Legion1979 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 16, 2022 10:11 amSaying a "large chunk" of this fandom are teenagers or younger ignores entire GENERATIONS of fans who are passionate about this franchise.
"A large chunk" indicates a significant amount.
It sounds to me, and I think most other users in this thread, that are you taking the use of "large chunk" as a "larger chunk" and therefore that someone is arguing for the outsized importance of younger fans comparatively to older fans; but this is plainly not true and not what anyone is saying, as other users have clarified. A "large chunk" is not a technical measurement, but imprecise and subjective term that does not carry an inherent implication of being a mathematically greater fraction. Half, even one-fourth can be seen as, statistically, a large chunk. The Showa films are a 'large chunk' of the franchise, but they are fifteen out of thirty-plus films - not a solid majority of the total content. If one hundred people were in a room, and thirty died, that would be even less than half, and you might still say a 'large chunk' of people in that room died, and this would still be seen as a 'significant amount', without it representing an overwhelming majority of the people. If you divided something into 50/40/10, forty is still a large chunk compared to the ten, even if forty is smaller than fifty. Certainly nobody would say that the non-Showa films are being ignored or not significant by arguing the Showa series is a large chunk of the franchise.But just because less adults are on those platforms doesn't mean there are less of them compared to 18 and below.
If someone actually said there were more younger than adult fans, I would absolutely be backing you up one thousand percent here -- G-Fest skewed older for many years I attended, I'm in some of the Facebook Groups, I would definitely say that the overall fanbase skews older in my experience, so you would be completely valid to say younger fans are not a majority, but the use of 'large chunk' here is not intended to represent an overwhelming majority as the follow-up posts have all indicated.
They see you as against the idea and disagreeing because the prospect of Godzilla being popular amongst kids is all the original post you are responding to was intended to convey in the first place. The argument as to whether they are more or less than the older fanbase is almost certainly not what JAGzilla was meaning to convey, only that the Millennium series is so old that the series is now popular with children who were born after 2004. It is coming off as if you see the statement of popularity among children as invalidating the adult fanbase which doesn't look to be what JAGzilla was trying to say at all.Please find where I said that it's a bad thing? I'm just disagreeing that "a large chunk" Godzilla fans are under 18 considering there are several decades worth of fans born before 2004.
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