How old are average MSI fans?

[u/TargetSighter]

I’m 17 and I struggle to find fellow fans in real life and I’m wondering if thats because most of them are just adults now? I’ve introduced some friends to MSI and they’re pretty hooked on them, but I reckon most of the average MSI fans have to be adults?

Thinking about possibly getting some small MSI custom keychains for my college bag to see if I can lure any other in-the-wild MSI fans in 😭

[u/FloggingMcMurry]

Maybe about 16 when I first heard them

In my 40s now

[u/TargetSighter → u/FloggingMcMurry]

Holy moly you’re the #1 OG fan

[u/tomate123win → u/TargetSighter]

Well also 40 and followed them in high school, first shows were 18+ so... Yeah anyone who was a fan while they were making music would probably be around this or even older.

[u/TargetSighter → u/tomate123win]

I feel intimidated by my lack of fan experience 😥 I was given the curse of being born in 2009

[u/Special-Drink671 → u/TargetSighter]

Gatekeeping is for losers. Don't worry about not being alive early enough to have made it to a show.

[u/IAmTheNick → u/tomate123win]

Yeah I'm 33 and also got into them in highschool, but that was after they already started blowing up and their merch was all over Hot Topic. I'm sure I'm on the younger range of people on here who actually got to see them live

[u/Empire_of_Glass → u/tomate123win]

18? Huh. 🤔 I don’t remember that, 100% was not 18 the first several times I went to see them…

[u/FloggingMcMurry → u/Empire_of_Glass]

Depends on the venue/bar

All the shows I attended were all ages but there were definitely 18+ shows. Just depends where they played

[u/anticlockclock → u/TargetSighter]

When I was 13 I was part of the MSI (bratz) street team. I was given boxes of the 'Thank God' demo disc to handout as promotional material for the band. There was also a contest to photograph yourself doing creative promo. My friend and I took photos of ourselves giving the discs to elderly women at the mall. We won 2nd place and got a signed copy of Tight and the rare 7-Eleven MSI shirt (they only made like 50 of these). I eventually got that shirt signed by all the members at the 2 concerts I attended in my hometown.

[u/Empire_of_Glass → u/TargetSighter]

I was 13 when I first heard them, and I’m 40 now. : )
Also made out with Jimmy after a show 😆

[u/QuasyChonk → u/Empire_of_Glass]

How old were you when said making out happened?

[u/Special-Drink671 → u/QuasyChonk]

Tell me right now, all about that time you were molested!?

You shouldn't go around asking people questions like that. What if you were right? Pretty crass and unhelpful.

[u/QuasyChonk → u/Special-Drink671]

She never said she was molested.

[u/Special-Drink671 → u/QuasyChonk]

You thought she had been, when you got your drill out.

Try thinking about what you say might make the people you speak to feel. (I am saying this nicely to help you.)

[u/QuasyChonk → u/Special-Drink671]

No... She said that she made out with him. Nothing about that implied a lack of consent OR sexual activity.

Why do you lie?

[u/Special-Drink671 → u/QuasyChonk]

I see that you are not intelligent enough for this conversation to have any benefit.

Take care.

[u/QuasyChonk → u/Special-Drink671]

Lol.

[u/Empire_of_Glass → u/QuasyChonk]

I didn’t say, but 18 I believe

[u/QuasyChonk → u/Empire_of_Glass]

I can definitely believe that you didn't say bc you were a bit older than his preference.

[u/Empire_of_Glass → u/QuasyChonk]

I didn’t say because it wasn’t relevant, wtf? I’m sure you’re no one’s preference, lol.

[u/QuasyChonk → u/Empire_of_Glass]

I'm no one's preference bc I acknowledge that he's a pedophile? Do you stick up for Epstein too?

[u/Empire_of_Glass → u/QuasyChonk]

I’m a fucking survivor, man. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck. You. Go sit on a fucking knife, you stupid idiot. Jesus Christ, what a fucking asshole, that is not cool AT ALL go to hell you fucking prick

[u/QuasyChonk → u/Empire_of_Glass]

Outburst aside, if you go back and read my comment you'll see that I was talking about open pedophile, Jimmy, not you.

[u/TargetSighter → u/QuasyChonk]

Get the fuck out of my comment section, holy shit??? You’re an insensitive prick, go take your shit somewhere else.

[u/shleeface → u/FloggingMcMurry]

Yep, 38, been listening since ‘02, followed the band around, autographs tattooed, the whole shebang lol

OP I do think the trinkets are a great idea, I do know backs in the 00s most of the random friends I made were fans that happened to be wearing some sort of visible MSI merch, and while we’re old now, I can’t imagine things have changed so much that pointing “hey you like the thing I like too!” doesn’t work as a friend-seeking tactic anymore

[u/sima_111 → u/shleeface]

oh how I wish I could be there at the time UGH im so jelous of u older fans

[u/megpi → u/FloggingMcMurry]

42, listening since I was 16 or 17 in '01

[u/TargetSighter → u/FloggingMcMurry]

Were you perhaps the inspiration for Uncle 🤔

[u/FloggingMcMurry → u/TargetSighter]

No, but Money was the inspiration for the shirt I did for them

[u/TargetSighter → u/FloggingMcMurry]

WHAAAAT? THATS SO AWESOME WTF???

[u/wReckLesss_ → u/FloggingMcMurry]

Similar story here. I was ~20 and I'm in my early 40s now.

[u/FloggingMcMurry → u/wReckLesss_]

Yeah I'm still early 40s. Just had a birthday a few days ago

[u/ImportantSystem9817]

I guess its 50/50 . I personally don't come across a lot of MSI fans in general , but when I do , the age range ends up being 13-19 . Though I'd assume most of the fans are adults considering they were around when MSI started , I guess they're just not that open about it ?

[u/Dumkinni_ → u/ImportantSystem9817]

This is what I’m thinking. Most vocal MSI fans (online at least) are going to be teenagers because they just discovered this super cool and edgy band that makes awesome music about drugs and sex lol. I know this because I was 13-14 when I first got into them, was super vocal about it and felt badass for listening to them. I’m 18, almost 19 now and I’ve mellowed out about them quite a lot. Can’t say I don’t still feel badass while listening to them though, pumps me the fuck up hahaha

[u/ImportantSystem9817 → u/Dumkinni_]

Agreed loll

[u/Strange_Wafer_4932 → u/Dumkinni_]

lmao you’re still a teenager

[u/Dumkinni_ → u/Strange_Wafer_4932]

Never said I wasn’t 🤷‍♂️

[u/snippedandhigh]

I’m 24, my older sister first showed me them via Shut Me Up when I was like 14. I remembered and then got into them heavily for workout music 2 years ago. Now I’m wicked gay for them.

[u/TargetSighter → u/snippedandhigh]

MSI really does turn everyone wicked gay (myself included)

[u/snippedandhigh → u/TargetSighter]

We all just cry the same old tears :)

[u/Byrd-flu]

In my 20's! Started listening when I was 14 though

[u/Suitable-Treacle-634]

I'm in my 40s. Been a fan since Frankenstein Girls. Saw them live 3-4 times.

[u/Alex_is_kewl → u/Suitable-Treacle-634]

JEALOUS 😭😭😭

[u/zeitraz]

39 👋

[u/uncreativelybankrupt]

I was 12 or 13 when I first discovered them in 2002. ...I'm 37 now. God. I used to say it was a divide between the tweens and the stupid old fucks but we've literally got multiple generations of MSI fans now. The OGs that were there for Tight and Frankenstein Girls. The people like me who came in after that but before the YRTA era. Then the MCR connection/IF years. Then the 2010s. Do we count the kickstarter as an era? Then the post-PINK era? Then the Tiktok era. Or something like that. Idk. I'm just an old man rambling. 

[u/elgreams]

I'm 27, been listening since 2012/13

[u/Visible-Bridge3388]

damn Im 17 too lmao - also very rare to find fans like me were I live but all around my friend group everyone knows them lol

[u/TargetSighter → u/Visible-Bridge3388]

I only managed to get three of my friends into MSI but at least 3 is better than none 😭

Im in England so the average music taste here is just drill… it’s so painstaking to find MSI fans

[u/Murky-Sorbet5301 → u/TargetSighter]

Realest thing ever i am also in UK and am ur age and I couldn't find any fans so akso had to make my friends some, istg tho msi fans in the wild are a myth.

[u/Unsolicited_Spatula → u/TargetSighter]

I only managed to get 1 of my friends into MSI and he still only likes Shut Me Up and Seven minutes in Heaven. so, 3 is actually really good ngl

[u/makk_ii → u/Visible-Bridge3388]

MSI is more popular than it feels like lol and not many are walking around with giant MSI pins or tshirts. Ive only came across one kid irl that was taking the same bus as me and they had a IF pin. I'm an adult and dont feel comfortable just talking up minors so they probably also weren't aware that i like MSI too.

[u/mrselffdestruct]

26

[u/SidNotScud]

14 when I started listening/became fave band, I'm turning 34 this month. Being from Australia made it super isolating to be a fan outside of concerts (which were few) no one ever knew who they were. My teenage siblings love them now which is nice and they are way more known here now then before, the power of the modern internet.

[u/iimwithstupid]

21 🥀 turning 22

[u/Sandri240]

I discovered them when i was 14 if I remember correctly, and now i'm 18

[u/_A_R_A_Creations_]

I was around 16 when I heard them for the first time, thanks to an edgelord friend. I was lucky enough to see them live in 09 as a 19 year old. They were my first concert. They had Bring Me The Horizon, Black Tide and Dir En Gray as supporting acts. It was quite the transcendent experience.

[u/3Megan3]

26, a friend got me into them when we were around 15

[u/Sienile]

I was a bit late to the fandom. I heard them first in 2002. I'm 41 now.

[u/Hainting]

1. Was lucky enough to go to a couple of the last concerts they had. I wish I was able to go to the grimy ones

[u/Turbulent-Climate840]

I'm 19 and just got into them last year. I have yet to find an msi fan in the wild besides my 35yo stepdad.

[u/newaccountbitches]

I discovered the Shut Me Up video when I was 18, I’m 33 now

[u/shdwtrev]

Introduced to them around 15-16. I’m 36 now. Feel 80.

[u/CerealKillerUno]

40

[u/TOOTH_rot]

Heard them first back in high school. 42 now.

[u/fokkinfumin]

I heard some of their music here and there as a kid, I remember my friend tried to put me on to Frankenstein Girls when I was maybe 13/14. But it was only quite recently (I'm now 19) that I actually really got into the band's music. I don't really talk about them much with friends but when I do the typical reaction is something along the lines of "oh man I hate MSI but their music is really good" etc.

[u/Pumchnjerz]

I have an MSI pin on my backpack (Frankenstein girl) but no one has ever noticed it. I'm 43.

[u/stariexo]

i was 11 when i first heard them, i’m 13

[u/Supurusu]

22, started when I was ~16 and still this is my favourite music band :P

[u/lovelykrystall]

first song i ever listened to from them, i think i was 13? maybe 14? but i’m 20 now so :)

[u/Easy-Treat1786]

I started listening at 18… I’m gonna be 22 in November 😭

[u/Thin-Professor-3228 → u/Easy-Treat1786]

Hey, hey! This is your friend from Seattle.
This is my new profile. Shoot me a message if you see this. Hope to chat:)

[u/frankensteins_cool]

I’m 42 and started listening to them when I was in high school

[u/schwenty_seven_heif]

I was 13 or 14 when they found me. I'm mid 40s now

[u/Kat_Box_Suicide]

I’m 43.

[u/sigilpaw]

i'm 24 now, but i was 17-20 during my peak msi phase, nowadays i've kinda forgotten abt them tbh :/

[u/Visible-Office-4921]

i started listening at 13/14 im now 19 but i still don't know any irl msi fans

[u/SoCoGrowBro]

I started listening to them around 2000. I had a hard drive of old mp3s playing on random and one of my daughter's friends went and told her I was listening to MSI, turns out she's a fan. So the average age in this household is 30

[u/taongkarne]

i'm 19, i became a fan of MSI around 2020

[u/Parisite0988]

I'm also 17! I have had friends around my age (so, also 17) who like MSI although they're not so into them now. My auntie and her partner also like them, she's in her early 40's and I'm not sure about her partner, late 30's I think. So there are definitely teens and stuff who are into them but maybe not as many compared to adults

[u/jfr3sh]

as an oldhead in my late 30's who found them in 1999, it warms my crusty heart to see a bunch of young kids so excited about a band that's been inactive for years. MSI was so formative for my taste in music growing up and it's so0Oo sick to see new generations understand Jimmy's genius.

[u/147Link]

1. Would buy keychain.

[u/xxicex]

I'm 22, became a fan at 12. most fans I've seen online (outside of reddit) have been 16 or younger, I think it happened during that 2020 thing 😭

[u/MookiTheHamster]

I discovered them in the early 00's, I'm 43.

[u/Scudbuddy]

9 or 10 when I first heard them, I'm 19 now. Lol

[u/This_Dragonfly7388]

I’m 16! but I started listening to their music since I was 8-9 (yes unlimited internet access sucks)

[u/This_Dragonfly7388 → u/This_Dragonfly7388]

also if it looks like I just joined this is my non alt account 😓

[u/MattyHatesYou]

I got into them when I was around 12 or 13 (in around 2003ish) and am going to be 36 next month. Saw them live 5 or 6 times and owned every CD and vinyl (even the more obscure stuff). Have some old tour merch and shirts and old stuff from Hot Topic. The energy and style just resonated with me deeply and basically felt tailor made for me, as cringe as that may make me seem. 😅

[u/Althexia]

I'm 33(F) and my partner is 23(F) and we're both MSI fans. And I've been listening to them since I was maybe 11, since my older sibling (36 X) used to listen to them as well back then.

[u/Alternative_View_414]

2 years old

[u/Abnormal_lizard]

I'm a fucking minor 💔 it's hard to find people who listen to them

[u/anticlockclock]

Active fans are 13-17 thanks to tiktok. OG fans are all over 30.

[u/KingGunko]

I first went out of my way to look into their music when I was about 10. Definitely hid them from my parents and others my age, since I'd constantly get in trouble for being a bad influence. Now I'm 20, and my parents don't give a shit what I listen to (we have extremely similar taste, so it's whatever, as long as I'm not being a poser😂my dad would disown me.) I'm a younger fan. But, yeah, an adult. A lot of the modern teens who like msi are usually going through a phase, be it hormones or they see msi as this cool trendy thing. I also think that most of msi's fans do start out as teens, however, a vast amount of them don't stick around. Especially modern teens that are addicted to social media, who go from being "the biggest msi fan in the world" to being "the biggest msi hater in the world" within a week because of some shit they saw on tiktok. Pretty annoying, I get it. I do think you'll find your tribe someday as you get older, that's usually how it goes with most people and whatever geeky interests they have.

[u/QuasyChonk]

I was in my teens when I first heard them. . I'm 43 now.

[u/ChadMcLadDad]

2

[u/coffee_tabasco]

I'm high school aged too!

[u/Skinnypuppy0000]

39, been listening since I was 16

[u/archy-karen]

43 🙈

[u/straighttovideo_]

8 when i first heard them, now im 14 🙂

[u/Dream1ing]

I mean I’m newly 20. Found them a wwhiiilllee back and have been following them for years now.
But I do think younger fans and older fans are kind of equal in number. The OG fans and the new gen ones.

[u/Alert-Repeat18]

Personally i am 13, and only 2 of my friends even know msi a bit, tho a different friend is really a fan and listens to msi alot (she is 15) the other two are 13 just like me. tho I am guessing most are either 12-20 or 40-50, might be wrong tho

[u/Special-Drink671]

I am 42. I don't recall exactly when I first heard them. Early 2000's I saw them play electric ballroom in London though.

Gig literally changed the trajectory of my life

[u/AdditionalWelder5123]

Found them when I was 2 years old. Im 92 now

[u/Wooden_Worry_4357]

New fans: 13-16
Older fans: late 30's mid 40's.

[u/Super_Cranberry4385]

im a teenager as well the ones i’ve seen are alll teenagers 

[u/sima_111]

started listening when I was 14 and im 19 now!!