#fandom census

calling all starkid fans!! please fill out this census if you consider yourself a starkid fan and considering reposting THANK YOU!

We have been busy crunching the numbers, and we’re back with some results! In this post, we’ll talk about some basic demographics of the newsies fandom: Age, Gender, and where they’re from! If you find this interesting, please let us know what you’d like to see in another post.

So... the data.

We conducted a survey of Newsies fans between late May and December 2021. Fans had to be at least 18 years of age and able to provide informed consent. The survey and advertisement were in English. It was shared on various social media platforms. No identifying information (IP addresses, precise locations, birthdates, or names) were collected, although participants were about to answer some free response questions in ways that might have identified them.

You can learn more about the questions and find all the results on Github.

We had 160 unique respondents who consented to participate. (One person did not consent and two people submitted their survey results twice.) You can see spikes and plateaus in the recruitment data; we think most people participated when they saw a reblog or retweet! Most people found the survey through Tumblr.

[ID: A two panel figure. On the left, a plot showing the cumulative number of respondents to the survey over time. The x-axis shows months between May and December 2021, the y-axis shows cumulative number of participants. There are a series of spikes, with the largest jump in May, followed by spikes in August and November/December. The right panel shows a barchart with the number of people who found the survey through Tumblr (n=109), Twitter (n=21), Facebook (n=9), or had it shared by a friend (n=22). End ID]

Welcome to Voltron Census 2018, the beginning of an annual inquisitive analysis which hopes to learn more about what drives the opinions and interests of members of the Voltron fandom. 

This census will use the sample group (you) to learn more about the demographics of the Voltron: Legendary Defender fandom. Statistics on identities, shipping, ages, and more will be collected as a means to further understand why members of this fandom like the things they like, and what could possibly be behind this! This is fully anonymous, although you will have to sign into your google account to complete it. This is to prevent anyone from filling out the form multiple times to skew the results. Please answer honestly!

Rules:

answer honestly

only fill it out once

please spread the word! if you have a voltron account on another platform please spread the word there. 

*optional* follow this blog for updates and the final statistics once the form is closed! as of yet there is no closing date in mind, but it will likely be open for multiple months. 

Have you ever wondered how many blogs support each team? What is the age range of our fandom? Where does everybody live? This fandom census is a follow-up to our last fandom census from November 2014 and aims to compare the state of the fandom then to the state of the fandom now!

From now until 20th January we are conducting a census of the football fandom!  On 22nd January we'll be sharing the results of the census and comparing how the fandom has changed over the last three years (or, if you're curious now, you can check out the results of 2014's census here.)

Please fill out this census once and be sure to share it with others!  Thanks for participating; we can't wait to share the results with you!

To complete the census: { c l i c k h e r e }

ETA 1: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, & Wales have now been differentiated!  Thank you to those who pointed this out!

ETA 2: Hong Kong has been added as an option; River Plate has been added as an option for favorite team; SC Freiburg typo has been corrected!

We’re super excited too!!

i’m glad that folks have enjoyed participating in this process!  there were a few things that caught my eye:

the fandom perception of barcelona being more popular than real madrid and the perception of bayern munich being more popular than borussia dortmund, when in both cases the opposite is true.

the number of bundesliga fans was a pleasant surprise for me. i personally don’t follow bundesliga sides at all really except during ucl, so seeing that result was interesting to me.

i was surprised that nwsl wasn’t more widely followed, however i’m thinking that may be because the survey itself may have seemed more geared toward men’s soccer. i’ll try to make the next version even more inclusive in hopes of getting an even more accurate picture of the fandom as a whole.

mostly i was really happy that so many people took the time to respond, and i’m especially looking forward to seeing how we change and grow over time!  

Are you part of a fandom? Do you care about fandom communities and the future of online fandom? Do you have opinions, ideas, and a few minutes?

IT'S TIME FOR A FANDOM CENSUS!

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