r/kpop • u/JessiTee 여자친구 • Mar 04 '14
2014 Reddit Kpop Census - Results
Hello all,
It's the moment you've all been waiting for... the results of the 2014 census are now out!
Link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewanalytics?formkey=dGJ0VmN2Y3MzZkwwRXlBZmtNS1N0QWc6MQ (takes a few seconds to load)
Unfortunately I accidentally deleted the previous census' data when creating this census, but for those curious, in late 2012 our gender ratio was ~75% male and ~25% female, so we've become a lot more gender balanced! Additionally, if I remember correctly we didn't have as nearly a diverse population, ethnicity-wise, back in 2012 (AKA we now have a greater proportion of Asian people compared to white people).
In 2012 we also had around ~1300 responses and we had ~1800 responses this round.
Here is a graph of /r/kpop's favorite groups since the graph for that question cannot be displayed on the results page:
http://i3.minus.com/ihyrETBV4VMBW.png (thanks to /u/Happy_Man for making this!)
Enjoy reading through the results!
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u/ifethereal Mar 04 '14
One day, TRAX, one day.
Also, would it be possible to get a TRAX flair?
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Mar 04 '14
Whats a pansexual? You like Bread?
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u/JessiTee Mar 04 '14
Here is some information about Pansexuality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexuality
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u/chrisisaak Mar 04 '14
I waited eagerly for this.
Being Latin American, it massively bothers me that Central America js listed and then there's a Mexico option .Like, it annoys so so much. But, oh well.
7% of the sub is South American. Represent!!!!!1!11!one
I am happy with these results!!
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u/JessiTee Mar 04 '14
Central America does not include Mexico according to Wikipedia, so I listed it separately. Sorry that it bothers you. The region breakdown is never going to be perfect.
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u/RyanE117 Mar 04 '14
Wow... I'm honestly surprised that so many of the participants were straight caucasian males. Although maybe I shouldn't be, considering that I am one haha.
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u/JessiTee Mar 04 '14
This is reddit - most people on this website are straight caucasian males. I was actually pleasantly surprised to see a higher proportion of women and non-white people than I expected. If you compare r/kpop to other subreddits, we are generally much more diverse.
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Mar 04 '14 edited Mar 04 '14
On the sexuality graph, I thought it said 84% of people were bisexual because it says bisexual to the right of the "straight" bar lol.
Also, is it really that many guys? 66%? really doesn't seem like it..
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u/JessiTee Mar 04 '14
I'm actually curious as to why you got the impression that there aren't a lot of guys here - from the beginning, I always assumed that men were the majority here based on the voting patterns and comments (and the fact that reddit is overwhelmingly male), but that may not be the case for everyone.
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u/leetaemin Mar 04 '14
Girl groups get upvoted here far more than boy groups do, even rookie/debuting groups. In comparison, rookie/debuting boy groups will get 4-5 upvotes total. Fiestar's language lesson videos always got a lot of upvotes despite not fitting in with the general theme of r/kpop, but I'm pretty sure that Hanbyul from Led Apple's Korean lesson videos never got posted at all.
Look at the chart of favorite groups and singers: Girl's Day, f(x), and Nine Muses have a disproportionate amount of votes compared to their real-life popularity. Out of the top 20 responses, only 6 are boy groups, and one of those is G-Dragon, who is basically listed twice since he's in Big Bang.
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u/JessiTee Mar 04 '14
To add on to this - it's not that girl groups fans are necessarily male (I believe f(x) and SNSD have fanbases that are mostly women) but the girl groups that r/kpop likes generally do cater to male audiences moreso than female ones.
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u/leetaemin Mar 04 '14
Okay, who was the one person who listed Boom as one of their favorite K-pop artists?
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u/poryphria Mar 04 '14 edited Mar 04 '14
I AM THE 3%
edit: Lots more ladies than I thought. Where are all of you?
2nd edit: other black people where are all of you
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u/frampton2000 Mar 04 '14
wow....... Girl's Day was right behind Bigbang.........
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Mar 05 '14
What shocked me the most is the fact that there are actually 2 person under 13 on this sub.
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u/-momoyome- Mar 04 '14
Who picked other for how long you've listened and WHY?