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⌈ Secret Post #5659 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Most of my older fandom friends are parents.

Also, most of my older fandom friends, in all three categories you list (parents, non-parents, and people who create canon, an interesting set of three there) are currently super excited about OFMD, which has existed less than a year, and is really not a statistical error??? If you only hang around nostalgic fandoms and fandoms full of teens that's what you'll see most of (Also tbf, if you... avoid AO3, you will probably not be where most of the older, still active fans are.)

A lot of people do drop out of online fandom when their kids are young, but a lot of them come trickling back as the kids get older and take less time and energy. And a lot of people do only get into fandom for one thing, and either stick with it doggedly or leave when it loses popularity, but that is not correlated to if they have kids??? Some of my closest friends have been in TMNT fandom since the first cartoon, but they're evenly split between parents and not (some of them are now grandparents). I think you have some issues around childlessness to work out (who doesn't.)

[(Anonymous)]

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I'm in my early 50s and there are plenty of people around in various fandoms who are around my age and sometimes considerably older. OFMD is a big one - the lead actors are in their 40s, so why wouldn't a significant portion of their fandom be too? Same is true of Good Omens - a lot of older folks who grew up with the book, which came out in 1990, got their passion renewed by the show. And again, lead actors in late 40s/early 50s.

I have no children myself, but a lot of my fandom friends do. Some of them go to cons and stuff with their kids - and grandkids in some cases.