The average age is seeming like its about 15 with a lot of folks on the younger side of average. Just an observation.
The sub is getting younger
The average age is seeming like its about 15 with a lot of folks on the younger side of average. Just an observation.
[11 Points] obsidianchao:
[7 Points] ta1337marketnoob:
To reiterate /u/NIGGALISHUS's point, I think you're vastly overestimating the majority of teenager's attention span. As a younger person myself who has friends that know about how I get my stuff they don't even want to know how to do it themselves.
Sure this comes off as really elitist but I'll be completely honest here; the only reason I was able to do it is because I'm really fucked up. I can stay on the computer for days, weeks, months. I don't care about eating,drinking, socializing.
I figured out everything out of obsession and greed, but I doubt that a "regular" drug using teenager could put the organized time and effort into doing this. Perhaps I'm exaggerating out of narcissism but honestly I can't see anybody who uses drugs that I know of who is capable of this.
(For the record I use multiple layers of OPSEC, both on the electronic side and on the IRL side for everything, and I've trained all my accomplices on how to act when arrested/questioned/interrogated.)
[7 Points] NIGGALISHUS:
I'm probably one of the youngest people on this sub, which is why I'm so active on /r/fakeid, I can assure you, the impatience of kids my age would never allow them to use the darknet, much less understand the concept of the darknet. A few days of reading and setting up decent OPSEC is too much for them to potentially save hundreds of dollars on these items and they're willing to sacrifice quality over instant gratification. "What I have to wait a week to get my bud!?" "What!? Isn't that like life in prison" "What? That's too complicated" all remarks I've heard when trying to explain the darknet. If there's one thing I'm certain of it's that kids are too stupid and lazy to figure this out. As far as they're concerned I pull magical purity & prices out of my ass.
[5 Points] InfinitelyOutThere:
I don't think it's younger, per se, it's more that stupid adults post more often. I think we're pretty fuckin smart here, if I do say so myself.
[2 Points] None:
I doubt 15 year olds are out here buying and selling heroin, coke, Xanax etc.
[1 Points] dastampmasta:
This reddit is like 75% newbies at any given moment and 75% 15-21 year olds. Thats my estimate.
[0 Points] None:
It's a fucking subreddit, what do you expect? I miss the good ol' days where the whole community was centered around the SR1 forums. It just kept a certain level of idiocy out of posts when they knew the vendors and admins were watching and such. Ah, the good ol' days.
I'm not sure the sub is getting younger, but it sure is getting more retarded. I feel like stupidity here increases exponentially on a daily basis.Edit: Thinking about it (see /u/Lobali's comment), I'm going to agree with her. This is more of a knee jerk reaction to some folks' laziness than it is a quality summary of the community itself.
Sorry for pulling a Mitt Romney and flip-floppin'.