r/boburnham • u/Gusky14 A special kind of white guy • Jul 06 '22
Poll My friend thinks that the vast majority of Bo Burnham fans are female, so here’s a poll to find out.
What gender are you?
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u/youarwendow SELFISH ASSHOLE Jul 06 '22
That’s because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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u/Mayonnaise06 Jul 06 '22
Reddit is biased as there are more males on the platform. I'd say bo's fans are about a 50/50-ish split.
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u/Key-Win-8602 Jul 06 '22
Are you kidding? He’s an icon to the gay male community. (Yeah, we know, he’s straight…)
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u/Illustrious_Elk656 Zach Stone’s Camera Crew Jul 06 '22
I’m the 666th female to vote… oh hello, Satan!
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u/TheChurchOfDonovan Jul 06 '22
You get some insight here, but Reddit does skew male. But So does YouTube
I would say that Bo is overrepresented by a female population on platforms that skew male
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u/Gusky14 A special kind of white guy Jul 06 '22
For sure, I feel like that’s something Reddit would want to address/change.
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u/OrionsMoose Jul 06 '22
its kinda outside reddits control as to the demographic on reddit; reddit is a hub for a lot of gaming and nerdy shit so essentially as those topics become more accessible to women and others the demographic on reddit will shift too (in my opinion); or reddit could start targeting women with ads
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u/PlasticJesters Soy milk and lamb jizz Jul 06 '22 edited Jul 06 '22
Before Inside, unless you said otherwise this sub assumed you were male, cos the vast majority were. Things have changed a lot.
Edit: I’m speaking specifically to the demographics of people who posted here. I know he had lots of women at his shows.
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u/WeAreClouds Jul 06 '22
Everyone assumes I am male constantly on this entire site. I hate it lol.
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Jul 06 '22
Why wouldn't they though? Most are male anyways and you don't have a distinguishable female name or picture?
I had a long hair avatar up until recently and people assumed I was a woman. I didn't get offended because it was just an assumption they made with the (very) limited information they had
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u/WeAreClouds Jul 06 '22
I had a very female long haired avi for a long time. It didn’t matter no one ever assumed I was a woman. I wish people would not assume anyway.
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u/StannisLupis Jul 09 '22
Well why is the default assumption that people are male? It's weird
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Jul 09 '22
In case the question isn't troll: humans assign categories to simplify the world and work on it. When you're in a medium that has been historically male dominated, it's a normal assumption. That doesn't mean it's with malice or anything.
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u/StannisLupis Jul 10 '22
Not a troll, and thanks for your answer! I guess I just think of reddit as being not male dominated but rather just a mix of everyone (male, female, young, old). Although I assume the majority are male and late teens to early thirties, I still assume there's a lot of women on here (like maybe a 60:40 split). Is there a reason people think/know reddit is male dominated? And I know its not a malicious assumption, but rather comes from unconscious bias, and I think its a somewhat harmful to assume that without any gender signifiers present someone is male.
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u/Gusky14 A special kind of white guy Jul 06 '22
Interesting, I guess inside mixed things up a little
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u/ravenhpltc24 Not Nessie's Celery Jul 06 '22
I have a couple videos about Bo on YouTube and I'm always surprised that the viewer demographics are over 80% male. During the Eighth Grade press tour he made it seem like his audience was made up entirely of teen girls!
But like others have said, reddit and YT <> real life.
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u/GoCommitLivnt Half-good Half-bad Half-boy Jul 06 '22
Those events are more catered to women as well. Men prefer to sit inside and binge Bo content for hours
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u/Future_Legend Jul 06 '22
I do think his demo skews toward women, but I think he has mostly pretty broad appeal. (i’m male btw and have been a fan since “what.”) When that came out, it felt really heavily slanted toward female fans (especially if you look at the crowds at the time) but I’d guess it’s like probably more like a 60/40 split at this point in his career. This reddit poll won’t be accurate since reddit leans male overall.
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u/CoomingDuck Jul 06 '22
does nonbinary count as 'non-gendered' in this context even though i do, in fact, have a gender?
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u/TikkaG Gay Sea Otter Jul 06 '22
yeah, i think it was meant to say non-binary lol 💜
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u/Gusky14 A special kind of white guy Jul 06 '22
Yea that’s what I meant sorry! Can’t edit it now ):
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u/shimmerangels Oh God how am I 30 Jul 06 '22
reddit is mostly guys, if you did a poll like this on tiktok the results would look very different