Gaia is for teens & young adults?

[Nyadriel]

MutantXFactor

Nyadriel

This site has always been for age 13 and up. I never saw where it said "young adult" and many of us OLD folk would heavily disagree with you, regardless. We have always know it is for up to... whenever age.

Hi - as I already said, they state this on the Twitter page bio: https://twitter.com/gaiaonline.

I'm unsure what you're referring to as "OLD folk" and I don't know what I said that is so "heavily" disagreeable. There's a big difference between "13 and up" and "teens and young adults." Thanks for writing.

Old folk refers to those of us age 50 and over. There are quite a number of us. 3nodding

[Apollos Liar]

MutantXFactor

Apollos Liar

Despite being 13+, the site has always had issues with toeing that line. When I joined in '05, the Links List had hentai links iirc. I don't think they vetted that too hard. And don't even get me started on the items the artists create (not that I hate that obviously lmao).

There was hentai?! I joined in 2010 so apparently I missed all the fun. Tell me how you really feel about usermade items... rofl

I feel like they just imported the list from somewhere else because there were some weird links buried in there lol They didn't get rid of it until Jack threw Santa into it in 2006.

It's just wild to me that they can tell us to behave but they let their own artists create succubus and incubus characters, draw gloryholes in towns, and draw porn of Gaia NPCs lol Why the double standard? Especially when the site has always been 13+.

[An Invisible Shapeshifter]

MutantXFactor

An Invisible Shapeshifter

MutantXFactor

An Invisible Shapeshifter

is this because they want to avoid the mess that was the adult version of gaia i always hear about in rumor that was awful rofl

Ya know... rofl The manga and anime industry is mostly adults. The consumers are kids, but "young adults" is limiting. After 25 you're not even a young adult, and that includes many staffers. This site is for the fandom, regardless of age.

very very true XD.
Somehow I think keeping it ...well, borderline age friendly does wind up keeping it mostly classy somehow, even if the audience is older XD.

Some of the media "targeted towards adult" opens up to worse extens of trash sometimes imo xd

What happened to "gaming, manga, and anime fans of all ages"? Is that so bad? It's not like the manga section has hentai or anything... rofl

True, that is pretty good too.

"gaming, manga, and anime fans of all ages, we're friendly to teens and so on bla bla."
like PG-13 hehe. (for the most part)

Hope they clean it up at one point cheese_whine
they do need to fix up their presentation... all the links on the site that are misleading

[Diregie]

MutantXFactor

This doesn't really make sense. Teen and young adult is a demographic/category used particularly in literature/TV shows/etc. Just because something ages, doesn't mean the demographic its officially registered under has to change as well. In this case with manga, it goes by magazines geared towards specific target audiences. Sailor Moon is always going to be a shoujo manga series geared for girls/young women. The magazine it was serialized under has it listed as such. Nakayoshi (this was the magazine, iirc) isn't gonna suddenly change its demographic just because Sailor Moon is 30 years old now and it would for whatever reason have to appeal to 30 year olds.

About the whole thing about voice actors, mangaka, etc.... I'm still not seeing the point. Voice actors, mangaka, etc. aren't the ones consuming this website's content, not are they the intended audience - consumers of their content are, as this was space was originally intended (an anime/dress-up/role-playing/hangout site). Now if somebody like that does join - and it has happened - it's not a big deal, of course. But again, they must bear in mind that this space wasn't made with them in mind. When these sorts of people did join it was usually for interviews/Q&As and marketing/promotion stunts with fans mostly in mind anyhow.

Besides that, there's nothing that indicates you can't consume such if you're not the target audience - instead, it means that if you're not part of the target audience, you should be mindful that the content probably isn't being made with you in mind. Anyone can join this web site and there have always been adults on this web site at every point in time. The ones that don't want to adhere to PG-13 standards, when they discover they can face sanctions for such, are free to leave for greener pastures.
But I suppose money also talks and if a given entity find that its consumers are mostly adults, they will feel more pressed to create content to appeal to them. Hence this site's problem. It's not an absolute requirement, though - that's a choice made by the company, typically driven by economic factors.

Otherwise, what are you trying to suggest in this thread? Do you want to see/discuss more R-18 content here? Because that's typically what makes the difference between a site geared for younger audiences and one geared for adults. Otherwise, what can't you do/discuss already that teens and young adults can't?

[WhipWhip]

I mean, I'm nearly 42... and have been on gaia for 15 years... so I wasn't even a young adult when I joined lol...

[WhipWhip]

Nyadriel

MutantXFactor

Nyadriel

This site has always been for age 13 and up. I never saw where it said "young adult" and many of us OLD folk would heavily disagree with you, regardless. We have always know it is for up to... whenever age.

Hi - as I already said, they state this on the Twitter page bio: https://twitter.com/gaiaonline.

I'm unsure what you're referring to as "OLD folk" and I don't know what I said that is so "heavily" disagreeable. There's a big difference between "13 and up" and "teens and young adults." Thanks for writing.

Old folk refers to those of us age 50 and over. There are quite a number of us. 3nodding

I'd consider myself old for gaia at 42 tbh, and have done so since I turned 30!

[zweet_dreamz]

Despite the fact that this site is for 13+, I doubt that most teens will be very interested in joining, since this site has nothing to offer the newer generation. Most teens and YA these days are more interested in showing off their real lives than posting discussions under a fake name and identity.

[LadyCalliope]

zweet_dreamz

Despite the fact that this site is for 13+, I doubt that most teens will be very interested in joining, since this site has nothing to offer the newer generation. Most teens and YA these days are more interested in showing off their real lives than posting discussions under a fake name and identity.

Well that and that the image of what "old" people should be interested in is changing as genx and millennials age and refuse to give up "childish" interests. We're redefining what it means to be "old" and some people are having a hard time with it. I suspect it's always like that. It may just be a little more obvious now because the technology is there to allow us to communicate as a group better than before.

Keep in mind also that kids and young adults usually don't have the disposable income to help support a site, especially now.

[Triana Orpheus Venture]

Diregie

Yes. But the people who are on the site and are not teens and young adults still enjoy teen and young adult-content.
And yes, I know that's technically debatable now since the site hasn't kept its word very well in that regard. It still wants to acknowledge it to some degree.

Also this site's social media pages are wack. Don't think too hard about anything you see from 'em.

This hits the nail on the head right here. There are a lot of folks who are not teens/young adults who enjoy that kind of content. One of my favorite series of books is considered "Young Adult" but that doesn't stop me from reading and enjoying it. I revisit Gaia every so often because I do still enjoy it.