Overwatch has a massive, near unavoidable fandom. After a year, which ‘ship reigns supreme?
For the one year anniversary of Overwatch, Tumblr’s Fandometrics blog, which compiles the most frequently used tags on the platform, took it upon themselves to analyse the fandom juggernaut. “During this 358 day period, the #overwatch tag alone garnered nearly 150 million engagements. It was the second most trending tag during this time,” they said in a blog post. “That’s trendier than every TV show and film, and even bigger, more generic tags like #GIF (No. 5) and #art (No. 7). The next highest trending video game-related tag was #Pokémon, at No. 20.”
That’s cool and all, but let’s get to the important part: Which characters do people want to kiss each other the most? According total engagements, McHanzo — the pairing of McCree and Hanzo — wins by a pretty wide margin. Reaper76 and Pharmercy follow in second and third place. It honestly isn’t a huge surprise. On places like Archive of Our Own, a fanfiction website, the McHanzo tag has over 2500 fanworks in it, including the incredibly popular, long running fic “Hang The Fool“.
If you’re interested in what other ships are in the top 10, or what the fandom’s favourite support hero is, check out the rest of the post on Tumblr.
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4 responses to “The Biggest Overwatch ‘Ships, According To Tumblr Data”
Cringe, cringe, cringe!
I’m annoyed that I know what ‘ships’ means
Ah tumblr, ruining everything. I wanted to like Overwatch, I really did, but the fandom has really turned me off :/
Honestly, whatever the fandom does should not concern you that much. Just play the game and ignore other people’s ships or whatever that apparently ruins it.
Sometimes people annoy me 😛
I had to go look up what a “ship” was… (thanks to the author not telling us)
Hint: It should not be a thing 😛