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Thanks to Member Ghostbird who made me aware of:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/akiba-online.com
I felt some of the results were fascinating.
I recently read a post written by one of our wonderful moderators (it was either CoolKevin or Desioner), mentioning that most Akiba-Online members don't know English. Well, since I know English, and since I am an imperialist, my first thought was, how could that be? Akiba-Online is an English language site, and therefore most visitors would need to be English-capable.
Look at this:
(Of course, these numbers change constantly, in case you are reading this thread a year from now.)
Sixty-six percent of visitors is from Japan?? Okay, OKAY, I know JAV is a "Japanese" product, so I should not be surprised But... what the HELL!
(And look... from where I am from, last on the list, only three percent. I... I... don't like being a minority.)
(China... no surprise. Big JAV audience, there. But still kind of low, around four-five percent. And will you look at all of those porn-infested Koreans, for God's sake.)
(Hong Kong is a "country"?)
Yet back to Japan. All right, I don't know how many Japanese visitors to this site understand and can communicate in English... but I'd suppose not that many? As a comparison, lots of Europeans know English, so it is kind of "expected" by now for most Europeans to know English. (Especially young Europeans.) Similarly, since porn visitors would mostly be on the younger side, I'd imagine young Japanese are better versed in English.
Overall, however, my guess would be English may not be as "essential" a subject in Japanese schools as English seems to be in most European schools, so I can still believe a lot of the young Japanese who visit Akiba-Online in such maddening numbers (the site is ranked 519th in Japan. 519! Out of the millions and millions of sites in the world...) do not know English.
They just come here for the downloads, and to look at the dirty pictures. No wonder we keep hearing from the same handful of voices in the Discussion section. I suppose it makes sense that out of the many Akiba-Online members (the "Home" page's "Forum Statistics" tell us, as of today, there are almost 900,000 members. That's like... a million!), few choose to contribute, because not only do we get the expected lurkers, but... a lot of the members just don't know English.
(As for our Japanese visitors who DO know English, I am going to SHAME you for not responding in droves whenever I've asked whaddoesdismean questions. We NEED you to pitch in more frequently to advise the non-Japanese speakers as to what is going on.)
(I mean, look! I still have to get a satisfactory answer to my Plot Point of the "Friend's Mother Violated in Front of Him" Series - What Gives? question. It's been two years, for GOD's sake.)
Okay, here was another surprise:
Aside from the fact that most are coming here from SCHOOL (which points to so many young minds being corrupted), there are more... FEMALE visitors?? Whaaaa-aaaaaa-aaaaaaa-aaaaaaa-aaaaaaa-aaaattt?
It's not always easy to tell whether the few people who participate on Discussion are boys or girls, of course, but there is a definite male perspective that I am reading into most comments being offered. If there are more girls than boys... how come we hardly hear from them?
Okay, I get it. If there were, let's say, twenty percent of all visitors who are females, and given that most people don't speak up, we can understand why there are almost no female contributors. But let me say it again... if these statistics are to be believed, MOST visitors are girls or women. And we know how most girls or women can't shut up... so how come we hardly hear from them?
EDIT:
Days later, I noticed Kharo88's link for Pornhub's 2015 statistics, and wished to share a few of the graphs relating to women. (Please click that second link for more revelations; also, click on images below, to enlarge.)
Here we see one-quarter of porn visitors are women.
Top women search terms; "Lesbian" tops the list. (Tellingly, the only listed nationality for both men and women searches is "Japanese.")
After "Lesbian," top category of viewed porn for women is... Gay men??
Among most-searched-for porn actors, eight out of ten are women???
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Thanks to Member Ghostbird who made me aware of:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/akiba-online.com
I felt some of the results were fascinating.
I recently read a post written by one of our wonderful moderators (it was either CoolKevin or Desioner), mentioning that most Akiba-Online members don't know English. Well, since I know English, and since I am an imperialist, my first thought was, how could that be? Akiba-Online is an English language site, and therefore most visitors would need to be English-capable.
Look at this:
(Of course, these numbers change constantly, in case you are reading this thread a year from now.)
Sixty-six percent of visitors is from Japan?? Okay, OKAY, I know JAV is a "Japanese" product, so I should not be surprised But... what the HELL!
(And look... from where I am from, last on the list, only three percent. I... I... don't like being a minority.)
(China... no surprise. Big JAV audience, there. But still kind of low, around four-five percent. And will you look at all of those porn-infested Koreans, for God's sake.)
(Hong Kong is a "country"?)
Yet back to Japan. All right, I don't know how many Japanese visitors to this site understand and can communicate in English... but I'd suppose not that many? As a comparison, lots of Europeans know English, so it is kind of "expected" by now for most Europeans to know English. (Especially young Europeans.) Similarly, since porn visitors would mostly be on the younger side, I'd imagine young Japanese are better versed in English.
Overall, however, my guess would be English may not be as "essential" a subject in Japanese schools as English seems to be in most European schools, so I can still believe a lot of the young Japanese who visit Akiba-Online in such maddening numbers (the site is ranked 519th in Japan. 519! Out of the millions and millions of sites in the world...) do not know English.
They just come here for the downloads, and to look at the dirty pictures. No wonder we keep hearing from the same handful of voices in the Discussion section. I suppose it makes sense that out of the many Akiba-Online members (the "Home" page's "Forum Statistics" tell us, as of today, there are almost 900,000 members. That's like... a million!), few choose to contribute, because not only do we get the expected lurkers, but... a lot of the members just don't know English.
(As for our Japanese visitors who DO know English, I am going to SHAME you for not responding in droves whenever I've asked whaddoesdismean questions. We NEED you to pitch in more frequently to advise the non-Japanese speakers as to what is going on.)
(I mean, look! I still have to get a satisfactory answer to my Plot Point of the "Friend's Mother Violated in Front of Him" Series - What Gives? question. It's been two years, for GOD's sake.)
Okay, here was another surprise:
Aside from the fact that most are coming here from SCHOOL (which points to so many young minds being corrupted), there are more... FEMALE visitors?? Whaaaa-aaaaaa-aaaaaaa-aaaaaaa-aaaaaaa-aaaattt?
It's not always easy to tell whether the few people who participate on Discussion are boys or girls, of course, but there is a definite male perspective that I am reading into most comments being offered. If there are more girls than boys... how come we hardly hear from them?
Okay, I get it. If there were, let's say, twenty percent of all visitors who are females, and given that most people don't speak up, we can understand why there are almost no female contributors. But let me say it again... if these statistics are to be believed, MOST visitors are girls or women. And we know how most girls or women can't shut up... so how come we hardly hear from them?
EDIT:
Days later, I noticed Kharo88's link for Pornhub's 2015 statistics, and wished to share a few of the graphs relating to women. (Please click that second link for more revelations; also, click on images below, to enlarge.)
Here we see one-quarter of porn visitors are women. Top women search terms; "Lesbian" tops the list. (Tellingly, the only listed nationality for both men and women searches is "Japanese.") After "Lesbian," top category of viewed porn for women is... Gay men?? Among most-searched-for porn actors, eight out of ten are women???.
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