4 days ago, Maxis updated the game making it possible to finally prescribe sexual preferences for your Sims, but before that, you couldn’t technically create a straight Sim! The Sims has always operated on a foundation of no boundaries, whether of love, gender or passions. The Sims is a cultural institution that has remained relevant with young people around the world for the past 22 years, and holds an incredibly nostalgic cultural cachet, but what is it about the Sims universe that has the new generation so hooked? The Sims used to be something I saw as a recreational silo in my life, but now, thanks to the algorithm I am immersed in the wider culture of the game and its huge online community. The hashtag #thesims4 has 3.5B views on TikTok, and 5.7M followers on Twitch, and as I write this at 2pm on a Tuesday, 2,500 people are currently watching Sims Live streams on the platform, so I’m clearly not alone. I’m unashamed to say SimsTok has found me, and has become my happy place. I’d spend entire days and nights in our family computer room making virtual mac and cheese, upskilling in charisma and chain clicking “Flirt” until I could “WooHoo” with the resident hottie in my Sims town.įast forward 18 years, I’m doing Strategy 9-5 and Simming 5-9. When The Sims 2 landed in 2004, it changed my life forever.
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