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the most common age range around here is/was 25-30 (53% in 2017 and 55% in 2016)

granted, it'd be interesting to see if that's changed any after tumblr's implosion or if any other factors have changed since.

this is anecdotal but with the rise of platforms like tumblr, twitter, instagram that are clearly designed with more focus on visual images over text i feel like this has also fundamentally changed the nature of (popular) rp. when tumblr rp was in high swing you'd see journals replying with gifs and few text, twitter has its inherent text character limitations built in, and even something like reddit isn't terribly conductive to paragraphs-long prose style rping.

it's a shame, you can do anything in words but deferring to pre-existing images to use as a short-hand for what you want to express feels like it's sabotaging creativity and out-of-the-box thinking. why think about it when there's a gif that encapsulates more or less what you wanted to express, or hell, who cares if it's even relevant to the character at all IT'S FUNNY/POPULAR/THE COOL MEME RIGHT NOW.

(not saying gifs aren't fun and funny but if that's what'll dominate rping trends as a result of available/popular platforms it makes actual text-based rping a much more niche, much more dying hobby even among millennials)

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Re: Age range of RPers