IceGay. Yeah, let that name sink in for a second. I have been around the block more times than I’d like to admit, and I still have no idea what it’s supposed to mean. Is it gay porn served chilled? Is it for guys who like it cold? Did someone just open the freezer, see a bag of ice, and decide that was branding? Whatever the story is, it is one of the stranger names I’ve come across, and trust me, in this industry, that is more competitive than you think. Still, a weird name does not mean that the site is bad, so...let’s crack the ice and see what’s inside!
We’re here for crossdressing content, like guys in skirts, stockings, high heels, and a bit of makeup while looking a lot better than they have any right to. It is a niche that lives and dies on how easy it is to find the real deal, because nothing kills the mood faster than clicking on a crossdressing video and getting a plain old jerk-off session in gym shorts. Is IceGay guilty of this as well?
A scroll of “endless” gay crossdressing videos
The first thing I always try to figure out is how much content the platform has. After all, I know most of you care about numbers, and if you know there is content to browse through, you won’t even read the rest of my review, and you will simply check it out yourself. Don’t lie, I know a bunch of you are lazy fucks who just can’t wait to wank it out. Why am I even mentioning this? Well, you see, on IceGay, I honestly can’t tell you how much content there is. It is not like I didn’t try to figure it out, it’s just that the organizing system of the library it has is fucking atrocious.
There are no pages, no counter, and the crossdressing results just keep scrolling and leading into more videos, endlessly. It’s like the site is daring you to try and find the bottom. I scrolled for a good while, and the videos kept coming, and eventually my browser was fed up with the amount of shit on a single page, and it started lagging. So don’t ask me for a number for this one, it is clearly a decent pile of videos, and IceGay can keep its actual number a secret.
Infinite scroll has its fans, and I get why, even if I am personally not one of them. You don’t have to click through pages, you can just keep going with your thumb or your mouse wheel, and the site will keep feeding you more content. It is smooth, and it works well on a phone, but it does come with serious downsides. There is no way to bookmark where you’ve stopped, and no way to jump to page 20. It is really difficult to know what you have seen and what you haven’t. If you close the tab by accident after half an hour of scrolling, good fucking luck finding where that video you almost clicked on is located. Your progress melts away faster than an ice cube on a hot day.
The tag that doesn't always tell the truth
Sure, the endless supply of videos got me really pumped up, but here is the part that really cooled me down. The videos under the crossdressing tag are definitely not always crossdressing.
You will get plenty of the real deal, you know, guys dressed up and looking the part, but mixed in between such videos, you will find a bunch of them that have nothing to do with the niche. There are so many regular scenes where a guy is not wearing an outfit, wig, or anything.I don’t know if it is lazy uploading, sloppy tagging, or some automated system that got too generous as you keep scrolling, but you cannot fully trust what the tag shows you. On a site with a page count, you’d at least have a rough idea of how much junk you are dealing with, but on an endless scroll, it just keeps coming, the good mixed with the random.
This is not the end of the world, and to be fair, the thumbnails usually give it away. If you see a guy in a skirt, click, and if you see a guy in a hoodie, keep scrolling or you will waste your time. This means there is more work for you, and it makes the next section of my review a lot less useful than it should be, which kind of pisses me off.
Filters that can't fix the main issue
On paper, IceGay’s filters are perfectly decent. You can choose between all videos or HD only, which is always a welcome option. Sorting lets you go by popular, top-rated, or newest, which covers the basics. There's a length slider running from 0 to 50 minutes, so you can drag it to cut out quick clips or overly long videos. Then there's a date filter with plenty of options: past 24 hours, past 2 days, past week, past month, past year, and all time. That's more date options than a lot of bigger sites give you, and it's handy for seeing what's been added lately.
The problem comes with what you are filtering. Filters narrow down the pile you give them, and if the pile is just a bunch of mislabeled crap, then you will just end up with a smaller pile of mislabeled crap. Sure, you can get a list that is a bit cleaner by setting it to HD, top rated, 10 to 30 minutes, and such, but the foundation is still awful even if the tools work.
Using the filters will help you shape your search to find the kind of video you want, like quality, length, freshness, but it will not fix the tagging problem. That part is still on you and your eyes. If there was a way to combine the tag with other tags, or even better, to exclude the shit you don’t want, that would help a lot, but IceGay does not have anything like that.
No account option means you are paying with your time
Most tube sites have some kind of account system, where you can keep track of the stuff you’ve seen by adding it to your favorites or making playlists. Sure, some of you might think this is unnecessary as you can just use a bookmark system in your browser, but honestly, that system comes with its own set of problems that make keeping track a pain-in-the-ass experience.
IceGay does not have an option to register for an account. Still, it does use your browser cookies to keep track of your watch history, and you can even create a playlist. The catch is that you will not be able to track this watch history on multiple devices, and the playlist is extremely glitchy. I got it to work once, and after clearing my cookies, I could not get it to work the second time, and I just gave up on it.
So, no account, everything is free, is there another catch? Of course there is, and that is that you will be paying with your patience. Like most tube sites, there are ads. You will see ads play before every video, and you will also see a bunch of them spread around the player as well as cluttered between the thumbnails. I mean, you are getting videos for free, so if you are too lazy to block them with AdBlock or something, you are expected to push through them while browsing for crossdressing gay porn.
Is IceGay worth breaking the ice?
I've got to be honest, IceGay is kind of a mixed bag. It is like a freezer where half the containers are labeled wrong. There is clearly a good amount of crossdressing content here, it’s all free, you never have to sign up for anything, and the filters give you decent control over quality, length, and freshness. For a quick browsing session, the endless scroll feels quite smooth.
However, the unreliable tagging will definitely get to anyone over time, and the fact that you can only keep track of videos through a history that is cookie-based and a playlist manager that is incredibly glitchy does not create a great browsing experience. If you are patient and don’t mind judging the thumbnails yourself, you will definitely dig up some great crossdressing scenes here. But if you want a site that hands you exactly what you asked for, IceGay will leave you a little cold on that one.
