Manual
MANUAL is a visual inventory; it is both a documentation and examination of the popularity of "cleaning motivation" videos on the Internet.
MANUAL curates images captured from popular YouTube cleaning vlogs into an alphabetically ordered list of vocabularies, forming an explanatory template that concludes what constitute an ideal “home life” for females today.
MANUAL is both a noun and an adjective: 1. the manual labors done by females; 2. the cleaning videos as the instructional "manual" of female's jobs within the household. Supplemented with scholarly essays and historical archives, this publication seeks to provoke critical insights into domestic chores, the “cleanfluencer” trend, and their implications on traditional gender roles.