Women are only a few months older than men and GNCs on average.Ħ5% of all respondents are between 20 and 29, with a strangely big spike at 21 of age. If anyone tells you that BL/Yaoi is created by straight women for straight women, tell them that they are lying and that there are actual numbers to prove them wrong.Ĭontrary to my expectations, there is little to no age difference between all 3 groups. In other words, there are almost twice as many gay men playing BL / Gay games as there are straight women. Straight women make up for 13% of all answers. There are more bi/pan women than straight women. More women reported being attracted to “any gender” than “the opposite gender”. The most represented sexual orientation is gay men, who alone make up for 25% of all survey answers. When asked for their romantic and sexual orientation, it turns out that more than 18% of women and a bit less than 29% of GNC are asexual. 35 respondents reported being trans men, and only 1 trans woman answered. Nonbinaries were torn between “Yes” and “I don’t know”. GNCs do not include people who answered “Male” or “Female” and then answered “Yes” to being trans.Ģ1% of respondents are not cisgender, it seems. For the sake of this survey, I grouped people who answered “Nonbinary” and “Other” as ‘GNC’ (Gender Non-Conforming), who represent a little less than 20% of all answers. Men account for 37,5% of respondents, which is more than the usual 25%-ish I’ve seen in most BL surveys. Women represent the largest portion of BL gamers with almost 43% of all answers. As such, I’d advice you to take these numbers with a grain of salt. Think of the thousands of Chinese and Japanese, and perhaps even Korean people who didn’t answer this survey because they didn’t find it, or don’t understand English. Taking that graph and concluding that the most non-English spoken language used by all BL gamers of the planet is Spanish would be a mistake though. The most spoken non-English language among respondents is Spanish (19%), followed by French (9,2%), German (8,9%) and Portugese (8,2%). Curiously, nobody from Portugal answered, but Brazil was cited 24 times! A whopping 37% of answers came from USA alone though, most likely because the survey is in English and was posted on Twitter.įor convenience, I made a map where all countries cited at least once in the survey are colored:ģ7% of the answers were from the USA alone. Geographically, I received answers from 71 countries. 13 answers come from 4chan’s /y and /jp boards. Another sizeable portion comes from Reddit, where I posted a link to the survey in several places (/r/gaymers, /r/blgames, /r/yaoi and /r/boyslove). The vast majority of respondents come from Twitter, with about 30% of them following my Twitter account. If you missed this survey and would still like sate my curiosity, I made a new survey with new questions here. This survey is thus based on the 629 survey answers I deemed valid. I received a total of 636 answers but had to remove 7 of them, the most common reason being that their answers made it clear that they had never experienced any BL game and thus do not belong in a BL gamer survey. I asked 54 question to BL gamers about where they come from, their gender and sexual orientation, how they discovered the genre, what they like and what they don’t, etc… Some answers were expected, others I found quite surprising and debunked some beliefs I previously had. It was partially inspired by Tailor Tales’ In-depth Otome game survey as well as Mangagamer’s annual licensing surveys.
I’ve been meaning to do it back in 2016 but only gathered enough motivation to make it and publish it in January 2022.
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