Gameoverse "Drama" & The Rise of Internet Puritans

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]The reaction to Gameoververse honestly says more about modern internet culture than it does about the show itself.

[00:00:05]Because the second the pilot released, it immediately became another battleground in what feels like the internet's ongoing war against in media.

[00:00:13]And I think the discourse surrounding the show perfectly represents the rise of a new kind of online pyitism, which is ironic because we live in a time that's pretty open in human history. The internet is flooded with content. People constantly joke about being down bad online. And people of both sides of the political aisle are fighting for characters to be more hot, not the opposite way around.

[00:00:35]>> I mean, I consider myself someone who's left-leaning, and it feels weird to see them dog so hard on a character that has only been has only been there for the pilot. You're over a character who is in her mid20s. She is more than like allowed to wear a bikini. Are you kidding me? It's not like she's a teenager. The idea that calling it gona material feels crazy to me cuz it's like you can have hot characters like in her mid20s. Why are you judging so hard on like what she's wearing? Also, god forbid a girl wear a like a bikini. It's cute.

[00:01:09]>> Don't let fat chud grifters convince you this is some attack on straight when plenty of openly gay women love it too.

[00:01:16]And yet somehow, despite all that, mainstream online discussion around and actual art and storytelling has become weirdly conservative. The very people who used to take to the streets over underage characters not being enough in a piece of media are now acting as if adult women's in a cartoon is the worst thing ever. That's what makes the reaction to Glitch Productions Gameover so fascinating to me. Because almost instantly after the pilot started gaining traction, people weren't just criticizing the writing or pacing or humor. No, a huge amount of the discourse was centered around the fact that the main character Kit was apparently too that it was somehow being dishonest because it wasn't high school DXD and instead just happened to have a scene or two with hot women.

[00:01:59]>> Personally, I find just go by that is bordering on significantly worse than because like at least with it's honest, but when it's hiding behind layers of it just being a cartoon, I just I just find it weird. Damn, bro. You got the whole squad laughing.

[00:02:18]>> Like, what the does this guy even mean?

[00:02:20]And he's far from the only person who uses this weird griff talking point. A talking point that isn't even about the actual show itself. Just the rising discomfort of characters being attractive in a cartoon meant for young adults. And it's not even the focus of the show. Seriously, before the episode had even settled online, people were already arguing about the mass influx of fan arts, body proportions of the character in the teaser, and whether the show was secretly all because Kit was gaining a ton of traction online. We saw this with Overwatch, and now we're seeing it with this. If media has hot characters in it, you're screwed. If your media doesn't have hot characters in it, you're screwed.

[00:02:57]>> You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't. And if people suddenly make fan arts that are spicy, the show is now garbage, apparently. And while yes, there are still some that are calling it misogynistic. Wrongfully so, in my opinion, those are the minority of the complaints, which is weird because the show itself is honestly pretty tame compared to so much modern media. You would think people were talking about some insanely explicit etchy anime or a game designed entirely around fan service. But instead, we're talking about a stylized animated pilot where attractive adult characters occasionally wear swimsuits because they're literally in a waterworld themed environment.

[00:03:33]That's it. Oh, the horror midrift. Once again, if you're enjoying the video so far, be sure to subscribe. Only about 2% of you are, so hit the button if you want to support the channel and let me know in the comments what do you think about all this. Was the show actually too provocative or are they talking out of their and somehow that alone was enough to trigger an avalanche of moral panic online? What's especially strange is how inconsistent internet culture has become around this topic because the exact same people who will aggressively defend hypers characters in games like Stellar Blade as artistic freedom suddenly act deeply uncomfortable the moment a western indie animation project has attractive characters. And to be clear, I don't even think that most of these people are consciously trying to be puritanical. I think what we're seeing is the result of years of internet discourse slowly training people to associate in media with something inherently embarrassing, exploitative, or morally suspicious. You see it everywhere now. People constantly frame attraction itself as cringe.

[00:04:33]Entire sections of the internet act like acknowledging that a fictional adult character is attractive somehow invalidates the art surrounding them and the show made. And the moment fan art starts appearing online, suddenly people begin treating the existence of fans as proof that the work itself is artistically compromised. And that's sadly what happened with Gameoververse.

[00:04:52]While tons of people were praising the pilot's animation, worldbuilding, and visual direction, another louder minority immediately became obsessed with the fact that fan artists were drawing kit in mildly spicy ways online.

[00:05:04]And as per usual, they started planting their flags, letting everybody know how morally superior they are to them by not enjoying the show, specifically because of those reasons. And again, I need to stress this because people online weirdly ignored it during the discourse.

[00:05:18]Kit is an adult character. We are not talking about anything remotely inappropriate here. It's a show made for literal young adults and teenagers. No, midrifted mild isn't going to ruin the youth. your unmonitored time on Newgrounds playing dressup games didn't [ __ ] up. And if they did, stop projecting that onto tame ass shows like Gameoververse. But because we're currently living through this bizarre culturally deprived era online, some people instantly framed the entire thing as degenerate, suddenly the show itself was being labeled, despite the fact it was designed by a literal woman and a creative team that clearly cared more about the stylization and personality of the character than cheap fan service.

[00:05:58]You'd swear that every scene was this in order for them to be this annoyed. But honestly, the discourse has become almost comical to watch unfold cuz within the past days, people started demanding the creator tone down the character designs only for another massive wave of fans to meetly push back and say absolutely not. which ironically also happened to Raphael Anda's pilot Planetronica, which admittedly lays its fan service on thick, but also had people going back and forth on it, which perfectly captures modern internet culture into a nutshell. One side claiming attractive characters are ruining media, while the other side argues stylized and expressive character designs is exactly what's needed and missing from Western animation. people stupidly claiming it's the woke wanting removed while the supposed woke literally say they're for it while the chuds cry for more stupid women but then act like Froolo the moment they see said women online animated or not.

[00:06:52]Personally, I see no issue in fan service or characters because there's enormous difference between a piece of media having attractive characters and a piece of media existing solely to them.

[00:07:03]Those are not the same thing, guys.

[00:07:05]There's an old comic and anime term for when fan surface genuinely overtakes storytelling and it's called cheesecake.

[00:07:11]Cheesecake is when a work becomes so obsessed with showing off bodies or provocative framing that it actively distracts from the narrative. The fan service becomes the point instead of small aspects of the aesthetics. And I genuinely don't think Gameoversever falls into that category whatsoever. And to say so is just dishonest. If anything, the show handles its characters appeal pretty lightly. The characters wear swimsuits because they're in tropical water worlds. The camera rarely lingers on bodies in any exploitative way, and the episode itself is far more focused on action comedy and establishing its game inspired universe than constantly trying to make the audience, "That's all you, bro." Pretty sure if this pilot was made a rental VHS, the people who complained the loudest about it being too likely would have had insane overuse issues on those exact scenes, like it was the from Basic Instinct. Ultimately, Gameoververse is genuinely harmless. It's a well- animated show that pays homage to video games with all aspects of what a video game is. That includes hot characters, god forbid, even men. Somehow, shows like Bleach are unanimously adored online with its creator actively going out of their way to troll the editor by making its main character have bigger within each arc, even converting that to the anime with next to nobody trying to say that show was horrible because of it. But Gameoververse has one or two scenes where the character is attractive and suddenly that's a problem.

[00:08:34]Thankfully, at the end of the day, the real reason people are talking about Gameoververse isn't because it's some secretly over show. It's not because it has tons of behind. God, no. If we were talking about that, that could go for just about any show in existence. People are happy for the show and doing art in mass because the pilot feels expressive and it feels like artists actually making strong stylistic choices instead of executives telling them to sand every edge off until it becomes emotionally sterile because again Ross and Egoaptor are known for liking hot anime girls. So obviously they're going to inject them in the show. There's nothing wrong with that. It's not some scop to get you addicted to porn. Jesus Christ. And honestly, what I think made the discourse become so intense in the first place is this weird rise of modern online pyitism that isn't really trying to protect anybody from quote unquote harmful content. A lot of it comes from discomfort with sincerity and attraction. These people simply want to oneup others and feel better about themselves for being pure of even though it's complete projection and they likely hella hard behind closed doors. I just hope that Ross doesn't listen to any of this because I'd rather watch a show that takes risks being a little messy, a little stylish, and provocative than another perfectly sanitized algorithm-driven product, terrified of offending anyone online. Especially those dishonest people who decry media as degenerate and that claim that hot women in real life don't exist. It's funny how gamer response try to make themselves like cool and edgy by saying you will not see revive a beach when in reality on a beach I see a lot of very diverse figures that and usually and on a beach I usually don't see women who whose like ties are five times their waistline but then cry that western media isn't exaggeratedly like Japanese media. That'll be all guys. Have a good week. I'll see you next time.