Cyberpunk 2077 Genital Customization

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Cyberpunk 2077 Genital Customization refers to the "mature" rating announcement for Cyberpunk 2077 made in May 2020, describing genitalia customization. The announcement led to Redditors giving comedic image examples of what custom genitalia could look like.

Origin

On May 6th, 2020, The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)^[2] gave the game Cyberpunk 2077, which would be released in September, a "Mature" rating and explaining, "Players can select a gender and customize their character; customization can include depictions of breasts, buttocks, and genitalia, as well as various sizes and combinations of genitals." That same day, IGN released the video "Cyberpunk 2077 Will Let You Customize Your Genitals – IGN Now" to YouTube (shown below). The video gained over 505,700 views and 14,000 likes in two days.

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On May 6th, 2020, Redditor Vetsu_Rodrigues posted the IGN video thumbnail paired with an image of a gun coming out of someone's pants to r/gaming^[3] (shown below, left). The post received over 4,800 points (97% upvoted) in two days. The next day, Redditor slainly posted a Spongebob's Hype Stand meme referencing genital customization to r/dankmemes.^[4] (shown below, right). The post accumulated over 20,700 likes (98% upvoted) in a day.

On May 8th, 2020, Redditors continued to post what their own custom character may look like in Cyberpunk 2077. Redditor MMPranaav posted an example to r/dankmemes^[5] that gained over 45,400 points (95% upvoted) that day (shown below). Independent^[1] published an article on the customization update.

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