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Happy White Cat in Field
#cats#cat#cat pictures#cuteness overload#cute cats#cute cat#flowers#nature#irb posts#aesthetic#cat photos#cat photo#greenery#cat photography#white cat#flower fields#fields#photography#photo
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Eamon Bulfin, the Irish-Argentinian who hoisted the Green Flag of the Republic over the GPO.
Eamon Bulfin was an Argentine-born Irish republican. A former pupil at Pádraig Pearse’s school St Enda’s (Sgoil Éanna), in Rathfarnham, Dublin. Bulfin was a member of the Irish Volunteers and the IRB and along with some fellow St Enda’s students created home-made bombs in the school’s basement in preparation for the Easter Rising. He was stationed in the GPO for the Rising and raised one of the…
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#1916 Easter Rising#Éamon De Valera#Bulfin Road#Declan Kerr Easter 1916 Series#Dublin#Eamon Bulfin#Frongoch prison#General Post Office#Green Flag of the Republic#Inchicore#IRB#Ireland#Irish Argentinian#Padraig Pearse#St. Enda&039;s
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where is my caesar clown x vinsmoke judge meet-ugly
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#have i posted this before? i dont care. im thinking about it again.#raytheon-equivalent ceo vinsmoke judge and tax evader medical malpracticer oil driller arms dealer irb-destroyer caesar. is so real to me#i want to write this so bad. because it would be so funny. and awful.#L.txt#one piece#yknow what. fuck it#i AM gonna write it#L.wip
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i was just thinking about this class i took where we had to do IRB training. from what i understand you need to take IRB training and get IRB approval to do ANY sort of testing involving humans, no matter how mild. and the point is, someone please remind me to draw a college-age Colress doing IRB training because he would be SO resentful of it
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EDIT: Hey folks! Thanks for the feedback on our previous post. Our vague wording may have misled people as to our intentions, for which we apologize. We are currently taking a step back to rework how best to communicate our intentions in a way that is the most sensitive to the needs of the community. Thank you for your engagement!
We have closed the survey link for now, but here's the survey description for future reference:
What is it about our human-human interactions that makes creatively writing together so compelling and unique? What about that is completely lost in human-AI writing interactions? Do you think ChatGPT is bad at creative writing? Do you have big feelings about any of the above topics? Then keep reading!
We are conducting this study because we are interested in analyzing collaborative creativity methods among fanfiction writers. The goal is to criticize the current state of AI-assisted creative writing and offer suggestions from seasoned creative writers on how it could be improved and designed to actually help the people it affects.
First off: what does human-centered mean? The goal of human-centered research is to design technologies based off of HUMAN interactions, and these technologies should be for HELPING humans without replacing, displacing, or marginalizing them.
If you've tried interacting with AI tools like ChatGPT...you might notice they're unhelpful, and even outright bad, when it comes to writing creatively. The goal of this research is to find out: Do people even want them to be helpful? CAN they be helpful in any way? Is it impossible for AI to produce creative writing that can hold a candle to anything a human could write? Why might it be impossible?
There’s a lot of research being done in this area that is not very human-centered - it involves making AI tools for creative writing and then asking people how they feel about them, instead of the reverse. We believe that a better approach would be to ask people how they feel about AI tools and whether or not they can be helpful, and propose design guidelines based on that.
We believe that this is particularly relevant to fanfiction authors: due to how AI tools are trained, a large proportion of the dataset for AI-based creative writing is likely comprised of fanfiction, due to how much of it there is on the internet.
We’re looking for fanfiction authors aged 18 and above who co-write fanfiction with one or more collaborative partner(s). This can be short-form (co-writing one-offs, single chapters) or long form (co-writing entire fics, long-term collaborations) - we’re essentially interested in the methods that you and your collaborators use together to produce works of creative fiction.
The provided survey will take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. If you’re interested in telling us more, you can sign up for a 30-45 minute interview at the end of the survey. Ideally, you and your writing collaborator(s) would be able to attend this interview together. Every interview participant will be compensated with a $10 gift card.
All parts of this survey were approved by the University of Washington Human Subjects Division Institutional Review Board (IRB) to ensure the protection of your rights and welfare as you take this survey. Your responses will be kept confidential, although we may publish aggregated results. You may exit the survey at any time.
If you have questions, comments, or concerns, reach out to [email protected].
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Hello! We are researchers at the University of Washington Human-Centered Data Science Lab, and we are studying modes and methods of collaborative creating writing. We’d love to have you participate in our study!
Survey link: [now closed]
We’re looking for fanfiction authors aged 18 and above who co-write fanfiction with one or more collaborative partner(s). This can be short-form (co-writing one-offs, single chapters) or long form (co-writing entire fics, long-term collaborations) - we’re essentially interested in the methods that you and your collaborators use together to produce works of creative fiction. The eventual goal of this work is to suggest more human-centered guidelines for AI-based creative writing tools.
The provided survey will take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. If you’re interested in telling us more, you can sign up for a 30-45 minute interview at the end of the survey. Ideally, you and your writing collaborator(s) would be able to attend this interview together. Every interview participant will be compensated with a $10 gift card.
All parts of this survey were approved by the University of Washington Human Subjects Division Institutional Review Board (IRB) to ensure the protection of your rights and welfare as you take this survey. Your responses will be kept confidential, although we may publish aggregated results. You may exit the survey at any time.
For questions about our research, contact Nisha Devasia at [email protected]
Thank you for your participation!
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Pinned Post for 2024!
A new year calls for a new pinned! Hi! I'm Fynn!
Bigender Transfem Thing (She/He/It/They) furry, artist, almost certainly audhd+ocd+some sort of anxiety disorder (undiagnosed) so bear with me. I'm 20, so I may be adult on here sometimes! I do have an 18+ sideblog but I don't wanna tag it here. Find it yourself if you want it that bad (if you really can't find it but want to see it message me). I will tag things to the best of my ability when needed.
DNI if you're a piece of shit. Zoos, Pedos/Maps/whatever, Nazis, Queerphobes (any of them. No Arophobia allowed), Antifurs, Racist, Sexist, etc. Basically if you're on the DNI list of most queer furries you're on mine. So go step on some Lego someone spilled glass on.
I'd be careful if you're a minor. I'd suggest blocking "#nsfw" so you don't see things you shouldn't. Aside from that you're probably fine? Especially since I have a separate 18+ blog now. If I do slip up and either forget to tag something or accidentally reblog something to or from the wrong account please let me know so I can fix it!
I'm Aegosexual (I experience sexual attraction but am repulsed by sex), Polyamorous (taken <3 <3 <3), and Demiromantic (got three friends I love so so much) <3 <3 <3
I'm Therian to some degree. I know I'm not a wolf or anything. Never have been. But I really wish I was anything other than a human. So Therian it is! I'm also Plushie-kin and Program-kin. Just feel like there's a lot in common between plushies and what I want to be like, and the dependence betwern programs and the machines they're on is my ideal type of relationship. I'm also Alterhuman, Please refer to me as a wolf or dog or puppy or bug or plushie it makes me happy :3 you can find my kinlist thing here
The U.S government sucks ass and so does the economy. Expect me to complain about that a bit on here I guess. Or at least reblog things with tags saying I hope the elite all explode.
I have three main OCs: Fynn is a he/him half demon wolf thing who magicked his mouth off and is basically the mascot of the blog. Nauno is a he/they avali and is extremely gay and very kleptomaniac and I love them. Euphi is a she/heart protogen that happens to be immortal for some reason. Click on their names to see their reference sheets! Click here for a link to the lore doc all about them and the world of Cosme! And click here for my truesona's ref sheet!
And now, some tags. "#fynn art" is for all of my art things. Pictures mainly, little bits of music here and there maybe. "#oc lore" is for when I talk about the lore of my ocs (or worldbuilding for them). "#bedposting" is something I do every night, just kinda whatever's on my mind before bed (may be very weird so heads up). "#art rb" is just for when I reblog art, if I keysmashed a whole bunch in another tag it means I really love it :3
I am into weird shit but probably don't expect much here. Maybe some tagged Transfur/Plushification art. Most of that shit is going to the alt blog babey.
FAQ (frequently-ish asked questions):
Do you take Commissions? No, and I have no plans to. I don't want to make money off of my art. I create for the sake of creating, not for fame or fortune. Related,
Can you commission me? Also no. I have no means of paying people at all. On the topic, don't come up to people and ask them to commission you. That's rude. If they want to commission you, they'll come to you.
What does the IRB stand for? My real initials. My legal first, middle, and last name. It's a force of habit. If/When I get my legal name changed I will change the blog name.
Thanks for reading! Now you should hopefully be at zero risk of being blasted by my death lasers (the block button)!
If this site goes belly up maybe I'll make a Spacehey. More than likely though, I'd be giving up on social media. Sorry!
#pinned post#furry artist#i'm an adult#undiagnosed autism#undiagnosed adhd#undiagnosed ocd#aegosexual#bigender#polyamourous#demiromantic#therian#alterhuman#plushiekin#programkin#taglist#my ocs#kink mention#the government sucks#dni list#we're all still learning#thanks for reading!#fynn art#oc lore
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Bram Stoker and Irish independence
I keep seeing posts popping up in the Dracula Daily tag about Bram Stoker being Irish, implying that we can draw conclusions from that about his politics, his attitude towards Britain, or the British Empire as a whole. I thought it might be useful to provide a bit of context.
Standard disclaimer: I'm not a historian and this period of Irish history is very complicated. I'm going to do my best but this will be a simplification, because otherwise an already long post would become a novel.
Less-standard disclaimer: I'm only going to go into some of Bram Stoker's views here. Others, such as his egregious racism, obviously also have a bearing on his views on empire... but again, a novel.
A very brief history of Ireland in the 19th century
god i have no idea how to simplify this
OK let's go. At the start of the 19th century, Ireland was a primarily Catholic, Irish-speaking country ruled by a primarily Protestant, English-speaking minority. The bulk of the Irish population faced colonial discrimination in a host of different ways, from restrictions that promoted English trade over Irish trade to laws that restricted Catholics from holding public office. The result was a long series of rebellions and risings against British rule, most recently in 1798. Though there was slow progress towards Catholic emancipation, especially in the 1820s.
In the 1840s, a potato blight affected the Irish staple potato crop. The British response - providing very little in the way of famine relief and continuing to export other crops from Ireland to Britain - turned a natural disaster into a genocide. A million people died and roughly twice that number emigrated. Ireland has yet to recover to its pre-Famine population.
A long-term consequence of the Famine was the decline of the Irish language. Irish-speaking areas were among the worst affected, and by 1900, Ireland was majority English-speaking. Another contributing factor was establishment of National Schools from the 1830s onwards, in which students were prohibited from speaking Irish.
In the second half of the 19th century, different movements arose to address these problems. There were campaigns for land rights, to protect tenant farmers; there was a movement to revive Irish culture and the Irish language; and there were different campaigns for how Ireland should be governed.
Independence was advocated for by groups such as the IRB, who supported taking up arms for complete freedom from the British Empire. Among the landed middle classes who were able to vote, this was a fringe position in the second half of the 19th century.
Home Rule was the idea that Ireland should remain in a union with Britain, under the British Crown, but that an independent Irish government should have complete control over domestic matters. This was the mainstream nationalist position in the late 19th century, and was the position of most of the Liberal Party in the UK.
Unionism was support for the status quo, and opposition to any devolution of power to Ireland. This was the position of the Conservative (Tory) Party in the UK.
In elections in the 1850s, Irish voters (male landowners only) were relatively split between Liberals and Tories. But by the 1870s, even this unrepresentative group of people voted overwhelmingly for the new Home Rule Party and its successor the Irish Parliamentary Party. That remained the majority view of Irish nationalists until WW1.
The leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, Charles Stewart Parnell, persuaded Liberal PM William Gladstone of the importance of Home Rule. In 1886, Gladstone introduced a Home Rule bill to Parliament, but it was defeated in the House of Commons by 30 votes, causing Gladstone to lose power. In 1890, Parnell was revealed through a divorce case to be in a relationship with a married woman, causing a scandal that split his party. In 1893, after Parnell's death, Gladstone was returned to power and attempted a second Home Rule bill, which passed the Commons but was defeated in the Lords.
And that's the context in which Bram Stoker wrote Dracula.
Bram Stoker's views on Home Rule
The starting point is that we don't know a huge amount about Stoker's views on anything. The Irish Times describes him as "so private we know little of his life." Here's a bit of what we do know.
He was a Protestant from a comfortable middle-class background. Here's where he grew up:
He studied at Trinity College Dublin, which Catholics were barred from attending (by their own leadership) on the grounds that attendance constituted "a moral danger to the faith of Irish Catholics." There, he would have been surrounded by committed Unionists; Trinity was its own parliamentary constituency and voted for Conservative MPs long after the rest of Ireland was supporting Home Rule.
At the same time, he was making friends with nationalists such as John Dillon and described himself as a "philosophical Home Ruler". (Source, which is amazingly comprehensive on the events of Stoker's life).
He must have liked that phrase, because when he wrote his Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving, published in 1906, he was still using it:
We were all, whatever our political opinions individually, full of the Parnell Manifesto [published 1890 after the divorce scandal and attacking Gladstone] and its many bearings on public life. For myself, though I was a philosophical Home-Ruler, I was very much surprised and both angry at and sorry for Parnell's attitude, and I told Mr. Gladstone my opinion. He said with great earnestness and considerable feeling:
"I am very angry, but I assure you I am even more sorry."
I was pleased to think - and need I say proud also - that Mr. Gladstone seemed to like to talk politics with me...
Above all his admiration for Gladstone, and pride in having him as a friend, shines through in this section.
Different sources interpret what a "philosophical Home-Ruler" is differently. It may be "one who accepted Home Rule as more necessary than ideal" or supporting "Home Rule brought about by peaceful means"; either way, it seems his support for Home Rule was qualified, not full-blooded.
Overall Stoker held a mainstream view, neither adamantly pro-independence nor a defender of the status quo in Ireland. He also seems to have been quite happy to maintain friendships with people who disagreed with him, whether they were Tories or more radically pro-independence.
This is less exciting than takes that I've seen out in the wild, such as "Bram Stoker hated the British Empire and that's why Dracula attacks English people". But it seems to be what the evidence bears out.
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To add to the pile of questionable tumblr behavior as of late, and as a psa at large:
I searched a mental health related tag last week and I got immediately a message from a bot called Koko. It intended to put me through to "people who are interested in mental health topics". In this tumblr message format, they didn't immediately facilitate hotlines, specific mental health care services or professional help, just "people".
I didn't respond to it. It's a bot. I didn't block it because I was interested to see where it would lead, but I didn't talk back. In the following days, it kept sending me messages, trying to get me to use their service.
Among the messages, they told me how it works, not that I had asked:
So, it sounds like a recipe for disaster in the making to me. My personal mental health information being passed through random tumblr users and getting a reply from someone who, not only isn't a professional or part of any sort of mental health care group I could get informed about, but they also will provide unsupervised answers to topics of great importance to someone who was looking into related tags.
But, tumblr user thewindandthewolves seems to endorse it, so let's check them out and see what they have to say.
Well. I'm posting the responses in chronological order, but I guess the raving review from a tumblr user was actually a kid who didn't give them consent to use their words as endorsement. Great look.
Today, I got a new message. Again, unprompted.
Second review person has apparently deleted their blog, so no background information on that one. If that's you, let us know.
I decided to look at their blog and read people's comments on their posts. The tumblr userbase came through with the receipts and linked this very detailed article about not only the bot and its founder but the sketchy study it uses as a foundation:
Here's an important quote from this article regarding the study in which Koko is founded as a clear notion of what consent means to them:
Morris [Koko's founder] declined to say whether he thought the subjects had meaningfully consented to the study. He told Motherboard that his goal was to establish a new best practice, where he would be able to transparently show his results to social media platforms. However, when asked if he felt that the experiment was transparent to the participants involved, he said he’d needed more time to think about it.
It's not a tough one to respond to, Morris.
I suggest you to please read the whole article but the way in which these people perform verbal gymnastics to try to justify the lack of consent from people involved is alarming.
About Tumblr's involvement, the article didn't get comments from them on it:
Stony Brook's IRB [Institutional Review Board] and multiple people tasked with overseeing the IRB did not respond to multiple emails from Motherboard about the study or the process. Facebook, Discord, and Tumblr responded to Motherboard’s initial emails but did not provide comment. Telegram did not respond to Motherboard’s request for comment.
The article also read the fine print of the Terms of Service, the only thing they provide as any type of consent to users, and the previous situation of using tumblr user posts without them knowing is illuminated further:
The current dynamic between Koko and its users more closely parallels the relationship between most tech companies and their users than that between a mental health provider and patient. Its Terms of Service, for instance, state that, “You grant Koko a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and license to use, license, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, prepare derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, and otherwise fully exploit Your Content.”
As an editor, that sounds more like a US release agreement form for intellectual property, which should not be used as any form of mediation for personal data. It also alarms me to no end that the "Content" in question, in the example we have was, according to OP, a post they had made on their own blog about Kokobot and not a response or quote provided to Kokobot itself which, in tow, signifies that the data collected could come from anywhere and not only what you actively provide them. But what do I know.
I did more digging by myself and found even more articles denouncing the behavior of this bot and company, this being another interesting one:
This one included the following thing about the peer-counseling aspect of it and the use of AI to craft the supposed "people" responses:
During the AI experiment—which applied to about 30,000 messages, according to Morris—volunteers providing assistance to others had the option to use a response automatically generated by OpenAI's GPT-3 large language model instead of writing one themselves (GPT-3 is the technology behind the recently popular ChatGPT chatbot).
Apparently, Koko has been around for a while, with articles discussing it as far as, at least, 2017. Still, I had never before received unprompted, unwanted, invasive messages from it on tumblr until now.
If you post or search tags related to mental health, it's very likely that you'll get this bot in your messages or you already have. There are many layers of breach of ethics in this situation, in my opinion, each one worse than the last one.
Before using it or sharing any information at all (with any bot ever), I'd advice you to look into it beforehand. I know we are the "trust no bots" website and the fake ladybots have taught us well on how to spot them and protect ourselves, but this one in particular seems very dangerous to me.
I can't talk about whether or not this has helped anybody, I'm not coming anywhere near it, but the sole concept of this sounds like a bad idea. The advice provided doesn't seem to come from selected professionals the platform is endorsing legally but by random people (and/or AI) who are not only not trained for it, they aren't being compensated for work made for a program, which is probably making good money out of all the social media platforms it's working with. It also allows them to not be responsible for the advice given, to some extent.
Even if people with mental health concerns can discuss things between them in very productive and helpful ways, there isn't genuinely transparent communication if it's anonymously mediated by a company and there isn't a proper professional care that can accompany them from someone who is trained to facilitate it. You can talk to a friend without having to provide data to a company that could identify you since, according to the first article:
There is, further, no easy way to wall the collection of such data off from actual subjects, as anonymized datasets can often still be traced back to specific individuals. (A 2019 study found that 99.98 percent of Americans could be correctly re-identified in any dataset using 15 demographic attributes.) This is why privacy experts have been vocal about the exploitation of data privacy and the unreliability of an anonymous dataset.
I'm not here to tell anyone what to do or not to do but I'm here to share this because I know that I would appreciate the information if someone else had come across it instead. Make decisions with all the information you can get.
Throwing a wild idea for the hellsite but maybe staff and ceo should be a little less occupied in persecuting trans folk and more into reading the fine print of the unethical companies they're signing with, who are exploiting their userbase's mental health, especially that of literal children whose quotes are being used to endorse their business without any legal consent, aside from a terribly worded TOS. But what do I know.
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Hi friends!!
Some of you may know I’m a psychology major, and currently I’m doing a study on how noise sensitivity and learning styles may or may not predict academic performance in undergraduate college students! This is to fulfill some requirements to earn my degree, and in order for this study to be successful, I need at least 107 participants. If any of you who are undergraduate college students are interested in participating, all it is is taking a survey to assess your noise sensitivity level, learning style, and academic performance level. No personal information is collected, there is an option to have your email recorded if you want to be entered in a drawing for 1 of 4 $25 Amazon gift cards as a thank you for participating, but this is by no means required :)
I would really appreciate it if any of you would consider taking the survey, and I will post the link to it in a few weeks when I have IRB approval to launch the study! This is completely voluntary participation and please do not feel obligated to participate, only if you want to!
#psychology#psychology major#behavioral sciences#research#psychology research#behavioral sciences research#noise sensitivity#noise sensitivity research#learning styles#learning styles research#academic performance#academic performance research#undergraduate college students#undergraduate research
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Bunny in Flowers
#flowers#nature#irb posts#not mine#soft#light pink#pink flowers#nature photographs#nature photography#photography#soft animals#greenery#love#animals#animal#cute animals#bunnies#bunny#cute bunny#bunny ears#pink aesthetic#pinterest
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Queer Representation in Supernatural Thesis
I am Myah, and I am an undergraduate student conducting an honors thesis about Supernatural fans and their opinions of the show. The focus of my research is fans’ opinions on the queer representation in Supernatural and their opinions on the creators of the show. This link leads to a survey where I will be gathering information about when participants are free to participate in focus groups and demographic information. Please share and reblog this post so that I can gather as many potential participants as possible. You do have to be at least 18 to participate. This study has been approved by The University of Southern Mississippi's IRB, Protocol Number 22-1111.
*Note: when filling out the survey, if you don't include an email, I have no way to contact you about being a part of the focus groups. If you have already filled out this survey and didn't include your email, you can fill out the survey again (you might be able to go back and edit your original response, I'm not sure). If you don't feel like filling out the whole thing again, you can DM me your email address and the name you put on the survey*
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Calling all Readers!
I’m conducting an IRB approved research study on psychological factors and bookish things (tropes, genres, etc) and would love some help the readers here on Tumblr. The survey can be found here and is totally anonymous. Anyone 18 and over is eligible and the data would be much appreciated! Reblogs/cross posting/shares would also be much appreciated by anyone who cares to help out.
#bookish#readers#booktok#bookstagram#romantasy#hockey romance#comic books#books and reading#kindle unlimited#fantasy#manga#omegaverse#dragons#found families#mafia books#royals#psychology#research#pop culture
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Hi everyone, so sorry my blogs are dead bc life is hard but I’m here with a call for participant(s?) for a pilot study if you are (or can send this to someone who is):
Transmasc
Was or currently is on HRT
Over 18
A native English speaker based in the US
Have a halfway decent microphone
Would be willing to do an hour(ish) long interview w me (I can’t pay you, but it’s nothing more intense than just getting to know you and what your identity means to you and in return I can maybe answer any linguistics questions you might have?)
I don’t have any formal paperwork bc it’s just a proof of concept and not a formal IRB-approved study, but if you have any questions or concerns then feel free to DM me and I can give you more information about the study/my credentials/etc <3
EDIT: I’m editing this to say pls don’t DM me on that blog bc it seems like this post got my DMing privileges taken away for that sideblog
#.zip it#I might repost this to tag it in trans-related tags at some point but as it stands I’d rather do word of mouth first
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Early FanFiction.net Age Demographics
While gathering data on the LotR fandom on FanFiction.net in the early 2000s, I stumbled across an October 2000 Wayback capture of their homepage, which included a poll, asking users' ages. The results are here.
69% of the more than 28,000 respondents were teens.
To offer some points of comparison:
The 2003 study reported in the Journal of Slash Research found 62% of participants were 20 or under.
@centrumlumina's 2013 AO3 Census' age data found 43% of participants were 21 or younger.
On the 2015 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey, 37% of participants were age 21 or under. The median age was 24.
On the 2020 Tolkien Fanfiction Survey, 14% of participants were 18 or 19, and the median age was 27. Important note: The Institutional Review Board for this iteration of the survey did not allow us to collect data for anyone under the age of 18. (In 2015, the IRB allowed this, which may well have been an oversight!) Therefore, we had to throw out all data for under-18s, so the younger demographic will necessarily be underrepresented.
In short, Fanfiction Fandom (both the wider fandom and Tolkien-specific communities) seem to be much younger in the early 2000s than they were even ten years later.
Does this mean fewer teens are writing fanfiction? Are they mostly using sites like Wattpad and less AO3 and fandom-specific sites/archives? Or are we seeing the effects of a demographic that came of age with the internet, began writing fanfiction in their teens in the early 2000s, and is still writing fanfiction over a decade later? Or something else?
(Posted by @dawnfelagund)
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81k: maybe you should've been an anthropologist
me: No, people in general are really annoying, especially if they're from cultures where they'll refuse to cooperate with you if you don't share all of your food and belongings with them upon request. I'd want to get around it by spying on them with drones... and to get them to report their internal experiences, I'd spike their food with hallucinogens and convince them that I was god.
me: ...Man, it's hard not to have evil ideas. All I do is blurt out the straightforward easy way to get what I want, and usually it's evil.
81k: Every now and then I read a post from Scott or somebody about the hassles created by IRBs and I go, we have to get rid of some of these to further the cause of science. And then you start talking and I'm like, oh right, this is why those exist.
#rambl#to be clear i am not having these ideas because the anthropological subjects are foreign/Other#I would have the same ideas if I were thinking about how to get all the information I wanted from my neighbor with minimal relevant hassle#the boyfriend with quantities
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