Queer Rhythms of Continuity: Seriality and Platform Governance on GagaOOLala

The article examines how the Taiwan-based LGBTQ+ streaming platform GagaOOLala reconceptualizes seriality as a queer infrastructure of endurance. Rather than reifying seriality as a function of retention, GagaOOLala harnesses rhythm, delay, and repeat to extend relation in fragile media conditions. By conducting a textual analyses of Fragrance of the First Flower (2021) and Boys Like Boys (2023), interviews with platform editors, and reception tracing in online communities, this study demonstrates how serial pacing and affective governance transform scarcity into continuity. It contends that GagaOOLala’s slow temporality presents an alternative mode of platform governance based on maintenance, care, and duration over prediction and scale. In effect, queer seriality appears not as an infinite production but rather as a minor practice of staying with others, across regions and in the common rhythm of incompletion and delay.