The joke tells itself further by the comments.
Reviews for "Cover Up Dat Booty!"
While I do like your animation and your humor and this video even got a single solid argument, it ultimately missed the hole point. This is not just about the butt, but about representation of woman in games.
I do have to give credit to overwatch, for including some some variety in female body types. However this video doesn't use that, instead it just focuses on _woman_ beeing proud of their butts.
Surely they can, but until we see a male character beeing proud of his butt, this is a mere distraction from the inequality of representation. It is just saying _woman_ should not complain becouse men like different butts. This is not a reasonable defence against the whole "objectification of woman in gaming", as this still is objectification and woman should just swallow it. Surely objectification in games will always happen, as they have to sell themself on the visual design as well. Which is why I think the big issue is less the objectification of woman, but only of woman and nobody else.
Just to be fair: I am not saying you are wrong. You just didn't get the point. And this might be due to people complaining about it without getting the point either (like the woman in your animation).
Therefore 2 stars, for nice animation for an old topic.
So here's the thing, it's old. It's so so old. You do not need to sexualize female characters to sell them. You do not need to animate up-skirts, boob jiggles, and sexual innuendo into every damn non-male character just to make them appealing.
Developers make fully-fleshed out, fun, complex characters without this, and we all are happy to play them.
I don't have a problem with sexy poses or nudity in games. However, context. Overwatch is a fun, silly game, and the Tracer pose smacks of that tired 'let's include some ass cause y'know butt' laziness. It's out of place for the character and way out of place for the game.
Some games elevate the genre to the level of good literature and art, but they will never taken seriously if they wallow in the frat boy aesthetics of beer ads. Thank glob Blizzard is taking note.
The one star was for the good animation.
" I cut off my own butt"
Lol thats rich
As a female gamer I would very much appreciate 100% male nudity in all video games. Good thing PC lets me mod. I want an elderscrolls mod that puts huge bouncing titties on EVERY npc. Even the mudcrabs. Why has no one made a mod like that yet? Getting attacked by a pack of hungry skyrim titty-wolves would make my day.
Great cartoon btw.
IMO, the dissonance between male and female gamers isn't necessarily focused on objectification. So many girl gamers I know idolize Harley Quin and her skimpy booty shorts. I think the real problem girls face is harassment online. Everything else is open territory to bitch about. I followed Project M (smash brothers fan hack) for a while and the fans would nit pick every little aspect of the game developers progress. They'd bitch about how broken a character's up air attack was then the dev team would nerf it in the next patch. I've never seen so much complaining from a bunch of wussy dudes over a fan hack. The entire project was amazing in scope and had such a positive effect on the Smash community... but holy shit did the fans have so much to complain about. I felt bad for the developers.
And only like two girls bitched the whole time because let's face it, the competitive Smash scene is a testosterone littered shark tank. What I'm trying to get at is that the entire gaming community is entitled to complain about things. You have a small group of girls that consider themselves gamers and if any of them complain about something, guaranteed some guy is going to hypocritically walk in and bitch about the fact that girls are bitching because we're all a bunch of sad bitches.
Sorry to leave such a small review and such a huge opinion. The cartoon was awesome. The style was sexy. I noticed those dotted outlines a little past half way through. Little things like that make my day. The voice acting was expert, drawing on point, fun lip synch, smooth frame by frame animations. I respect this cartoon a lot. Again, sorry for my two cents but it's a topic basically everyone has an opinion on and I've never ranted about it before.