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It's a mixed bag. The speedrunning community is pretty diverse in terms of age, though it does skew younger (not a lot of boomers) and tends to be males from up
by Balgair 7y ago
It's a mixed bag. The speedrunning community is pretty diverse in terms of age, though it does skew younger (not a lot of boomers) and tends to be males from upper income countries, though there are MANY exceptions.
A good person to watch for overviews of the speedrunning community is SummoningSalt on Youtube.
Here is a good video on the speedrunning of 1987's "Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!" on the NES while blindfolded, an incredible feat for humans regardless of the medium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZT6JEOC3D8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZT6JEOC3D8
Here is a good video on the speedrunning of 1999's 'PokeMon Snap' for the N64, a game thought impossible to speedrun early on. Nonetheless, it has been speedran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYcWQP1tWfQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYcWQP1tWfQ
In general, the community is non-normal and seems a bit, well, pointless, to a lot of others. But it's something that a lot of people enjoy doing to some degree or another and like everything else on the internet there is a thriving fanbase.