About

I Will Now Buy Your Game is an exploitable comic in which the author criticizes the contrasting depictions of male and female characters found in video games.

Origin

On July 6th, 2017, Twitter user glitchedpuppet^[1] tweeted a short comic about the extreme sexual dimorphism presented in video games, juxtaposing a male anthropomorphic rodent creature with a female variation (shown below). Within four days, the tweet gained more than 29,800 likes and 21,400 retweets.

Spread

On July 8th, Twitter user @ghostsampler^[7] posted a Loss parody of the comic, gathering upwards of 6,700 likes and 3,300 retweets within 48 hours (shown below).

On July 9th, Tumblr user dukeofleaves posted a Buenos Dias, Mandi version of the comic (shown below, left).^[2] That day, Redditor ianelinon submitted a gallery of photoshopped examples to /r/TumblrInAction.^[3] Meanwhile, Redditor CamTroid submitted an MS Paint parody of the comic titled "Proper animal genders" to /r/CoaxedIntoASnafu^[6] (shown below, right).

Also on July 9th, threads about the comic were posted to 4chan's /v/ board.^[4][5]

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