Why Is There So Much Sexy Overwatch Fan Art?
YouTube
- Creator
- PBS Idea Channel (Channel)
- Watched
- 2016-11-16
- Published
- 2016-11-16
- Category
- Education
- Duration
- 14m 56s
- Link
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- Tags
- affect blizzard cosplay deviantart erotic fan art fan fiction fandom filmmaker GENJI HANZO hermeneutics idea channel MEI MERCY mike rugnetta overwatch pbs pbs digital studios pbs idea channel porn RHEINHARDT romantic sfm shipping source video game videogames ZARYA
Description
Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateidea In b4 "rule 34" Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com Thumbnail illustration submitted by Dustin Cooper http://catcouch.deviantart.com/ Last May Blizzard released Overwatch, and since then, Blizzard has been slowly releasing animated shorts covering broad character points and specific encounters. But even in aggregate, this all provides only a SENSE of who these heroes are, what they’ve accomplished, and their relationships to one another. And so … entrez… the fans. Overwatch has inspired a deluge of fan works–fan fiction, comics, zhaifs, cosplay, and of course: fan art. Lots. AND LOTS of fan art. Which is ... unremarkable for its audience–20 million players as of shooting. What is remarkable... is how SEXY that fan art is, and how large the community of people making, sharing and viewing it is. All of which makes us curious about two things: first, why, specifically, has Overwatch become a massive source of erotic fan works? And second, why, in general, may fans be interested in romantic images of fictional characters? Let us know what you think in the comments below! --FAN ART FROM THIS EPISODE CAN BE FOUND HERE!-- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YXbewDNCSswEVtr-dxmRyZjSp8iDcpG9kmhvTpYKgtE/edit?usp=sharing --OTHER ASSET LINKS- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gysteBWCRR1brqB6zKDkpOGoh1KUrtMHkubczJMNK_A/edit?usp=sharing --FURTHER READING-- Extra Credits Episode on Overwatch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEpeGSFQ1tM SFM Articles: https://twitter.com/PCReviver/status/795376584966422529 Nico Kotaku Article: http://kotaku.com/why-overwatch-fans-are-obsessed-with-shipping-its-femal-1787244865 Dystopian Future Shakespeare Short Story by Jedd Cole https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rTH7c7gZAZtzrkOg7_MupEo1YTidFc91renuyTD55Zw/edit --BOOK CLUB-- https://www.reddit.com/r/pbsideachannel/comments/57st4n/idea_channel_book_club_borges_take_2/ --TWEETS OF THE WEEK-- https://twitter.com/ti_Prans/status/794875477357953026 https://twitter.com/TheJadeAria/status/798006889141276672 --CHECK OUT OUR MERCH!-- http://bit.ly/1U8fS1B T-Shirts Designed by: http://artsparrow.com/ --MUSIC-- https://soundcloud.com/montone-2/minimalist -------------------------------------------------------------------- Written and hosted by Mike Rugnetta (@mikerugnetta) (who also has a podcast! Reasonably Sound: http://bit.ly/1sCn0BF) Made by Kornhaber Brown (http://www.kornhaberbrown.com)