"TL;DR: people who claim to be really into anime are more likely to be men, childless, poor, bicurious, nonwhite, racist, unathletic, bullied in high school, into Asians, kinky, unconscientious, and eccentric."
Thanks for putting this first, but I could have told you this without any data.
I am an Indian girl and I love anime, though I do check into a lot if the other boxes. I think anime has a rising popularity. Until covid happened I was not half as into, or rather obsessed with anime, as I am now.
"Thinking there should be more or less humans on the planet." -- As opposed to wanting there to be exactly the same number of humans? I guess I am really into anime.
“…people who claim to be really into anime are more likely to be men, childless, poor, bicurious, nonwhite, racist, unathletic, bullied in high school, into Asians, kinky, unconscientious, and eccentric.”
You have pretty much listed all the main qualities of Incels. I have never got into anime itself and have strong negative opinions about anime as how it has indoctrinated young men into sexually perverse behavior such as Japanese based child pornography (Lolicon) and LGBTQ nonsense. Particularly, when it comes to research on the Involuntary Celibacy demographic of humans as I know from visiting and joining various Incel forums to simply talk with them.
They not just love, but are outright obsessed with anime particularly with female characters and the aspects of the hand drawn animation. The issue with Incels and anime is they conflate it with reality often stating that anime is correct about relationships and is a reflection of Japanese society.
Similar to the mindset of Redditors who believe that the animated TV show, The Simpsons predicted the future. (Which it is not, The Simpsons is fictional same with anime.) Redditors are no different than their Incel counterparts as they too have a obsession for extremely young female anime characters in explicit sexual situations (i;e Lolicon-Child Pornography).
Animation such as My Little Pony (MLP) is one that a young man named Brandon Scott Hole was obsessed with to the point he carried out a mass shooting at his workplace in 2021. His main motivation was to commit suicide so that he can live in heaven with a animated pony character. A hour before the shooting, he posted, “I hope that I can be with Applejack in the afterlife, my life has no meaning without her.”.
Both groups are equally intellectually flawed and insane when they believe that cartoons can predict the future, have the ability to become realistic, and to become apart of reality.
I love you for doing this (I've downloaded the dataset and am too lazy and/or old to learn R at this point), and it fits all the stereotypes and is probably true. I hate to be the party pooper since I actually love this kind of un-PC research, but... please tell me you did a Holm-Bonferroni for multiple comparisons. (Bonferroni's easier but a little stricter.)
"TL;DR: people who claim to be really into anime are more likely to be men, childless, poor, bicurious, nonwhite, racist, unathletic, bullied in high school, into Asians, kinky, unconscientious, and eccentric."
Thanks for putting this first, but I could have told you this without any data.
Stereotype accuracy stays relevant once again
Highly autogynephilic
It seems like it attracts contrarians to some degree.
I am an Indian girl and I love anime, though I do check into a lot if the other boxes. I think anime has a rising popularity. Until covid happened I was not half as into, or rather obsessed with anime, as I am now.
The OKCupid dataset is from 2009, right? Anime has become more mainstream in the 15 years since then, so probably the demographics have changed a bit.
Now I wonder what kind of people are really into Vtubers?
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2016, so it had already started to go up a bit.
The Oklahoman master race endures
"Thinking there should be more or less humans on the planet." -- As opposed to wanting there to be exactly the same number of humans? I guess I am really into anime.
“…people who claim to be really into anime are more likely to be men, childless, poor, bicurious, nonwhite, racist, unathletic, bullied in high school, into Asians, kinky, unconscientious, and eccentric.”
You have pretty much listed all the main qualities of Incels. I have never got into anime itself and have strong negative opinions about anime as how it has indoctrinated young men into sexually perverse behavior such as Japanese based child pornography (Lolicon) and LGBTQ nonsense. Particularly, when it comes to research on the Involuntary Celibacy demographic of humans as I know from visiting and joining various Incel forums to simply talk with them.
They not just love, but are outright obsessed with anime particularly with female characters and the aspects of the hand drawn animation. The issue with Incels and anime is they conflate it with reality often stating that anime is correct about relationships and is a reflection of Japanese society.
Similar to the mindset of Redditors who believe that the animated TV show, The Simpsons predicted the future. (Which it is not, The Simpsons is fictional same with anime.) Redditors are no different than their Incel counterparts as they too have a obsession for extremely young female anime characters in explicit sexual situations (i;e Lolicon-Child Pornography).
Animation such as My Little Pony (MLP) is one that a young man named Brandon Scott Hole was obsessed with to the point he carried out a mass shooting at his workplace in 2021. His main motivation was to commit suicide so that he can live in heaven with a animated pony character. A hour before the shooting, he posted, “I hope that I can be with Applejack in the afterlife, my life has no meaning without her.”.
Both groups are equally intellectually flawed and insane when they believe that cartoons can predict the future, have the ability to become realistic, and to become apart of reality.
This study is from 2009. Anime has become a lot more mainstream in the West since then so these demographic trends may not longer be valid
OHNONONONONO TRANIMESLUTTAS WHATS THIS
This is such an odd kaleidoscope of left-wing and right-wing beliefs.
I'd like to see how these compare to the general public.
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wut...?
I love you for doing this (I've downloaded the dataset and am too lazy and/or old to learn R at this point), and it fits all the stereotypes and is probably true. I hate to be the party pooper since I actually love this kind of un-PC research, but... please tell me you did a Holm-Bonferroni for multiple comparisons. (Bonferroni's easier but a little stricter.)
Testing for multiple comparisons is overrated. Everything is priors/information.
Based on his tweets, that sounds about right.