Why Are Fighting Games So Gay? 

hey gang, i just wanted to say how truly appreciative i am for everyone taking time out of their day to watch my silly little gay video. when i was first making this video my goal was to “hit 100 views within this month”, and i think it’s safe to say that goal was achieved. i can’t promise when my next video will be out, nor what that video will be about, but i can absolutely guarantee you that it’ll have the same level of care, time, and resources put into it. i would greatly appreciate if you stuck around to see what else i have cooking, and if you’re interested in any updates i highly recommend checking out my twitter. once again thanks to everyone for watching and i hope to see you soon !

pretty cool to see guilty gear invent gay people

Three reasons 1.) Autism 2.) Anyone can win or join the FGC 3.) Character designers have more of an opportunity to give the right flair to their creations

8:25 I'm glad my silly shitpost of Johnny microwaving a fork got so much attention but damn what

"any fighting game event every week"... do you actually have those in your places i feel so jealous

We just love lettuce guacamole bacon tomato sandwiches

A sub 1k channel about fighting games with structured commentary *AND A MIC THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE A TIN CAN!!...* a trully astounding experience in this day age 👏👏👏

cant believe this video wasnt just an umisho clipset smh

If Goldy has 100000000 fans I am one of them. If Goldy has 0 fans I have been killed.

THANK YOU FOR THE SHOUTOUT ILY

"I've played OverWatch and smashed since I was in middle school" that shit makes me feel so old

I got recommended this vid by a socal local group. When I started at my local last year I immediately noticed way more diversity than other videogame events I've been to in the past (I was only familiar with online shooters at the time). I really appreciate you sharing your experience and other icons in the FGC. The welcoming aspect of the community benefits everybody and I experienced that first-hand when moving to a completely new state and fighting through some social anxiety. Makes a lot of sense that the social and self-improvement aspect of these games invites some of the most awesome people to play!

thanks goldy this video saved my 11 year marriage

"been playing overwatch since middle school" just call me a fossil why don't ya

This video may have pushed me further in accepting the fact that I might be trans. Don’t know yet but goated video

as far as im concerned all fighting games are gay

title: Why Are Fighting Games So Gay? video: Guilty Gear with Smash sprinkled on top.

You forgot to mention that Venom is gay considering this video focuses mostly on Guilty Gear lol

WE MAKING IT OUT OF POOLS WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

There are honestly so many factors. Fighting games have always been more diverse, also having a disproportionately large black audience compared to other genres. Played internationally, with large rosters of characters designed to have broad appeal. Meritocracy, one on one, with a focus on mutual improvement. And just bonding over shared interest.

i was waiting for capcom and 3d fighters to show up but they barely did, the fact that overwatch has more footage than either of those is crazy

Wild to see our bracket in the first 3 seconds :3

Good video one small issue where the heck do you fit an ENTIRE town inside someone

Scarlett from Starcraft 2 is also noteworthy

Your conclusion at the end of the video really spoke to me, I have so much appreciation for the fgc because of the space and community provides. fighting games (for me atleast) are about accepting yourself and improving upon the aspects you feel can be improved upon, and then always being open to helping others get better at their craft no matter their walks of life. I'm not particularly good about putting how I feel about fighting games into words but they're very important to me and many others. This was an awesome video that really reinforced the goodwill I feel for the fgc. :)

amazing video, fun watch all the way through!

Great essay putting what everyone had on their tongues out into video

Great video! It may have been a bit before your time but Scarlett's career in Starcraft II was incredible and worth looking up

the switch to the yard at the end made me think i had autoplay on lmao. awesome video

Being a falco player is so funny. You have your old gods (pc chris, doctor peepee), one true god (buster/kid/goat) and the four horsemen/woman(westballz, ginger, magi, bobby). Every single falco player will pick one of each to draw inspo from and it reflects on their play sooo much and i love it

It’s sad how many TERFs play GG and will whine about Brigette not being trans despite both Johnny and Slayer having gender specific Dialogue with her and all the other women in the cast

yo that controller in the end and the keyboard on your tweet are the goats of this video for me ngl, great video btw, kinda sad those types of events are rare here in The South (the global one)

In League, there was a NA player by the name of Remilia who went to play on the LCS for a couple of years iirc and she was trans. She played support (like yourself) but she was in one of the worst teams so she didn't stay for long tho. Anyways, I loved the video and the perspective that you use while talking about this.

Fantastic video, taught me a lot of cool things,

I remember being young and having a friend that loved Shun from Saint Seiya anime and loving the boy with the white hair (dont remember the name) from Sakura Card Captors... At that time, I didn't know that he was homosexual and he loved those characters bc it represented him. Many years have passed, we are still old friends and I remember never thinking less of him bc he was "weird" like to others kids called him... And I think that representation in those animes mattered so much for me to understand that there are people like him in this world. Anyway, today we are in a very weird place related to representation in videogames, moves, series etc... Many times the representations seems soo off to me... and IDK why it seems soo artificial and not the same that I've experienced with this friend. But I fear that the this kind of "miss representation" is somehow upsetting people so much more.... and I feel that many times is incentivizing more racism and more prejudice. There is any balance to this approach of representation? Why I feel that a new Star Wars character super dull and generic while I love each cast of anime Dungeon Meshi (where almost every single body type, color and minority is represented in there) ? It's really werdy... maybe I don't know what I'm talking about and shouldn't talk about this. Idk if I expressed well this feeling... But yeah... sorry if I offended someone... I loved ur video! Subscribed :D

everything's gay now

This is such a lovely and banger vid, cant wait to see more def subscribing 😁

The fact I'm practicing Johnny rn made me audibly wheeze

regular esports forgot to hire a character designer for their pro players, they all just look like "esports guy"

fantastic video❗️ it perfectly sums why the fgc is awesome keep it up man

This video, editing, the jokes etc is awesome pls marry me idk

I wouldn't use the smash community as a representation of the fighting game community. Would have made a lot more sense to use Street Fighter, or Tekken.

glad you shouted out the random trans girl in the corner of the venue teaching people kuso games. anyways wanna play hinokakera

For me a big part of what got me into fighting games beyond seeing that I could have Megaman and Spiderman on the same team in Marvel was the fact that there were so many girls I could play as. Because oh wow they're girls just like me. They also happen to be very pretty girls who are dressed "interestingly". And while we can and should say things about how women are depicted in these games, as a tiny butch who did not yet realize she was into girls there was just something very magical about characters like Cammy or Ivy.

Great job explaining this! An honorable mention (since you state that you don't follow Street Fighter) is Ricki Ortiz, who was a top player in SF4/5. She was the first openly gay (then) top player I was aware of, and eventually came out as trans.

praying for the magi interview

I also went to KU for film, play Overwatch, Smash, and think the bear, yo yo, and skates situation make Bridget a really fun character.

Hey, nice video! Best for you. Greetings from Brazil.

Great video, definitely one of the reasons I love fighting games so much, I'll send this to my gf, she'll love it. Happy pride!

Using Rav as the outro song? Peak video

Solid video, encapsulates everything I love about fighting games in general

shoutout to muteace for being both gay but also having rheumatoid arthritis and also purposefully suffering with one of the most hand intensive characters in the game despite the disability

This made me remember how I fell in love with fighting games in the first place, forgetting about everything else and just fucking dunking someone back into the shadow realm or spectacularly failing is such a freeing thing. and the best part is your get to shit talk either way :3

19:37 Had me rolling, go get that degree girl

W video honestly your video got me genderly euphoric, it made me happy

Really neat video! It’s always so cool to me to see the experiences the FGC let people have, and this was really well put together on top of that. I’m part of a much smaller scene (the asian Rivals of Aether scene) and it’s led me to meet so many cool people with so many diverse backgrounds that I never would have imagined meeting otherwise. The game itself has these little profile avatars you can use, and naturally had the options for pride flags. I only got into the scene pretty recently after finding out I was bi, and I wasn’t really ready to be so open about it (nor am i now honestly haha). But seeing so many openly fall under the LGBTQ+ umbrella and see the community- MY community, so accepting of that, it inspired me enough to use it when I played. It’s a really small thing, yeah, but it meant so much to me that I could even get the chance to express myself like that. It meant even more to see my fellow players so supportive and chill with it, especially when interacting with other people wearing the same icon I happened to come across on matchmaking or in bracket. Still so happy to be part of this community just for something so small as me deciding to click the cool looking purple flag on my monitor, and I’m even happier to see other people have similar experiences :)

Im so glad bobby scar's they pronoun made it into the video, truly made this the gayest gay fighting game video 🥺

to me, a fight is as emotionally intimate as sex, and for a long time men have only ever felt they could express the way they feel about another man through fighting and competition. the very concept of rivalry is very romantic to begin with, and truth be told many fighting game players love their rival. love is an energy which helps you to grow, and growing thru competition is what fighting games are all about

I was more into watching FGC streams in 10's than in 20's, but in that time transwomen among players were more represented than ciswomen honestly.

awesome video!

There’s no space in gaming quite as comfortable as the FGC. Great Video! And happy pride y’all!

overwatch has a lot lgbt reps in pro play, specifically Muma, Halo, Cal, Geguri, Aniyun, and a way more i'm probably forgetting

Huh. I never really thought about it but you're right there are a lot of gay people who are good at fighting games.

smaller community = more control of whats going on around them. but also team base situations make it harder to connect with others. thats why in regular sports lgbt+ players who play pro usually go closet to avoid controversy and other. FGC is more grass roots so FGC has more of a mental of " we take care of own when we can" kind of attitude.

This has been an interesting video, thank you for this. Honestly I didn't think it mattered too much when it came to sex or gender, because personally once you enter the arena you leave everything behind, you're no longer man or woman, elder or child, one sexual orientation over another. When it's a competition that's all it is, one v one...unless it's team based. That aside I was aware about some of this stuff and it's important for everyone to have some representation, but it should be good, and you did that with this vid. Thanks again.

As someone from KC Smash I'm really glad you made this video it was hilarious but also very important to talk about (Also seeing my gameplay in a video titled "Why are fighting games so gay? makes me so happy) Wish I had talked to you at Sweet Spot 8 lol

im absolutely stealing that first empty estrogen bottle thing thats a perfect idea

Gaming is just so much more based when people from totally different backgrounds, cultures, identities etc can sit down and just have fun together

Happy chaos my one and only

genuinely one of the best documentaries I have watched so far this year. Happy I found you

7:02 We used to have that everywhere before social media killed third places and hanging out was basically criminalized

holy shit, this video is boss as fuck. absolutely bangerlicious. liked, commented, and subscribed in the hopes that it will push this video in the algorithm.

This is so refreshing it was hilarious. That saul badguy tgirl rep line killed me It feels so amazing to have positive anything about LGBTQ community. This made me very happy thank you

The funniest part of Sonicfox is that there's a real chance that if you go to the arcade at a furcon, they go to enough of them there's a nonzero chance you'll accidentally get on a cabinet with them, a nightmare for any casual FG furry lmao

I remember seeing the tweet about the estrogen bottle! It's so cool how so many people don't bat an eye when it comes to LGBT people just wanting to exist.

I'm neither LGBTQ or a fighting game player, but I thoroughly enjoyed your video :-)

Objection. Eskay was in Sajam Slam 2. So part of the FGC too. Checkmate.

Maybe RTS is dead because no grassroots rts. I think that could change, you can make a fighting-rts hybrid genre, I already thought of a couple ways to do so. No keyboard needed.

i think figthing games is preferred to be played the way it is side by side is due to its roots way back playing it on arcade where both respect and hype is achived whenever a new challenger bravely lines up or puts their token on the arcade cabinet to challenge the current playing champion ... online esports in the other hand hides in their avatar character that most of the time anonimity can change the way people behave than face to face

i know your way more geared towards gaming content but you should totaly do a video on on future card buddyfights anime and specifically how the characters are suprisingly complex for a card game anime

5:22 yay Dara mentioned! seriously, it's such a good commentator, and this take is so based

don't forget the gay kisses making out after sets for guilty gear strive

As a fellow trans gal finally starting to play fighting games this year, thank you so much for making this. I feel so seen and represented and among my own people with the FGC community. It’s such an inspiration to see people like Umisho and Magi reach the heights they have in tournaments, and to see folks like yourself just as enamored with the scene as I am. Happy Pride Month Queen 💖🌈

Good vid 👍

Now this is the kind of content I want to see during pride month!

i cheered and stood up when you confirmed you don't play Bridget and instead Johnny (A.B.A. player here I hope all Bridget mains have a very stepped on a Lego day)

great video!

This was an amazing video! As someone who has semi-recently joined the FGC, I was initially nervous that I wasn't going to fit in or receive judgement for being different. When I started going to more regional tournaments I realized that like so many people are part of the LGBT community to the point where I feel like I'm in the majority lmao. It is a very comforting experience knowing that there are people within the community going through the same thing I am, and I am extremely grateful for that. Yes I am a Trans Woman, and yes I do play Guilty Gear Xrd (I main Slayer, I love BEEG damage).

Great video

Just as a little nitpick, Starcraft and RTSs in general are more similar to fighting games in a lot of ways, in the sense that most of the competitive scene is community based, even Starcraft (which also gets the big moeny don't get me wrong), and is primarily 1v1. Team based exists, but it's always as a side event, or in smaller tourneys. I mean, the entire reason Age of Empires has made a come back is because a mod team for AoE2 was so consistent and was so good that they were handed the game officially, and now are the actual developers behind AoE's revival, and handle all of the balancing for the games. Unlike fighting games, however, the competitive aspect is not the main appeal for to casual audiences. The fact that Starcraft is so popular as a competitive game is great, but it's such a tough space to break into, even more intimidating than FG. But since that's what developers chase, the genre has been basically dormant for more than a decade. Also, while not that common in the US, in East Asia and across Europe, there are thriving local RTS scenes located primarily in PC bangs or LAN events. Not to the same extent that FG have, but more prominent than having FPS locals, and I think this largely is a result of the games being 1v1. Also, the nature of the genre gives it a slightly impersonal vibe since it's pulled back from the action, and that most of the games have some sort of historical flair or real-world conflict flavor (Starcraft/Warcraft/Age of Mythology excepting) it attracts a certain type of person. Suspiciously specific historical focus, lots of talk about strategic thinking, weird obsession with playing the Faci factions. Same type as the unsavory Warhammer 40k fan who likes the Imperium of man a bit too much. None of this to discount your points or anything, but I love RTSs and I wouldn't lump them in with the rest of E-sports. FG and RTSs are the proto esports anyway, having competitive scenes before the rise of corporate sponsorships and what not.

FANTASTIC work on this video, great editing and pacing throughout, the green screen explosion for Johnny made me lose my absolute shit.

my local smash scene just had a pride month tourney, we had pronoun crew battles, it was great😌

Never thought the algorithm would show me someone that shares my weird overlap of fgc (primarily smash) and overwatch, and in an lgtb video no less. Take my sub and appreciation

"They're cheating!" I knew it

The absurdity of the title brought me here

I for one welcome all people into gaming and find it interesting that certain demographics have preferences. Also big muscle men with ripped shirts

this video rocks

"You'll almost certainly find a trans girl practicing some fighting game you've never heard of before" You literally just described me

The title is basically Simon Kaggwa Njala if he was a fighting game player. 😳😂

Is a film degree really worth it compared to just watching movies for 2 to 4 years?