History Main / PeripheryDemographic

** In fact all usages of Linux on [=PCs=] or embedded systems are cases of periphery demographics, because Linux was initially intended as a Unix clone and Unix only ran on large computers like mainframes and servers (home computers used CP/M or MS-DOS). But TechnologyMarchesOn and now every PC with an 80386 or higher and other microprocessors which support some kind of protected mode can run Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.

* When Creator/{{Stephen Hawking}}'s voice synthesizer started to fail towards the end of his life, a group of engineers got together to create an [[UsefulNotes/{{Emulation}} emulator]] to replace it.[[note]]While speech synthesis has come a long way since the creation of Hawking's synthesizer in the TheEighties, Hawking had come to identify with it and preferred to keep it if at all possible[[/note]]. It turned out that one of the chips used in the synthesizer was also used as an enhancement chip in certain Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem games, which led to the engineers borrowing some code from the SNES emulator higan to incorporate into their emulator.

* Creator/TrishaHershberger is not a [[UsefulNotes/{{Nudism}} nudist]] but she does host a web series called ''The Naked Truth'' in which she vlogs naked about a variety of topics. The show has attracted some interest from the nudist community who praise it for demonstrating that simply being naked is not inherently sexual.

** Regardless of the subject of the convention, if it has a game room, you can bet that many attendees are there just for the games, often people from the UsefulNotes/FightingGameCommunity who see cons as a chance to play casual matches, participate in tournaments, and make new friends, especially if they're from someplace where there isn't much of a local fighting game scene.

** This relationship is inverted with the [[Film/{{Transformers}} live-action movies]]: though primarily aimed towards older teenagers and adults (what with all the gratuitous swearing, violence [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] {{Mythology Gag}}s), the movies are more unanimously popular among children than among [[BrokenBase adults]], resulting in a fair bit of MisaimedMarketing.
** Despite being marketed as 'boy's toys' in the 80s, there is a noticeable demographic of older female fans who first got into the ''Transformers'' series in its earliest era and continued on with the franchise through the years.

* Outside of its main target audience ({{preschool|Show}} demographics), ''Animation/MashaAndTheBear'' is enjoyed by animation enthusiasts who love the intricate details, the wonderfully colorful animation and some good {{Slapstick}}. After a while, the Website/YouTube channel started adding "Cartoon for kids of all ages".

*** The second case happened in that a lot of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' fans, especially those within the Website/{{YouTube}} reaction/reviewer community, have discovered ''Red vs. Blue'' on the off-season when they still needed content to react to/review. Both might be Rooster Teeth productions, but they couldn't be ''any'' more different (one is a comedic {{Machinima}} based on ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' featuring copious swearing, the other an {{Animesque}} MagicalGirl cartoon that mostly takes itself seriously)!
* An interesting variation comes in the form of the animation website Website/GoAnimate, ostensibly a tool designed to help businesses create promotional videos. However, the software became inordinately popular with... a different kind of demographic. For reasons only they understand, these people used the simplistic software to create [[QuirkyWork all kinds of bizarre nonsense]], which was almost always related to cartoon characters getting in trouble (the "X gets grounded" videos are the most well-known of the crop). This had the side effect of turning the website into the laughingstock of the animation community. Eventually the staff tried to save face: first by more-or-less deleting their forums, which had become a hotbed of stupidity, and then by removing the casual subscription plans, leaving only the prohibitively expensive subscription plans as a way of trying to get their original demographic back on track. Even its Periphery Demographic has a Periphery Demographic as there's a strange circle of the video makers of the "Grounded" videos who like the videos made of those who mock their videos and vice versa.

* ''Website/GoAnimate'' is ''rife'' with this.

* The Pinnacle Dazzle DVC 100 is marketed as a device for copying old VHS footage to [=DVDs=]. However, a great number of video game reviewers and [[LetsPlay let's players]] on websites such as Website/YouTube use it as a low-end capture device for video game footage.

* {{Pick a|Card}} Website/YouTube [[PickACard beauty guru. Any beauty guru.]] She will undoubtedly have a portion of her fanbase that is male because of finding her attractive. Men tend to like "outfit of the day" videos best, since many of the outfits are very beautiful, flattering, and sexy. Of course, [[AllMenArePerverts a lot of the younger men and boys tend to say extremely crude and inappropriate comments such as "I want to pinch your fanny", which goes against the aim of most beauty channels to be family friendly]].

* Although Gibson guitars, especially the Les Paul, have fallen out of favor with mainstream artists and are now mostly targeted towards classic rock fans and collectors, they actually still have a following in the underground PostHardcore and DoomMetal circuits for their darker sound, heavy sustain, shorter scale length, and flatter fretboards.[[note]]Flatter fretboards are easier to do fast solos on, while Fender's more radiused fretboards are more ideal for the more chordal styles of playing popular in today's pop/indie landscape.[[/note]] Many influential post-hardcore bands like Music/{{Fugazi}} and Music/TitleFight used Gibsons extensively, while doom metal took heavy inspiration from 70s metal bands like Black Sabbath, who also famously used Gibsons.

* The Fender Jazzmaster, ironically, was rejected by the jazz players it was intended to be targeted for. If instead found favor with surf guitarists (it helps that it resembles the Fender Jaguar, which ''was'' targeted towards surf musicians). When surf rock fell out of style, it, along with the Jaguar, eventually found a second life as an IndieRock guitar due to being very affordable on the used market.

* Although Gibson guitars, especially the Les Paul, have fallen out of favor with mainstream artists and are now mostly targeted towards classic rock fans and collectors, they actually still have a following in the underground PostHardcore and DoomMetal circuits for their darker sound, heavy sustain, shorter scale length, and flatter fretboards. Many influential post-hardcore bands like Music/{{Fugazi}} and Music/TitleFight used Gibsons extensively, while doom metal took heavy inspiration from 70s metal bands like Black Sabbath, who also famously used Gibsons.

** Closed captions and subtitles for TV shows and movies are meant for deaf viewers, but they also spell out words that might be difficult to distinguish just from hearing them, which can be useful for learning work-specific names and terminology. In a more downplayed example of this trope, people who can hear just fine but have trouble processing spoken speech also enjoy subtitles. Subtitles can also be useful for figuring out what [[TheUnintelligible unintelligble]] characters are saying, for example, ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episodes' subtitles have proper captions for Kenny [=McCormick=] rather than "(mumbles)".

* Particle-filtering respirator masks are made for people who do projects that may involve harmful fumes (such as that of house paint) or other hazardous-for-your-lungs fine particules (like sawdust). They are also widely used in places that have poor air quality, particularly on the West Coast of the U.S. during wildfire season, as the wood ash from wildfires can spread for dozens of miles, causing dangerous health effects if they are inhaled. They gained a much wider demographic during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic; people in healthcare fields use them (rather than cloth masks) to further minimize the chance of exchanging virus particles, and soon after some people not in healthcare started using them as well due to the Omicron variant of late 2021 and 2022 being much more infectious than previous variants and government health agencies recommending them to the general public as well. It helps that respirator masks have around-the-head straps as opposed to the more common around-the-ear straps that can make one's ears sore if worn all day.

* Related to this, the "Server" versions of Windows have started becoming popular among a segment of home users into UsefulNotes/TheNewTens and The New Twenties, as they're essentially the same operating system as the desktop equivalents under the hood with a few extra tools. They can be easily configured to hide the server bits and run almost-exactly like the equivalent desktop edition (to the extent that, with a bit of tweaking, you couldn't tell the difference between a PC running Windows 10 and one running Windows Server 2019 unless you looked in the System Properties), with greater control over updates and the snooping "telemetry" aspects; and without ''any'' of the bloatware Metro apps, advertising or in-your-face pushing of Cortana that some deride Windows 10 for. They also follow a traditional every-few-years release cycle like older Windows versions, which helps endear them to anyone who isn't a fan of Windows 10's enforced "feature upgrades".

* The Dolphin UsefulNotes/GameCube and UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} emulator is popular even with many people who were fans of other consoles from the 6th generation. This is due to Dolphin being by far the most complete emulator for a console from that generation, making it preferrable for running MultiPlatform games. Dolphin's developers have expressed appreciation for this, as it allows the emulator to be tested (and updated for better compatibility of necessary) with a wider variety of games than they would have otherwise.

* UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}}-based [=OSes=] are often seen as intended for programmers and other geeks who have in-depth knowledge of how to use them, but are gaining in popularity among casual users who simply want an alternative to Microsoft and Apple, or for ideological reasons (FLOSS).

* When Creator/{{Stephen Hawking}}'s voice synthesizer started to fail towards the end of his life, a group of engineers got together to create an [[UsefulNotes/{{Emulation}} emulator]] to replace it.[[note]]While speech synthesis has come a long way since the creation of Hawking's synthesizer in the TheEighties, Hawking had come to identify with it and preferred to keep it if at all possible[[/note]]. It turned out that one of the chips used in the synthesizer was also used as an enhancement chip in certain UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem games, which led to the engineers borrowing some code from the SNES emulator higan to incorporate into their emulator.

-->'''Calvin:''' Why do we drink ''cow'' milk?! Who's the first guy who thought, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of ''these'' things when I squeeze 'em!"?[[note]]Someone who was very thirsty and saw a calf being fed.[/note]]

** Closed captions and subtitles for TV shows and movies are meant for deaf viewers, but they also spell out words that might be difficult to distinguish just from hearing them, which can be useful for learning work-specific names and terminology. In a more downplayed example of this trope, people who can hear just fine but have trouble processing spoken speech also enjoy subtitles.

* [[Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection American Girl]], despite being a company aimed at girls between the ages of 8 and 12 mostly, has a very large fanbase of adult women, usually middle-aged or older with either children outside of the target age or no children of their own. There are at least three popular adult collector forums (with thousands of members each) and most of the secondary market is fueled by the demand from adult collectors.

* Official and licensed video game strategy guide books, which were popular in the 90s until the advent of walkthrough databases like Website/GameFAQs and fan-maintained wikis (like those hosted on [=StrategyWiki=]), often feature a whole host of [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary artwork and lore]] not found in the games or their respective manuals. Many people collect strategy guides for this purpose, whether they actually own the games they're for or not. A lot of poorer gamers during that time period would pick some of these guides up (sometimes as part of a magazine subscription bonus, like for ''Magazine/NintendoPower'') and read through them, pretend-playing the game in their heads as they looked through the maps, secrets, and strategies for games they did not have. ''Literature/FeverKnights'' by Creator/AdamEllis is a love letter to people who read strategy guides for games they don't own, being a story told as a strategy guide for a nonexistent turn-based RPG game.

** Hotels typically use bathtubs in guest rooms, with accessibility-oriented rooms instead having roll-in showers. Designed for people who cannot stand up for more than a few moments and get their feet over the bathtub rail, they are also enjoyed by larger-bodied guests who find bathtubs to be too small, and many able-bodied guests in general find them more comfortable to get into and out of overall. These roll-in showers may have some extra amenities too, such as a handheld showerhead in addition to a fixed overhead one, while the other rooms in the hotel only have fixed showerheads.
** Wheelchair ramps are meant to be an alternative to stairs since wheelchairs cannot roll up and down stairs. But able-bodied individuals also benefit from them since they're less likely to [[StaircaseTumble stumble over them]].

** The banter between Tim and [[BeleaguredAssistant his assistant Al]] along with regular DoomItYourself disasters earned the show a following among people who normally don't watch home repair shows, with a RunningGag that anyone who recognizes Tim from the show [[EnsembleDarkhorse really like Al]]. Tim also sometimes overhypes on who, exactly, is watching the show and was concerned his teenage sons were getting bothered at school by peers asking questions about recent special event projects.

* If the comment sections are anything to go by, a [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids disturbing]] amount of preteens and even children have confessed to watching ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'', which takes place in Hell and features much sex, excessive profanity, and drug references.

** Hotels typically use bathtubs in guest rooms, with accessibility-oriented rooms instead having roll-in showers. Designed for people who cannot stand up for more than a few moments and get their feet over the bathtub rail, they are also enjoyed by larger-bodied guests who find bathtubs to be too small, and many able-bodied guests in general find them more comfortable to get into and out of overall. These roll-in showers may have some extra amenities too, such as a handheld showerhead in addition to a fixed overhead one.