Needs Help: Multiple Demographic Appeal

This came up in an IP thread in regards to this trope. Namely, Multiple Demographic Appeal is written like an audience reaction but is not currently in the YMMV list. Possibly because it looks like a pretty old page judging by the fact that there's no YKTTW archive.

I seem to recall proposing a general "Which tropes should be made YMMV?" thread similar to the Trivia cleanup thread somewhere, but I don't think anything ever came out of it so I'm starting a separate thread here. Should be a pretty easy fix overall. What say we?

Yeah, making it YMMV could work.

To me it seems more like a trope about works that are designed to appeal to multiple demographics.

There are shows designed for it and then there are some that just get fanbases they just didn't expect to get with the occasional example of the creators hating the fans from other demographics.

I dont see it as quite YMMV though. Designed ones would be a trope and there is always some objective element that is easily measured. Unintended ones would be more Trivia I think.

Periphery Demographic I think would be the same since there are shows that are aimed at one but throw in elements to appeal to another.

edited 13th Dec '16 12:07:22 PM by Memers

Then it sounds like we have 2 tropes in one. One where creators intended it and one where they don't.

That's not two tropes, that's simply an Audience Reaction with an invoked variant thereof.

No, it's no more an Audience Reaction than Shoujo, Shōnen, Science Fiction or High Fantasy are. Just because it belongs to several of them doesn't mean it's an Audience Reaction.

Intended examples will always put elements meant to pander to specific crowds such as if said work is a kid show they will put a BennyHill joke that only adults would get or a sports show aimed at young boys has copious amounts of yaoi subtext and such for girls. Its only audience reaction if it its talking about it working, the elements are there and they are objective.

Also there are some shows that refuse to classify themselves as one label or run in multiple areas that are aimed at different demographics. K On for example originally aired at Otaku O'Clock aimed at the obvious but it also aired on the Japanese Disney Channel, with minor edits, aimed at young girls.

Code Geass was an anime original and aimed at everyone, it has a Shōjo manga adaptation, a Shōnen spinoff manga and 2 Seinen spinoff mangas. Its like the poster child of multiple demographic appeal, every demographic cant get enough of it.

edited 14th Dec '16 8:41:07 AM by Memers

This one's difficult, because it has both objective elements (whatever the show uses to try and appeal to a broad audience) and subjective ones (the audience was actually appealed, which of course is YMMV).

edited 13th Feb '17 8:37:46 AM by Gosicrystal

Like Intended Audience Reaction?

Well, yeah, they're trying to appeal to the public. Like any work of fiction. To do so, they use different types of tropes, settings, characters, plots... Just a wider variety than a standard work of the genre.

edited 12th Jan '17 2:50:35 PM by Gosicrystal

Clock expired; closing.