Martial Arts Fan Demographics
Reposting this from my gym’s blog with just a little editing. Before getting started I’d like to say that this is just talking about the sport as a whole from a business POV, I personally love my fans from across the rainbow. So for obvious reasons red and orange aren’t big money makers for us. I’ve got some really great fan mail from oranges, but as a group we don’t get many orange viewers. Yellows make up a bit more of our fanbase but not by much. However they also bring in a bit more money per person. Still not a major demographic at the end of the day. Greens are a special case. They’re negligible as normal fans, we really aren’t popular with them at all, and the exceptions tend to be from the parts of the caste that don’t have much money. However, some directors and actors take a lot of their fight scene cues from us which can provide another source of income for fighters and coaches, also there is the whole thing with researchers who are interested in us. So now we move on to our three real money makers, greys, blues, and purples. Ok so grey. Pretty obvious there, greys tend to be sports fans overall, and while all sports are grey martial arts are extra grey. We’re the single most popular spectator sport among other greys because of how strongly we appeal to grey culture, and because while tournaments aren’t the same a real fights they’re close enough to have a strong feedback loop with the martial arts greys use for actual combat. Purple, also big sports fans overall. A bit more likely to be into runball or bell and stick, but we’re still pretty popular with them overall and there is the whole 50% of the population thing. That leaves blue. Now almost none of our sport’s fans are blue, but the ones that are tend to be really really into it, and are um blue. Like a prince or two back an Asfati got off of a treason charge because his family bribed the prince’s favorite fighter to mention him in her victory speech. Thats obviously on the extreme side, but vip boxes, massively valuable ad time, the chance for favorable regulations ect. mean that a small number of blue superfans have really contributed to the sports success. But really at the end of the, as much as like a being able to eat (buy Nadles), what really matters is passion for the sport. I know that people from every caste have had their lives improved by what goes on in the ring, and the will continue to be the case.
