I see a lot people say this board is mostly female, and i'm curious if people come here mostly for lolita or cosplay, so, if you wish, take the survey! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1w64AOJ2o_cXJFrQd5q3Dd7GDWPr4_02Gc0BFBDWW1ok
>>9196953
we already took a census earlier this year. check the archives for it. the census confirmed that this board is mostly female and a majority of people are here for both jfash and cosplay.
Does anyone know if /cgl/ has the highest amount of female posters over other boards??
I'm male and browse /cgl/ everyday but I don't cosplay or wear jfash.
>>9197087
Same but I crossdress/cosplay so why do you browse?.
>>9197098
I like the idea of cosplay and all the work that goes into it. It's something that would be cool to do but I don't have the guts or skills required to do it seriously. Plus I love seeing gulls get in arguments and just be bitches. Also, feels threads.
Male here, ive lurked 4chan since 2008, mainly /b/ /r9k/ and /x/. Now I browse cgl everyday because my girl recently started wearing Lolita and i like getting involved and I'm not gonna be some ita bitch.
>>9197111
I hope you're real, anon. My bf occasionally lurks /cgl/ but only to laugh at the bad cosplays.
>>9197119
Yeah I'm real, and I really do enjoy helping with coords and discussing releases. She makes her own money and pays for her dresses and I make sure she has everything she needs so she can justify dropping the dough on brand. It doesnt hurt that I adore the fashionI scan lacemarket and shoot her links if I think something is cute.
I mean she got into D&D for me, so we're there for each other.
>>9197111
Another /x/ anon!
I mostly just come here to browse other threads and occasionally post in the ita bag thread or con threads from around my local area. Thanks to some lolita threads I'm getting back into gothic lolita slowly. I used to be into it when I was a teen but am getting sort of old for lolita (apparently 25 years is getting too old?).
>>9197134
I dunno, 25 is good, I'm 25. I wouldn't worry about. Go doll up and be cute.
>>9197134
Live your dreams.
>>9197134
Plenty of gothic /x/ friendly dresses to be had. 25 is not too old.
Maybe I should have added another option to see how many men are here who aren't here because their gf likes cosplay or lolita.
I'm male, and I do artist alley, normally with a female friend, and I always worry people will just assume I'm the bf and know nothing about cosplay or whatever.
I thought with this being 4chan, it would be slightly more male heavy, but guess not.
>>9197082
I'm almost certain it does.
We already did a census earlier this year. Here are the results:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Sb5CmK9W8LITFPCuV_W12n-tfKbiiv-OvzrShlrRxCg/viewanalytics?usp=form_confirm
>>9197157
I heard from some anons that /soc/ and /fa/ did. I've only been on /fa/ once and I cringed so hard I never went back and well I'm not too social so I never go to /soc/.
>>9197151
Thank ya, I noticed you said "y'all". Are you from down south too?
>>9197192
>/fa/
I thought /fa/ was full of men and men's fashion though. And /soc/ surely has tons of thirsty guys to even the scale a bit.
>>9197204
All I know is /fa/ is full of cringe I would never dare to go back.
>>9197165
thanks anon!
Took the survey, male cosplayer here.
Done. I do cosplay and wear jfashion, but not lolita. I think you should have put another 'Other jfashion' option, for all of those who wear different styles like larme, gyaru, mori, fairy, and whatsnot.
>>9197192
/soc/ is about 60/40 male to female I'd say. /fa/ is overwhelmingly male.
>>9197165
>92% don't consider themselves SJW
There's hope for this board. Unless most of those are just SJW who pretend they don't fit the label.
>86% female, 37% hetero, 39% bi, only 7% strictly gay
funny how that coincides with dudebro theories about most women being bi
>people visit /v/ and /d/ in equal numbers
not sure how to feel about this
>>9197192
/co/ used to have a large female population, and probably still has a decent proportion.
I personally know several girls who post on /toy/. Dunno how indicative that is of any trends, tho.
>>9197082
Unless you want to count /lgbt/ which is majority trans women, /cgl/ has the largest female population of any board I've seen.
>>9197082
what about the fujo boards?
>>9197492
I don't go there often, but I was under the impression that /lgbt/ was mostly gay dudes?
Or did they all migrate to /fit/?
>>9197504
Maybe MtF are just the most active. It's probably 50/50 or 60/40
>>9196953
took your survey
more detailed demographics:
19/f/strictly jfash/lesbian/basically white/usa
>>9197515
>basically white/usa
So the sort of white that would be considered not-white in Europe?
>>9197536
no it means my mom's latina, but like the "brown" type, and my dad is white, making me latina as well but i bleach my hair and eyebrows and don't go in the sun so i look white to most people (i would only really look latina if i still had my natural hair color and tanned or even got a normal amount of sun exposure)
>>9197423
I don't really has to do with most women being bi but rather that a lot of women into lolita and cosplay are bi. Why is a whole other conversation.
>>9197165
>Gender
>Other
>>9198339
gender is a meaningless construct, sex is where the real meat is at.
>>9198339
Well what's weird about that is that the question asking for which chromosomes resulted in:
>XX, 560, 86.6%
>XY, 81, 12.5%
>Other, 6, 0.9%
and the question which asks for gender:
>Female, 571, 86.6%
>Male, 66, 10%
>Other, 22, 3.3%
marking a discrepancy between the numbers. I think there used to be a way to access a spreadsheet of the answers to figure out how many of which sex identified as a different gender but I don't know how to access that information anymore. Sorry if this is off-topic, I thought it was interesting.
>>9197146
Here cause I cosplay as well. Mostly active only in touhou or crossplay threads though
I mostly only come here for larp stuff, fwiw
>>9198746
Nobody cares
>>9198344
I agree with this. I've actually started to completely remove "gender" from my vocabulary. Unless you are the most stereotypical manly man or motherly house wife, then you are "nonbinary".
>>9198313
I really do wonder why so many female lolita cosplayers are bi. I've met far many more bi people than straight at conventions. I guess it has a little to do with a more accepting culture, this community doesn't care so much if someone is straight or not, so, some people who might normally call themselves straight, call themselves bi after joining the cosplay community.
>>9197472
I wanted a short, simple survey of the most important stuff. I wish I included location, but most of the other stuff doesn't really matter, like income, skin color, politics, etc.
>>9197363
>60/40
A lot less than that. It's a board of thirst, and it's been proven that a lot of the "girls" are guys posting girls pics to troll the thirsty fucks. I also see a lot of guys posting pictures of their ex's or girls who scorned them. Ever since the name change killed the social aspect more than ever, it seems the female population is in decline because even "camwhores" don't want to deal with the kind of guys soc attracts.
>>9197472
That's too many questions, though. I'm sure a lot of people gave up at some point. I like this poll, its much simpler and isn't filled with stuff unrelated to the board.
>>9197504
When I used to go regularly, about a year and a half ago ago, it was mostly trans women and gay men. There was a stupid bit of drama where lesbians and trans lesbians used to have the same general but the lesbians wanted to split off and have their own. Once they did they realised that there were about three cis lesbians on the board and the other 60 or so posters in the trans-les generals had been trans women.
They did a survey while I was there that had similar results, trans women > gay men > bi men > trans men > lesbians IIRC, although there was a lot of open biphobia so a lot more men admitted to being bi in the survey than ever admitted to it in threads. Can't speak to have the board's changed now though, since last time I went back (maybe 9 months ago) it was about 10x more tumblr than I remembered and the whole board culture had changed.
Like >>9197464, I know quite a few girls who post to /toy/ as well.
>>9197423
It's not a dudebro thing so much as the way the pendulum is swinging these days. In a more tolerant society where (IMO) it's arguably easier to be out as a mostly-straight bisexual than as someone with a preference for the same sex, a hell of a lot of the more younger generation who are maybe a 1 on the Kinsey scale now openly identify as bi. In more conservative social groupings they'd repress it, remain closeted, or not consider it relevant.
It gets reported a lot in news outlets as the yoof all thinking they're gay these days or all women being bi or what the fuck ever, but if you look at the surveys its based off it's a consistent pattern across both genders and the big change across the generations is a bunch of people changing their identity from "100% hetero" to "99% hetero", not the huge increase in people who are really actively pursuing both men and women that it's made out to be. I remember being pissed off when it got mentioned in a bi visibility day article recently - the article claimed 37% of American youth were now bi or some shit, even though in the actual survey 89% of respondents had identified themselves as straight and the 37% figure was arrived at by considering everyone who'd said they would maybe kind of consider it if they really loved the person or something as bi despite their previous stated orientation being straight.
sage for offtopic, just explaining why the stats being so dang high might be more because of the age demographic of this board (which in turn is more likely to be related to changing societal attitudes than the population actually getting gayer) than because cosplayers are gay
>>9199414
>Can't speak to have the board's changed now though, since last time I went back (maybe 9 months ago) it was about 10x more tumblr than I remembered and the whole board culture had changed.
It's not filled with gay misogynists and Nazi fetishists any more?
>>9199442
Forgot pic
>>9197082
Probably /cgl/ or /cm/. /toy/ and /ck/ also have a decent amount of female posters but a lot of men go on those boards too.
>>9198773
Yeah. I do think most people are bi. This goes for men too, by the way. Sexuality is a spectrum and I think it's rare to fall squarely on one end or the other. Change in community changes how a person chooses to label themselves. People tend to choose the hassle-free path.
>>9197501
/u/ and /y/ are predominantly male. I don't browse /u/ but I vaguely remember a census. /y/'s recentmost census also showed a larger male population. I actually browse /y/, and I can tell you that it's not very female friendly. Gay men bitch a lot about female posters, like imagine a straight gay using faggot as an insult, these guys will use fujoshit. I really hate what a mess that board has become. /cm/ probably has a good chunk of female posters, but the board is considerably slower than /cgl/ so there's probably less of a population.
>>9199460
I haven't been to /y/ in maybe 6 years and you're right, it feels very male dominated now. So much cartoon and western shit too.
And this thread reeks of tumblr, I hate what this place has become.
>>9199442
Probably a mixture of the two. The reason I left was because there were two really persistent paedophile trolls skirting around the edge of a ban, who would derail every thread into samefagging arguments about the age of consent or posting deliberately non-sexual images of children to go HUEHUEHUE YOU CAN'T BAN ME FOR THIS. I don't know if either of them ever did get banned - there was a gay male pedo obsessed with getting rid of the age of consent, and a lesbian (supposedly) who kept posting the pics of children. I also realised that the board had a really high turnover of users, outside the trans threads, so you got the same sorts of questions popping up all the time and once you'd been there a couple of months it all started to look the same. Plus I'm a lesbian and there were barely any others on the board anyway. I actually used to pretend to be a guy half the time when I posted, not sure how many other people were doing the same thing.
>>9199460
A lot of people say that they're female on /u/ but I don't know how many are actually girls.
I think /cgl/ is definitely the most openly female-friendly board, where it's expected that you're female rather than the other way round.
>>9199476
>And this thread reeks of tumblr, I hate what this place has become.
How so? No one's being SJW or offended here.
>>9196953
I'm just a /fit/ guy who browses because my gf is a /cgl/ into /lolita/ stuff.
And I've always wanted to do a Soridu Snaku or JoJos cosplay
>>9200359
If you're an actual /fit/ guy, you own it to fandom to do a sexy Snake or Jojo cosplay.
>>9198107
And I'm 1/100th black because my private parts.
>>9200359
please post it here. and also that's fucking adorable
>>9198773
>uses the term nonbinary even tho the correct term is quantum binary.
Binary is either 1 or 0 it can't be neither or nor quantum binary is both neither and nor and can be 0 and 1 at the same time. You should educate yourself more.
>>9197165
>chromosomes: other
>gender: other
>>9197165
>5 other Muslim gulls
Who are you and where are you hiding?
Male here. I browse /v/ /k/ /out/ /toy/ and /an/
I come here once in a while to see cool cosplay and for the occasional star wars thread as I have a set of scout trooper armor
>>9210129
I'm in MN being recruited to join ISIS