A trio of Overwatch women dominated in 2017 in a special area: in the search for gaming characters on a major adult website. They push figures like Lara Croft or Zelda to the back seats.
The adult site Pornhub analyzes trends and searches every year and approaches this as analytically as if it were about world hunger. Results are listed in countless categories. They analyze how search behavior has changed over the past year and how the world behaves pornographically.
Overwatch Leads in the Adult Gaming Sector
Overwatch has apparently occupied a special place in the adult sector. Blizzard has created a “diverse” cast with numerous striking characters, including and especially female characters. The stated goal of Blizzard was to create figures that as many people as possible can identify with, rather than mere stereotypes.
This seems to have worked out for Blizzard on a broad front. This leads to
- Blizzard selling merchandise with the characters like crazy,
- fans thinking about obscure ships
- constantly meme and fanart being created for the characters
- D.Va even becoming an icon of a political movement in South Korea
- but also that the ladies are being searched for a lot on Pornhub.
Somehow, it seems that there is something for every taste among Blizzard’s female heroes that stimulates the imagination.
D.VA, Mercy, and Tracer are Apparently the Sexual Icons of Overwatch
Last year, the top 5 most popular gaming characters on Pornhub were:
- Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)
- Tracer (Overwatch)
- Zelda (Legend of Zelda)
- D.Va (Overwatch)
- Misty (Pokémon)
This year, there’s total Overwatch dominance:
With D.Va, Mercy, and Tracer occupying the first 3 of the 5 top spots. The later spots are followed by Widowmaker, Sombra, and Pharah.
The selection is quite broad:
- D.Va is like the Korean gamer girl next door
- Mercy an adult, motherly, caring, but also somehow strict figure
- and Tracer is tomboyish and youthful, having been outed as homosexual by Blizzard at Christmas 2016
Interesting is that Tracer reached the peak of her interest in January – while Mercy only peaked in October.
PlayStation 4 is the Most Popular Gaming Console on Pornhub
By the way, among the gaming consoles, the PlayStation 4 is leading and has been able to further increase its lead over the Xbox One. A German gaming site wrote about this statistic last year, “PlayStation 4 has the most masturbators.” Of course, we would never dare say that.
In this article, we have discussed extensively the phenomenon of Overwatch and sex:
