Feel free to PM me if you want to chatter, and enjoy yourself, there's nothing to be really afraid of. You are not a special snowflake, but you are more unique. People will regard you differently, and you will be treated differently. Don't be afraid to show your face either, that's something I have noticed a lot of girls avoid doing (with good reason).īeing a girl LPer is the same as a boy, but it does make a difference in some key areas. Some will be along the lines of "show ur tits" or "u want sum fuc?" but those are easily solved with a solid ban hammer.
This hurt because it negates any amount of work I had done, the hours I had put into building my channel, and simply says that the only reason people are watching me is because of something I had no control over, my sex. But the most heart breaking one I got a lot (from other LPers mind you) was people telling me the only reason I was doing better than them in terms of subs/views was because I was a girl. You will have to deal with pervs, creeps, and people who will tell you that "you're not a real gamer" and "girls don't play video games". Unfortunately not every girl fits into this role, me included. Unfortunately this often means that you must fit into a few roles, the super girly girl, the super game smart girl, the boobs girl, etc. Their are a lot of female LPers, but not any amount compared to the number of males. The ton of "I'm a guy but." posts should be a slight indicator. Nevermind that I wasn't the only girl who entered, or that another girl had actually shown herself on camera (not that that would have mattered, mind you). But naturally, right after I win, I'm accused by at least two people of only winning it, "because I was a girl". And honestly, I really would say that my video was the best - I poured HOURS and HOURS into the thing, working on it an entire day, at least. I tried to act in a mixture of being goofy, sarcastic and serious. For the record, my video contained the typically really shitty game footage I was recording at the time, and commentary. I won it through a contest where you had to make a video (any kind of video) saying why you wanted one, and what you'd do with one. But there's not nearly as common, at least according to my own personal experiences :)ĮDIT: Heh, I think the most sexism I've personally received (due to my YT channel), was actually when I won my Elgato HD. Not saying there aren't any sexist assholes - there totally are. That said, the community I tend to be a part of the most (Assassin's Creed) has a very large female gaming population, so I don't feel like I get the same stuff that, say, women COD gamers get. It's a vicious Catch-22.Ī lot of it tends to affect women gamers and nerds (hell, even just WOMEN) in general, though - not solely youtubers. It's like you NEED to be "hot" if you want to show yourself on camera, but when you do that, you're often accused of only looking that way to get male attention. Women who do are very often judged solely for their appearance - just look at what happens to female Twitch streamers.
While I feel comfortable commenting over my gameplay (although I'm often asked, "r u girl or gay?"), I haven't yet gotten to the point where I feel I want to include facecam, or even a vlog. You get the same kind of crap guys will generally get, but on top of that, you get all the sexist shit, too.
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