Dolled up in full-face make-up, big hoop earrings, and a slouchy sweatshirt, YouTuber-turned-pop star Madison Beer exudes easy glam as she chats with viewers of her Twitch stream.
“You guys changed my life. You changed my entire world. And… I’m referring to Dress to Impress.”
Beer has emerged as a star for a new era of followers. She acquired her begin overlaying songs on YouTube within the 2010s, and now she’s turn out to be an icon of a youthful era. Beloved on TikTok, her followers flock to fan cams of her concert events, and her official profile has greater than 20.3 million followers. She’s distinguished herself as a Grammy-nominated artist large enough to go on an illustrious world-tour. She does all this, however she additionally often streams on Twitch, which is the place her followers informed her about a dress-up game on Roblox referred to as Dress to Impress.
Dress to Impress is a stylish new game printed on Roblox. In it, folks compete in opposition to others on-line to create the very best outfit for a particular theme. Within the game, gamers scramble round glossy wardrobes as they fight on garments, make-up, and equipment. On the finish of a set time, everybody exhibits their work in a style present the place folks vote on the very best outfits. Thanks to streamers taking part in it like Case “CaseOh” Baker and Kai Cenat, the game has turn out to be a breakout hit and launched fairly a few new gamers to Roblox.
“[Chat] told me what it was and I was like, ‘Mkay, this is probably gonna be silly and I’m not gonna love it. Because when I play games, I’ve been into games that are, in my head, exciting. Boy was I fucking wrong,” Beer mentioned. “Literally this game… has done something to me. I feel like it’s healing for me. I feel like it’s healing parts of me that miss playing with Barbies. I don’t know, it’s just something that is so fun.”
Whereas some streamers may play it paradoxically, the game has given many on-line — together with Beer — the chance to reclaim an curiosity in dress-up video games in a real approach. In a comparable approach that the Barbie film allowed viewers to unabashedly love pink and its hyper-femme aesthetics, Dress to Impress is permitting folks to unabashedly categorical love for a dress-up game that may very well be written off as being a youngsters game for women.
Within the remark part of a viral TikTok capturing the clip of Beer, a particular person affirmed her message.
“I understand what she’s trying to say about the game being healing. It’s why I really like it too. I’m a boy and never got to play with Barbies and other dolls so [Dress to Impress] kinda heals that for me,” person DDS34 mentioned.
I, for one, am glad Beer is speaking about her experiences. And it’s not simply because folks relate to her. Video games like Barbie Vogue Designer have been large industrial successes, however don’t all the time get credit score for his or her affect on video video games extra broadly. It’s solely so usually we get to have a good time dress-up video games, so it’s pretty to see a widespread determine doing so for Dress to Impress.
