Comment by llamageddon01 on 25/04/2022 at 14:02 UTC

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View submission: The NewToReddit Encyclopaedia Redditica v2

Demographics

Reddit is the internet’s hub for opinions, and the site boasts millions of users daily, with plenty of diversity across all areas of age, experience, knowledge, nationality, gender, ethnicity and any other demographic you could possibly name. However, the majority of Redditors do share a few key traits: namely, their age. There are many places online that analyse Reddit data for many things (usually marketing or advertising) and a general interest one can be found at https://thrivemyway.com/reddit-statistics/[1].

1: https://thrivemyway.com/reddit-statistics/

A user at r/dataisbeautiful made a visualisation[2] of the Reddit Demographics Survey 2016 from the data collected from users on r/Samplesize.

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/5700sj/octhe_results_of_the_reddit_demographics_survey/

More recently, most of the metrics agree that although Reddit has users of all ages, the largest group of Redditors are between 18 and 29, making up a whopping 64% of Reddit users. The next largest group, users between 30 and 49 years old, makes up 29% of Redditors.

Because of this, a genre of subreddits has grown where members of one demographic can ask questions of those from another, which include:

r/AskOldPeople - to ask general questions to people who are Generation X (1965-1980) or older
r/AskOldPeopleAdvice - to ask for advice from people who are hopefully older and wiser
r/AskWomenOver30 - civil discussions with older women Redditors
r/AskMenOver30 - a place for supportive and friendly conversations among the over 30s
r/AskWomen - for questions about women's thoughts, lives, and experiences
r/AskMen - who claim they don't know, but they’ll answer anyway
r/AskParents - for questions you want to ask other parents or daren’t ask your own parents
r/AskTeens - to ask other teens questions

Other age-related subs include:

r/FuckImOld - for those little things in life that suddenly remind you of your advancing years
r/RedditForGrownups - a community for Redditors that are starting to get that "get off my lawn" feeling whenever they check their front page
r/teenagers - the biggest community run by teenagers for teenagers

Directories of similar subreddits include this list of all the teen subreddits[3], a list for people who just need someone to talk to[4] with specific remits, and r/ListOfSubreddits have lots of lists of subreddits, including this mega indexed Wiki[5] of many different demographics of Redditors.

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/teenagers/comments/pbnog/roundup_of_all_the_teen_subreddits/

4: https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualConversation/wiki/directory

5: https://www.reddit.com/r/ListOfSubreddits/wiki/listofsubreddits/

While the site definitely skews towards young people, there's a fairly decent contingent of the older crew here as well, and we get everywhere. I myself am over 60 and have more than 1,500 subreddits in my subscriptions.

*Because there is a Subreddit for everything:**

r/oldpeoplefacebook because Grandma and Grandpa have finally joined social media, and they love sharing their opinions with everyone.

*See Also:**

European Subreddits[6]
Navigating Reddit[7]

6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhij605/

7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/p8t966/reddit_and_karma_explained/h9ssh6c/

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