(Originally published January 2020)
Note::I’ve got some personal errands to attend to so I’ll be taking the next two or three days off. In the meantime, please enjoy some “classic” Gamer Grrls content.
This was maybe the earliest mention of me being disappointed with Pelvic Gamer’s videos. Pelvic Gamer used to do really bizarre, sexual videos but it seems like as soon as I started writing about her videos, she stopped doing that. She just switched to normal (and boring) reviews.
For a long time, I held out hope that she’d go back to this insane sexual content but she never went back. Finally, I had to effectively remove her from my rotation of gamer grrls because the videos are just too boring. There’s nothing to say about them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAN8lj2QmF4
She reviews Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn. That’s it. No sex talk, no profanity, no talking about how she likes women who eat ass, none of that shit. Isn’t that wild? She just did a normal review of a video game. And she was dressed normally.
I couldn’t believe it. I kept waiting. “She’s going to dry hump a Kirby plush any minute now. Right?” No. No humping of any kind. She just talked about the game. Stuff she liked, stuff she didn’t like. Talked about the music, talked about the gameplay, talked about the graphics. The usual stuff. It was like an article from PC Gamer circa 1992 where they’d review games on the same criteria. She didn’t expressly mention “fun factor” but that was probably included in this review too.
Was it interesting? Well, I learned about the game. I don’t play these games so I’m perhaps not the target audience. But I can see somebody finding this useful and/or entertaining.
But…her viewers seem to be predominantly horny dudes aged 25 to 40. So why would they want to watch this? The comment section was mostly comments about the game. But…I don’t know.
Is there a market for these videos? Why would I watch Pelvic Gamer’s review of Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn as opposed to…I don’t know…anyone else doing these reviews? I don’t watch any game reviews so I fully appreciate that I’m not in the target demographic and don’t know anything about the subject of Youtube video game reviews. There must be millions of people doing this, though. I would think that you have to carve out a niche. “I’m the retro video game reviewer who makes out with stuffed animals.” I mean…that’s certainly novel. Can’t be many people doing that.
But there must be thousands or millions of “Youtubers” out there cranking out this sort of fairly high-quality content and getting 1000 views. I’m sure that it’s frustrating and that’s when the “dancing for my Patreons” and “Power Pad porn” stuff comes in. But I think the simple fact of the matter is that there’s not a big enough audience for this stuff. Horny losers 25 to 40 years of age with some kind of game grrl fetish? There can’t be too many of these people out there. And there are LOADS of channels trying to tap into this tiny demographic. The horny losers with a gamer grrl fetish are MASSIVELY over-served.