My wife and I are two 30-something queers who have been doing let's plays on YouTube for around 7 years now to a small but dedicated audience. Our channel has found its niche as a kind of bookclub for visual novels and interactive fiction, reading and actively discussing everything as we play! I think it's neat.
We play a lot of games by queer and indie creators, and frequently make a point of playing entirely text-based games as well! There isn't as much of a following for that kind of thing on YouTube--a notoriously visual platform--but it certainly fits our read-and-discuss bookclub vibe.
We especially love playing mystery games like Misericorde (linked above), Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, and Umineko When They Cry. To give you an idea of what we're about with these games, we're currently playing through Higurashi (which I have never played before), and each of the chapters so far has ended with us doing a solid 3-and-a-half hour discussion video like this:
And this morning, we just started airing a playthrough of Christine Love's don't take it personally, babe, which was incredibly silly to look back on with years and years of hindsight into the development of privacy and social media after its initial release:
And for all you freaks out there that don't like reading books and talking about them, our patrons occasionally make us play other games as well, like this time we were asked to play through ULTRAKILL:
Anyway, that's my pitch! If you've ever enjoyed something I posted here, then do me a favor and drop a sub on YouTube. It'd mean a lot to me. Thanks for your time, and here's the video where we played through the entirety of Nekopara vol. 1:
