/lit/ - Literature

>>19259060
Range 18-52
Mean 24
Median 24
Mode 24

For simplicity, I'm establishing 1997 as the cut-off for being a Gen Z, in other words, being 24. Because the year is mostly over I'm dispreading that some may not have yet had their birthday this year.

GEN Z: 64%
GEN Y: 35%
GEN X: 1%
Literal Boomers: 0 (minimum age 57)

This isn't that different overall from other age samples I've seen. It's on the younger side though, but I think that's to be expected. 23-24 is rather prevalent in this sample. I have to wonder if it's because of 2016, which was 5 years ago, and brought a lot more traffic to the site. At the time those users would've been 18-19.

See image for age breakdown chart
18-22 66 37%
23-24 48 27%
25-29 49 27%
30+ 16 9%

As noted at the top, 4chan is 18 years old now. Even accounting for joining at the site at 13 years old, that's only 7% who could've been here from the beginning or thereabouts.

Of course, it's unclear how much self-selection bias is involved as this isn't a random sample in the slightest.

I also did a very subjective analysis of mood content in the posts and ended up with:
124 69% Bad
33 18% Neutral
16 9% Good
6 3% Unknown

Most reported that their lives were bad, though considering the context, this is is to be expected. Negative reports probably have a higher self-selection rate due to 4chan culture.