Scannie Survey

A blog for the 2022 scanlator community survey, analysis ongoing! Have a curious question about some specific data? Send in an ask!

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2022 Scanlation Community Survey

Summary Report (July 2023)

Write-ins (Nov 2023)

Generations Report (Jan 2025)

Gender Report (July 2025)

JPKRCN Report (Aug 2025)

MangaUpdates (Aug 2025)

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RESULTS UPDATE Baka MangaUpdates - 2022 Scanlation Community Survey

Taking a break from staring at R, next report is gonna come uhhhh way later lol. (Study topics eyed are: Pay, MTL, roles, and loc!)

Cubari: https://cubari.moe/read/gist/cmF3L1BlaW50cmVzc2Uvc2NzdS9tYXN0ZXIvU2NhbmxhdGlvbiUyMENvbW11bml0eSUyMFN1cnZleSUyMDIwMjIlMjAtJTIwTVUlMjBSZXBvcnQuanNvbg/

Download to read as pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lzl6PvlmQNBNMc8PcImZEQhlzJyUW-wr/view?pli=1

Future suggestions form: https://tally.so/r/w21O79

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RESULTS UPDATE Manga vs Manhwa vs Manhua scanlators - 2022 Scanlation Community Survey

How does source language relate to scanlator behaviour? What about people who scanlate from multiple of these languages? Get some insight into this with some graphs and figures!

Cubari: https://cubari.moe/read/gist/cmF3L1BlaW50cmVzc2Uvc2NzdS9tYXN0ZXIvU2NhbmxhdGlvbiUyMENvbW11bml0eSUyMFN1cnZleSUyMDIwMjIlMjAtJTIwSlBLUkNOJTIwUmVwb3J0Lmpzb24/1/1/

Download to read as pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AUz0YqLlvJvf8qWZ8QdscVVZm6dVdvRn/view?usp=drive_link

Future suggestions form: https://tally.so/r/w21O79

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always amused when i find quirks of people answering questions too fast. the only language you're scanlating from is chinese and you're scanlating into chinese huh.

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RESULTS UPDATE 7/15/25 - 2022 Scanlation Community Survey

Hello again!! Ever been curious about the intersection of gender and scanlation? The 2022 survey asked some questions to get insight into this, check out some of these pretty graphs and figures

Cubari mirror

Download as pdf

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new report out very soon!

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RESULTS UPDATE - 2022 Scanlation Community Survey

Hi!! In Dec 2022, held a pretty big survey on the scanlation scene, including here on tumblr! Did some more analysis recently and have some new flashy graphs to share, take a look at the stats and enjoy :DD

For the full analysis of generations if you wanna stare at graphs til your eyes go blind:

Cubari: https://cubari.moe/read/gist/cmF3L1BlaW50cmVzc2Uvc2NzdS9tYXN0ZXIvU2NhbmxhdGlvbiUyMENvbW11bml0eSUyMFN1cnZleSUyMDIwMjIlMjAtJTIwR2VuZXJhdGlvbnMlMjBSZXBvcnQuanNvbg/

Download as pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12dvDQQziCNVeyWLjr4w84wtSf5baX2cO/view?usp=drive_link

- ALSO I never shared the write-ins on tumblr haha oops. Here's that: https://cubari.moe/read/gist/cmF3L1BlaW50cmVzc2Uvc2NzdS9tYXN0ZXIvU2NhbmxhdGlvbiUyMENvbW11bml0eSUyMFN1cnZleSUyMDIwMjIlMjAtJTIwRnJlZSUyMFJlc3BvbnNlcy5qc29u/

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the consequences of not properly planning your survey are many.... (<- has spent infinitely more hours cleaning data vs actually running the survey

2022 companion report 1 out soon

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SUMMARY RESULTS 2022 Scanlation Community Survey

Hi! Conducted a huge survey on the tumblr scanlation community earlier this year, and now the summary results are ready and out!! :D Please take a look and enjoy the data

Preview images:

Google slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C7qOqWPFTWxykU-fEJcYrfQUN-b1aByvzweak-8cT5Y/

Cubari: https://cubari.moe/proxy/gist/cmF3L1BlaW50cmVzc2Uvc2NzdS9tYXN0ZXIvU2NhbmxhdGlvbiUyMENvbW11bml0eSUyMFN1cnZleSUyMDIwMjIlMjAtJTIwU3VtbWFyeSUyMFJlcG9ydC5qc29u/

Download to read as pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10fJeCbSVkZqVc7s4ee_wnvdOqf10B2st/view?usp=drive_link

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Thanks to everyone for their patience

Working on the presentation of survey results now, around halfway done and with any luck out soon!

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Hullo! Poll on whether the open ended responses should be shown raw or paraphrased!

Considerations:

Responses will not be shown lined up to any of the other data, so don't worry about that. Only concern is style/writing quirks and details (like people mentioning titles they've worked on)

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Survey closing in ~36 hours, we’ve hit over 900 responses! :D

And if you’d like to help with data sortey stuff, kindly reach out, I’d love an extra hand!

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Whoa a pretty high number of non-religious scanlators so far

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lmao a rainbow of "other". 64% of respondents so far are translators in some capacity, which is super interesting! With how hard they are to recruit, I imagined there'd be less. Maybe translators are more likely to work on their own or stick to fewer groups?

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To the seven of you from tumblr, I see you and I love you

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2022 Scanlation Community Survey

This survey aims to collect information on scanlators to better gauge the makeup of the scanlation community. It will be open from December

Hi! I'm conducting a survey on the scanlation community to better understand community makeup and scanlator opinions. Please fill it out and spread it around if you can! I would really appreciate it, and I think it would be useful for the whole community to have some idea of who is in it and who thinks what. Info: - It takes 10-20 minutes to fill out - Some example questions the survey asks include: length of time scanlating, roles performed, posting platform, opinion on mtl, retl, watermarks, etcetera - The survey is completely anonymous, and any questions about demographics are optional - Results will be posted sometime in early 2023.