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_v7gu on June 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Killing Community

A nice exercise in you thinking the whole world is only what you see for yourself. Here are the actual demographics:

Demographic

    Age: 18-34
    Gender: ~70% male, ~30% female
    Location: United States (47%), United Kingdom (7%), Canada (6%), Australia (4%), Germany (4%)
    Interests: Japanese culture, anime, manga, video games, comics, technology, music, movies
    Education: Majority attended or currently enrolled in college

poorlyknit on June 13, 2023 | [–]

How did they measure this? Except for Location (and maybe Interests) it seems like an anonymous image board would not have this information.

csin on June 15, 2023 | [–]

I mean it's pretty telling of which demographics gets weeded out... when rebuttal stats, casually leave out race and sexuality %'s.

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