Who’s your target audience?

Yes cryptocurrency is a good example.

Another would be something like the Luna Network, or Thumb Drive frisbees. Or perhaps something like Drones that carry Dead Drops for world wide offline file sharing networks.

The Luna Network aims to give sneaker net browsing it's own artificial intellegence to make finding things like Dead Drops and other drones an easier process.

It's not up there yet as I use more Goblinrefuge than anything else. That and:

Diaspora
GNU Social
Mastodon
Stuff like that.

It's more something I'm beta testing before wide release. But often such early technology features in my works of fiction. I guess you could say I'm a bit of a method actor.

Now there are Dead Drops on youtube. But I'm taking the concept of the Dead Drop, and moving it into a more secure format. Like DroneNet.

Or even IPvRV. Although I've had enough of internet debunkers lately.

I like finding things like that, and imagining how this would extend into the next decades or so. Some of it I imagine lasting beyond any one Orange Peel president.

I have noticed it does seem to be the politically conservative demographic that seems most resistant to some of my ideas about technology. I'm not absolutely sure why that is.

I guess Liberty really doesn't matter to them after all.

I think it's because most of my target audience seems to be those who are afraid of to much surveillance, and not those who like it.

Baring in mind I used to do dystopian, before I got tired of it.

THE WORLD!!!
No one is to be spared! Man, woman, or child, they will all fall under my word!

...unless they are under fourteen. The comic I'm working on probably isn't fit for that young an audience.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT...
'Look upon my works ye mighty and despair!'

I'd probably say it's young adults-older adults. Most of my subject is social commentary/referencing most younger people wouldn't really understand (Like paying for bills, financial aid, and stupid trends).

Currently working on something that will focus more for teen-young adults though.

My target audience is mostly towards teens and adults. It's more on the mature and is inspired by superhero comics and shows alike. My superhero series has a bit of gore and is crude. If you like rude and mean heroes with weird powers, then I guess you'd like it.

(Semi) Super is for like teens to early twenties and sci-fi fans

Honestly that's something I hope to find out. Haven't started my comic long enough to have an audience with a strong demographic and from my friend's experiences, you tend to get surprised a lot. My friend wrote a graphic novel about dudes in the military and it ended up being mostly female readers. I'm just making the kind of story my boyfriend and I want to read, and then hope there's other people who want to read it too. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Me.

When I was in college, I once wrote an extremely self-indulgent story for my screenplay class that I didn't know we were going to read aloud. I was kind of embarrassed, it was a weird story, but another student actually found me after class to tell me how much he loved it. I think that's the first time I realised that if I was really, really into an idea, someone else would be into it too. They might like it for the same reasons as me! And that realisation is honestly the only way Runewriters could have happened.

I'm not really sure how wide Runewriters' appeal could be? I know that when I'm at cons and get to see folks face-to-face at least, the readership seems to trend towards teenagers and some young adults (which, given where the main characters are in life, makes sense to me). But honestly, almost every decisions is made based on what I would really get excited about, if I were reading it.

like Shazzbaa, the very first person I try to appeal to is myself and I built everything based on what I like/want to read, I'm a firm believer that if you do something you REALLY love, it can be as weird/niche as possible, it will rub off people, but I don't think that mean my target audience is in the same age range/gender as myself or is really like me.

Maybe my target audience actually IS 'tired lgbt+ ppl who just wants to be protagonists for once/want to see ppl being casually like them without the drama focusing on this aspect of themselves and enjoy a side of demonic stuff with 90s music', but I don't think it means people who don't feel like that can't enjoy the adventure/relate to the characters. Since it's not even advertised as lgbt+ -because it's not the focus- I don't even think I have this many reader who are lgbt+ too.
I think different aspects of one story can bring a pretty big range of different people into the 'target audience', so it's hard to pin point it accurately. Different people reading the same story for different reasons, you know ?

I have to agree with shazzbaa - it's definitely me. If I stopped and thought about potential audience, I would change almost everything about my current comic. It would be something completely different, less of what I wanted to make and there's still no guarantee anyone would read it.
You just never know what people are going to relate to. Did those old guys plucking guitars in the mississipi delta, singing about their hard lives, think that years later, middle class white boys from England would hear their music and totally relate to it? Who knows what will make sense to another person? Certainly not me!

aaah, it's a harsh question! I've started considering it would be teenagers, but writing the story out it seems more directed to 20somethings. I'm sure it's for people younger than me, and so far I seem to be right based on feedback

Gombik is made for kids but in the same way that Adventure Time is made for kids.

It's supposed to be for English language learners.

I hope it will appeal to a lot of cultures but I know that some people might not get some of it. However, I'd rather that then go for broader appeal and lose some of the fun.

Never had a target audience in mind to be honest, I just made my comic because I wanted to. I guess, technically, people who like dark subjects and angst would be my target? While I would say adults should be the preferred audience, it depends on how well the person handles it. Sometimes kids can be more mature about adult themes than adults can, I myself grew up watching mature cartoons (Ninja Scroll, Devil Hunter Yohko, etc) and horror movies knowing fully well they weren't real, and never took them seriously.
So my comic is open to anyone who is open to reading it.

I guess teens or young adults.

For the longest time I just wrote what my sister or I would be entertained by (since she was my only audience), and I still write similar stuff now. That would make my target audience teens and young adults who feel alone/bored in life, as well as people looking for LGBT stories.

For my story Earth's Immigrants1 I target people like me. People who enjoy a complex and comedic story.

Anyone who's 13+ and enjoys reading Fantasy with splashes of Mystery and Action and just a hint of Drama.

I'd say older teens and up who enjoy fantasy-mystery stories and philosophy. I don't write my comic for a niche audience, and I'd like to think anyone could enjoy it, but who is to say? I'm creating a comic I would enjoy reading, so maybe my audience is people like me.

Anyone who likes to read various genres of comics...

My audience is: 60% male, 40% female (near to it), Mature readers between 25 to 60 years old (data collected from 5 hosting and peeping the subscriber profiles), American comic book based (non super hero, but crime drama. non supernatural themed), readers like classic page format the most (despite I'm posting here as mobile oriented), genre Pulp Neo Noir Crime Drama and Conspiracy thriller. I knew for whom I was creating for, and the numbers confirm it when I uploaded the stuff. It means... a very specific niche genre which is much more niche online than in the "printed realm". And you know what? I LOVE dealing with my mature audience! For me, they are the best!

My comic is essentially what I was and am into in comedy which stems from anime like Bobobo. So people into that sort've humor style would be my target audience. Sort've niche but one that I truly love.

Honestly latest book had been 25-35 year olds. It's so hard to determine, because it really depends on the book.

For Two Faced, I was aiming for mid-teens to adults. But apparently alot of 12 year old's read it...

For my comic Osca1 , I make sure to appeal to myself first--regradless of anyone else's options. I've had a "former" friend who would constantly annoy me on how my story should go. It's called MY vision for a reason, haha. I'm my biggest fan and my greatest critique. Similar to my artwork, I critique the story to see if it passes by me (I'm really picky in my taste).& I love entertainment!

But at the same time, I understand my motives for making my comic is to inspire people through storytelling. My target audience would be directed towards ages 15+ . But, the comic gets a lot darker to be secretly 18+. At the end of the day, I feel everyone can watch and learn from it

I'm not sure... generally I just make whatever I would want to read, but I talked with a publisher at a festival once and showed him some of my work, and he said early teen to teen girls, so I'll go with that?

I have yet to figure that out, but my style type is a mixture of manga and western style. Or that's what others tell me sometimes.

my target audience is girls 13-18. But my actual demographic is more like 16-25 according to where Dead End Florals was published previously.

Anyone who finds it interesting really.