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A notable bunch of audience members outside of the intended (i.e., marketed) demographic. Western Animation has arguably been interwoven with this idea for most of its existence, and for a lot of reasons. First, the vast majority of what is produced is aimed at children and families. Second, despite more and more animation for older audiences being created, the only genre really represented is comedy (and usually of a darker, raunchier nature). And third, there's still a severe lack of Western cartoons specifically directed towards teenagers. As a result of all this, unless they only want to partake in the occasional independent film here and there, fans of the medium are guaranteed to find themselves watching a lot of content that isn't geared towards them (but probably has enough Parental Bonuses and good writing to make up for that). Another very noticeable instance of this occurs in the anime fansub community. Digital recorders/encoders, which effectively remove the timeslot and language constraints to a program, make it accessible to anyone, and the series audience is largely drawn only by the perceived quality of the show itself as opposed to any marketing. Divorced from judgement-affecting advertising, a show packed with girls may be enough like "a show packed with girls" that the same fan will find themselves watching both, barely aware that said shows have wildly different target audiences. This likewise holds with male characters, who are often deliberately drawn as pretty boys in order to attract fangirls who were reading similar stories anyway (e.g., Bishōnen Jump Syndrome, because Shonen Jump was infamous for it). Sometimes this is taken a step further and you get a cleansed rough adaptation of the premise marketed directly to them. It is also common for a popular franchise that is marketed towards children to gain an older fanbase if it's been around for a while; many of these older fans enjoyed it when they were young and simply never outgrew it. The companies making such shows may give little nods to the older fans (and sometimes even make new installments that cater exclusively to older fans). Some fans, perhaps because of these nods, seem not to realize that these popular kids' series are still made mainly for kids, and that doesn't change just because the older viewers are not kids anymore. Unfortunately, fans like these may cause negative stereotypes about nerd fanbases. See also Entertainment Below Their Age. In another example that is similar to the above one, while the show might be targeted towards young boys or girls, those who are older and/or of the opposite sex may enjoy it instead and it may generate a large fandom (*AHEM!*), just to give one right off the bat as one of the more recent exaggerated examples of this occurring with a kids show. Going in the opposite direction, a periphery demographic that is ''younger'' than the target demographic may arise from the fact that children and teenagers are liable to view media classifications as more a challenge than the warnings/suggestions they are. After all, engaging in media intended for mature audiences (like First-Person Shooter and Wide-Open Sandbox games) means that they can be considered mature themselves, right? Can also be due to many demographics simply having wider ranges of interest than they're given credit for. Series with strong marketing sense usually profit from being at least slightly aware of these fans, if not outright cultivating the work's newfound Multiple Demographic Appeal. Unfortunately, this creates the danger of an annoying Periphery Demographic being viewed as a Misaimed Fandom, if not outright Fan Dumb. Also, some fans within a show's main demographic may consider the work in question a Guilty Pleasure. When the Periphery Demographic is in another country, then you've got Germans Love David Hasselhoff. For a specific type of Periphery Demographic, see Estrogen Brigade, Testosterone Brigade, LGBT Fanbase, Popular with Furries. If a fandom forms around media that was not intended for entertainment purposes in the first place, it's Fun for Some. Compare Misaimed Fandom and Just Here for Godzilla. Contrast Periphery Hatedom. |
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Noonbory and the Super 7, an obscure Korean cartoon aimed at preschoolers, began gaining a small following of teenagers in the late 2010s due to its moe characters and unique premise. Many of these fans have cried for it to be uncanceled for these reasons. | |
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Nevermoor is aimed at middle school aged children, but some of its most vocal and passionate fans are teenagers and adults, and there's also a sizable LGBT Fanbase attached. With all the worldbuilding, political storytelling, and complex characters, there's a lot for people older than the target audience to enjoy. | |
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Following one cartoon that involved a female chimp accusing a male chimp of "hanging around with that Goodall tramp", Larson got a bunch of hate-mail from people who resented the implication on Jane Goodall's behalf — and a letter from Goodall herself, telling him that she thought the cartoon was hilarious and that she was honored to have been featured. Goodall, who was a long-time fan of The Far Side, enjoyed the cartoon so much that she invited Larson to her nature reserve in Tanzania and wrote the preface for a collection of Far Side comics that included the cartoon. Her institute also recently began selling a T-shirt with that same cartoon on it. And in the first known instance of interspecies Periphery Hatedom, Frodo, Goodall's alpha male chimp, proceeded to beat the snot out of poor Gary Larson. Jane Goodall recounted the experience in the above preface. |
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The Grounded videos themselves developed an ironic following of teenagers and adults who find them hilarious for all the wrong reasons, namely the absurd scenarios, laughable animation, and the deadpan text-to-speech voices. This led many of these older viewers to create their own satirical videos made to deconstruct or mock the various clichés present. | |
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Central to the premise of Endo and Kobayashi Live! The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte is Love Me Magically!, a Romance Game targeted at straight females. The titular Endo is a straight male, and only attempted it because his crush Kobayashi is a big fan of the game, but eventually, he also gets emotionally invested in it. | |
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The Mighty Thor: Since the mid-10s, Loki's been depicted as a fan of Daft Punk. | |
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While Maya the Bee is very well-known in Europe, it is also aimed at children. However, in Poland, Maya the Bee is so popular that a Polish singing group called "Akcent" made a song about Maya and her friends. The group would commonly play this song at popular teenage/adults clubs in Poland. As a result, the Maya the Bee franchise has a very dedicated adult fanbase in that country. The German version of the theme song, sung by Czech crooner Karel Gott, was also very popular. On Bavarian TV you could see a variety shows with adult and elderly people with party hats unironically dancing to the tune, sung by Gott himself. |
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In Good Luck Charlie, P.J. and Skyler, both of whom are in their late teens, are huge fans of The Gurgles, a show aimed at toddlers and preschoolers. | |
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A Checkerboard Nightmare arc had the titular character create a children's show with the sole purpose of creating a fiercely loyal demographic and the prospect of selling merchandise. However, the show's blantant Merchandise-Driven nature coupled with its 4 A.M. timeslot (the only one Chex could afford) makes it a hit with teenagers and young adults who mistake it for satire. | |
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Before it was shut down, tektek.org, a dream avatar creator for Gaia Online, was used by people who didn't even use Gaia for these reasons: said forum/game site has a massive number of parts available, especially for humanoid avatars, and tektek's entire purpose was to let people use and combine said parts freely (ostensibly so they could find a combination of items they liked, buy those items on Gaia's marketplace, and equip them). Notably, many Protectors of the Plot Continuum characters have been depicted using tektek. | |
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In the "Bowser Junior's First Grade!" series of videos, Cody has a Hello Kitty notebook. | |
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Heart In Hand started out as a Real-Person Fic that shipped hockey players Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin but unexpectedly gained such a large number of readers from outside the hockey RPF who didn't realize that the characters were real-life people but still enjoyed the well-written gay romance that the author eventually uploaded a public version of the fic that changed the characters' names and teams for readers unfamiliar with hockey. | |
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Channel Awesome has a lot of attractive nerds, both male and female. Do you really think that everyone watching The Nostalgia Chick/The Nostalgia Critic or Linkara is going to care about bad nostalgic shows/films, bad comics, or bad anime? That and the slash fandom. Linkara is an interesting example in that many of his fans don't read comics, and many people who do read comics don't like him. Lindsay Ellis claims that the average fan of her show and Doug's is a couple of years younger than they are, which can have an effect when you're criticizing 'nostalgic' art. |
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JonTron, formerly of Game Grumps fame, has a legion of fans who have no clue what his show is even about (a lot of them haven't even seen it). They just love his ridiculously over the top behavior and spam animated gifs of him everywhere. The bronies in particular love this guy's gifs and spam them in the comments of poor images. They even have a tag for derailed Jontron threads on Derpibooru. |
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Jack Hodgins from Bones is revealed in the episode "The Bone in the Bounty" to be a fan of children's shows and Bill Nye Expy Bunsen Jude the Science Dude. When told "you're a bit older than my usual audience", he explains that it was a drinking game. | |
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In House, the titular character is an avid fan of the (fictional) medical soap opera Prescription: Passion and of the (equally fictional) children's book series Jack Cannon the Boy Detective. | |
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Cheers: One episode has Frasier managing to get the barflies into Charles Dickens, though not without taking a lot of liberties. | |
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The Simpsons, When temporarily put in charge of a kindergarten class, Professor Frink turns out to be one of these for those colorful "ball popper" push toys that are usually aimed at toddlers, to the extent that he refuses to let the children play with it. It's the compression and expansion of the longitudinal waves that appeals to him. And the colors. Millhouse is a big fan of the Teletubbies and was shown to own some of their products. Moe gets choked up when reading Little Women at the homeless shelter. In a much later episode, the Gang of Bullies Jimbo, Kearney, and Dolph are read the same book by Bart; they get quite emotionally invested in it. In "I Am Furious (Yellow)", when Skinner is trying to get a better volunteer to talk about their career, Lisa suggests the creator of Danger Dog, which she says is popular with kids and adults. In "Bart on the Road", Nelson turns out to be a huge Andy Williams fan. |
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The Hank the Cowdog series was originally written with adults (particularly those who had worked on ranches) in mind. The books became incredibly popular with children. | |
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The main four boys are grade schoolers. While they're fans of series aimed at their age group like The Avengers or Terrance and Philip, the boys do show interest in media aimed for adults. Notably, Cartman's a fan of the movies Scarface and The Passion of the Christ (the latter being a plot point where he leads a cult based around Mel Gibson). | |
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Adventures in Odyssey is a Christian radio show about kids going on wacky adventures in a small, devoutly Christian Midwestern town, yet has fans of all ages and faiths for its clever humor and not being overly aggressive in pushing its Christian values. It has even gained a following amongst the detractors of Focus on the Family, the Christian advocacy group that produces the show. | |
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On the 1980s run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), Krang is a murderous alien blob who works with the Shredder to try and rule the world. In his down time, however, he enjoys watching melodramatic soap operas, and frequently weeps over the stories. | |
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While coloring books are primarily marketed to children, they're also popular among some adults as a form of stress relief, and some artists use them as practice and as a way to break through art block. Adult coloring books have been introduced in response: some of them feature highly complex designs and/or family-unfriendly subject matter, but others are roughly the same as the ones for kids, just with text saying "adult coloring book" slapped onto the cover. Some adult coloring books are even based on properties which themselves fall into this trope, such as My Little Pony (mentioned in the "Toys" section). | |
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The second case happened in that a lot of RWBY fans, especially those within the YouTube reaction/reviewer community, have discovered Red vs. Blue on the off-season when they still needed content to react to/review. Both might be Rooster Teeth productions, but they couldn't be any more different (one is a comedic Machinima based on Halo featuring copious swearing, the other an Animesque Magical Girl cartoon that mostly takes itself seriously)! | |
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(A variant) What does Kirby, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Pokémon and a pair of breasts have in common? In theory they're for small children, but in practice a lot of grown men like them too. | |
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Kirby (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Periphery Demographic | |
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It was mentioned in an "Ask Emily" segment of The Brain Scoop that the videos that put the show on the map, a very graphic three-part series about preparing a roadkilled wolf for museum collection that included skinning, gutting, and a lot of blood, proved to be very popular with young children. They got a lot of fan mail from parents of preschool-age children saying their children were endlessly fascinated by the process. | |
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The Brain Scoop (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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There's a sizeable adult collector fandom for Tamagotchi that collect the various versions of the device and often have multiple running at any given time. Some of them have even translated the color Tamagotchi releases that did not see an official release outside of the US until 2019. | |
Periphery Demographic / int_3a9d9a5c | featureApplicability |
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Tamagotchi (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Periphery Demographic | |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was one of the most-read books by American servicemen in World War II. | |
Periphery Demographic / int_3af6f979 | featureApplicability |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn | hasFeature |
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Periphery Demographic / int_3b34143f | comment |
Harry Potter. The original series was intended for children and adolescents, but the series quickly caught on with adults as well. Different covers were created specifically to market the books toward adults. However, author JK Rowling designed the series specifically to avoid alienating fans who had grown up by the time it was completed. Each book grows progressively more mature, "growing up" with the reader. | |
Periphery Demographic / int_3b34143f | featureApplicability |
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Harry Potter | hasFeature |
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Fantadroms is a Latvian cartoon from the 80s that's popular with furries, due to the main characters being Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot cats. | |
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Fantadroms (Animation) | hasFeature |
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Whenever you watch a TV show, whether it's live-action or animation, and whether it's traditionally or streaming, have you ever noticed those advertisements for life insurance, arthritis medicine, the AARP, and other related products and services? This is because no matter what you're watching, there will be at least a small amount of elderly people among its audience, but not so small that advertising to them is meaningless. The prevailing method of them finding a show is by stumbling across it looking for something to watch, so whatever show you're watching, there have been at least a few elderly people who found it by chance and happened to like it enough to keep watching. Contrary to stereotypes about old people and television, these elderly people actually are paying attention to the show and understanding it, meaning Grandma may be the household's expert on Attack on Titan or Orange Is the New Black. | |
Periphery Demographic / int_3e8c09b9 | featureApplicability |
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Attack on Titan (Manga) | hasFeature |
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Periphery Demographic | |
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Cow's milk is so popular with humans thanks to the fat inside providing an easy source of warmth in the harsh European winter that they made it into an industry. In the Mediterranean, where it's too dry and the soil is to poor to support cattle farming, people likewise favor goat milk. Humans' love of animal milk is lampshaded in one Calvin and Hobbes strip: | |
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Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
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Periphery Demographic | |
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An episode of Outbreak Company mentions this with Minori's favorite soccer anime, which turned out to be a case of Bishōnen Jump Syndrome. | |
Periphery Demographic / int_40cb071f | featureApplicability |
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Outbreak Company | hasFeature |
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Baby Blues, a domestic family strip which has always had at least one baby in it, is supposedly popular among loads of baby-less fans... even teenage girls. | |
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Baby Blues (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
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Periphery Demographic | |
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In Love and Rockets, Doralis's kids' show develops a big adult male Periphery Demographic purely because of how hot she is. Then subverted when, after her lesbianism is publicly revealed and Heteronormative Crusaders destroy her career as a children's celebrity, the channel tries to continue it virtually unchanged in a late-night time slot as an adult show and discovers that the Periphery Demographic isn't big enough to sustain it. | |
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Love and Rockets (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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You could say this is an important plot point in Super Dimension Fortress Macross and its Robotech adaptation: the reason many of the Zentraedi defect (the turning point in the war) is because of their exposure to human culture... including the fact that many of them are Minmay fans. (Also inverted, given that her songs basically turn into psychological warfare when used on unexposed Zentraedi...) | |
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Super Dimension Fortress Macross | hasFeature |
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Stan and Jan Berenstain, the creators of The Berenstain Bears, were fairly secular (Stan was Jewish, Jan was Episcopalian) and hesitated to incorporate religion into their books, feeling that it would alienate readers. Regardless, their books were extremely popular with Christian families who liked the values they promoted, such that, when their son Mike took over the series in 2008, he started writing explicitly Christian stories to appeal to them. | |
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The Berenstain Bears | hasFeature |
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Stereotypical alpha-nerd Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory is a fan of Taylor Swift, enjoys Tuvan throat singing, and describes Pride and Prejudice as "a flawless masterpiece." | |
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The Big Bang Theory | hasFeature |
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In Homestuck, Dirk (like many people in real life) claims to watch My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic as an outsider, purely out of scientific interest in popular culture and the way it reflects society... but secretly admits to legitimately being very fond of the character Rainbow Dash. | |
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Homestuck (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Land of Oz was aimed at kids but it has garnered both a LGBT Fanbase and a fandom amongst adult women for its Feminist Fantasy world. | |
Periphery Demographic / int_52e8fba | featureApplicability |
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Land of Oz | hasFeature |
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The author of With Strings Attached has said that she wrote the book under the assumption that Baby Boomer Beatle fans would be its primary audience, and was quite surprised when she started getting letters from 16-year-old girls who were reading it. And this was back in 1997. Now it has readers as young as 12 and as old as 80, and she's given up trying to figure out where the periphery is. | |
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With Strings Attached / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
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UHF uses this in-universe. Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse, a typical Saturday morning kid's show, ends up with more than kids wanting to see it. | |
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UHF | hasFeature |
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In Sinfest The Devil literally squees upon receiving a DVD of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic for Christmas. At another time, he sets up his security to maximum, orders no visitors, etc. so that he can watch that show. | |
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Sinfest (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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In Turning Red, 4*Town is a Boy Band whose primary fans are teen girls but the movie proper shows teen guys like Devon and Tyler are also fans and the end credits scene shows their music can appeal to adults as well. | |
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Turning Red | hasFeature |
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Dave Lister from the British sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf is a self-professed fan of Spot the Dog. He's also a big fan of Casablanca, despite being a typically bloke-ish Scouser. | |
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Red Dwarf | hasFeature |
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In the same vain, there's Tiny Titans on the DC side of the fence. | |
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Tiny Titans (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Periphery Demographic | |
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Erma. The wupers, fans of an in-universe TV animation called Warrior Unicorn Princess, are akin to the real-life bronies. | |
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Erma / Web Comic | hasFeature |
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The Grojband episode "No Strings Attached" reveals Corey to be a fan of The Bubble Bunch Band, a really kiddy animatronic show targeted towards small children. | |
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Grojband | hasFeature |
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The Owl House: Luz says that the Good Witch Azura books are written for ages six to eleven, but she and Amity are fourteen and huge fans of the series (in fact, they seem to be the only fans of the series in the entirety of the Demon Realm). This is also Reality Subtext - The Owl House itself is aimed at ages six to eleven like the rest of Disney Channel programming, but most of the fans are teenagers and young adults, something that the show staff is very much aware of. | |
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The Owl House | hasFeature |
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Discussed in Bakuman。. Mashiro and Takagi, desperate to turn around their manga Detective Trap's declining popularity, decide to incorporate suggestions from fan letters, most of whom are written by females. Their editor Miura, however, immediately notices that something's up and calls them in for a meeting, telling them that while they do have female fans, said fans are here for shonen manga, and it's ultimately up to them to deliver the kind of story their fans are expecting. Mashiro and Takagi heed Miura's advice, but are ultimately unable to save Detective Trap. | |
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Bakuman。 (Manga) | hasFeature |
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The Disney Ducks have traditionally been aimed at children; however, PKNA gained a decent college-age fanbase. In Germany the Disney Ducks (or at least Lustiges Taschenbuch) are popular with many demographics. This is due to the way comic book writing is handled there. Anyone could write for the comic series, with almost no rules as to what the content should be. This is why you could get some very traditional kiddy fare coupled with detective stories, romance, superhero stories and detailed metafictional stories about the economy in the same comic compilation (though the stories in general would have the same protagonist). |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Neopets is a very odd case, thanks to Audience Shift and changes in management; although the site originated for college kids, the eponymous Ridiculously Cute Critters attracted a Periphery Demographic of kids, and the site became Lighter and Softer as a result. This wasn't a bad thing, as TNT still included a fair amount of material intended to appeal to adults, but after Viacom started meddling, the site became more focused to the kids and started neglecting the older fans, who had become a periphery demographic, and loyalists who started playing as kids but remained on the site through their teens. However, TNT started interacting with the new periphery demographic of older fans by setting up a facebook page, and the site's plot event "The Faeries' Ruin" did a great job of winning back older fans. Not only that, but said older fans are the ones who play the most on the site. They're the writers for the Neopian Times, the most avid participants in plots and other major events, the ones running the fancier user-created shops in the Marketplace, and generally the ones who don't get bored and leave after a few months. TNT has been left in the position of eternally trying to reach a happy medium between appeasing the "preteen girl" fans who only want cute things, the "tween boy" fanbase who just like the games, and the older fans who love writing for the Neopian Times and Poetry Gallery, drawing for the Art Gallery and Beauty Contest, and participating in plots. | |
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Neopets (Website) | hasFeature |
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In Sword Art Online Abridged, the VR game Alfheim Online is primarily marketed to children, in that it teaches morals like sharing, friendship, and aerial combat supremacy. But the game exploded in popularity once older gamers found out about its flying mechanics, and now the server boasts a population of roleplayers who get around the kid-friendly restrictions by acting out their I Have You Now, My Pretty scenario with mayonnaise. | |
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Sword Art Online Abridged (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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An episode of Arthur revolved around Arthur (who is in the third grade and eight years old) being both thrilled that Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood fame was going to visit the family and terrified that his classmates would make fun of him for still loving a "baby show". It turns out that the classmates also all still love the show. Another episode showed Arthur developing an interest in the trippy children's show Love Ducks, and enduring the mockery of his classmates. However, they soon watched Love Ducks, and ended up liking it as well. |
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Arthur | hasFeature |
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In the world of toys, there's LEGO. While the iconic building bricks are marketed to kids, there's a number of adults who make a hobby of them as well. LEGO has seemed to thoroughly embrace this demographic; scale LEGO models and the people who design and build them are showcased in the Legoland theme parks, and there's a downloadable program for home model design and purchase. And then there's the LEGO themes with nostalgia value, like LEGO Star Wars and LEGO Indiana Jones. Even the in-house BIONICLE line has its own Periphery Demographic. And then there's a host of online webcomics using LEGO, such as Irregular Webcomic!. LEGO itself may be a sort of double-inversion, as the toys were originally intended as architectural tools to allow, well, architects to rough out a model of a prospective building in 3D in a rapid and efficient manner. To this day they're still used as this, and LEGO has even spun-off a corporate consulting division which uses LEGO bricks to help solve problems in similar ways. This went full circle when LEGO started its Architecture line, LEGO sets for architecturally famous buildings. Being an adult also has its advantages. For one thing, it's actually affordable to you, and adults have the skills to engineer much more complex sets (check out the author's creations here at Reasonably Clever, home of the famous LEGO Minimizer). LEGO Mindworks has become popular as of late with early robotics engineering prototyping, lower level university mechanical engineering courses, and AI with robots (which hack out the default Mindworks instruction system for something more suitable like ROS). If that wasn't enough, The LEGO Movie actually made this a plot point, and features an adult buying LEGO sets clearly annoyed at the age suggestion on the box. They also do Shout Outs to BIONICLE and Fabuland, two sets that ended before most kids nowadays were born. Appropriately enough, The LEGO Movie was, like the toys, marketed toward children but had a big enough impact on adults that there was a backlash when it failed to get an Oscar nomination. |
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Batman has watched Sailor Moon, or at least knows enough about it to recognize when the Martian Manhunter was using Sailor Mars's name for an alias. | |
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Batman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Phineas and Ferb has Candace, who is 15 years old and a fan of "Ducky Momo" (shown in a later episode to be roughly equivalent to Dora the Explorer). She even gets a touching song dedicated to her love of it and the fact that other people can't understand why a teenager likes it. By the end of the episode—"Nerds of a Feather"—she's found out and realizes that it's not too big a deal to like something outside of her age range. Rather amusing, since Phineas and Ferb has been listed under real-world examples of this trope. In another episode, Doofenshmirtz admits that he really likes that teen vampire movie. |
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Phineas and Ferb | hasFeature |
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Josh from Drake & Josh is obsessed with The Oprah Winfrey Show, a show targeted towards a female audience. It shows how he is In Touch with His Feminine Side. | |
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Drake & Josh | hasFeature |
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In the episodes of the show prior to "Bowser Junior's House Fire!", Junior slept in a pink bedroom with a Frozen-themed bedspread (which was a Minnie Mouse bedspread in some videos, like "Bowser Junior's Summer School!"), and also had lots of girl toys in his playroom. | |
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Frozen (2013) | hasFeature |
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In Chainsaw Man (manga only), Denji and Power (two older teenagers) can be seen reading CoroCoro Comic, a kodomomuke magazine for children. | |
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Chainsaw Man (Manga) | hasFeature |
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If you go to a Barbie convention, you will not find many people there who are too young to buy the dolls with their own money, and only about half of them will be female. | |
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Barbie (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Batman: Despite the comic's chiefly male readership (and target demo), Dick Grayson/Nightwing is well known as a draw to the series for women, and sales figures for his stand-alone title reflect this. While some suspect it's because he's cute, others have suggested the appeal might have something to do with his role as Batman's supportive partner and his struggle to determine his identity outside of that role. Jason Todd, too: he's a Darker and Edgier Pretty Boy with daddy issues (and many others) and was voiced by Jensen Ackles in his animated movie. Really, all the Robins have a large female fanbase. Harley Quinn managed to become one of the biggest Ensemble Darkhorses in the DC Universe, in large part, because she turned out to be far more popular among women than her creators ever anticipated—despite first appearing in a TV show aimed mainly at boys. While most people liked her for being the Joker's Affably Evil Perky Female Minion with all of his humor but none of his evil, many women sympathized with her because they recognized her as a battered victim of domestic abuse corrupted by the influence of her boyfriend. Her appeal just got stronger when she migrated to the comics, and eventually did end up becoming independent from the Joker. Ever since then, her fans have celebrated her as a symbol of female empowerment. The BDSM community is likely the only place on Earth where the Joker is considered a supporting character to Harley Quinn. |
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The Onion News Network has made fun of the phenomenon for a few times. "Children, Creepy Middle-Aged Weirdos Swept Up In Harry Potter Craze". "Man Not Belonging to Movie's Target Demographic Escorted from Theater by Hollywood Officials". "Adults Go Wild Over Latest In Children's Picture Book Series". "Report: Christ, Someone Actually Brought Their Kid To This". |
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In New Girl, Nick is the author of the Pepperwood Chronicles, which is a book series aimed at adult fans of detective fiction, but instead it attracts an unexpected fanbase of teenage girl shippers who are invested in Jessica Knight and Julius Pepperwood's Will They or Won't They? relationship. | |
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians has a very large fanbase of older fans of high school and college age (as well as librarians and parents) who picked up the series and stuck with it not only for its clever humor and being based on the idea of the Mythology Gag, but also because of its surprisingly deep character development and realistic responses to certain situations. It's a rare mixture of regular young teen action/adventure novels mixed with older demographic drama. | |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is meant to be a quirky children's series but it's arguably more popular with adults. Many essays and books have been written about the story and its themes. There's also a lot of people who use drugs and connect with the stories. As a result, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland are constantly referenced in media and it has received many Grimmifications. | |
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Pride and Prejudice was also widely enjoyed by British servicemen. | |
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is considered by many to be far too dark and depressing for the children who make up most of its readership. It's essentially a Black Comedy about different ways the author can torment children and the unusual ways supporting characters can be killed. It's one of those books you'll often see teens and adults picking up for themselves, possibly not allowing their own children to read them until they are mature enough that it won't give them nightmares. | |
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There are internet forums dedicated to Webkinz collecting. Almost none of the members are in the target demographic of children. | |
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The Loud House: In "Deal me Out", Lincoln and Clyde begin to wonder if they have outgrown their favorite comic book hero Ace Savvy, but ultimately decide they still like him and go to a Fan Convention. Once there, they learn that even some kids from Lori's class still love Ace Savvy despite being years outside the target demographic. | |
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Red vs. Blue is particularly notable in that it struck this trope twice: Way back in the beginning, Rooster Teeth were surprised to learn that the show had a sizable fanbase among women along with the traditionally masculine "video game nerd/geek kind of market" that was the target audience. While the creators have joked that it's because they're supposedly nerdsnote As per Geoff Ramsey: "I think girls end up fans of the site because of our sex appeal. Each one of us is 30 pounds overweight and we're all balding, so we've got a lot to offer the ladies!", the general consensus seems to be that truly great comedy transcends all boundaries, and having the sole female character for the first five seasons — Tex — also be the only actual badass just helped further this trope take root. Later seasons further aided by having continuously improved the show's writing and representation regarding women, which has also happened to coincide with the existence of women in "geek culture" in general becoming less marginalized and dismissed. The second case happened in that a lot of RWBY fans, especially those within the YouTube reaction/reviewer community, have discovered Red vs. Blue on the off-season when they still needed content to react to/review. Both might be Rooster Teeth productions, but they couldn't be any more different (one is a comedic Machinima based on Halo featuring copious swearing, the other an Animesque Magical Girl cartoon that mostly takes itself seriously)! |
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In Kim Possible, Cuddle Buddies are a Wuzzles/Beanie Baby knock-off that attracts the attention of the 15-year-old Kim as well as the 30-something villain DNAmy. As Kim gets older, 17-18 by the show's end, it's implied she hasn't grown out of them. A very rare variety is mentioned at one point, implying that the manufacturer is marketing to adult collectors as well as children. |
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The vast majority of the remaining Animorphs fandom consists of adults who read the series as kids back in the '90's. | |
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Following into All Grown Up!, it is shown in one episode that Kimi (now 10-11) still enjoys watching the Dummi Bears, and is terrified at the thought of anyone finding out. | |
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You're meant to play the Pokémon trading card game but there's a substantial amount of collectors who don't even know how the game works. They collect either for the artwork or just for collectors sake. | |
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American Girl, despite being a company aimed at girls between the ages of 8 and 12 mostly, has a very large fanbase of adult women. These started out as middle-aged women whose children found interst in the brand and expanded to those with either children outside of the target age or no children of their own. However the larger demographic now are millenials who grew up with the brand and never grew out of it. There are at least three popular adult collector forums (with thousands of members each) and most of the secondary market is fueled by demand from adult collectors. American Girl has even given some nods with older classic looks and designs. | |
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Despite the comic's chiefly male readership (and target demo), Dick Grayson/Nightwing is well known as a draw to the series for women, and sales figures for his stand-alone title reflect this. While some suspect it's because he's cute, others have suggested the appeal might have something to do with his role as Batman's supportive partner and his struggle to determine his identity outside of that role. Jason Todd, too: he's a Darker and Edgier Pretty Boy with daddy issues (and many others) and was voiced by Jensen Ackles in his animated movie. Really, all the Robins have a large female fanbase. | |
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Phoenix Wright chides his assistant Maya (17) for enjoying The Steel Samurai, a Sentai show that she readily admits is marketed at 10-year-olds. Later games also reveal that Miles Edgeworth is as much of a rabid fan, if not more so, than Maya herself, despite being in his mid-20s. Must be an attorney thing. On a related note, Phoenix has the show's theme tune as his ringtone, implying even he likes the show (even if he doesn't want to admit it). He still has this ringtone as of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, a game that takes place after the time skip introduced within Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. As revealed in the second game, Justice For All, The Steel Samurai's Sequel Series, The Nickel Samurai, is said to be popular with office ladies due to being about forbidden love. Its rival show, the Jammin' Ninja, is popular with high school girls for being a pop-music based love story. |
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PewDiePie has a huge fandom of teenage girls. | |
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In the Bob's Burgers episode "The Equestranauts", Tina is a fan of the eponymous magical talking horse adventures show, and she and her dad are equally surprised to find there's a massive following of adult male fans who call themselves "Equest-icles". | |
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In U.S. Acres, Booker and Sheldon, two baby chicks, watch a children's show featuring a clown as the main character. In an earlier comic, we see Filbert, an adult worm, watching the same show. | |
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Moe gets choked up when reading Little Women at the homeless shelter. In a much later episode, the Gang of Bullies Jimbo, Kearney, and Dolph are read the same book by Bart; they get quite emotionally invested in it. |
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In Nine Months, elementary school-aged kids, with the oldest being ten, are fans of a Barney-like show. Kids that age don't tend to watch preschool shows. | |
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On Regular Show, an 80s band called Fist Pump, who cater more to children, was shown to have an audience almost entirely of adults. Given the show's own audience, it might be an in-joke. | |
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Millhouse is a big fan of the Teletubbies and was shown to own some of their products. | |
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Megahouse's G.E.M. line of scale figures is specifically aimed at the adult female collector's market, depicting characters from series that are popular with women and (usually) more down-to-earth poses. They have many male fans though, particularly the Pokémon and Digimon ones. | |
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Rugrats: In one of the episodes, the whole family goes to the movies to watch the latest "Dummi Bears" movie. The children (and grandpa) lose interest quickly, while the rest of the adults become enraptured. In another episode, they go to see a Reptar On Ice show (with a very cheesy Romantic Plot Tumor). The kids go off in search of Reptar, Didi and Stu fall asleep, and Grandpa actually gets into it. Once the parents were visiting the Carmichael's when the creator of the show was over for dinner. The poor man spent the whole dinner fielding questions about the show by the enrapt adults. When Chaz admitted to being sick with worry when "Jelly Bear caught the gloomies", he finally explodes with, "What is wrong with you people???" In yet another episode, Mafia boss Jack Montello is revealed to be an obsessed Dummi Bears fan. Following into All Grown Up!, it is shown in one episode that Kimi (now 10-11) still enjoys watching the Dummi Bears, and is terrified at the thought of anyone finding out. |
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Rain (2010) was very much intended for an LGBTQ+ audience, more specifically a trans audience. The comic however, features plenty of good writing, endearing characters, and charming sense of humor for even non-LGBTQ+ readers to enjoy. | |
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Tablet peripherals for PC are intended for people who want to draw digital illustrations, but they also have a significant userbase in osu! players who find them the best way to play on a PC without having to invest in a multi-touch screen. Even drawing tablet manufacturer Huion acknowledges this use. | |
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osu! (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In The Banana Splits Movie, the only adults at the live Banana Splits show who aren't parents of the kids there are Thadd and Poppy, a pair of social media stars who love the show about as much as they love each other. Unfortunately, their love of the show isn't enough to save Thadd when the Splits go on a rampage, since their faulty programming leads to them wanting to kill all the adults in the studio. | |
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Chick Tracts may or may not be an example — their target demographic is evangelical Christians, but said Christians are supposed to use them as witnessing tools to convert non-Christians... the very people who are the biggest "fans" of the tracts — but for other reasons. Even among Christians these tracts have gained notoriety. Mainly the only churches still using them are isolated rural community churches who believe any contradictory statements to those made by Jack Chick must be Satanic lies. Even the provably false stuff like what your average Dungeons & Dragons game looks like. | |
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The Most Popular Girls in School was intended for people ages 25-35, but as mentioned in this article, that's not the main demographic it found: | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules: Rowley, a middle schooler who's 11 at the youngest, goes to Europe and gets hooked on an Idol Singer named Joshie. Greg points out that Joshie is for 6-year-old girls, but is rebuffed by Rowley when he tells him this. The same book also has Rowley get Dino-Blazer toys and enjoy them. | |
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SuperMarioLogan is more popular among children than the adult audience Logan aims for, which bugs many adult fans mainly because this demographic is largely responsible for Jeffy's status as a one-man Spotlight-Stealing Squad because most of these fans watch the show for Jeffy. | |
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The children's book series Rainbow Magic has developed a small periphery demographic purely because it's been going since 2003 and doesn't show signs of stopping. Many of the children whose parents read them these fairy-based stories when they were young have grown up in that time, with quite a notable proportion still being fans to this day, despite every new book in the series being more or less the same story with a new coat of paint due to being aimed at kids who grow out of the intended audience quickly. | |
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This relationship is inverted with the live-action movies: though primarily aimed towards older teenagers and adults (what with all the gratuitous swearing, violence and Mythology Gags), the movies are more unanimously popular among children than among adults, resulting in a fair bit of Misaimed Marketing. | |
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Home Improvement has the Show Within a Show "Tool Time" that Tim hosts on local access TV, a DIY show also serving as advertisement for their sponsor Binford Tools. This serves as both Leaning on the Fourth Wall regarding the main show as well as discuss this trope several times over. The banter between Tim and his assistant Al along with regular Doom It Yourself disasters earned the show a following among people who normally don't watch home repair shows, with a Running Gag that anyone who recognizes Tim from the show really like Al. Tim also sometimes overhypes on who, exactly, is watching the show and was concerned his teenage sons were getting bothered at school by peers asking questions about recent special event projects. As Tim is hoping to go into Syndication in different regions, his boss said that Al's popularity actually skewed towards older women and not the target audience more likely to buy their tools. Tim had to fight to keep Al because their dynamic made the show work overall. Heidi, the Ms. Fanservice Tool Girl, scored higher than Santa Claus. One episode focused on Tim creating a special episode to sell the show to a Swedish channel that expressed interest, creating their first foreign language dub. As it turns out, Slapstick was surprisingly universal. |
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In Foxtrot, both Jason and Paige clashed over the The Lord of the Rings movies. He went because it was The Lord Of The Rings, she went because of... Orlando Bloom. | |
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FoxTrot (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
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In the Hooky graphic novel, Spider-Man calls Doctor Strange for information on the strange girl he meets, and what a "tordenkakerlack" (a word she mentions) is. Strange isn't home, and Wong doesn't know who she is, but Wong does say the word sounds like something the Swedish Chef would say. As Spidey webs home, he says to himself that he never took Doc's right hand man to be a tube-watcher. Or to have a sense of humor. (Then he suddenly remembers an old Swedish — wait no, Norwegian family from Aunt May's neighborhood.) | |
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In Invader Zim, little kids loved Bloaty, the mascot of Bloaty's Pizza Hog, despite his grotesque appearance. However, despite being a tween, Gaz seems to be his biggest fan since she loves piggies, and it's hinted that she actually wants to see him in-person since she never got a chance when she was younger. There's also the short-lived "Pig Girl", who was mainly aimed towards young children, but was able to receive enough fans (who were teens and adults) to have a whole movie dedicated to her! |
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Ditto with rival chain Showbiz Pizza Place and its' animatronic show The Rock A Fire Explosion, to the point where some of its' fans weren't even alive when the restaurant was still open. | |
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The Rock-afire Explosion (Theatre) | hasFeature |
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The Rush Duel spin-off of Yu-Gi-Oh! was meant as a way to make Yu-Gi-Oh! appeal to a new generation in a way that the OCG just didn't anymore. It features an eye-catching and minimalist new card layout and a highly simplified and less restrictive ruleset compared to conventional Yu-Gi-Oh!. However, it quickly caught the favor of many adults in Asia and also became fairly popular among Western adults despite not being released in any official capacity there until December 2021. This was due to the incentive for Konami to be far more conservative in their game design decisions since presumably the small children Rush Duels are aimed at don't have bottomless wallets like their adult counterparts. Konami eventually decided to acknowledge Rush Duels' adult fanbase by expanding the "Legend Card" mechanic. Initially, Legend Cards were exclusively iconic cards from the iconic 2000 anime adaptation of the original manga to appeal to the children, but eventually they started including cards that only adults who played the OCG during the Early 2000's would recognize such as "The Creator", "Levia Dragon - Daedalus", and "Millennium Shield". The original TCG fell to this as well, initially being aimed at the audience of kids that followed the anime/manga, but quickly gaining a large playerbase of adults. The introduction of Rush Duels and the anime series switching its focus to that was basically an admission by Konami that the TCG had become a game for grown-ups. |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Rush Duel (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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In Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE, the Magical Girl anime Dia Witch Iroha is aimed at young girls but said to also be popular among adults. Barry Goodman, a 35-year-old American man, is one such fan. | |
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Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In El Goonish Shive, Noah watches My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic in order to learn about friendship. He even takes notes. | |
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El Goonish Shive (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Harley Quinn managed to become one of the biggest Ensemble Darkhorses in the DC Universe, in large part, because she turned out to be far more popular among women than her creators ever anticipated—despite first appearing in a TV show aimed mainly at boys. While most people liked her for being the Joker's Affably Evil Perky Female Minion with all of his humor but none of his evil, many women sympathized with her because they recognized her as a battered victim of domestic abuse corrupted by the influence of her boyfriend. Her appeal just got stronger when she migrated to the comics, and eventually did end up becoming independent from the Joker. Ever since then, her fans have celebrated her as a symbol of female empowerment. The BDSM community is likely the only place on Earth where the Joker is considered a supporting character to Harley Quinn. | |
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Harley Quinn (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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The Yogscast, despite not specifically advertising for children or younger teenagers, has a fairly large number of people in that age range. On the one hand, some, such as InTheLittleWood and Zoey Proasheck, have embraced their younger fandoms and keep them in mind, with a family-friendly channel also being set up and other Yogscast members showing appreciation for this. On the other hand, this has led to obnoxious Moral Guardians bashing the Yogscast for swearing and use of dark humour (eventually becoming discredited due to Memetic Mutation). | |
Periphery Demographic / int_c0869433 | featureApplicability |
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Yogscast (Lets Play) | hasFeature |
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The Babysitters Club has a small but active fanbase amongst adults, mainly those who read them as kids in the 1980s through 2000s. Attempts to revitalize the series for newer generations haven't gone very well. | |
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The Baby-Sitters Club | hasFeature |
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What truly catapulted the notion of "older My Little Pony fans" into the spotlight was when My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic developed the rather unexpected "brony" fandom almost instantly upon its premiere. These older fans praise the cartoon for many reasons, ranging from quality animation, to well-developed characters, to its numerous pop culture references, and even the domination of the internet by pony memes. Much of the fandom for this show built its foundations on the internet, and many view the episodes on assorted video sites and livestreams, or download them via torrents. Some chose to support Hasbro's show with their hard earned cash to make up for their effective piracy of the show. Others genuinely are into it for collecting. Regardless of the reasons though, a significant number of these brony fans took to browsing the pink aisle in their local department stores. At the show's peak, there were roughly 10 million bronies in the United States alone, massively outnumbering the intended demographic. All of this led to bronies causing the franchise, and that show in particular, to become a particularly famous example of this trope. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic | hasFeature |
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Since their creation in the late 1920's, it's always been a given that Nancy Drew is "for girls" and the The Hardy Boys are "for boys." However, since there is very little difference between the series besides the names of the main characters, the two fandoms have a large amount of overlap (in fact, Nancy was actually created because so many girls read the Hardy Boys; they saw a large untapped market). Nowadays, there's also a large periphery of older fans who read for nostalgia as well. | |
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Nancy Drew | hasFeature |
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Oreimo This trope is central to the premise. Kirino, a 14-year-old girl, unexpectedly loves playing little sister-themed H-Games due to liking the incredibly cute character designs. Kirino is also a fan of Stardust Witch Meruru, a Magical Girl anime that is aimed at little girls and that has a huge fanbase of grown men. |
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Oreimo | hasFeature |
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The Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer, aimed at teenage girls, have a significant overlap with the romance novel demographic of middle-aged women (so-called "Twi-moms"). And the Hatedom continues to buy books just so they can mock them. It also has a huge gay fanbase, which is perhaps less surprising than the fact that not all of them are there for the shirtless men. Many on the internet speculate that if Jacob and Edward had been the couple of the series instead, it would've been far more interesting. Or Alice and Bella. Ironically, and in seeming direct opposition to the above, the series has a very receptive audience among conservative/fundamentalist Christians in the United States, (especially the Church of Latter-Day Saints, of which Stephanie Meyer is a member), not exactly the typical demographic for teen paranormal romance, because they appreciate the conservative religious messages about sex and marriage that the series promotes. |
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The Twilight Saga | hasFeature |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf is for children, but has some older fans if you know where to look. Some of its older fans in China grew up with the series and now have nostalgic memories of it. | |
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Everyone who reads Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a Periphery Demographic according to either the author (who planned it as a The Wonder Years-type nostalgia trip for adults) or the publisher (whose idea it was to market it as a kids' book). | |
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The Hunger Games is an interesting example of what happens when you ignore the periphery demographic. Marketed as a gritty dystopia, its romantic subplot attracted a large number of young female fans (particularly after Stephenie Meyer endorsed the series.) When the final book dropped most of the romance to focus in on the dystopian elements, fans still bought it — they just complained about it on the internet. Now the franchise's female fan base is much larger than its male one. | |
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The Hunger Games | hasFeature |
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In Oz, many of the prison inmates watch an educational children's Show Within a Show called Miss Sally's Schoolyard, because the titular host is very attractive (they're especially fond of her large breasts). | |
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Oz | hasFeature |
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British radio show Cabin Pressure is a fairly gentle and traditional Radio 4 comedy, Radio 4's audience being memetically middle-aged, middle-class and terribly English. Presumably thanks to the presence of Benedict Cumberbatch in the cast (as well as the program being good enough to sustain a devoted following), the show has attracted quite a fandom on the notably international, all-comers, young people jamboree that is Tumblr. | |
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Cabin Pressure (Radio) | hasFeature |
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In Little Busters!, 17-year-old Kyousuke loves reading sports manga intended for ten-year-old boys, highlighting his childlike, optimistic personality. | |
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Little Busters! (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
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One episode focused on Tim creating a special episode to sell the show to a Swedish channel that expressed interest, creating their first foreign language dub. As it turns out, Slapstick was surprisingly universal. | |
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Slapstick | hasFeature |
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In Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Zach, a college student, is a fan of PAW Patrol and claims to quote the show to calm himself down. | |
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | hasFeature |
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Likewise, Chiaki of Ensemble Stars! is a big Sentai fan, so much so that the Ryuuseitai idol group is explicitly based on a sentai team, and their performances often look more like stunt shows than concerts. Keito also has a secret love of shoujo manga, despite being a Stoic Spectacles character in basically every other way. | |
Periphery Demographic / int_d97e4fa5 | featureApplicability |
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Ensemble Stars! (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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For a line marketed mostly to 5- to 12-year-old boys, the Marvel Adventures comics have a pretty decently-sized internet fanbase of mostly adults. This can be attributed almost entirely to the fact that the comics are both A) excellently written, and B) fun. Readers wanting an escape from the Romantic Plot Tumors and Anyone Can Die mentalities of the 616 and Ultimate continuities are also a factor here. | |
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Marvel Adventures (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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South Park: The main four boys are grade schoolers. While they're fans of series aimed at their age group like The Avengers or Terrance and Philip, the boys do show interest in media aimed for adults. Notably, Cartman's a fan of the movies Scarface and The Passion of the Christ (the latter being a plot point where he leads a cult based around Mel Gibson). |
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South Park | hasFeature |
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Despite being a mostly secular franchise, the website has a substantial number of Christian fans. Notably, Christian hip-hop artist KJ-52 has expressed a love for the website and name-dropped it in his track "Things I Like", and ApologetiX have made several references to the website and its characters. | |
Periphery Demographic / int_da4b13dd | featureApplicability |
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ApologetiX (Music) | hasFeature |
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Warrior Cats: Warriors is aimed at 10-year-olds, but the average age of a fan on the site Warriors Wish is 18. Warriors has a large following amongst artists thanks to its simple character designs — if you can draw one cat, you can draw most of the literal hundreds of canon characters by drawing that same cat in different sizes and colors, and the naming system used for most characters makes coming up with valid names for fan characters easy. There's a disproportionately large group of fan-artists and fan-animators amongst the fandom, to the point that it serves as a common Gateway Series for online animation communities. |
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Appropriately enough, The LEGO Movie was, like the toys, marketed toward children but had a big enough impact on adults that there was a backlash when it failed to get an Oscar nomination. | |
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The LEGO Movie | hasFeature |
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Homestar Runner: Despite being a mostly secular franchise, the website has a substantial number of Christian fans. Notably, Christian hip-hop artist KJ-52 has expressed a love for the website and name-dropped it in his track "Things I Like", and ApologetiX have made several references to the website and its characters. The franchise was popular with children in its heyday, owing to the artstyle being cute and bubbly, and the content being almost entirely family-friendly (the worst language the characters use is either PG-rated swears like "crap" or unusual euphemisms like "sweet genius!"). |
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Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer avidly watches the daytime soap opera Passions. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
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Cocomelon is aimed at preschoolers, but there are many babies who happen to be fans of the show. | |
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Cocomelon (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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The Teddy Ruxpin franchise has a fanbase of teenage and adult fans who enjoy collecting the toys, with many of them having an interest in animatronic characters. | |
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The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin | hasFeature |
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In the Family Guy episode "Chick Cancer", Lois drags Peter to a chick flick. While he hates the idea beforehand, he loves the movie so much that he decides to make his own. | |
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Family Guy | hasFeature |
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In New Game!, the Show Within a Show Moon Rangers is targeted to children. However even the producers noticed its adult fanbase, so the concert discussed in Chapter 45/S2E04 has two sessions—an afternoon session for the children, and an evening session geared towards the adults. | |
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New Game! (Manga) | hasFeature |
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Mighty Avengers: During a time travel incident, Iron Man sarcastically makes a Planet of the Apes reference. Doom agrees with him, giving Tony a moment's pause at the thought of Doom having watched the film in the first place. | |
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Frasier: The Crane Brothers are quite surprised to find their blue-collar ex-police dad enjoys watching Antiques Roadshow. (Marty likes watching the appraisals.) It results in a scene of all three of them making a drinking game of it. | |
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Frasier | hasFeature |
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For that matter, it should perhaps be mentioned at this point that The Passion of the Christ has a reputation (up to you how justified — there are many fictional cases — but still) for being enjoyed by horror movie junkies. For a faithful Christian, it's a harrowing depiction of the Crucifixion that can endeepen your faith; for horror movie junkies, it's a gorefest only made better by the irreverence of watching the Christ's death for the gore. | |
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The Passion of the Christ | hasFeature |
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Sylvanian Families is the name of a line of video games and anthropomorphic collectible articulated toy plush figures, created by Japanese company Epoch in 1985 and distributed worldwide by a number of companies. The characters, grouped into families, are woodland creatures such as rabbits, foxes and bears. They remain a quintessential part of the 1990s boom in craze (or fad) toys. Most of its adult fanbase either consists of nostalgic adults who grew up with the toys when they were kids in the 80s and 90s, or are collectors looking to keep the legacy of Sylvanian Families alive. Other fans outside of the target demographic include furries. | |
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Transformers is the absolute king of this. About 10%–20% of toys are sold to adult collectors. Hasbro and Takara Tomy are only too pleased to appeal to these people, with homage-tastic toys, G1-centric comics, and general love. Plus, we have Transformers: Animated, master of the Mythology Gag and much loved among fans for its own merits. This relationship is inverted with the live-action movies: though primarily aimed towards older teenagers and adults (what with all the gratuitous swearing, violence and Mythology Gags), the movies are more unanimously popular among children than among adults, resulting in a fair bit of Misaimed Marketing. Despite being marketed as 'boy's toys' in the '80s, there is a noticeable demographic of older female fans who first got into the Transformers series in its earliest era and continued on with the franchise through the years. |
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The Simple English Wikipedia is geared towards children, people with learning difficulties and people learning English as a second language. It's also popular with native adult English speakers without any learning difficulties because it explains difficult topics in a simple and easily digestible format. | |
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In the Gravity Falls episode "The Inconveniencing", Grunkle Stan gets stuck watching a drama on the Black-and-White Period-Piece Old-Lady Boring Movie Channel called The Duchess Approves, but ends up really getting into it. | |
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Happy Heroes is a Chinese cartoon for children, but has a sizable teen and adult fanbase due to its fast-paced style of humor, likeable characters, and intriguing (and sometimes surprisingly dark) lore. | |
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