History Main / PeripheryDemographic

** 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.

** The SF Bay Area-based Yaoi-Con has quite a few attendees who aren't there for BoysLove or even any kind of erotic content. Its main draw for those attendees is that it is the only convention in the region to be entirely 18+ (as opposed to other conventions that at most have porn/hentai screenings and a few age-restricted panels), thus making for a more mature and well-behaved community than most other conventions in the area.

* There are cases where some go to IKEA, but not for the furniture -- rather for their meatballs or hot-dogs, or other items at the in-store restaurant.

* The Whole Shabang is a brand of potato chips best known for their bold flavor that tastes like every flavor of potato chip you can possibly think of at the same time... and for being [[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chips-so-good-you-ll-have-go-jail-get-them-n648241 originally sold exclusively to prison inmates]], until their popularity amongst former inmates longing to try these chips again (and not willing to go back to jail just to do so) as well as curious non-inmates led the Keefe Group to [[http://wholeshabang.com/ sell them online to the general public]].

When the Periphery Demographic is in another country, then you've got GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff. For a specific type of Periphery Demographic, see EstrogenBrigade, TestosteroneBrigade, LGBTFanbase, PopularWithFurries. If a fandom forms around media that was not intended for entertainment purposes in the first place, it's FunForSome. Compare MisaimedFandom and JustHereForGodzilla. Contrast PeripheryHatedom. Not to be confused with fans of the band ''Music/{{Periphery}}''.

* [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]] has a lot of attractive nerds, both male and female. Do you really think that ''everyone'' watching WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick[=/=]WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic or [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] is going to care about bad nostalgic shows/films, bad comics, or bad anime?

* 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 [[WidgetSeries 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.

* In Japanese otaku circles, there exists a term for this called "Ookii-na otomodachi (大きなお友達)", meaning "big friend"[[note]]Originally used in the context of performers at children's shows referring to adult audience members as this, in contrast to the "little friends[[/note]], which refers to teens and adults who like shows aimed at children. This is a lot noticeable with fandoms for magical girl shows such as Minky Momo and Pretty Cure, and tokusatsu series. Companies do acknowledge this, usually by making merchandise intended for mature fans, or adding [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids suggestive content]] in an otherwise family-friendly anime, and is also the reason why many modern magical girl shows are aimed towards adults.

* On the subject of shoes, this is why some women (and to an extent men) with small feet are suggested to shop at the children's department as at least some companies do sell kids' shoes at sizes straddling between youth's and adult's sizes (around EU 33-39) but go for much cheaper than those specifically intended for adults. As long as the shoes don't look too childish or infantile-looking, that is. One woman [[https://www.amazon.com/SEELEY-HEEL-MARY-JANE-Buckle/product-reviews/B001KQZA3U?pageNumber=2 left a review]] on an Amazon page for Nina's "Seeley" Mary Janes for girls, stating that they were "just right" for her as an adult and would consider buying another pair. Converse's Chuck Taylor All-Stars, commonly called Chucks, are an example of sneakers that have identical styles for children and adults, allowing adults with small feet to wear children's Chucks without issues, especially given the popularity of this shoe among the general population.

* 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 (liket hose 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.

* 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 (liket hose hosted on [=StrategyWiki=]), often featured 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 would pick some of these 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.

* There are cases where some go to IKEA, but not for the furniture -- rather for their meatballs or hot-dogs.

* Megahouse's G.E.M. line of scale figures is specifically aimed at the adult female collector's market, depicting characters from series that are popular with women and (usually) more down-to-earth poses. They have many male fans though, particularly the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' and ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' ones.

* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'': In-universe. Alfheim Online was intended as a pre-school edutainment game, but some bizarre design choices (such as a lot more combat than was necessary for such a game) meant that parents didn't really buy it for their kids. A role-playing club found the game and thought it would be a good place to play out a scenario that they had been working on. It spread from there, so most of the players are hardcore role-players, or just people who thought the flight system would be cool.

* The Simple English Website/{{Wikipedia}} is geared towards children, people with learning difficulties and people learning English as a second language. It's also popular with native adult English speakers without any learning difficulties because it explains technical topics in a simple and easily digestible format.

* Male homosexual pornography is popular among heterosexual women. In fact, [[http://www.pornhub.com/insights/what-women-want statisticians at Pornhub.com]] found that gay porn is actually more [[GuyOnGuyIsHot popular with straight women]] than with gay men.
** Not surprising, as lesbian pornography is [[GirlOnGirlIsHot popular among straight men]].

** There are also people who watch porn - or at least the introductory few minutes before the sex starts, after which it all gets a bit repetitive - because of the appalling acting, the exotic settings, the ludicrous scripting that seeks to establish the utterly implausible reason why two (or more) people are going to have sex, and the hilarious miscasting. As well as the cheap and tacky production values, and the multiple "bloopers" which, if they happened in any other form of film, would necessitate a retake.[[note]]the seriously wooden acting, the implausible scripts, and odd things like a Liverpool accent being considered erotic and sensual in L.A., can really cheer you up on a grey day[[/note]]
** Porn in general! Most industries assume [[AllWomenArePrudes that all women hate it]] and only try to appeal to men.
** {{Hentai}} has a sizable demographic of people who only seem to watch it for the SugarWiki/AwesomeArt. (Not surprising, since any hentai artist that can regularly avoid FetishRetardant ''must'' have very good art skills.) Back when the Electronic Hentai Organization specialized in nothing but hentai the admin noticed how a lot of artwork that is not Hentai got high ratings despite having nothing that is even the slightest bit pornographic. Eventually the admin would embrace the demographic and create a Non-H folder for artwork that people like but that simply is not Hentai.
** There are also the very rare cases of hentai (or {{lemon}} fanfics) which wind up having [[PornWithPlot such strong characterization and themes]] that some people read it because they actually care about the characters’ development, in a bizarre {{inversion}} of the EightDeadlyWords, and gloss over the sex scenes for being [[{{Irony}} boring and pointless]]. Though still rare, it’s a bit more common with lemons because the writer is tempted to feature the source material’s plot in some fashion.
* Cow's milk is so popular with humans that they made it into an industry.
** Swap that out for Goat's milk in Mediterranean regions (where it's too dry and the soil too poor to support cattle farming).
** Lampshaded in one ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' strip:
--->'''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]]

* There are cases where some go to IKEA, but not for the furniture - rather for their meatballs or hot-dogs.
* {{Hentai}} is rather popular within HairMetal fandom, mainly both have sexual intercourse being on focus.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Chick Cancer", Lois drags Peter to a chick flick. While he hates the idea beforehand, he loves the movie so much that he decides to make his own.

--> '''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]]

* [[PeripheryDemographic/VideoGames Video Games]]
* [[PeripheryDemographic/WesternAnimation Western Animation]]

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** In another episode, Doofenshmirtz admits that he really likes that [[Literature/{{Twilight}} teen vampire movie]].

* The ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' books by Creator/StephenieMeyer, aimed at teenage girls, have a significant overlap with the romance novel demographic of middle-aged women (so-called "Twi-moms"). And the {{Hatedom}} continues to buy books just so they can mock them.

* ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'', an obscure Korean cartoon aimed at preschoolers, began gaining a small following of teenagers in the late 2010s due to its {{moe}} characters and unique premise. Many of these fans have cried for it to be {{uncanceled}} for these reasons.

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* 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".
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* ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}''

* Dave Lister from the British sci-fi sitcom ''Series/RedDwarf'' is a self-professed fan of ''WesternAnimation/SpotTheDog''.

** They usually cater to a specific form of media, such as anime, comics or gaming. That hasn't stopped fans and cosplayers of ''all'' forms of media from attending (i.e. ''Game of Thrones'' cosplayers at anime conventions), and most conventions hold several panels and events outside their main media focus. A big part of the appeal of conventions, whether one is the exact target demographic or not, is conventions serving as social hubs for people with the same interests, as well as an opportunity to wear costumes in a socially acceptable setting.