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Jan 18, 2019 3:36 AM
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My common knowledge on internet culture would lead me to believe that there would be a large percentage of males. And through seeing a dozen friends requests from female profiled bots within my short period of time being active on this site, it would believe that was the case (if there wasn't a large percentage of males, there would be male bots too).

But I would rather not be judgmental of this community as a whole, labeling them as classic 'Weaboo' stereotypes, and I thought there is no better action than to ask the community itself. I am not trying to segregate the community into a PC outrage, just a simple observation and inquiry.
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Jan 18, 2019 3:49 AM
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I am inclined to believe that there are more males than females here, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a 50-50 ratio.
Jan 18, 2019 3:57 AM
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Roughly 70% male / 30% female. With over five million members, that's well over a million females, FYI.
Jan 18, 2019 8:45 AM
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Hard to say since many males put their profile as female to bait other guys and many females put theirs as male or leave it blank to try to avoid sexual harassment.
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Jan 18, 2019 8:46 AM
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There are some female users who are also into the anime, some female users mal are also BLs fans who want to watch yaoi stuff as well.
Jan 18, 2019 9:44 AM
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wouldn't be suprised if there's a lot more girls than people think there are, considering a lot of them will pretend to be guys so pedos don't hit them up.
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is this a male gender issure...human issue...mental illness perhaps?
Jan 18, 2019 10:17 AM
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I'm just saying! If you're looking for a anime guy to roleplay a octopus for you... I got you boo.
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Jan 18, 2019 10:50 AM
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I mean looking for a girlfriend on MAL is probably something what I wouldn't do.... Ohhh wait, unless you're a pretty good fuckboi
Jan 18, 2019 2:45 PM
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The MAL CD forum doesn't mean the whole community, there are a lot of users that don't even come here, so we can't know for sure the true ratio.
Jan 18, 2019 2:53 PM

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It's kinda sorta
50% male and 50% male pretending to be female


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Jan 18, 2019 2:59 PM

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Why does gender even matter? Are you in the market for an online girlfriend?
Jan 18, 2019 3:36 PM
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SadMadoka said:
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Roughly 70% male / 30% female. With over five million members, that's well over a million females, FYI.


That many females? Wow that's surprising. Most of them probably ignore the boards though lol.
Jan 18, 2019 3:44 PM

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If I had to make an uneducated guess based on what I've personally seen around the forums, I'd say about 8:2 (this is taking into consideration that some people who label themselves as female aren't actually female).
Jan 18, 2019 4:01 PM

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Usagi said:
Why does gender even matter? Are you in the market for an online girlfriend?

Yes.
Are you in the market for an online boyfriend?
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Jan 18, 2019 9:04 PM

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tbh my first reaction was to think that it would be a larger amount of guys but i remembered i had this same impression from the ratio of llsif players until i found out from a magazine the largest demographic among llsif players are teenage girls. i wouldn't be surprised if that was the case in mal numbers as well. i do find a lot of girls here tho thank god
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Jan 18, 2019 9:07 PM

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sometimes the ~vibe from a place is mainly masculine but when you get to the actual numbers there's a female dominance. girls usually just suck it up and try to ignore the macho bullshit that goes on especially in fandom spaces (*anime convention war flashback*) or they blend and try to engage in it, but they find their way in one way or another
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Jan 18, 2019 9:16 PM

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This site is mostly sausage fest, yah?

Jan 18, 2019 9:16 PM

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For me the forums seem more male dominant while the kind of clubs I hang around, 80%of the people are female. In my particular club circles there's only a handful of males while in the forums I see mostly males.

So I'm inclined to say around a third of the users are female. But most of them avoid the boards completely.

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Jan 18, 2019 9:27 PM
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there are more males here obviously but you can still find some females within the sausage fest
Jan 19, 2019 6:01 AM

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Just go in the forum games if you want to find females. Females like to play games. Cheeky cunts.
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Jan 19, 2019 7:29 AM

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ZaBici said:
Just go in the forum games if you want to find females. Females like to play games. Cheeky cunts.
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Jan 19, 2019 8:15 AM
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Usagi said:
Why does gender even matter? Are you in the market for an online girlfriend?

That's the name of the game my friend.

First; Create a discussion so that real women will respond, not the greasy incels who roam the anime discussion forums to express their critical superiority.

Second; Profit??
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_Ako_ said:
I mean looking for a girlfriend on MAL is probably something what I wouldn't do.... Ohhh wait, unless you're a pretty good fuckboi

When 50% of females on MAL are probably sweaty incels in disguise, you'd have to be a pretty lucky fuckboi at that.
Jan 19, 2019 8:26 AM

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Jan 19, 2019 1:03 PM

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MrKami said:
_Ako_ said:
I mean looking for a girlfriend on MAL is probably something what I wouldn't do.... Ohhh wait, unless you're a pretty good fuckboi

When 50% of females on MAL are probably sweaty incels in disguise, you'd have to be a pretty lucky fuckboi at that.



Mhhh, so when did we go from fuckboi to incels? Mhhh didn't that quite escalated quickly?
Jan 19, 2019 1:08 PM

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SadMadoka said:
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Roughly 70% male / 30% female. With over five million members, that's well over a million females, FYI.


This is actually very interesting. To be fair, I expected more teens on this website. Though, some may be lying about their age


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aliquae said:
SadMadoka said:
https://myanimelist.net/advertising

Roughly 70% male / 30% female. With over five million members, that's well over a million females, FYI.


This is actually very interesting. To be fair, I expected more teens on this website. Though, some may be lying about their age
I honestly doubt that over 90% of users are over 18. I see so many under-aged users. Can't imagine it's only 10%. If you just pay some attention to the forums you'll see so many people talking about being in middle and high school.
Jan 19, 2019 1:41 PM

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We all know there are no females in MAL, only guys who have an identity crisis or they're cat fishing you.
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Jan 19, 2019 2:10 PM
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Don't you mean ratio of male to female (male) users?

Jan 19, 2019 2:46 PM

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I am all things to everyone, so you don't need any boys or girls. Just me.
Jan 19, 2019 5:02 PM

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Like gaming: mostly men, few women.
Jan 19, 2019 5:55 PM

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Haibara said:
aliquae said:


This is actually very interesting. To be fair, I expected more teens on this website. Though, some may be lying about their age
I honestly doubt that over 90% of users are over 18. I see so many under-aged users. Can't imagine it's only 10%. If you just pay some attention to the forums you'll see so many people talking about being in middle and high school.


:P Yeah, that was my thought too haha.


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Jan 19, 2019 6:06 PM

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I think it's safe to assume there are more males than females who have accounts on this website. That being said, I'm not surprised at the 70/30 estimate, but I don't think it's 50/50.
Not saying girls don't like anime, it is just that they are less likely to be using this website



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There are female users on MAL? I thought that was a myth!



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_Ako_ said:
MrKami said:

When 50% of females on MAL are probably sweaty incels in disguise, you'd have to be a pretty lucky fuckboi at that.



Mhhh, so when did we go from fuckboi to incels? Mhhh didn't that quite escalated quickly?


You can never be to careful with incels, there always hiding in the corner waiting for a chance to get ya.

I have no greater nightmare then to find a online girlfriend and them turn out to be a greasy old man named Greg.
Jan 20, 2019 1:22 PM

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MrKami said:
_Ako_ said:



Mhhh, so when did we go from fuckboi to incels? Mhhh didn't that quite escalated quickly?


You can never be to careful with incels, there always hiding in the corner waiting for a chance to get ya.

I have no greater nightmare then to find a online girlfriend and them turn out to be a greasy old man named Greg.


I find it hard to believe that you'd want to find a gf on MAL.
Jan 20, 2019 1:33 PM
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OP, you forgot about fags / (underground) tranies ratio on MAL.
Jan 21, 2019 1:36 AM

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I would say 40% girls 60% boys tbh. Ive seen alot of girls and I know a few too.
Jan 21, 2019 9:19 PM

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I'd say it leans towards guys. I think there are more girls on here than people realize. I mean, basically everyone on here has an anime girl avatar, and people assume people with anime girl avatars are guys a lot of the time. So it can look like there are more guys than there really are in a weird way.
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ZaBici said:
I'm just saying! If you're looking for a anime guy to roleplay a octopus for you... I got you boo.


You, dear sir, are the true MVP in all of this. <3
Jan 21, 2019 10:07 PM

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Also, I like to think its 50/50. Anime is great and there's so much and so many kinds of it. I'm sure anyone, if they tried hard enough, could find one they at least liked. So yeah 50.50 split is what I'm thinking when it comes to gender on this site.
Jan 21, 2019 10:07 PM
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50% male identified as male
30% female identified as female
10% male identified as female
5% female identified as male
5% everyone else
Jan 22, 2019 3:45 AM

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From my experience, and making just a wild guess, I'd say from every 10 profiles I visit, about 7 are male.

I really don't think it's a 50:50, at all.
Jan 22, 2019 4:43 PM

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feels like 90% of the people on the internet are males and from the 10% that are female
6% are taken
1% are popular / good looking "thots"/ "bigger than 1 person can't chain me down" / britney spears syndrome
2% are fat because they eat too much and not because of anything else
1% are the girls that can make some random loser guy luck out and fix his life by existing

and i'm like a super internet veteran so i know all that shit

it's pretty bad :CattoCry:
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Jan 27, 2019 11:02 AM
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There are absolutely no girls on Mal.
Jan 27, 2019 11:04 AM

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its probably a lot more even than most people realize
Jan 27, 2019 11:09 AM

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95% male
4% "female"
.5% female as in actual female
.5% "male"
Jan 27, 2019 1:23 PM
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My guess would be 60%Male - 40%Female or 70%Male - 30%Female range. I imagine female members are more likely to cover up or not mention their gender as not to get bothered by creepy forum members.
Jan 27, 2019 1:27 PM

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SadMadoka mentioned there is a 70/30 split according to MAL statistics, but I think it's more even. In my experience a lot of female members, including myself, prefer not to have their gender in their profiles.
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