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Age Brackets (Bunny Demographics)

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8 minutes ago, partner555 said:

What is the typical age distribution of a typical fandom? Does it broadly reflect society's age demographics?

It'll depend on the work, and the delta of time between the work's creation and current day. Power Puff Girls is going to skew late teen to mid 20s (Unless it's been remade or rereleased in the time). Dr Who during the classic run skewed young. Nowadays it skews 20s-30s. Harry Potter is the same way. Twilight skews to teens. Star Trek skews to adults 30+. Dora the Explorer will skew young. ~shrug~

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6 minutes ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

Are you measuring age simply by the calendar, intellectual maturity, emotional maturity, or actual accomplishment?

Because if we are going by actual accomplishment, I'm still not old enough to drive.

I assumed calendar.

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5 hours ago, partner555 said:

What is the typical age distribution of a typical fandom? Does it broadly reflect society's age demographics?

Well, since webcomics (and fora) are a reading-based medium, I would presume that the under-eight-years-old segment is quite small compared to their share of the general population. Fora for non-child-oriented media also tend to discourage users younger than twelve or so.

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Hmm, when I came to this thread, it opened up at the post, and the fact that there is a poll up above it was completely hidden.  I even started to write a reply asking why you didn't just do it as a Poll before remembering that had happened once before and scrolling up to check.

Are poll answers anonymous in this system?

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15 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

Hmm, when I came to this thread, it opened up at the post, and the fact that there is a poll up above it was completely hidden.  I even started to write a reply asking why you didn't just do it as a Poll before remembering that had happened once before and scrolling up to check.

Are poll answers anonymous in this system?

a) Hmm.... I would edit the first post, but I am concerned that I might lose the poll data in the process.

b] As far as I can tell.  Public voter names was an option whet I created the poll, which I didn't enable.  I figured that I'd get less bias with an anonymous survey.

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8 hours ago, CritterKeeper said:

Hmm, when I came to this thread, it opened up at the post, and the fact that there is a poll up above it was completely hidden.  I even started to write a reply asking why you didn't just do it as a Poll before remembering that had happened once before and scrolling up to check.

Same here—I didn't see the poll at all.

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11 hours ago, ijuin said:

Well, since webcomics (and fora) are a reading-based medium, I would presume that the under-eight-years-old segment is quite small compared to their share of the general population. Fora for non-child-oriented media also tend to discourage users younger than twelve or so.

Kids do read comics, also, some kids generally just plain ignore whatever age restrictions are in place on line. I mean, how do online people verify your age anyway? They have to rely on the person being honest.

I remember when I was under thirteen, ignoring things that said I had to be over thirteen and going ahead anyway.

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2 hours ago, mlooney said:

That is one oddly shaped demographics curve for a web comic about teenagers .

According to some people I was listening to today who are in or very close to the book-publishing industry, a "Young Adult" title is any non-porn book where the main characters are teenagers. And the majority of readers of "Young Adult" titles are adults.

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3 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

According to some people I was listening to today who are in or very close to the book-publishing industry, a "Young Adult" title is any non-porn book where the main characters are teenagers. And the majority of readers of "Young Adult" titles are adults.

Wait really? I assumed "Young Adult" was 20 to 25 or so.

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18 minutes ago, partner555 said:

Wait really? I assumed "Young Adult" was 20 to 25 or so.

That's generally what the term means...the exception being the YA genre. It's aimed at teenagers, but it has a massive crossover appeal to 20-somethings.

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I didn't expect six people over 40 being active on an El Goonish Shive forum. I'm honestly very pleasantly surprised by the variation of people here. I know that people who started reading EGS when they were 20 back in 2002 would be 34 now, but the graph shows a much older audience than that :3

In related news, I was 7 when Dan started uploading EGSSeven. I find that interesting for some reason.

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My birth certificate says I'm 52, but I feel about 100 years older than that. I've just got a big hole in my memory that starts at the Gettysburg address and runs through the JFK administration (at the earliest).

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On 5/30/2016 at 0:18 AM, Matoyak said:

That's generally what the term means...the exception being the YA genre. It's aimed at teenagers, but it has a massive crossover appeal to 20-somethings.

The typical *author* of YA books is rather older than that. I'd think that if people in their 40s (and up) enjoy writing books with young protagonists, there are a fair number of other people of similar age who enjoy reading them.

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14 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

The typical *author* of YA books is rather older than that. I'd think that if people in their 40s (and up) enjoy writing books with young protagonists, there are a fair number of other people of similar age who enjoy reading them.

I'm sure some do, but that doesn't mean it's aimed at 40-somethings. I also don't know how well that tracks...I mean, children's books, cardboards, and chapter books are written by 40+ year olds on average, but you wouldn't say they're aimed at adults, and you probably wouldn't say there's much crossover appeal. And of course, there's always exceptions (My Little Pony, for just one example).

And for the record, I wasn't saying it's impossible to find adults who enjoy reading YA books, I was responding to someone who said they thought the phrase "Young Adult" meant a specific age range. In common parlance it means what they thought it meant, but in book marketing and audience targeting it means something different and specific.

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I think the Harry Potter series could probably span several age demographics, but then it was done in a way that people who were teens when the first book came out, kinda grew up alongside Harry as new books were released. At least that's the impression I got.

 

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