A new study found that after the character was revealed to be gay a ic, players chose Soldier: 76 ls equently -game.
Contents:
- HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER
- IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
- 27 OTHER OVERWATCH HERO THAT ARE ALSO GAY
- "OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER
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Update: A tweet om lead wrer Michael Chu nfirms that Soldier intifi as gay. “Both intify as gay.”. Both intify as gay.
Soldier 76, the crotchety old soldier Overwatch, is now nonilly gay acrdg to a recent short story. New Overwatch Lore Confirms Soldier 76 Is Gay, And Chose His Missn Over His Relatnship. Overwatch’s latt short story nfirms that Soldier 76 is totally gay, but uldn’t balance a relatnship wh his duti as a soldier.
IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
Blizzard short story 'Bastet' officially nfirms 'Overwatch' character Soldier 76 is nonilly gay, and the send hero to reprent LGBTQ folks. * overwatch 76 gay *
He’s gay. In se there was any ambiguy, Michael Chu tweeted out that y, Soldier 76 is gay and nothg else. Will this mean we’ll get a somewhat more fabulo Soldier 76 sk for this year’s gay pri season?
While ’s neat that Soldier 76 is Overwatch’s send gay character after Tracer, what’s far more ntroversial is the fact that Ana is now nonilly a furry after donng the tular Bastet mask at the end of the story.
Soldier 76 – Gay. Much like Tracer, Soldier 76 was revealed to be gay a medium outsi of the official Overwatch game. While gam allow to step to the liv of people pletely different om , there is still one difference that uld be a bridge too far for some: playg an out gay character.
27 OTHER OVERWATCH HERO THAT ARE ALSO GAY
We've piled a list of the other characters the game that we believe might jt be... gay. Or bi. Or what-have-you. * overwatch 76 gay *
Rearchers found that after Soldier: 76, a character the onle first-person shooter game Overwatch, was revealed to be gay a 2019 ic, there was a statistil drop his “pick rate” the game, a term referrg to the percentage of tim players selected the character durg a game. As Norwegian profsor Cornel Nseler wr an analysis of the study published Wednday Scientific Amerin, the newly-gay character experienced an “extreme drop” populary and pick rate followg the g-out announcement. After surveyg a group of players, most of whom were men om North Ameri, rearchers found that very few actually red about the character beg gay and that his sexualy would ially not fluence pickg him game.
"OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
“They got tired of homophobic slurs and nstant harassment and temporarily swched to other characters to avoid , ” Nseler urse for gaymers like this reporter, the homophobic slurs -game n feel even worse.