Games Workshop’s decision to introduce female Custodians into the Adeptus Custodes produced one of the hobby’s most sustained community controversies. Months after release, a YouTube investigation attempted to answer the question engaged players have been asking: are the models actually selling?
The video By The 40K Empress, titled “90% REJECT THEM: Investigating The Femstodes Retail Reality,” comes from a 40K content creator who spent several weeks gathering community reports, running polls across YouTube and X, and obtaining store-level sales data from industry source Chainsword 40K. The creator acknowledges throughout that without official numbers from GW, everything stays in the territory of informed inference. What the investigation produces is the most systematic community-level attempt to answer the question available.
