Girlfriend Reviews’ first video on Red Dead Redemption 2 was a massive hit when it was uploaded in late November. At the time of writing this, it’s at 1.2 million views; the channel itself has over 350,000 subscribers. The rest of their videos average at about 400,000 views, at least. That’s no small feat for a channel that launched just months ago, with a dorky everyday couple behind it.

Since then, Girlfriend Reviews has uploaded a new video every week. Throughout the week, they also stream regularly, as a way to both capture footage needed for the videos and to interact with their fast growing community. Shelby says on average, they have a few hundred people watching their streams. As for now, YouTube is still their primary focus, even if they did recently become a Twitch partner.

The name Girlfriend Reviews brings up a lot of feelings to some about «fake geek girls» and clickbait-y articles headlined with, «Here’s All the Games Your Girlfriend Will Actually Want to Play,» listing games with heavy femme leanings (as if we can’t like shooters?). Sigue leyendo →