Overwatch and pornography
Overwatch pornography usually consists of short pieces of video featuring characters such as
Overwatch and its pornographic community has inspired various groups and companies to produce adult content related to the game. Brazzers produced a "porn parody" based on Overwatch in September 2016. The website Overpog.com started producing a Playboy-style magazine about the game in late 2016, until they were forced to stop in February the following year. Overwatch has inspired both sexualized cosplay and pornographic virtual reality works.
Background and history
Overwatch is a
Overwatch entered a
The game managed to become iconic ... before it had even been released, and it's thanks entirely to the game's indelible character design and sui generis artistic flair. There is more fanart for this game than you could even imagine.
Nathan Grayson of Kotaku stated that Overwatch makes for "good porn" because of its colorful cast of characters with distinct visual styles. Grayson pointed out that the game features a higher-than-average number of female characters, many of which wear skin-tight clothing. Grayson wrote that Overwatch pornography is relatively easy to make with Source Filmmaker, the community of which is built around the sharing of assets, including nude models. Many people who create and watch Overwatch pornography have not actually played the game.[4] Blender, another "free, open-source 3D computer graphics creation tool" is also used by such animators, with one being cited by Kotaku as stating, "Overwatch models are, for the most part, readily available for Blender, and some of them are very beginner friendly."[3] Some artists have achieved popularity within their online communities, being able to capitalize on their SFM or Blender art and use it as a source of income via Patreon donations.[13][14]
Overwatch director
In January 2017, Pornhub announced that "Overwatch" was the 11th-most searched term on their website in the previous year, beating out searches for words such as "
Pornographic content
Many of the Overwatch-related videos on Pornhub during the game's open beta featured the official models of the characters with some slight alterations to show more skin. Amateur animators then used the free
Most Overwatch pornography is only several seconds long and intended to loop indefinitely. Since the game's official release, various creators have experimented with longer and more elaborate story content. Though the characters each have a personal backstory, there is still a lot not known about them. According to Kotaku's Grayson, "by design, they can’t be fully fleshed out. There has to be room for player identity."
Commenting upon the pornographic content available on the Internet, Aoife Wilson of Eurogamer said that some of the videos are of surprisingly high quality, though she criticized that female characters were commonly portrayed in a submissive manner unless they are depicted with a penis.[5] Grayson stated that most of the Overwatch pornography is bad, featuring unsettlingly rigid movements and amateurish camera angles. However, he also described good content as "legitimately sexy." Grayson also noted that there exists a lot of comedy in the Overwatch porn scene, with people creating humorous videos or writing silly descriptions.[4] In 2019, Gray also commented on how Overwatch pornographic animations focus on women, rather than men, but praised the quality of these animations, opining: "sure, the boobs might be overly jiggly, and some of the gasps of pleasure are a little too close to sobs, but the animation is amazing—subtle movements of flesh and hair, detailed fabric simulations, lifelike surfaces, realistic lighting."[13] Gray, however, was also critical of the culture surrounding the creators of such content, writing that the genre has "a lot of the same issues as the porn industry as a whole." She elaborated that "It's clear that the people making these videos are into a very specific, predominantly white, and almost always skinny version of women," citing changes made to some characters (such as Pharah and Brigitte being portrayed as whiter and slimmer, respectively, than in-game), as well as an under-representation of others.[13] Sashacakies, an animator in the Overwatch pornography scene, also criticized the lack of diversity in the such content, but was unsure if its artists or consumers are to blame.[3]
Erotica
Both Inverse and Kotaku suggested that the majority of Overwatch's Source Filmmaker pornography community consists of straight men. However, both websites noted that users on
Major works
Overwatch became the subject of a "
After producing several mock
In 2017, cosplay artist Stella Chuu started a group effort of sexualized Overwatch cosplay under the banner "Underwatch". Chuu drew up cosplay designs of each Overwatch hero and got to work with a group in order to present the work at
Cosplay pornography company BaDoinkVR planned to release multiple virtual reality pornography projects based on Overwatch in 2017. Producer Dinorah Hernandez stated that "in Overwatch, people get attached to the characters as they play them and the way they're designed amplifies sexual attraction."[19]
Reactions
When asked about the pornographic fan content, lead designer Jeff Kaplan stated that as someone who is "creatively responsible" for the franchise, he is concerned and hopes people realize many children play the game despite the T-rating. Regardless, Kaplan stated, "Nobody’s trying to step on anybody’s freedom of speech or any of that, like totally love people’s creative expression."[15]
As Overwatch pornography primarily makes use of official character models with appended
Prolific video game porn developer
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See also
References
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