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Gaming Has Become a Source of Real-World Style Inspiration. The Most Important Character That Gamers Are Customizing? Themselves.

$PHGPress releaseOct 22, 2026, 9:00 AM ETRead the release

Royal Philips issued a consumer-marketing release citing new Philips Norelco OneBlade survey research finding that 80% of U.S. male gamers ages 18-45 have taken appearance inspiration from gaming characters. The survey of 1,000 U.S. male gamers, conducted by Wakefield Research, reports figures including 93% believing more grooming effort would improve confidence and 75% citing at least one barrier to grooming effort.

Key figures

Survey sample size
1000
Survey margin of error
±3.1 percentage points
Pct gamers inspired by avatars
80%

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