‘Overwatch’ Soldier: 76: How Homophobia Tanked the Populary of the Gay Character | Them

Contents:

• NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP
• "OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT
• HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER
• SOLDIER 76 GAY? BI? 'OVERWATCH' FANS, DEVS AND SHIPPERS REACT TO 'BASTET' BOMBSHELL (UPDATE)
• A BETTER WAY FOR 'OVERWATCH' TO REVEAL SOLDIER 76 AS GAY
• BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH
• IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?
• A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT

NEW OVERWATCH LORE CONFIRMS SOLDIER 76 IS GAY, AND CHOSE HIS MISSN OVER HIS RELATNSHIP

Update: A tweet om lead wrer Michael Chu nfirms that Soldier intifi as gay. “Both intify as gay. Both intify as gay.

Soldier: 76, real name Jack Morrison, is a gay character om Overwatch.

Michael Chu later nfirmed on twter that Jack and Vcent had been a relatnship, and both of them intify as gay[1].

"OVERWATCH" HERO SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY AND THE REACTNS ARE JT THE BT

Shock then ran among all fans when was revealed that Jack was gay. While LGBT fans were exced for another gay character, many ed to pot out a lack of diversy the LGBT characters. Most gay characters wtern media are whe men, and wanted to see more POC queer reprentatn.

Gamergate players had a very negative reactn to the reveal that Jack Morrison was gay. Some ma over exaggerated remarks that half the roster was gay, and the reveal ed the character. Badass Gay.

Nobody Over 50 Is Gay - Subverted. GAY.

HOW HOMOPHOBIA TANKED THE POPULARY OF A GAY OVERWATCH CHARACTER

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.

He’s gay.

SOLDIER 76 GAY? BI? 'OVERWATCH' FANS, DEVS AND SHIPPERS REACT TO 'BASTET' BOMBSHELL (UPDATE)

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.

And we've jt learned that he's gay. What a joyo time to be a gaymer. SOLDIER 76 IS GAY.

A BETTER WAY FOR 'OVERWATCH' TO REVEAL SOLDIER 76 AS GAY

IF YOURE PLAYING A GAY IN THE VIDEO GAME WORLD. YOURE GAY IN REAL LIFE. 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.

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.

“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. Players have long tried to alert Overwatch veloper Blizzard to s muny’s homophobia problem, which has affected both s rank-and-file player base and s profsnal arm, the Overwatch League.

BLIZZARD REVEALS THAT SOLDIER: 76 IS GAY - BUT IT ISN’T ENOUGH

And, of urse, bee we’re talkg about gamers here, the harassment don’t stop at homophobia and often clus racist harassment, cludg the e of racist slurs and misogyny as well.

It is statistilly te that queer women are more accepted worldwi than gay men. “Some players reported the survey that they felt other players see lbians as appealg and tertg, but that the same players voice disgt toward gay men, ” Nseler wrote. So, Soldier 76 is gay, and this kd of shocked a lot of people.

IS SOLDIER: 76 GAY OVERWATCH 2?

Some people are upset by this, sayg that gayns is beg "shoved down their throats" and I wholeheartedly disagree!! Tracer was first revealed to be gay TWO years ago, and now that Soldier 76 is part of the LGBT muny, they say that 's TOO MUCH? That is a grand total of 2 gay characters the 27 character st.

A POPULAR HERO AT THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE HOTTT VIO GAM AROUND WAS JT REVEALED TO BE GAY, AND FANS ARE EAKG OUT

Blizzard jt dropped a bombshell on 's fan base, announcg the latt Bastet short story that Soldier: 76 may be gay.

" The general nsens is this reveals Soldier 76 is gay or onle have been discsg this revelatn for the past few hours. People are jt disverg Soldier 76 is gay? I was a fool not to know you were not only an ally to the gays but also gay yourself —?

I know a random nobody ex-boyiend is not anyone's ial way to reveal this but soldier 76 beg gay giv me so much satisfactn bee he's one of the on that will make the straight men madst— otterly unbelievable (@darkmayproject) January 7, 2019. you've got one half of people sayg 's "forcg an agenda"and the other whg that "blizzard dont re about lgbt whatever"meanwhile i'm over here beg really happy that they didn't jt go "oh btw soldier 76 is gay" and showed stead of tellgi love that— Cay @FFXIV GARBAGE CAT ADVENTURES (@No17Caloss) January 7, 2019.