[ SECRET POST #3191 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3191 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

06. http://i.imgur.com/cwyjidY.png

[fingalsanteater]

I always forget that people in fandom are typically at least 10 years younger than me.

[(Anonymous)]

Me neither, OP. I'm 39.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm about to turn 36 and when I started in fabdom in my kate teens, a lot of thge fans I encountered were older then than I am now. I like stating my age because I want to remind people that fandom isn't just 18-25. I'm doing no one any favors by pretending otherwise.

[dahli]

Haha I feel the same way. It's kinda lonely not being able to chat it up with people around my age.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, same here. I don't really feel old but sometimes it is freaky how much younger everyone is.

[silverr]

I have thought more than once of trying to get an "Old Fannish Farts" thing going, but ultimately -- porn aside -- why should age matter?

No one tut-tuts at old people for loving ice cream, or puppies and kittens, or animated films; it shouldn't be any different with fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

48 tomorrow.

[elaminator]

Why those particular ages? Just curious about the numbers.

I don't know about fandom in general, but f!s seems to have quite a few fans that are older then that. (A lot of fans grew up in fandom and never left. I think there are probably more middle-aged+ members of fandom then we realize.)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in my mid-40s and I'm pretty outspoken about it in namespace. The more older people are visible and proud of it, the less traction that idiotic "fandom is a ~safe space~ for teens only, old people get out EEWWW" bullshit can get.

There are a lot of us. Like, a LOT. In some fandoms, 25+ people are a strong majority. In almost all fandoms (except maybe the ones really aimed at kids), we're everywhere.

[diet_poison]

How old are you? (I guarantee you lots of people in F!S are over that bracket. I'm on the very upper edge of it, myself, and I don't have any immediate plans to stop fanning.)

[(Anonymous)]

Same here, OP! I always feel like... um... er... halp.

I'm 39.

[dinogrrl]

I haven't really run into this too much, but my main fandoms are older/longer-running franchises, so the fanbase tends to include a large number of people my age or older.

[(Anonymous)]

If you're younger than 18-25, great, please don't advertise it. It freaks me out to see everyone going online and saying "I'm 13 pls read my porn, wanna RP?" Don't tell people!

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I refrain from telling people my age, I don't hide that I'm an adult but I have seen teenagers freak about "invading their safe space" and even though I don't even typically talk to younger fans (I will respond to them to be polite, but I run a fairly popular blog so people of all ages will contact me) I'd rather just not be involved in that wank.

I feel like there are a lot of older folk in fandom who are just quiet because we get tired of being made to feel too old for our hobbies.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in a somewhat older fandom, I'm 55 and though that's probably older than many there are quite a few I interact with who are older.

[(Anonymous)]

Lots of people aren't. Don't worry about it!

[(Anonymous)]

*sigh. I, too, am out of the "typical" age bracket. I'm 27. Yeah, not really old (or at least I'd like to think so), but getting there. It kinda sucks. I feel like I'm too immature to be part of fandom. But then, fuck it, fanfic is life, so...

[(Anonymous)]

The conventions, especially the long, long running ones, are full of people over 30. Some of them are even middle aged! Because conventions are kind of expensive to attend and to run (and people under 25 may be working in a job where they have not yet earned the priviledge of saying "Okay, I'm taking three days off, no I do not have to tell you why, and I expect my job will be waiting when I get back"). Plus,they're all people who remember when conventions were your only chance to talk to people who are into fandom. There's one convention I go to every year where I am, at 33, part of the youngest tier of attendee.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, honey, I turn 60 this coming birthday and I've been in fandom since my late teens/early twenties. So long I forget exactly.

[rivulet027]

I'm 32.

[(Anonymous)]

I write a metric ton of fanfic, have a tumblr, draw a ton of fanart, and people assume I'm in my 20s.

I turn 43 next week.

[raspberryrain]

Yeah, I think most of this community is about 15-25 years younger than I.

(Totally not responding to my own secret to pretend I'm not alone.)

[(Anonymous)]

I've been involved in fandom since the 1970s, OP. If I'd known about it before then, I probably would've been involved earlier.

Just another data point here

[analise]

Turned 32 just over a week ago. :)

Still remember the days of jacking free Internet from AOL by constantly just using those 30-day trial discs they'd spam you with in the mail. I mean, not that I ever did that, of course...