Webnovel Reader Age?

ThisAdamGuy

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Here's something I've been wondering. Does anyone know what the general age of webnovel readers are? Are we working more with an adult audience? Kids, teenagers?
 

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Hard to say what the exact distribution is, but the vast majority is teenagers and young adults, probably between 12 and 30 years or something. Younger people are rarely interested in reading, and older people usually have different tastes, though there will obviously be exceptions.
 

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Usually between 16/17 and 30. NOBODY younger than 16 will be reading novels online, trust me. They're watching tiktok videos
nah dawg, i've been reading webnovels since i was 14, might just be cause i'm lowkey autistic. i'm pretty sure we wouldn't get tiktok brainrot on stuff like reverend insanity if there weren't at least a few webnovel readers below 16, there's also the powerscaling community.
 

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nah dawg, i've been reading webnovels since i was 14, might just be cause i'm lowkey autistic. i'm pretty sure we wouldn't get tiktok brainrot on stuff like reverend insanity if there weren't at least a few webnovel readers below 16, there's also the powerscaling community.
yeah but you're not 14 anymore right? im talking about the kids younger than 16 from nowadays
 

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Young Adults is the vague term, but I think most fitting. Audience is this, or older.

Keep in mind, most web novels are essentially a subscription services and this implies audience with the certain level of at least semi-independent income, and many sites including *that one* are often somehow monetized. This rules out the children. A sufficiently neglectful parent may be fine with the children entertaining themselves with the smartphone, but once credit card details and thus money disappear to strange websites registered to strange counties, they are bound to notice. Not to mention children often don't react well to the written text, unless forced.
 

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I'm in my mid 20s and I started as a teenager so the audience is probably made of nerds between 16-20s. Depending on the genres the age changes, I'd say the younger guys prefer more "wish fulfillment" while the older audience can't stand it, coming from someone who was both at some point in time.
 

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My wife does not like reading them but loves listening to then as audionovels, and is considerably older than 20 (heck, she's older than me and I haven't seen my 20s in more than two decades). She's mostly into some Cultivation stories, some traditional high fantasy stuff, the "Talon Cycle" (My Vampire System/My Werewolf System/Level Up Zombie and the other two books in the series), Slice of (high profile) Life, Secret (Millionaire/Marriage/etc.) stuff and her two favorites so far were "Saving Noraa" and "My Vampire System."
 
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If it is normal stories, late teens when they start, probably.
If it is smut and explicit stories? Starting in their early teens at latest
Fanfics will also draw young audience, who will then try to make their own fanfics
 

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Usually between 16/17 and 30. NOBODY younger than 16 will be reading novels online, trust me. They're watching tiktok videos
No, I know a 8 years old kid on RR that not only read stories on there, he also write his own. There's also another 12-13 years old I know on scribblehub who is also an author. So you're wrong.
 

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No, I know a 8 years old kid on RR that not only read stories on there, he also write his own. There's also another 12-13 years old I know on scribblehub who is also an author. So you're wrong.
wtf
still, those are just few exceptions, I am talking about a large scale majority, like millions of people.
 

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According to my Wattpad stats the main demographic I reach is 18-25.
 
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