Survey on Animated Shows and their Fandom's Influence

And finally, here are the results of the survey! Thanks to all 197 people who participated and helped me gather this data, truly some interesting conclusions to be drawn from this!

Indeed, the sample size is small, but I had to run the survey on a quick schedule (this was done for my thesis and I had to turn it in!) And getting people to participate in surveys is harder than you'd imagine! In fact, compared to similar surveys held here on Tumblr, I got a lot of responses! (My teacher thought that 10 people would be enough lol) so even if it's relatively small, I doubt the outcome would vary too much even if I had 5 times more answers. That being said, you're right, it's small, so just take it as it is

Now, there was actually zero bias in choosing the shows, sorry for not mentioning it anywhere, but actually these are the top 10 animated shows listed by Tumblr's fandometrics in the years 2016-2020 I had an initial list of 30 something shows but needed to narrow it down to 10 and I chose the fandoms I believed most people would have heard of, which was the most important part. Adventure Time and The Dragon Prince are in those lists, yes, but overall they both ranked lower in fandometrics than the ones I chose.

Keep in mind I asked people to rate the FANDOM, not the show itself! And then say how interested they would be in watching said show (if they hadn't already). It wasn't a survey about how much they liked a specific show.

Hello! I am a Graphic Design and Animation student currently researching for my thesis on "The Influence of Fandom on the Top Animated Shows According to Tumblr from 2016-2020", where I will try to establish a relation between a fandom's reputation and the show's success

If you wanna help, I'd be really grateful if you could answer this quick survey that won't take you more than 5 minutes!

It's completely anonymous and any personal data will solely be used for research and demographic purposes only and won't be associated with your email at all!

Furthermore, I'd really appreciate it if you would share this survey with your mutuals, friends, sworn enemies, discord servers, pets, grandmas, and their mothers (anyone is welcome to answer, doesn't have to be from Tumblr or from fandom spaces).

Here are some early tendencies that I think are interesting:

Almost half of you consider yourselves active members of a fandom, not a big surprise there but it's cool!

SVTFOE and Invader Zim are the lesser known fandoms so far.

The fandoms with the best overall impressions are the Gravity Falls and ATLA fandoms!

On the other hand, the fandoms with the worst impressions are the Voltron fandom and the Rick and Morty fandom