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Demographics Era: How old are you? (Poll reset and updated)

How old are you Era?

  • 18 and under

    Votes: 12 0.7%

  • 19 - 24

    Votes: 223 12.3%

  • 25 - 30

    Votes: 591 32.7%

  • 31 - 39

    Votes: 787 43.6%

  • 40 +

    Votes: 193 10.7%
  • Total voters
    1,806
More_Badass

More_Badass

Member
Oct 25, 2017
23,621
26

I'm surprised that this place might lean towards a 30+ majority. I thought most of the forum (and in general the demographic that would largely hang out on a gaming forum) would be in their 20s
 
rjinaz

rjinaz

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
28,359
Phoenix
25-30
31-39

or
25-29
30-39

Should be what the poll reads. 30 is represented twice currently.

And if I was 30, I'd pick the youngest option of course :)
 
aerie

aerie

wonky
Administrator
Oct 25, 2017
8,023
Poll updated, we can only have 5 categories but hopefully that'll give us a bit of a better range of answers. Apologies for lumping everyone 40+ together, if it makes you feel any better, i'm getting close to that category myself.
 
gcwy

gcwy

Member
Oct 27, 2017
8,685
Houston, TX
Poll options still seem crappy to me. I want to know how many 18, 19, 20 and 21 year olds are on this forum. Maybe an offsite poll could work better?
 
More_Badass

More_Badass

Member
Oct 25, 2017
23,621
Jordan117 said:
Isn't web forum culture in general kind of an old person's game, relatively speaking? All the kids are snapchatting and instagramming and tiktokking and discording. What high-school/college person wants to register an account for an individual discussion board that you have to read inside a web browser like it's 2003? It would be like a mid-00s teen looking for the latest content via BBS instead of IGN. It still has value, especially for those of us that grew up using it, but it's being inevitably superseded by other formats. Hopefully they'll still have large-print versions of Era and Reddit and MetaFilter in the retirement home.
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You can't have extended discussion on a Snapchat or Instagram, so forums like this ideally will always have a niche.
 
aerie

aerie

wonky
Administrator
Oct 25, 2017
8,023
gcwy said:
Maybe an offsite poll could work better?
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Might not be a bad idea, can always keep that idea for next time we do one of these threads.

Last time we did one of these on the old stomping grounds, which was around 7 years ago or so, the average age was 28 I believe.
 
LosDaddie

LosDaddie

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
3,622
Longwood, FL
Grown folk here.

Been posting on gaming forums for about 12yrs now. Era (and GAF before it) are great for the slow times at work.
 
More_Badass

More_Badass

Member
Oct 25, 2017
23,621
I am really surprised by those numbers. I never would have imagined that the majority here was in their 30s. Then again, I'm the rare mid-20s millennial who doesn't have a Snapchat or Instagram and enjoys movies from the 60s, 70s, and 80s (according to my Letterboxd ratings)
 
RetroCCN

RetroCCN

Member
Oct 26, 2017
896
40. We skew a lot older than I thought. I would have guessed early 20s was the median. That does not appear to be the case.
 
bar_bar12

bar_bar12

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
2,439
Jordan117 said:
Isn't web forum culture in general kind of an old person's game, relatively speaking? All the kids are snapchatting and instagramming and tiktokking and discording. What high-school/college person wants to register an account for an individual discussion board that you have to read inside a web browser like it's 2003? It would be like a mid-00s teen looking for the latest content via BBS instead of IGN. It still has value, especially for those of us that grew up using it, but it's being inevitably superseded by other formats. Hopefully they'll still have large-print versions of Era and Reddit and MetaFilter in the retirement home.
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Hey now, I'm 19 and I love internet forums :(
All my friends do think it's a bit odd tho lol
 
Princess Viola

Princess Viola

Member
Oct 29, 2017
3,079
Florida
Jordan117 said:
Isn't web forum culture in general kind of an old person's game, relatively speaking? All the kids are snapchatting and instagramming and tiktokking and discording. What high-school/college person wants to register an account for an individual discussion board that you have to read inside a web browser like it's 2003? It would be like a mid-00s teen looking for the latest content via BBS instead of IGN. It still has value, especially for those of us that grew up using it, but it's being inevitably superseded by other formats. Hopefully they'll still have large-print versions of Era and Reddit and MetaFilter in the retirement home.
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I mean, personally, I've been using forums since I was 10-ish so it is kind of a 'I've grown up with this' style of thing.

I do use Discord tho but like, the few Discord channels I'm in are chats relating to some forums I'm on.
 
Yung Coconut

Yung Coconut

Member
Oct 31, 2017
4,267
Get off my concrete sidewalk.

If anyone here is rich enough to afford a yard in SF, and would be willing to let me hangout on weekends to yell at people, I'd appreciate it very much.
 
gozu

gozu

Member
Oct 27, 2017
10,296
America
Older than 95% of ya'll to my eternal despair.

The least you can do is respect my authority as your senpai.
 
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