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Anonymous08/26/25, 18:11No.10959877Age and Anime Cons - How old is too old?
This is for the older con goers. How does it feel to go to cons? Do you feel out of place? What is the average age at cons do you feel, and when do you feel like you've aged out of the con scene? I'm early 30s myself and I'm starting to notice the age difference, and have been interacting with people a lot less at cons
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Anon08/26/25, 18:17No.10959878
I feel like I've seen this same thread about 10 times
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Anon08/26/25, 21:45No.10959888
>This shit again
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Anon08/26/25, 21:56No.10959889
I just- im finally in a decent grown up place finacially where i can afford to cosplay and buy shit without going broke- its just apparently i look way younger than i am ? I was at a con thisweekend ,had the time of my life met some chill people who all gave me thousand yard stares as they all seemed to be in the early to mid 20s and im 38. Its the first time ive felt too old for this shit.
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Anon08/26/25, 23:42No.10959898
I'm the same age range as you, but contrary to what you've seen I'm instead noticing the average age of con goers going up because millennials never ended up filing out of the scene due to having kids like what usually happened with scenes back in the day. You're seeing cons posting record attendance numbers because new blood through zoomers and genalphaers is coming in but the old charge of millennials isn't leaving.
>have been interacting with people a lot less at cons
This is another topic that's been discussed on this board a lot lately. My take is that anime cons are no longer the place to meet weebs because everyone everywhere is now a weeb with how popular anime has gotten, so cons have changed from being a place to meet weebs to being a place for you to go to to hang out with weebs you met outside the con somewhere. There's simply less reason for people to interact at cons now unless you're at a meetup or some panel where you have to interact with people (speed "friending", some game panel, etc.).
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Anon08/28/25, 03:46No.10959978
How to know when you are too old;>When the 2 inches of hotel space for free isn't worth it anymore, because you actually can afford a room for yourself.
This is the kiss of death; once you can actually afford it comfortably then you only have a few years left of enjoyment.>Free Hotel AND Free Pass in exchange for being an unpaid con gopher no longer sounds like a great trade-off
The day you WANT to pay, when you know it can all be covered, marks the fatigue setting in; in less then ten years you will stop going all together.>You are over 25, but you haven't made an impression with your cosplays yet
If people have recognized your talent by now, you are safe but if you still haven't started yet then it's too late (not about physicality; just saying by now it should have amounted to some small notoriety)>You hit 30 and you're not a professional with a product to market at the con.
You're at an age now where the question becomes "what are you adding to the con experience?" for everyone else. If you aren't somehow involved by now in the showrunning process, or aren't selling a product then likely your time is drying up simply because you have better things to put your time into.
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Anon09/02/25, 17:36No.10960327
You will feel old and out of place when you see less of what you grew up with and dont connect with the current anime landscape. it is bad with mid to small sized cons where mostly teenagers to giggle wearing their aliexpress MHA, Chainsaw man cosplay.
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Anon09/02/25, 23:13No.10960344
I read about senior con goers experience that they have arrived to the point where they don’t even go inside the convention hall and just go out for drinks at a bar outside.
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Anon09/18/25, 02:01No.10961065
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Anon10/18/25, 06:52No.10962707
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