[ SECRET POST #5659 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5659 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like your anecdata needs updating there. Kids go to sleep before adults do, and if a parent wants to pick up a new fandom it's possible to make time in a day to relax and join in with the new shinies. Of course, the time that can be spared varies with number and age of children, but in my experience and the experience of several other people I met in fandom twenty years ago who are parents now, none of us are trapped exclusively in the Daniel Tiger mines. (And for those who are, r/DanielTigerConspiracy is a godsend.)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm happy for you, but all my fandom friends left fandom permanently after getting married and having children, and they all state lack of time as their reason for no longer having time to engage in fannish activities. Even my younger siblings and some of my younger fandom friends no longer have time for fandom after graduating university and joining the workforce. And there has to be a reason how come people of my age group used to dominate fandom, and then suddenly all disappeared one day, replaced by zoomers. They couldn't all have died, so the only explanation I can think of for their mysterious disappearance is that they either grew out of their interests, or lack time.

[(Anonymous)]

Older high school/college age people always dominate fandom numerically, because they're the ones who have time and freedom to really focus on it. When I was a teen in fandom, the Gen X'ers complained about how the teens (getting internet at college) were taking over fandom. The younger Boomers complained about how the Gen X'ers (who came in with newsgroups and BBSs as they got computer access at school) were taking over fandom from the people who earned their way with xerox'd zines. The older Boomers complained about the younger boomers with their shitty xerox zines that didn't take any effort, what happened to sneaking access to the mimeo machine. Heck, pre-Boomer SF Fen wanked like hell about this newfangled group called 'teens' who were taking over fandom and ruining it by getting their SF from drive-in B movies and TV shows instead of books and letterzines. (They're still doing it, the few who are still alive.)

Anyway, fandom is always dominated by teens, and a large percentage of them *do* always drop out as they get older, because there's always a certain amount of people dropping out as their lives change and as the active parts of fandom change away from them, but also because the newer generation of teens always has easier access to fandom, so there's always more of them who find there way (Also just more, because the population who takes part in English pop culture is still growing). Right now there's a massive increase of teens in online fandom because they just spent two years doing nothing but staring at screens So sure, if you haven't made any new older friends as your old friends moved on, or if you're expecting older fandom to be like high school/college fandom, you'll feel like there aren't any people of your generation (this happens with RL friends too). But they're there! They have friends their own age! Very few of my current fandom friends are the same people I talked to 20 years ago, and none of them share the same fandoms we did then, but most of them were around then (and the ones who came to fandom later in life are often the most fun.)

[(Anonymous)]

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