Genders in Gaming Target Audiences.

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Another example... Look at Sam and Dean from Supernatural. If they weren't as attractive as they are then a significant amount of the female audience wouldn't bother to watch.

I actually think that doesn't matter. As long as the actors/actresses aren't absolutely ugly I do not think their appearances/sex appeal contributes much to an appreciation, or distaste of a show.

as someone that watches supernatural I have to agree with Lucke.

There's erotic gay fanfictions between the two main actors all over the place, when they have some sort of a meetup with fans or how are those events called, most of the audience are physically unfit women that laugh at everything the two say in the most "overly attached gf" kind of way even though the two didnt mean it to be funny.

You look at supernatural videos, 80% comments are going to be either adoring how hot the two actors look or "omgomgomg i want them to have sex they're so hot"

even the directors of the series noticed it, so the new episodes are having more and more gay sexual innuendos.

Supernatural is a good case study.

In the show you can find lots of jokes making fun of the fact the fans want to see homosexual incest between the two male protagonists.

You can also see that any attractive regular female character on the show tends to die, because the fanbase (consisting mostly of heterosexual women) tend to get jealous of most females on the show. So most regular characters on the show are male. Of course, on the show, there are very few overweight or minority or whatever characters... Make of that what you will.