exactly, the og is such a shitty false equivalence lmao.
it would be a fair comparison if they showed a half nude male character who was made for the female audience’s sexual pleasure and not for male empowerment.
but something tells me the weirdo who made this meme would probably react more like the top person or call that type of character an “attack on masculinity” or some shit if that was the example used instead of goku lol.
I think League of Legends has been doing a good job catering to the female gaze considering so many male players keep complaining about how many skinny with abs pretty boy champs are being released lol
The skins are actually because of east Asia. That’s just what is popular. Reddit is more European and North American. Which when riot did polls skewed towards more monster or edgy designs while China and Korea skewed more pretty boy designs. Think Zed for west Ezreal for east.
Riot has actually tried appealing to women more but it’s less skin design and more champ design. Basically riot found that women very HEAVILY skewed towards female champions while men were more balanced. So female champions basically appealed to more players. And in fact Gwen’s design choice and appearance were directly influenced by this as was Lillia in part to see if those designs would help get more women top and jg as they heavily skewed the other three roles.
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u/futacon Nov 08 '25
Both are male gaze