What gender are most of your readers?

[powerplantanimations]

I am not going to lie... That'd actually be a cool feature on Tapas. Especially since it could help me with marketing since I plan on branching out with my stuff.

From my interactions, it seems like an equal amount of dudes and chicks read my comic? As well as people who prefer to use different pronouns.

I'm thankful that my humor manages to resonate with more people than expected (specifically the female demographic). There's times where I'm like "is this a little too far?" but then I get compliments saying they can't stop busting up.

I will say, it's cool that guys are reading a comic with this artstyle. Like... Quincy doesn't come until episode 15... and even then he gets put out of commission for another 15 episodes or something. I never really stated it was a satire in my description. Like yeah stick figures being used for the majority, but the anime art in between is your typical romance style.

Then again, I am getting away with showing episodes with stick figures and people are loving it. So it could really be just the stick figures lol.

[AmazementComics]

I’m pretty sure most of my audience is male. And I base that off of the fact that most male comic readers tend to like action stories more than female readers. Shout out to my female readers who also comment on my stories as well .

[harlan]

I'm not sure.

Most of my readers seem to be human, though, in spite of the fact my story is clearly about elves. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[abigaillmartin]

Yeah I’m not sure which most of my readers are. I’d say it’s a mix of all genders. But because I’m a female writer I think most of my audience could possibly be female too but that’s just me. I’m happy to have a lot of different kinds of people reading my stories.

[abigaillmartin]

Yes I think your story resonates to a really wide audience. I admire that and that’s what lots of writers want.

[abigaillmartin]

It’s not really my thing but as a woman I can understand why it can be appealing to other women my age.

[LunarScyphozoa]

I do believe most readers here are men, on account of how few feathers they have.

[Crusoe]

Unfortunately, with the statistics Tapas provides, it's hard to guess accurately what the majority of your readers identify as. That said, my novel is a BL novel, which tends to draw a lot of readers from a primarily female audience. However, the active subscribers who leave comments, likes, etc vary wildly in their genders. From male to female to non-binary, I get them all from what I can judge. (The only reason I know this is because some are acquaintances and because some put their pronouns in their bio or make their gender otherwise known with their profile picture.)

[Stargazer31]

I don't really know to be honest

[MaxFF]

I am pretty sure that most of my readers are female. Hardly anyone actually reads it, and the few who do, most of them are fellow creators on the site. Some of these people I even chat with a bit and I have some general idea who they are. I'm gonna take a guess that the skew towards female readers for my comic has nothing to do with the genre, subject matter or anything like that, but is simply a due to there being more female creators in this community.

[NickRowler]

My comics aren't really "spicy" or "erotic", maybe some readers might be let down by that aspect of my work.

Tho for the most part, I don't write just for BL readers or just gay people. I think my work can be enjoyed by anyone.

[abigaillmartin]

Exactly you should make it for everyone. Sorry if I offended you in any way. I don’t mean it.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

I'm not from earth so most of them are aliens as far as I'm concerned.

Not that I think about any demographic when posting.(Tapas analytics dashboard when? I wanna see age, country, and most active times, too)

[moontokkym]

From what I can tell it seems to be a good mix, which surprises me because my insta is something like 79% female. I guess because sci-fi has classically been "for men" and I have a male-presenting main character at the start?
My two most active readers are female and non-binary respectively though so for now the ones connecting with the story the most vocally are my usual audience.

[darthmongoose]

When I last did a reader survey, which was admittedly when my readership was a lot smaller than now, my readership was pretty close to an exactly equal split between male and female, and then with about 15-20% nonbinary. This does align with previous surveys I've done on my work, and on the sort of people who comment. or who follow me on social media.

I make work with a sort of even mix of relationship drama and action and fairly detailed worldbuilding and magic system and plenty of action sequences, so it has fairly broad appeal. I also feature nonbinary characters, which unsurprisingly enby people like. I think the fact that my work isn't especially sexy in style helps too; like there's rarely stuff that'll make anyone feel uncomfortably like their gender only exists in the story to be objectified for a specific gaze. The characters are all just people, they're all kinda dorky, and it's kind of cool that anyone can get into it because of that.

I always used to think of my work as "For women", I'm a female creator, I tend to make stories about mostly female characters, or at least with a female protagonist... but over time, I discovered that, perhaps due to having pretty low gender conformity in how I act and communicate in spite of a strong female gender identity, I tend to attract male readers. It shouldn't have really been a surprise; I've always had a pretty even gender split of friends too!

[mmhillis]

My humble opinion is that people will read what is most interesting based on individual opinion and nothing else really matters.

[Azifri]

On Tapas, no idea. But on my art Instagram, which has mostly stuff related to my comic, it's ~70% male according to the info Instagram gives you.
Doesn't really mean anything to me, just a curiosity ^^

[Zay]

Hmmmmmmmm, I dunno.

[Headypigeon4180]

My readers seem to be 50/50

On the Duck the majority of my readers are male due to the site's demographic. My two backers are Female and are amazing. On every other site though it's 50/50, not surprising given that my comics don't really have a definite gender Identity. That being said whilst I have a lot of male readers I think girls and women like my comics slightly more on average, probably due to the fact that action comics very rarely have female leads with a female best friend and a variety of big bads without being something smutty.

A friend of mine once told me that due to the fact no one is sexualised it actually hurts Hawk and Flo Adventures, but for me personally It just wouldn't feel right. The series main strength has always been that it's something different.

[MTDG]

Thanks for all of your replies. It's been interesting to read about everyone's experience, especially the most articulated ones.

I don't really care about the gender of my readers, as long as they enjoy my story, but it's a fact that I attract a certain audience (and sometimes this makes me a little sad because I would have loved my comic to be slightly more universal)