@starsked submitted:

I thought it was a submission by BABD while scrolling through my feed… at least there’s an empowered male with lots of absolutely as empowered ladies for background.

We’d normally consider a guy who looks like this for a Happy Friday post, but given all the ladies in the background, it just felt inappropriate. Especially since last week was the Magic Meat Week, which was all about defying expectations.

Sexy male armor posts should bring “empowerment” only to male characters, or at the very least display different genders as equally contorted and sexy. You can’t have your cake and eat it too by using @boobsdontworkthatway and @eschergirls material as a backdrop decoration for a dude who is dressed sexily, but who looks otherwise perfectly ready for action.

It’s like that Conan with slave girls cowering behind him game cover, except if Conan had impractical nipple piercings and was giving the audience the bedroom eyes. And if the slave girls were an amorphous blob of contorted angel waifus. I mean, what is that supposed to be?!

It is notable that this illustration is attributed to repeat offenders of female sexualization: Legend of the Cryptids (who was on our shame list for ages) and an artist whose extremely NSFW bondage mech for Galaxy Saga (another Applibot game) we featured before.

~Ozzie