Does Drawception skew young (and callow)?

The demography here seems pretty heterogeneous. There are people young enough to not know even something not-too-old like Dragon Ball Z ( http://drawception.com/viewgame/556xBE5CBf/kamehameha/ ).

But, guess what, This is what makes Drawception cool. That big mix of different knowledges and people misundesrtanding each other. :-)

I don't think it's fair to call someone callow because they don't have the same experiences and pop references as you.

That being said, I myself am 27. If I was going to guess the average or median age here, I'd say 18.

Also, I don't really know Max Headroom for any other reason than being on the internet constantly. I'd say that in order to catch that particular reference genuinely, as in they experienced it when it happened, they'd probably need to be ~30 at the youngest.

I think with Samara, you're blowing it out of proportion. The third panel is one single person who immediately removed the "Samara" reference from the game. One person does not mean everyone else in the game wouldn't have known who she is, had they gotten that panel. Also, my concern with panel 3 is more that Dragonvale_Rules!!! didn't catch Ghostbusters versus Samara.

If you look at more of Dragonvale_Rules!!! captions, it just seems like this person who is very new to Drawception just doesn't know many pop culture references, period. Additionally, a yellow stick figure humanoid became a "monster" http://drawception.com/viewgame/yN8Psn38Mh/avengers-discover-laser-tag/ . So what I'm saying is that Dragonvale is not a fair basis of judgment for the standard user here.

I am 23, my boyfriend is 32 and we both play (I much more than him), I know who Max Headroom, Samara, and Richie Rich are... In my particular case, though, I am terrible at drawing people. I tend to skip them or I end up with things like Panel 8 here: http://drawception.com/viewgame/a2SQbDEhBq/lesbian-blenders/ Panel 10 here: http://drawception.com/viewgame/9FZDfcphRL/bazinga/

I probably would have done the cartoon version of Richie Rich had I seen that prompt, but there's no way I could draw Matt Frewer or Daveigh Chase.

If we're going to share in on references that really should have been picked up on... here's this: http://drawception.com/viewgame/Zdw4OXF6ZZ/james-bond-solid-snake/

The problem with a cartoony James Bond without the gun is he just looks like a dude in a tux. I threw in the martini hoping that would help, but clearly it didn't. Disappointed that neither Solid Snake nor James Bond made it through.

You needn't be young to miss some of those references SmashtheState. I'm forty...umm <counts> seven and of the three characters you cite I only know Max Headroom. Partly it might be that I never went to the cinema that much and Max Headroom was on TV. Also, not everyone likes the same genres, Wiki tells me that Samara is from a series of horror films. I don't watch them, not am I much a fan of films with child leads and Culkin has always left me cold so I never saw Richie Rich, nor committed the fact of its existence to memory.

I am not a child. I am a reader. I miss many pop culture references, though I must say, I was a BIG fan of Max Headroom's when I was younger. I would not draw Richie Rich because I just wouldn't. And I know nothing of Samara.

I agree that the different points of reference is what makes this game so fun. AAAand sometimes a bit disappointing. But the disappointments make some more determined to keep rolling the dice.

State, have you ever read A Confederacy of Dunces?

I'm also in my 40's, but didn't have a clue who Samara was (just googled it) although do know Max Headroom and Richie Rich (but not the Caulkin version). Personally a number of meme and film references pass me by, so if I am interpreting an image I may well get it wrong - but if I am drawing from a phrase then at least I can look it up. The differences in cultural references between players is one of the things that make this interesting, whether they be because of age, knowledge, country of origin or just social habits.

@taekwandogirl If you'd drawn a red exclamation mark above James Bond's head, you might have been able to get Solid Snake through. I'm not sure what you could do with James Bond except maybe cheat and put a 007 on him somewhere.

@Scribbletard You're not actually the first person to compare me to Ignatius Reilly.

It clearly was James Bond and Snake, but you made the 'mistake' of not making Bond blonde, which he has been for a number of years now.

Though we need to remember that the majority of people playing this won't be super geeky and will miss a lot of references.

This was an interesting thread to me because just a couple of days ago I sent my son a text saying that the people who play drawception are too young to understand a lot of my drawings and I am too old to know most of their TONS of different memes on here. Every day I learn about characters I've never heard of before. And hopefully the young teens who are playing are learning about some of our older, funny, characters. ..... I mean.... I never dreamed someone would not know who the Land Shark was....lol... so that tells how old I am since I used to watch SNL back in the Chevy Chase days.

Land Shark isn't an age thing, it's a location thing as well.

@JellowJacket I was discussing the Tosh.0 rape joke controversy the other day with a guy in his late teens, and he insisted Tosh is a "genius." I tried to explain to him that Tosh is an idiot (though even idiots have the right to make asses of themselves) and that Carlin had done a routine on the whole "rape can be funny" thing 20 years ago - and was darkly funny where Tosh was just crass and threatening. The kid had never even heard of Lenny Bruce or Bill Hicks, and refused to watch videos of them on YouTube on the general principle that no one was funny 20 or more years ago. According to him, humour was invented by Carlos Mencia and the funniest man alive is Jeff Dunham.

All I could do was shudder with horror at the terrible fate (and taste) of this generation.

Bruce a good mile ahead of every other preacher/comedian out there.

I have no idea who Mencia and Dunham are.

Carlos Mencia is a Honduran of German and English descent whose real name is Ned, and who has made a career out of making alleged "jokes" about Mexikans, mostly about how they're lazy and smell bad. This is supposed to be okay somehow because he calls himself Carlos.

Jeff Dunham is a stupid, talentless, racist jerk whose audience consists of slope-headed, Fox-watching neanderthals and crazed, crypto-fascist christers with a bible in one hand a shotgun in the other. His most famous act is a ventriloquist dummy with the clever name of "Achmed the Dead Terrorist" whose catch-phrase is "I KILL YOU NOW," and is somehow not racist because... I dunno, every person I know with a working forebrain recognizes it as blatantly racist, but I guess there must be some sort of rationale, since Dunham insists he's not racist. He claims he insults all ethnicities so it's okay, which makes as much sense as claiming that it's okay to punch a baby in the face because you also punched Mike Tyson in the face.

Bonus link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5SWgbIw9kE

I must be in the same range as Jellowjacket, I too watched the RosannRosannaDana and the fish in the blender commercials era.

Early on, I drew a Batman related panel,after the game completed and I showed it to my (adult) son, he commented on the different costume colors and features giving a clue to the generation of the artist. Some drew grey and black, vs blue and black and the chestplate features. I have learned more about todays younger culture during the few months of playing this game than I could have ever hoped to learn in any upper level educational course. I did not know the term Meme, much less what it was. I still dont know the correct pronounciation for the word, but I do now know many many memes, what they are, and how they originate and grow. I Google everything because I have found that even the simplest expression isnt what it used to be in my time. Back to topic, Smash, yes it is a very young crowd here now for the most part, but it is their world. I just hope they learn from ours and respect all. I do get frustrated sometimes when it appears someone put no effort into something, but I dont think thats necessarily generational. I personally, I tend to avoid times when it is predominantly young ( I can tell by the descriptions and drawings coming through the que)

Smash, I like you.

Also, I really hope that the entire generation isn't like that one, well... idiot, that you encountered.

Everyone who thinks Tosh is funny is partially responsible for the rape controversy

Oh THAT's Dunham.

I've seen some of his stuff and, amazingly, his other characters are actually worse than Achmed.

I now feel inspired to go off and start a bunch of games about Pogles Wood, Nogin the Nog and the Woodentops.