Bladeforums age demographic?

[Andrew George]

I’m surprised there’s not more in the 21-30 range. Interesting poll.

 

[gazz98]

Just hit the big 50. According to my wife, friends, and co-workers, I'm much more immature than my age indicates.

 

[WValtakis]

 

[ferider]

Age is one thing. What matters is mileage. We need a separate poll.

 

[kreole]

It has always seemed to me BF skews older in age, but even still I'm surprised by how much the results are showing so far.

 

[tltt]

Creeping up on 40. I remember when we didn't even have forums like this, but news groups like rec.knives.

 

[jackknife]

Turned 80 this past January. Its been lots of miles on some bad roads!

 

[jmh33]

Turned 80 this past January. Its been lots of miles on some bad roads!

Congrats
John

 

[jackknife]

Congrats
John

I question if its congrats or maybe condolence is in order?

 

[jeffsenpai]

Before selecting my age on the poll, I predicted it would breakdown almost exactly as it is.

While I know this poll is only meant to represent Bladeforums, I get the feeling that the age range in the knife hobby in general is more varied. I think that the guys 30+ are more likely to participate on a traditional internet "forum" like Bladeforums, while younger knife fans will tend to use newer forms of internet community, like Discord, Reddit, Instagram and the like. Reddit alone has knifeclub with 140k+ users. Crazy!

 

[BJE]

I will be 31 next month, I joined in 2006, so I have been a member for 15 years and active on the forum since I was 16.

 

[Boombats]

Looks like 31-40 is taking it. I'm a little surprised, as I thought the Fudd demographic would be most represented. Of course these results only mean that 31-40 is the age group most likely to respond to online polls, but I'm not a stats guy so that's as far as I'm gonna analyze this.

 

[sgt1372]

I'm 70 but turn 71 this year.

So, I picked the >71 category, which really should be ≥71.

 

[c7m2p3]

I’m surprised there’s not more in the 21-30 range. Interesting poll.

26 here and its been a great time since I joined in 2018. I lurked for a few years before but there is so much knowledge to pull from that I have improved my sharpening and honed my tastes more in the short time I have been contributing and watching these forums than all previous years combined.

 

[Dusty One]

I am 71 3/4......Heavy on the mileage but once I warm up I'm ready to go !

 

[Surname]

26 here, which apparently makes me one of the younger ones.

 

[Bmgillum]

I turned 80 early June…

 

[fishface5]

Is "old and cranky" a demographic? If so, I'm in.

 

[sonofwilfred]

Just turned 63 the other day!!
John

Happy birthday mate

 

[The Aflac Duck]

Sorry, but my age, color, sexual preference, sexual orientation, race, income, where I live, trade and all the rest are things I have zero interest in being identified by.

I would much rather be identified by what I contribute. There is far to much made of the former in this world, and far too little of the later.

I honestly don’t know what you contribute.