What ONE change would you bring to GAF to get more Zoomers while keeping the Bommers happy?

Would you like more younger GAF users to join our community?

  • Yes

  • No

  • Undecided

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This question makes me realize, I'm now that guy who goes "the kids are gonna love this" period in my life. And then it turns out it's far from what they want.
 
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Since this is the top of page 2.

The poll results sadden me.

I thought GAF was a more inviting place.
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I voted no just because I don't care for having loads of kids on here. I'd be perfectly happy for people to join when they've actually grown up.

I've been on multiple forums in the past and just ditched them completely during summers because it was an absolute shitshow when everyone went on their summer vacation breaks. Like, you could tell instantly.
 
Gaming is like bingo parties to them. This hobby(except mobile games, meme games, coop games, fortnite, roblox), and forum discussions on top of it, probably dies with us so enjoy while it lasts folks.
 
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EviLore tasks you to bring in more young users to GAF, however he wants to keep the veteran GAF users also happy.

Back in the day, forums were dominated with us bommers in our teens. Now the average age of a GAF user is 30+.

Let's get the young gamers to see the same joy in video game forums as we had.

So, what ONE change would you bring to GAF to get more Zoomers while keeping the Bommers happy?
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From my understanding, only old ppl still use this board format. Most young ppl just use discord or reddit. Personally i would not do anything to bring teens here, i have been on Discord, thers no conversations there, its meme fests. If they want to join they are free to do so in an organic way.
 
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Anybody over 25 is basically a boomer.

23 to 26 is the beginning of boomer territory.

The kids changed the meanings compared to how the millenias used it.

As expected, it gets a lot of old people mad.
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And yet within a short period of time they would be putting themselves in their own crosshair with that logic.

Not particularly bright are they...
 
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Since this is the top of page 2.

The poll results sadden me.

I thought GAF was a more inviting place.
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Lol, if you're a Sony, Trump worshipping Andrew Tate fan. I've literally seen threads this last couple of weeks declare Microsoft as Evil and how Woke destroyed the Western world. In between best tits in gaming.

My kid just turned 17 year is currently doing an Evil play through of BG3 and she'd take one look at this bigoted sausage fest and run a mile.
 
TGO said:
Boomers? Do we even have any 70 year olds here...?
I thought we was mainly Millennials with a few Gen Xers being the oldest.
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Heisenberg keep telling us the internet in his retirement house isn't good enough for online CoD
 
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EviLore tasks you to bring in more young users to GAF, however he wants to keep the veteran GAF users also happy.

Back in the day, forums were dominated with us bommers in our teens. Now the average age of a GAF user is 30+.

Let's get the young gamers to see the same joy in video game forums as we had.

So, what ONE change would you bring to GAF to get more Zoomers while keeping the Bommers happy?
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I'm not sure you know what a boomer is.

Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. The youngest boomer would be just over 60 years old today.

If there are any boomers on here, they would be the absolute minority.
 
I'm already a youngster here (1991). And I can't stand the majority of my generation being spineless and addiction to their phones.
 
I only witness from the outside what happens on TikTok, Twitter and all the other social media bullshit. And I don't want it here. We already are plagued by threads that are just linking Twitter posts (I am guilty of this as well). Zoomers can stay on their platforms and do whatever it is they're doing on there.
 
This feels like a stealth "make Gaf woke"-thread.

Crayon said:
Forums are outdated but era skews younger. Moderation on here could be better on some of the locker room shit as the next generation is more egalitarian. That would drive away or ban some people here but it would bring more people in. I've seen two notable posters leave because guys are allowed to be so rough on the gaybros. And there are practically no women at all.
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Going down that path risks making this place as unusable and insufferable as reddit or the purple place. We'd get users policing and overmoderating other users and constantly writing "you can't say that, you fascist-nazi-bigot!"

No thanks, as it stands Gaf is one of the few excellent discussion places today.
 
Do they even use Boards? They'd rather hang out on Discord. I don't think there's anything we can do about it, even if the boomers were in favor of it.
 
Bring back forum signatures.

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The fundamental question is will they use forums? I am not sure.

Maybe the better opportunity is to reunite it with some of the Resetera and famiboards users who are disgruntled.
 
Crayon said:
Forums are outdated but era skews younger. Moderation on here could be better on some of the locker room shit as the next generation is more egalitarian. That would drive away or ban some people here but it would bring more people in. I've seen two notable posters leave because guys are allowed to be so rough on the gaybros. And there are practically no women at all.

It wouldn't have to be "woke". Just more civilized. Acting like an adolescent of the 90's/2000's in middle age is part of the charm though. Have to admit.
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For better or for worse, that lockerroom attitude is what makes NeoGAF NeoGAF. Anything goes, nothing is sacred and we all enjoy a good joke. That's a far healthier attitude than the civilized conversations on the purple forum where everybody takes offense at just about anything and you've got to walk on your toes to evade the ban hammer.
 
whatever the mod team is going to do, please don't turn this place into another resetera just because you want some young audience. We don't want to become a forum that completely bans a game based on the mods's personal believe
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reddit also suffer the same case… I had to leave a shitload of subreddit because they just turn into another r/politics over the years
 
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Killjoy-NL said:
This is the correct answer.

Forums are for us dinosaurs.
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That's throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Adding a Discord channel is the same as killing the forum.
 
We just need to stop being so cranky all the time.

Stop fighting and talk about what we actually enjoy instead.

I started gaming in the early 80s, over 40 years ago, joined here 2006, different name but same account, over 19 years now. Still here enjoying gaming like always, kids are gaming, wife is gaming, gaming is a huge part my life. And I assume many have a similar journey.

If we can't find anything fun and interesting to talk about with all this combined experience then we've just given up.

I mean collectively we "know everything" so what are we even doing???

No exaggeration, we could build up probably the biggest and most professional database of user reviews through GAF, spanning probably 5 decades.

But I have no idea if it would pull in more young people. Maybe it would scare them away idk, just a bunch of old people shouting at the clouds talking about how much better things were in the past 🫣

Either way, I think we need more threads started. Many, definitely including myself, are too lazy to start threads and I feel like lots of good talks gets hidden in these gigantic catch'em all threads like What are you currently playing.

The common thread starter users here need some praise for keeping the board active. Especially if it's not just console war. Because console war is swallowing so much engagement right now, you'd think it would end this generation but suddenly there is more fighting between PS vs PC and PS vs Switch 2 instead… Sigh.

As for any changes - How about we all start a thread about other things than console war at least once a month? A 12 threads in 12 months thing to boost discussions?
 
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Have the forum's UI camouflage as a social media interface, limit postings to 140 characters and ramp up the ads (preferrably video) everywhere. 18 seconds video ads between each post.
 
Have a zoomer mode you can activate, it then uses ai to summarise all long posts into short bite sized snippets and everything is translated into zoomer speak. Every thread is also summarised into a high energy ai generated influencer style video available in a video feed, tho also allow people to post a topic as a video instead of a text ramble. We already have "live" threads, expand that to allow live video threads wired into twitch/kick or whatever other nonsense people use, so the OP can be on camera live responding via voice to people. Have this auto transcribed and posted into the text feed as tho it was a normal post.

Allow all this shit to be easily enabled/disabled.
 
rm082e said:
They don't play games like we do. I see it in my own kid. He's 13 and 95% of his time is Fortnite and Roblox. That's what the streamers and YouTubers of his age group are into, that's what his friends are into, so that's what he's into.

I got him his own PS5 that's in his room on a 50" TV, we have hundreds of games on our account that he could download, but he chooses to play fucking Roblox...

*sigh*
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My 20 year old discovered Stardew Valley and she has jumped into that headfirst, she's always playing it on her pc.
15 year old daughter plays a buncha Roblox crap with friends. It's more of a social hangout for her group, they just chat while they are playing.
Both of them have access to my Steam account with access to tons of killer games, but they don't touch em.

I wish one of them would've picked up the Fromsoft torch so we could co-op some Souls games.
 
A place doesn't need to be for absolutely everybody. You don't have to make extra effort to appeal to other people. There is an identity here and you don't have to change it for any reason.

But you should still definitely accept them if they want to come into your community, giving them the same chance as everyone else. And eventually they will adapt, if they like it here.

Note : Poll question being too different from the thread title should be avoided, I answered No thinking the question was about making a change or not lol...
 
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You are absolutely right but we millennials have a hard time with the concept of being the elders around. Too used to have boomers with trust title.
TGO said:
Boomers? Do we even have any 70 year olds here...?
I thought we was mainly Millennials with a few Gen Xers being the oldest.
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I think you should have to be yourself until you get banned from the other era . . . learn why it's BS. Kind of a initiation.
 
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So, what ONE change would you bring to GAF to get more Zoomers while keeping the Bommers happy?
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Give you kids some free basic fucking spelling lessons for one

Also I don't know what young millennial or zoomer tard started associating "Boomers" with 40 somethings, but the reality is Boomers were born in the 40s-50s and are all in their 60's and 70's. You dumb fucks can't even get that right :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
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Chuck Berry said:
Give you kids some free basic fucking spelling lessons for one

Also I don't know what young millennial or zoomer tard starting associating "Boomers" with 40 somethings, but the reality is Boomers were born in the 40s-50s and are all in their 60's and 70's. You dumb fucks can't even get that right :messenger_tears_of_joy:
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it's a meme
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30-Year-Old Boomer | Know Your Meme

30 Year-old Boomer refers to a character spread on 4chan mocking older millennials who enjoy things deemed out of touch with younger millennials, particula
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