/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Some recent poll showed /jp/ the oldest 'popular' board with an average age of 25. /v/ and /b/ were the youngest with 17 and 16 respectively.

Everyone is in their early-mid twenties, like me. I'm actually one of the youngest and there's nothing wrong with me being here!

>>11727781
I feel like /jp/ is the board most likely to lie about age. On /3/ or somewhere they'd say "Yep, I'm 19 and in college, whatever." but on /jp/ you have to pretend to be older because of elitism. (This is a good thing.)

>>11727781
Yes, and I think /trv/ is the oldest.
I like it there, it's like of hanging out with your uncles on a saturday night camping.

>>11727783
>twenties
>one of the youngest

I doubt it.

>>11727787
I think this elitism actually achieves the opposite. /jp/ is the board most likely to realize how pointless it is to lie on an anonymous website.
Except when ironic shitposting, naturally.

Most of 4chan's old timers probably don't browse /jp/ because this isn't a Japanese image board. Otaku culture in the west hasn't been around for long enough (or popular enough) for older people to have grown up with it.

>>11727791
Yeah /trv/ seems pretty old. Teenagers and college students don't have the time or money to travel. Real adults can be travelling NEETs or take time off their proper job.

>>11727798
You shut your whore mouth.

/diy/ seems pretty oldpeopley.

/ck/ is a weird one. It feels like a board populated entirely by 12-year-olds and 50-year-olds.

>>11727807
/diy/, /adv/, /soc/, etc. are all normalfag boards and populated by the mainstream 4chan audience i.e. late teens and early twenties college folk.

>>11727812
There are boards like /jp/ and some of the textboards where the people clearly get 4chan, have been here since the Good Old Days, and take it easy.
Then there are boards like /po/ and /diy/, which don't really have a lot of the "board culture" associated with other 4chan boards, they're just message boards dedicated to a hobby. Anyone can post there and who cares, it's pleasant.
Both these are fine. The worst boards are the "in between" boards, like /tv/ and /mu/. They're so wrapped up in being these communities with their own memes and tripfags and generally retarded shitposting that if you actually want to discuss television or music, you're out of luck.

>>11727821
Indeed. Those who have fallen to the cancer can't comeback.

I'd assume /p/ and /o/ have a decent number of oldfolks.

>>11727798
>Otaku culture in the west hasn't been around for long enough (or popular enough) for older people to have grown up with it.

Some of us are mid-80's Starblazers and Gamelan-Embassy old. We're the weird old folks in the background running cons and stuff now.

>/jp/
>not phrasing the question in the form of a Touhou

I agree, some other boards are chilling.

i'm too old for this shit

/k/ has guys in their sixties on it, as well as a lot of little europeans, airsofters and kids

I hope when I'm old enough to talk about things that I'm doing now in the past tense, I will have saved my pictures and bookmarks enough to get a general idea what things were like.

I'm 28 and I've been on 4chan for almost ten years. Am I old enough to fit in yet?

(For some reason, everyone on /jp/ is obsessed with "fitting in" even though /jp/ is supposed to be the take-it-easy board.)

>>11727960
>(For some reason, everyone on /jp/ is obsessed with "fitting in" even though /jp/ is supposed to be the take-it-easy board.)
Because /jp/ is full of normies and normie NEETs who all think they are not normies.

>>11727775
Old people went away. The board now has more or less /a/ demographics, with all this implies.

>>11728047
And you know this because you migrated from /a/ just yesterday, right?

>>11728053
No, Anon, I know this because I can recognize posting habits of people from both boards, including all the changes to them from the last seven years.

>>11727855
This. There are people deluded enough to think Robotech is better than Macross, just because it's what they grew up with.

There were plenty of otaku/anime newsgroups in the early 90s, not to mention things like zines, tape trading, etc.

You turbolarvae have it easy. Back in my day we had to go outside to swapmeets to get expensive VHS fansubs

23 ; ; ; ____ ; ; ;

>>11728089
>paying for VHS fansubs
>not learning moon from Hepburn and writing subs in haiku below each frame of a phenakistoscope of you're waifu flashing her ankle

/jp/ - Fetal Stem Cell Research

>>11727960
I guess people just want to know they are taking it easy in good company. Or at least in the company of people who understand.

Maybe that is unseasonable, but I think if we truly didn't long for human contact we would have all become true hermits long ago.

>>11728089
It blows my mind that in the pre-internet dark ages, even nerdy hobbies required extensive socialization. I guess there was mail order for books and some collectibles, but beyond that you'd pretty much HAVE to go outside and convene with fans just to BE a fan. I guess this is still true of hobbies like pen-and-paper role-playing games.

I'm 20 and young, deal with it

>>11728235
it's all downhill from here
in fact it's been downhill for a year or two already

>>11728235
I'm 19 and I honestly feel like I'm near the end of my life, I can't wait to die.

I'm 23.

>>11727781
>/v/ and /b/ were the youngest with 17 and 16 respectively.
I believe it. But /jp/'s average age can't be 25.

>>11728240
>>11728242
Don't say things like that! I'm here for you!

>>11728301
What the hell are you going to do about it? You're only going to corrupt them further and encourage them to be helpless NEETies.

>>11728309
I'll do whatever I can, it's better than letting them wallow in their self pity.