Up-and-coming YouTuber Tassie “GamesGetReviewed” Bhuyian is gaining fans for her a unique approach to video game reviews, in which she explains each game, discusses its positives and negatives, compares it to other games, then rates it, all without eating spicy food, drinking alcohol, or even cosplaying. Up-and-coming YouTuber Tassie “GamesGetReviewed” Bhuyian is gaining fans for her a unique approach to video game reviews, in which she explains each game, discusses its positives and negatives, compares it to other games, then rates it, all without eating spicy food, drinking alcohol, or even cosplaying.
Some viewers who caught on to Bhuyian’s recent uploads in the YouTube “trending” tab say they were confused by her surprisingly minimalist approach at first.
“Would it kill her to do something crazy during the review?” asked viewer Robbie Olsen in a comment on Bhuyian’s channel. “Wear a different pair of socks every episode, stomp some grapes to make wine, paint with her feet under the table or something like that? Those are just a few ideas off the top of my head that I promise I don’t find erotic.”
Bhuiyan’s fellow YouTubers seemed almost annoyed at the simplicity of her channel, compared to the typically high bar of gimmicks that viewers have come to expect.
“Gimmicks are important to hook an audience.” Noted Jenny “SpicyNoods” Herfindahl. “When people come to my channel, they get a simple concept: a hot girl slurping extra spicy ramen while she tells you which games are worth buying. It’s not rocket science, but you do have to put a little bit more effort into it than this weirdo normcore stuff.”
Some fans consider Bhuiyan’s lack of a gimmick to be a gimmick itself.
“It’s like a big performance art project where she’s serving nostalgia for Web 1.0 and the early days of YouTube,” said Marissa Royce, another commenter. “It’s a metacontextual re-imagining of what it’s like to be online! It’s like she’s challenging us to get horny for her in all her complexity and nuance as a person. And it’s working!”
At press time, Bhuiyan’s critics were driven into a rage spiral after learning she just reviews games as a fun hobby and left her YouTube channel on public by accident.
