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When was TD/OT "heyday"? Is the population aging out faster than new/younger users?
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:47 am
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:47 am
I see a lot of complaining about kids/gen z/millennials on here...has the OT gotten so old they now complain about the very things they once were when they first joined TD?
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Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:50 am to sidewalkside
The Rant died on January 9, 2012.
The OT didn't die . . . it just faded away.
The OT didn't die . . . it just faded away.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:52 am to sidewalkside
The OT seems relatively slow now, but that’s because there are so many specialty boards. It’s still a lot of traffic.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:53 am to sidewalkside
2010ish.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:53 am to sidewalkside
Very few posters here are in college. Many, many posters here started posting when they were in college at LSU.
My first account started in 2008 and I think I switched to this one in 2013. I do not remember very many people in their retirement years posting here back then, but it seems like any thread that asks for ages (or just the various references in threads) reveals that there are quite a few posters who are in their 60s and even 70s.
Considering the site started a little over 20 years ago, you're looking at the average youngest posters being in their early thirties, the medium probably between 40-50, and the older group 50+.
So yes, the population is aging out faster than younger users and one day, sadly, TD/OT will disappear.
My first account started in 2008 and I think I switched to this one in 2013. I do not remember very many people in their retirement years posting here back then, but it seems like any thread that asks for ages (or just the various references in threads) reveals that there are quite a few posters who are in their 60s and even 70s.
Considering the site started a little over 20 years ago, you're looking at the average youngest posters being in their early thirties, the medium probably between 40-50, and the older group 50+.
So yes, the population is aging out faster than younger users and one day, sadly, TD/OT will disappear.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:54 am to sidewalkside
We were way bigger men when we first joined TD than the current average user. This site is quickly going the way of Facebook.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:55 am to sidewalkside
For sure ended by
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Registered on: 9/9/2021
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:57 am to TDsngumbo
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This site is quickly going the way of Facebook.
Sounds like Chicken needs a TD For You Page.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:59 am to StringedInstruments
Need more women to spice things up.. It's like a sausage fest in here..
eta- confirmed women.....
eta- confirmed women.....
This post was edited on 3/22/24 at 9:01 am
Posted on 3/22/24 at 8:59 am to Proximo
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For sure ended by
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Registered on: 9/9/2021
In another sign of the aging user here this took way too long to be posted.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:01 am to sidewalkside
quote:most of the people here now are raising/raised gen z/millennials
I see a lot of complaining about kids/gen z/millennials on here
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:02 am to sidewalkside
2012 marked the end of the golden era, 2016 was when the demographics became overwhelmingly middle aged and retirees over college students. Since then, relatively few young posters have joined.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:05 am to sidewalkside
I don't understand how you only have 1400 posts, it feels like you've started 1400 threads.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:05 am to kingbob
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2012 marked the end of the golden era,
So what specifically about 2012 was so much better? What happened then?
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:08 am to Epic Cajun
Bang for my buck!
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:23 am to sidewalkside
The demographics of the board was overwhelmingly people in their 20’s back then. It made for a very different feel. After 2012, however, for whatever reason, incoming college students largely stopped coming to tigerdroppings. I don’t know if it was the rise of instagram or what that they went to instead, but TD stopped growing college aged posters.
In 2016, the election brought in a massive new crop of rural conservative politicos who were overwhelmingly at or near retirement age. They had been displaced by Reddit’s banning of conservative forums as well as the closure of some other online message boards. I could be wrong, but I believe 2016 was also around the same time as the OT/SECOT split as well as the creation of several new boards which diluted OT discussions. Not long after 2016, the Q phenomenon began, and TD became one of the biggest boards for discussing that topic outside of the Chans. This, once again, attracted a large crop of new posters who were overwhelmingly rural and older, and these posters obviously had less in common with college students than ever before.
These waves of rural, older, conservative posters were great for TD’s advertising dollars, but they definitely completely changed the complexion and feel of the site. College students, particularly LSU students, no longer thought td was cool or relevant. Some students might continue to lurk on the Rant, but the OT felt like facebook, just their parents and grandparents ranting about MLM schemes and politics.
In 2016, the election brought in a massive new crop of rural conservative politicos who were overwhelmingly at or near retirement age. They had been displaced by Reddit’s banning of conservative forums as well as the closure of some other online message boards. I could be wrong, but I believe 2016 was also around the same time as the OT/SECOT split as well as the creation of several new boards which diluted OT discussions. Not long after 2016, the Q phenomenon began, and TD became one of the biggest boards for discussing that topic outside of the Chans. This, once again, attracted a large crop of new posters who were overwhelmingly rural and older, and these posters obviously had less in common with college students than ever before.
These waves of rural, older, conservative posters were great for TD’s advertising dollars, but they definitely completely changed the complexion and feel of the site. College students, particularly LSU students, no longer thought td was cool or relevant. Some students might continue to lurk on the Rant, but the OT felt like facebook, just their parents and grandparents ranting about MLM schemes and politics.
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:24 am to sidewalkside
was in the UREC 2 years ago (alumni summer membership) and saw a student wearing a tigerdroppings shirt
This post was edited on 3/22/24 at 9:24 am
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:27 am to sidewalkside
Not sure but I’m 50 and feel kind of young here
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:28 am to kingbob
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The demographics of the board was overwhelmingly people in their 20’s back then. It made for a very different feel. After 2012, however, for whatever reason, incoming college students largely stopped coming to tigerdroppings. I don’t know if it was the rise of instagram or what that they went to instead, but TD stopped growing college aged posters. In 2016, the election brought in a massive new crop of rural conservative politicos who were overwhelmingly at or near retirement age. They had been displaced by Reddit’s banning of conservative forums as well as the closure of some other online message boards. I could be wrong, but I believe 2016 was also around the same time as the OT/SECOT split as well as the creation of several new boards which diluted OT discussions. Not long after 2016, the Q phenomenon began, and TD became one of the biggest boards for discussing that topic outside of the Chans. This, once again, attracted a large crop of new posters who were overwhelmingly rural and older, and these posters obviously had less in common with college students than ever before. These waves of rural, older, conservative posters were great for TD’s advertising dollars, but they definitely completely changed the complexion and feel of the site. College students, particularly LSU students, no longer thought td was cool or relevant. Some students might continue to lurk on the Rant, but the OT felt like facebook, just their parents and grandparents ranting about MLM schemes and politics.
Fairly spot on. For those who don’t have a history with TD, the perception is that TD as a whole, not just the PT, is nothing more than a safe space echo chamber for ignorant racists. Ignoring whether that perception is correct or not, young people aren’t going to join a community with that reputation; there are simply too many other alternatives for them.
This post was edited on 3/22/24 at 9:30 am
Posted on 3/22/24 at 9:31 am to sidewalkside
Well, when people post shite on a message board and then the people who are members of the message talk shite about people posting on a message board... the writing is on the wall. It's how every vBulletin, InvisionBoard, etc message board has died over the years.
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