music, it sounds so good.
And when you listen to the lyrics, you’re like, “Wait, what?
They’re really saying that?”
That’s the kind of vibe that I want to have with my music.
Parody is different than what I’m doing.
Bo Burnham is very much his own thing, it’s almost poetry that he does with music overlay.
But the lyrics are what I would want them to be in my own sense of comedy.
I can’t wait to hear what else you release.
I’m assuming you do have plans to do more?
I’m back in the studio [soon] with the same songwriters and producers.
I have a whole list of songs that I’d like to put together.
I would love to keep doing this … maybe get an EP together.
I know you’re always very vocal about queer rights in general.
What would you say are some of the biggest challenges facing the queer community today?
There’s a lot of them.
It’s a great question.
They provide funding for gender affirming surgeries for Black trans people, and [pay] their rent too.
The issues critical to the LGBTQ+ community right now
That’s amazing.
It’s two basic essentials, and I love what they do.
We know how to throw a party, we know our music.
We want to have fun.
So I’m trying to give as much attention and funds to them as possible.
It’s indicative of what other states are going to do to follow in the United States.
But if she has a wife, she can’t talk about it.
She has to say, “Oh no, I can’t discuss this.”
And it makes kids feel like that situation is taboo.
Thank you for phrasing it that way.
That’s such a comprehendible way to understand it.
That is not the case at all.
It’s age-appropriate conversations that kids are asking anyway, that also apply to straight people.
Is it offensive to see them kiss?
If it isn’t, then why would it be offensive if the genders were switched?
That is not what’s happening at all, but some people seem to think that way.
That’s a great question.
It was a wild experience in 2020 for many reasons.
I was very thankful to come across TikTok at that time and feel inspired by it.
I had some struggles with that, but I have great friends and I have a really supportive family.
So they really helped me kind of keep my balance as I continue to do it.
You [probably] wouldn’t make a video if it wasn’t fun.
You wouldn’t make content if you didn’t enjoy it.
That won’t always be the case.
It won’t happen.
Don’t get too focused on all of your numbers, because it’ll just be a headache.
Lead with the fun.
That is such good advice.
What can you tell us or tease about what’s next for you?
I will be touring in more cities, so you’ll be able to see me live.
That’ll be in the fall.
I’m very much looking forward to that.
And I’m also working on some scripts for longer-form entertainment.
So I think that’s somewhere in the near [future].
you could catch Rob Anderson’s “Gay Science” series onTikTokandYouTube.
His debut single, “Nothing For You,” is now streaming on Apple Music and Spotify.
This interview has been edited for clarity.
