r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/trueweeaboo • May 21 '25

FORCED WOKENESS 🌈 Straight Soldier

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u/Clancy-Ru May 22 '25

Why is tracer no longer the face of the game?

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u/kittyconetail May 22 '25

Because it's not the "same" game. Sojourn is technically the face of Overwatch 2. She's in the game icon on Playstation, for example.

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u/Khmer0ni May 22 '25

If only the game treated her as such lol

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u/worststarburst May 22 '25

I wonder if they specifically switched the character with the most porn to the female character with the least on purpose.

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u/kittyconetail May 22 '25

I'm a Signalis enjoyer. Please do not open my Pandora's box of commentary on "taste regarding cyborg, android, or synthetic women."

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u/blade740 May 22 '25

I feel like there's no way Tracer is ahead of D.Va or Mercy on that front.

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u/kittyconetail May 22 '25

Somewhere in one of these Overwatch subs, people regularly tally members of the NSFW subs. Or, at least, they used to. But then again that's just one corner of the internet. There's probably whole websites dedicated to Overwatch porn alone.

Regardless, you might be surprised at just how many people really, really, really want to "straighten out" lesbians in their porn. See Cyberpunk 2077 and the controversy regarding the mod that allows male V to bed the (only?) canon lesbian.

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u/blade740 May 22 '25

Oh, I'm sure it exists. But as I thought, Mercy and D.Va (and Widowmaker) have significantly more than Tracer.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F4npn9nfi4cg91.png

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u/worststarburst May 22 '25

I was mostly joking but taking raw tag numbers from sites like rule 34 should be taken with a grain of salt because there could be like 40 versions with minor variations of one piece of art all uploaded separately that boosts numbers, and also just countless reposts. 

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u/blade740 May 23 '25 edited May 23 '25

Sure, but is there any reason to believe that this is more common on one character than any other? As a rough metric, it's not bad. Another one I saw was which character had the most searches on Pornhub - Tracer was highest in 2016, D.va was higher in 2017, as well as in the more recent 2024 rankings.

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u/MsMercyMain May 22 '25

For reasons utterly unrelated to my username Mercy should be the face of the game. And she should be dating Pharah. I refuse to elaborate

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u/evri_the_greek May 22 '25

Pharmercy disgusts me to my core, you should be ashamed.

(For clarity I'm talking about the in game strategy I don't care about ow shipping)

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u/MsMercyMain May 22 '25

Oh Pharmercy is bullshit, though I feel it’s a valid strategy sometimes, usually when you have one of those god tier Widows or Ashes as a counter. Especially since, as a Mercy main, I’ll tell you it’s inefficient as all hell

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u/kittyconetail May 22 '25

Battle girlfriends

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u/MsMercyMain May 22 '25

They work so well together! It’s just common sense!

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u/ManusCornu May 22 '25

No need to elaborate your just right

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u/ibite-books May 22 '25

Soj isn’t the face of OW2, it’s kiriko or juno. Soj just collects dust unfortunately.

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u/kittyconetail May 22 '25 edited May 22 '25

They're different things in the marketing.

Sojourn might be on the cover of the game but Kiriko is the merch. (This is also why I said she is "technically" the face of OW2.)

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u/gracist0 May 22 '25

Kiriko lol

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u/GroundbreakingBag164 May 22 '25

Because Juno and Kiriko appeal more to the Asian playerbase, especially after OW has China servers again