> Before delving further into Zarya’s sexuality, it’s important to reiterate that just because a woman is mega-strong and pink-haired, that does not by any means mean she is gay. A woman’s appearance has absolutely no bearing on her sexual orientation, period. > That being said, Zarya’s fan art overwhelmingly portrays her as gay. When our own Nathan Grayson dove into the deep, dark world of Overwatch porn, he discovered that the Chinese hero Mei appears to be fan-Zarya’s main squeeze, which my own forays into the Tumblr fanart community have corroborated. In many cases, Zarya is drawn to be more “butch,” capitalizing on her muscles and cropped hair. Sometimes, she’s drawn with a penis. > Blizzard hasn’t explicitly commented on Zarya’s sexuality, but has left the door open for these fan interpretations. Bill Petras, Overwatch’s artistic director, confirmed at 2015’s BlizzCon that the game would contain a gay character. In Blizzard’s PAX East presentation last year, Zarya was touted as a diversity hero: “We’ve been hearing a lot of discussion among players about the need for diversity in video games."
Where the heck is this "Zarya is gay" meme coming from?
>Where the heck is this "Zarya is gay" meme coming from? She looks like a typical dyke.
Ian Torres
Zarya beats her tiny frail nerdy boyfriend
Luke Gray
>Where the heck is this "Zarya is gay" meme coming from? Faggots.
Jace Sanchez
>That being said, Zarya’s fan art overwhelmingly portrays her as gay Majority of OW characters are either gay or futa on fanart, that's what fanart is about.
Grayson Ross
>Zarya’s fan art overwhelmingly portrays her as gay If we followed this metric every single female video game character is gay.
Jayden Butler
Haha how unfjortunate Russia.
Benjamin Long
>sometimes, she's drawn with a penis.
Carter Diaz
>Sometimes, she’s drawn with a penis Zarya confirmed for male. The fanart can't be wrong.
Asher Miller
>we need more strong women in vidya! >draw Dolph Lundgren with tits >no one finds it offensive whatsoever that a strong woman have to look like a man >claims that she's gay, since she looks like man, therefore has to like woman like straight men do It's just the typical hypocrisy, OP.
Hudson Rogers
>A woman’s appearance has absolutely no bearing on her sexual orientation
Seriously?
Sebastian Johnson
this pretty much
Connor Cox
>Sometimes, she’s drawn with a penis. OH MY
Isaac Edwards
I personally find it extremely funny that the Russian conservative racist character has become a Tumblr icon just because she's built as fuck and has pink hair.
Show just how the only thing that matters to them is appearances. Zarya is probably one of the least Tumblr characters (lore-wise) in the game, Blizzard really pulled a bait and switch on them.
Liam Campbell
>Porn is evil and oppressing to women! >Unless it happens to match our political views :^)
Austin Diaz
sauce
Landon Wright
>journos get paid to look at porn of video game characters and then make up some bs political subcontext based on that
we did it lads it's finally the current year
Hudson Gray
>Literally flirts with McCree in dialogue >"B-Blizzard hasn't explicitly stated that she's straight, therefore she is gay!"
Why are faggots so dumb?
Ian White
>A woman’s appearance has absolutely no bearing on her sexual orientation, period.
its just a crazy coincidence guys
Jose White
So the proud nationalist of a homophobic country and racist to omnycs to top it off has become some sort of shitty LGBTIOJSDFJHASDJKASD icon?
Ayyyyy, you can't make this shit up.
Ryder Robinson
>russian flags >faggots holy fucking shit, this is golden
Connor Powell
Imagine if they'd done a really flamboyant male character with short pink hair that wore makeup and short shorts and strutted around in high heels and talked with a lisp.
People would probably call it an offensive gay stereotype, despite his sexuality never being mentioned.
Nicholas Gomez
entertainment writers arent journalists
Elijah Morris
my camera
Julian Bennett
>Zarya from Overwatch has become a gay icon, ironically ironically? so these people do not know what irony means
Ethan Harris
not my OTP
John Hall
if you know her backstory (which apparently not a single tumblrtard has read) it actually is quite ironic
Blake Ward
Go on.
Zachary Ward
>autism
Blake Torres
Zarya being a gay icon is ironic because she's a Russian nationalist and Russia hates gays. Also, she's made no inclination of being gay, tumblrtards are stereotyping her as gay just because she's fit and has pink hair which is also ironic because tumblrtards freak out when other people stereotype them due to their appearance.
Jordan Roberts
>those nasty fake tits
Camden Watson
it's not she looks like a dyke and was always meant to appeal to homos and SJWs everybody knew that right from the beginning
Benjamin Flores
why is widow so fucking smug
Liam Stewart
And to add insult to injury she is also racist as fuck when it comes to Omnics. Funnily enough the only other racist character is Swedish.
Parker Davis
>A woman’s appearance has absolutely no bearing on her sexual orientation, period. >That being said, Zarya’s fan art overwhelmingly portrays her as gay
Oh fuck off. If you're going to be an SJW at least be consistent about it.
Jaxon Perez
Last one.
>nasty
Found the fag
Ian Anderson
not exactly typical. the bodies actual pink haired dykes have more similarities with trolls and goblins than anything resembling muscular structure.
Isaac Lewis
sounds more like you don't know what irony means, dongus
she's also a robo-biggot
Juan Martinez
the moment you saw her you knew she was a lesbo, so no there's nothing ironic about her being a russian russian lesbians exist
Aaron Reyes
irony is when the opposite of what you expect happens she looks like a dyke and is meant to appeal to lesbians and SJWs, so that she becomes a gay icon is totally to be expected there is nothing ironic about it faggot
Christopher Morales
>liking fake tits Found the cuck
Grayson Russell
Literally using porn to prove a point. Could work with any character since they all get porn. In fact, you could just rewrite that article with any other female character in the game.
> Before delving further into Tracer’s sexuality, it’s important to reiterate that just because a woman is mega-spunky and short-haired, that does not by any means mean she is gay. A woman’s appearance has absolutely no bearing on her sexual orientation, period. > That being said, Tracer’s fan art overwhelmingly portrays her as gay. When our own Nathan Grayson dove into the deep, dark world of Overwatch porn, he discovered that the French hero Widowmaker appears to be fan-Tracer’s main squeeze, which my own forays into the Tumblr fanart community have corroborated. In many cases, Tracer is drawn to be more “anime,” capitalizing on her round eyes and spiked hair. Sometimes, she’s drawn with a penis.
> Before delving further into Pharah’s sexuality, it’s important to reiterate that just because a woman is mega-armored and short-tempered, that does not by any means mean she is gay. A woman’s appearance has absolutely no bearing on her sexual orientation, period. > That being said, Pharah’s fan art overwhelmingly portrays her as gay. When our own Nathan Grayson dove into the deep, dark world of Overwatch porn, he discovered that the Swiss hero Mercy appears to be fan-Pharah’s main squeeze, which my own forays into the Tumblr fanart community have corroborated. In many cases, Pharah is drawn to be more “butch,” capitalizing on her muscles and dark skin. Sometimes, she’s drawn with a penis.
Alexander Edwards
>big, muscular woman >must be a lesbian
So progressive.
Evan Turner
>russian lesbians exist And none of them look like Zarya
Elijah Sanchez
>Pharah drawn with a penis I need this, for research purposes.
Liam Mitchell
Reaper or Lucio are the most statistically likely to be gay, if we're going by IRL figures.
Girls tend a lot more towards bisexuality than homosexuality, at any rate. Zarya probably wishes she was small and feminine at times, despite being proud of her physique. She'd probably be most attracted to the most twinkish of the male characters.
Trust me, I'm a doctor.
Joseph Gonzalez
she looks like a dyke so of course there are lesbians that look like her lol
David Sullivan
Actually what did happen was they just made sexual characters and just said 1 of them is gay to make the loud minority happy, I can bet my ass even Blizzard doesn't know who the gay character is.
>Joe the SJW are crying we dont have a diverse cast of heroes >just fucking tell them 1 of them is gay >Which hero you want me to make gay >I dont care just tell them its a secret and call it a day.
Sebastian Sanchez
it's ironic because her actual character and appearance differ completely and it shows sjws care only about appearance which is exactly what they say they are against
they're fucking classifying zarya as a lesbian just because she looks butch when there is nothing else about her that hints at her being gay and she also happens to be a nationalistic russian bigot
Jaxon Lewis
So this is basically the "Samus is trans" article again only now they're trying to justify it with porn
Isaac Miller
>Nathan Grayson pretending he's some kind of pure paragon of moral values and not the dirty degenerate he is
Jonathan Rogers
>girl in a video game being drawn having sex with other women means she's a gay icon
are these people just discovering drawn pornography
Liam Sanchez
>be transwoman >no trans character in Overwatch
It's not fair
Jaxon Foster
Just because SJWs and Tumblrites have pink hair doesn't mean it should be a tumblr stereotype Fuck the west, leave my meme waifu alone
Isaac Smith
>Bill Petras, Overwatch’s artistic director, confirmed at 2015’s BlizzCon that the game would contain a gay character.
it's obviously not Zarya because she's a racist Ruskie, who could it be?
Reaper
Isaiah Campbell
zarya is cool for appealing to the unwell/gays imo.
Tyler Martin
its lucio
lucio is basically the most sjw character
>hurr durr muh omnics are just real people >everyone shud be freee >black >humble origins
Carter Roberts
nothing of what you just said makes any sense she looks like a dyke, she's meant to appeal to lesbos and SJWs lesbos and SJWs like her
Henry Jones
Is this the kind of nonsense overwatch players care about? Yea I'd rather stick to dota
James Scott
Why do games have to be diverse? Why can't we just leave it to the devs to decide for themselves?
Hunter Evans
>Next week: "This place called /d/ is really progressive, there are a lot of transwomen with dicks on there!"
Levi Mitchell
>Samus is one of the most long standing badass female characters in the industry >she is too badass to be a natural born female, she has to be trans
Absolutely hilarious.
Jaxon Brown
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Dylan Kelly
>pinks >being not gay ever
Jaxson Hernandez
This.
If you made Zarya real, she would literally be a conservative racist. If she doesn't trust Zenyatta or Genji in game, what's the chances she'd trust Muslims IRL? Tumblr sees the pink hair + bodypositivity and immediately ignores everything else about the character.
Adam Sullivan
You're free to make your own cis white male only game, friendo
Ian Gray
Holy shit! I don't care! MUH DICK!
Camden Baker
because people who don't play video games are angry that minorities and statistical oddities aren't properly represented even though they technically are, and that those people don't care about being represented in fucking video games
Dominic Flores
im starting to think you either have serious brain damage and are unable to understand anything that isn't clearly spelled out for you or you're being obtuse on purpose
Aaron Clark
>A woman’s appearance has absolutely no bearing on her sexual orientation Confirmed for never seeing a real lesbian couple. Dykes are men with tits.
Matthew Peterson
>She's a gay icon because fan art!
So is the entirety of Touhou a gay icon too?
Because practically all Touhous are super gay.
Brandon Edwards
WHY IS SHE SO FUCKING SMUG
Connor Cruz
why do they write about "diversity" like its the 1950s?
This is the perfect scenario to keep the community actively interested, as everyone is simultaneously right and wrong, but thinks they're the only ones who are right.
Easton Green
So you think that if Blizzard will make Hitler charackter that willl suck jewish dicks and will let jews fuck him in the ass that would be ironic also? Irony in this case can only apply to something that happens in real life and not to something that was part of a charackter from the begining. Some faggot in Blizzard hates Russia because they don't allow gays to go on their degenerate parades tho he creates fucking duke lesbian bitch with Russian accent and makes her gay This is pure Ressentiment on their Blizzaard behalf.
Mason White
>be transwoman
Gonna need some pics
Landon Myers
...
Julian Johnson
there are feminine lesbians too tho
Christopher Ward
kek I mean, why is there pressure to make games diverse?
Isn't being fit anti-SJW as well? So probably not even that.
Bentley Cox
Any woman who gets her muscles to that level isn't really straight anyway.
Zachary Nguyen
...
Hunter Baker
Doesn't Zarya express interest towards Toblerone or something Besides why would you want a robo racist to represent your minority group?
Aiden Sullivan
thinking the same thing about you gr8 b8 m8
Cameron Ross
No, but if Blizzard made a Hitler character that sucked jewish dicks and neonazis deciced to make the character one of their icons then that would be quite ironic. Which is exactly what is happening here.
Zarya herself isn't ironic, the Tumblr reception of Zarya is ironic.
Jayden Bell
Whoa now user, don't get your reds confused for your pinks.
Adrian Edwards
Have you ever seen an actual dyke? It's usually fat and has a cunty face.
You just FAT trolling at this point. Here is your (you)
Connor Collins
It's just shipping and fanart. There's nothing "iconic" about it
Jack Taylor
I haven't even seen anyone on tumblr praising zarya
I'm pretty sure everyone, including "journalists" who write about tumblr's opinion are going off of one or two blogs despite the site having hundreds of millions of users
Ian Ward
>make shitty analogy >get called out on it >"ur just le trollering!"
kek
Ethan White
They should leave it to those minorities to protest on their own terms. Do these people think those minorities are too weak?
Bentley Rodriguez
It's McCree she flirts with And SJWs don't actually play the game, so they don't know Zarya is a huge conservative robo-racist with a cowboy fetish
