The Gay Button: How Bisexuality Changed Video Games
| Video Essay | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Gay Button: How Bisexuality Changed Video Games |
| Creator: | Verity Ritchie and Ada Černoša |
| Date(s): | Sep 3, 2021 |
| Medium: | Digital video, YouTube |
| Length: | 54 minutes, 12 seconds |
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| Fandom: | Gaming fandom |
| Topic: | Video Games and Bisexuality |
| External Links: | Video on YouTube |
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The Gay Button: How Bisexuality Changed Video Games, a.k.a. Bisexuality in Video Games, is a video essay by Ada Černoša and Verity Ritchie that was posted in 2021 to their YouTube channel verilybitchie. It discusses the history of bisexual representation (or lack thereof) in video games, polyamory in video games, playersexuality and other types of mechanical bisexuality, and the merits and drawbacks of different approaches to including bisexual characters in games.
Canons Discussed
A large number of video games are discussed in the video. The description on YouTube lists these games as: Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Borderlands 2, Butterfly Soup, Coming Out Simulator 2014, Demi Lovato: Path to Fame, Dragon Age: Origins, Dream Daddy, Fable, Fallout 4, Fallout New Vegas, Fragments of Him, Greedfall, Hades, Life is Strange, Mass Effect, Morrowind, Night in the Woods, The Outer Worlds, Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh, Rimworld, The Sims, Skyrim, and Stardew Valley.
Plagiarism by James Somerton
The video was plagiarized by fellow YouTuber James Somerton two months after its release.[1]
References
- ^ Verity Ritchie (Dec 5, 2023): James Somerton Ripped Off Our Video - Verily Podcasty - Ep 3. On Patreon. (archive link)