As of April 2024, around 16.5 percent of global active Instagram users were men between the ages of 18 and 24 years. More than half of the global Instagram population worldwide was aged 34 years or younger.

              Teens and social media

              As one of the biggest social networks worldwide, Instagram is especially popular with teenagers. As of fall 2020, the photo-sharing app ranked third in terms of preferred social network among teenagers in the United States, second to Snapchat and TikTok. Instagram was one of the most influential advertising channels among female Gen Z users when making purchasing decisions. Teens report feeling more confident, popular, and better about themselves when using social media, and less lonely, depressed and anxious.
              Social media can have negative effects on teens, which is also much more pronounced on those with low emotional well-being. It was found that 35 percent of teenagers with low social-emotional well-being reported to have experienced cyber bullying when using social media, while in comparison only five percent of teenagers with high social-emotional well-being stated the same. As such, social media can have a big impact on already fragile states of mind.

About this dataset

Context

The dataset tabulates the data for the Social Circle, GA population pyramid, which represents the Social Circle population distribution across age and gender, using estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates. It lists the male and female population for each age group, along with the total population for those age groups. Higher numbers at the bottom of the table suggest population growth, whereas higher numbers at the top indicate declining birth rates. Furthermore, the dataset can be utilized to understand the youth dependency ratio, old-age dependency ratio, total dependency ratio, and potential support ratio.

Key observations

• Youth dependency ratio, which is the number of children aged 0-14 per 100 persons aged 15-64, for Social Circle, GA, is 26.7.
• Old-age dependency ratio, which is the number of persons aged 65 or over per 100 persons aged 15-64, for Social Circle, GA, is 18.1.
• Total dependency ratio for Social Circle, GA is 44.8.
• Potential support ratio, which is the number of youth (working age population) per elderly, for Social Circle, GA is 5.5.

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates.

Age groups:

• Under 5 years
• 5 to 9 years
• 10 to 14 years
• 15 to 19 years
• 20 to 24 years
• 25 to 29 years
• 30 to 34 years
• 35 to 39 years
• 40 to 44 years
• 45 to 49 years
• 50 to 54 years
• 55 to 59 years
• 60 to 64 years
• 65 to 69 years
• 70 to 74 years
• 75 to 79 years
• 80 to 84 years
• 85 years and over

Variables / Data Columns

• Age Group: This column displays the age group for the Social Circle population analysis. Total expected values are 18 and are define above in the age groups section.
• Population (Male): The male population in the Social Circle for the selected age group is shown in the following column.
• Population (Female): The female population in the Social Circle for the selected age group is shown in the following column.
• Total Population: The total population of the Social Circle for the selected age group is shown in the following column.

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

If you do need custom data for any of your research project, report or presentation, you can contact our research staff at research@neilsberg.com for a feasibility of a custom tabulation on a fee-for-service basis.

Inspiration

Neilsberg Research Team curates, analyze and publishes demographics and economic data from a variety of public and proprietary sources, each of which often includes multiple surveys and programs. The large majority of Neilsberg Research aggregated datasets and insights is made available for free download at https://www.neilsberg.com/research/.

Recommended for further research

This dataset is a part of the main dataset for Social Circle Population by Age. You can refer the same here

About this dataset

Context

The dataset tabulates the data for the Social Circle, GA population pyramid, which represents the Social Circle population distribution across age and gender, using estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-Year estimates. It lists the male and female population for each age group, along with the total population for those age groups. Higher numbers at the bottom of the table suggest population growth, whereas higher numbers at the top indicate declining birth rates. Furthermore, the dataset can be utilized to understand the youth dependency ratio, old-age dependency ratio, total dependency ratio, and potential support ratio.

Key observations

• Youth dependency ratio, which is the number of children aged 0-14 per 100 persons aged 15-64, for Social Circle, GA, is 28.5.
• Old-age dependency ratio, which is the number of persons aged 65 or over per 100 persons aged 15-64, for Social Circle, GA, is 21.7.
• Total dependency ratio for Social Circle, GA is 50.2.
• Potential support ratio, which is the number of youth (working age population) per elderly, for Social Circle, GA is 4.6.

Content

When available, the data consists of estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2017-2021 5-Year Estimates.

Age groups:

• Under 5 years
• 5 to 9 years
• 10 to 14 years
• 15 to 19 years
• 20 to 24 years
• 25 to 29 years
• 30 to 34 years
• 35 to 39 years
• 40 to 44 years
• 45 to 49 years
• 50 to 54 years
• 55 to 59 years
• 60 to 64 years
• 65 to 69 years
• 70 to 74 years
• 75 to 79 years
• 80 to 84 years
• 85 years and over

Variables / Data Columns

• Age Group: This column displays the age group for the Social Circle population analysis. Total expected values are 18 and are define above in the age groups section.
• Population (Male): The male population in the Social Circle for the selected age group is shown in the following column.
• Population (Female): The female population in the Social Circle for the selected age group is shown in the following column.
• Total Population: The total population of the Social Circle for the selected age group is shown in the following column.

Good to know

Margin of Error

Data in the dataset are based on the estimates and are subject to sampling variability and thus a margin of error. Neilsberg Research recommends using caution when presening these estimates in your research.

Custom data

If you do need custom data for any of your research project, report or presentation, you can contact our research staff at research@neilsberg.com for a feasibility of a custom tabulation on a fee-for-service basis.

Inspiration

Neilsberg Research Team curates, analyze and publishes demographics and economic data from a variety of public and proprietary sources, each of which often includes multiple surveys and programs. The large majority of Neilsberg Research aggregated datasets and insights is made available for free download at https://www.neilsberg.com/research/.

Recommended for further research

This dataset is a part of the main dataset for Social Circle Population by Age. You can refer the same here

The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web

We make available data related to subreddit and standalone forums from the manosphere.

We also make available Perspective API annotations for all posts.

You can find the code in GitHub.

Please cite this paper if you use this data:

@article{ribeiroevolution2021, title={The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web}, author={Ribeiro, Manoel Horta and Blackburn, Jeremy and Bradlyn, Barry and De Cristofaro, Emiliano and Stringhini, Gianluca and Long, Summer and Greenberg, Stephanie and Zannettou, Savvas}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 15th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'21)}}, year={2021} }

1. Reddit data

We make available data for forums and for relevant subreddits (56 of them, as described in subreddit_descriptions.csv). These are available, 1 line per post in each subreddit Reddit in /ndjson/reddit.ndjson. A sample for example is:

{ "author": "Handheld_Gaming", "date_post": 1546300852, "id_post": "abcusl", "number_post": 9.0, "subreddit": "Braincels", "text_post": "Its been 2019 for almost 1 hour And I am at a party with 120 people, half of them being foids. The last year had been the best in my life. I actually was happy living hope because I was redpilled to the death.

Now that I am blackpilled I see that I am the shortest of all men and that I am the only one with a recessed jaw.

Its over. Its only thanks to my age old friendship with chads and my social skills I had developed in the past year that a lot of men like me a lot as a friend.

No leg lengthening syrgery is gonna save me. Ignorance was a bliss. Its just horror now seeing that everyone can make out wirth some slin hoe at the party.

I actually feel so unbelivably bad for turbomanlets. Life as an unattractive manlet is a pain, I cant imagine the hell being an ugly turbomanlet is like. I would have roped instsntly if I were one. Its so unfair.

Tallcels are fakecels and they all can (and should) suck my cock.

If I were 17cm taller my life would be a heaven and I would be the happiest man alive.

Just cope and wait for affordable body tranpslants.", "thread": "t3_abcusl" }

1. Forums

We here describe the .sqlite and .ndjson files that contain the data from the following forums.

(avfm) --- https://d2ec906f9aea-003845.vbulletin.net (incels) --- https://incels.co/ (love_shy) --- http://love-shy.com/lsbb/ (redpilltalk) --- https://redpilltalk.com/ (mgtow) --- https://www.mgtow.com/forums/ (rooshv) --- https://www.rooshvforum.com/ (pua_forum) --- https://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ (the_attraction) --- http://www.theattractionforums.com/

The files are in folders /sqlite/ and /ndjson.

2.1 .sqlite

All the tables in the sqlite. datasets follow a very simple {key:value} format. Each key is a thread name (for example /threads/housewife-is-like-a-job.123835/) and each value is a python dictionary or a list. This file contains three tables:

idx each key is the relative address to a thread and maps to a post. Each post is represented by a dict:

"type": (list) in some forums you can add a descriptor such as [RageFuel] to each topic, and you may also have special types of posts, like sticked/pool/locked posts.
"title": (str) title of the thread; "link": (str) link to the thread; "author_topic": (str) username that created the thread; "replies": (int) number of replies, may differ from number of posts due to difference in crawling date; "views": (int) number of views; "subforum": (str) name of the subforum; "collected": (bool) indicates if raw posts have been collected; "crawled_idx_at": (str) datetime of the collection.

processed_posts each key is the relative address to a thread and maps to a list with posts (in order). Each post is represented by a dict:

"author": (str) author's username; "resume_author": (str) author's little description; "joined_author": (str) date author joined; "messages_author": (int) number of messages the author has; "text_post": (str) text of the main post; "number_post": (int) number of the post in the thread; "id_post": (str) unique post identifier (depends), for sure unique within thread; "id_post_interaction": (list) list with other posts ids this post quoted; "date_post": (str) datetime of the post, "links": (tuple) nice tuple with the url parsed, e.g. ('https', 'www.youtube.com', '/S5t6K9iwcdw'); "thread": (str) same as key; "crawled_at": (str) datetime of the collection.

raw_posts each key is the relative address to a thread and maps to a list with unprocessed posts (in order). Each post is represented by a dict:

"post_raw": (binary) raw html binary; "crawled_at": (str) datetime of the collection.

2.2 .ndjson

Each line consists of a json object representing a different comment with the following fields:

"author": (str) author's username; "resume_author": (str) author's little description; "joined_author": (str) date author joined; "messages_author": (int) number of messages the author has; "text_post": (str) text of the main post; "number_post": (int) number of the post in the thread; "id_post": (str) unique post identifier (depends), for sure unique within thread; "id_post_interaction": (list) list with other posts ids this post quoted; "date_post": (str) datetime of the post, "links": (tuple) nice tuple with the url parsed, e.g. ('https', 'www.youtube.com', '/S5t6K9iwcdw'); "thread": (str) same as key; "crawled_at": (str) datetime of the collection.

1. Perspective

We also run each post and reddit post through perspective, the files are located in the /perspective/ folder. They are compressed with gzip. One example output

{ "id_post": 5200, "hate_output": { "text": "I still can\u2019t wrap my mind around both of those articles about these c~~~s sleeping with poor Haitian Men. Where\u2019s the uproar?, where the hell is the outcry?, the \u201cpig\u201d comments or the \u201ccreeper comments\u201d. F~~~ing hell, if roles were reversed and it was an article about Men going to Europe where under 18 sex in legal, you better believe they would crucify the writer of that article and DEMAND an apology by the paper that wrote it.. This is exactly what I try and explain to people about the double standards within our modern society. A bunch of older women, wanna get their kicks off by sleeping with poor Men, just before they either hit or are at menopause age. F~~~ing unreal, I\u2019ll never forget going to Sweden and Norway a few years ago with one of my buddies and his girlfriend who was from there, the legal age of consent in Norway is 16 and in Sweden it\u2019s 15. I couldn\u2019t believe it, but my friend told me \u201c hey, it\u2019s normal here\u201d . Not only that but the age wasn\u2019t a big different in other European countries as well. One thing i learned very quickly was how very Misandric Sweden as well as Denmark were.", "TOXICITY": 0.6079781, "SEVERE_TOXICITY": 0.53744453, "INFLAMMATORY": 0.7279288, "PROFANITY": 0.58842486, "INSULT": 0.5511079, "OBSCENE": 0.9830818, "SPAM": 0.17009115 } }

1. Working with sqlite

A nice way to read some of the files of the dataset is using SqliteDict, for example:

from sqlitedict import SqliteDict processed_posts = SqliteDict("./data/forums/incels.sqlite", tablename="processed_posts")

for key, posts in processed_posts.items(): for post in posts: # here you could do something with each post in the dataset pass

1. Helpers

Additionally, we provide two .sqlite files that are helpers used in the analyses. These are related to reddit, and not to the forums! They are:

channel_dict.sqlite a sqlite where each key corresponds to a subreddit and values are lists of dictionaries users who posted on it, along with timestamps.

author_dict.sqlite a sqlite where each key corresponds to an author and values are lists of dictionaries of the subreddits they posted on, along with timestamps.

These are used in the paper for the migration analyses.

1. Examples and particularities for forums

Although we did our best to clean the data and be consistent across forums, this is not always possible. In the following subsections we talk about the particularities of each forum, directions to improve the parsing which were not pursued as well as give some examples on how things work in each forum.

6.1 incels

Check out an archived version of the front page, the thread page and a post page, as well as a dump of the data stored for a thread page and a post page.

types: for the incel forums the special types associated with each thread in the idx table are “Sticky”, “Pool”, “Closed”, and the custom types added by users, such as [LifeFuel]. These last ones are all in brackets. You can see some examples of these in the on the example thread page.

quotes: quotes in this forum were quite nice and thus, all quotations are deterministic.

6.2 LoveShy

Check out an archived version of the front page, the thread page and a post page, as well as a dump of the data stored for a thread page and a post page.

types: no types were parsed. There are some rules in the forum, but not significant.

quotes: quotes were obtained from exact text+author match, or author match + a jaccard

As of January 2024, Instagram was slightly more popular with men than women, with men accounting for 50.6 percent of the platform’s global users. Additionally, the social media app was most popular amongst younger audiences, with almost 32 percent of users aged between 18 and 24 years.

              Instagram’s Global Audience

              As of January 2024, Instagram was the fourth most popular social media platform globally, reaching two billion monthly active users (MAU). This number is projected to keep growing with no signs of slowing down, which is not a surprise as the global online social penetration rate across all regions is constantly increasing.
              As of January 2024, the country with the largest Instagram audience was India with 362.9 million users, followed by the United States with 169.7 million users.

              Who is winning over the generations?

              Even though Instagram’s audience is almost twice the size of TikTok’s on a global scale, TikTok has shown itself to be a fierce competitor, particularly amongst younger audiences. TikTok was the most downloaded mobile app globally in 2022, generating 672 million downloads. As of 2022, Generation Z in the United States spent more time on TikTok than on Instagram monthly.

As of February 2025, it was found that around 14.1 percent of TikTok's global audience were women between the ages of 18 and 24 years, while male users of the same age formed approximately 16.6 percent of the platform's audience. The online audience of the popular social video platform was further composed of 14.6 percent of female users aged between 25 and 34 years, and 20.7 percent of male users in the same age group.

As of April 2024, it was found that men between the ages of 25 and 34 years made up Facebook largest audience, accounting for 18.4 percent of global users. Additionally, Facebook's second largest audience base could be found with men aged 18 to 24 years.

              Facebook connects the world

              Founded in 2004 and going public in 2012, Facebook is one of the biggest internet companies in the world with influence that goes beyond social media. It is widely considered as one of the Big Four tech companies, along with Google, Apple, and Amazon (all together known under the acronym GAFA). Facebook is the most popular social network worldwide and the company also owns three other billion-user properties: mobile messaging apps WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger,
              as well as photo-sharing app Instagram. Facebook usersThe vast majority of Facebook users connect to the social network via mobile devices. This is unsurprising, as Facebook has many users in mobile-first online markets. Currently, India ranks first in terms of Facebook audience size with 378 million users. The United States, Brazil, and Indonesia also all have more than 100 million Facebook users each.

Burkina Faso BF: Prevalence of Stunting: Height for Age: Male: % of Children Under 5 data was reported at 24.500 % in 2021. This records an increase from the previous number of 19.400 % for 2020. Burkina Faso BF: Prevalence of Stunting: Height for Age: Male: % of Children Under 5 data is updated yearly, averaging 33.500 % from Dec 1993 (Median) to 2021, with 15 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 43.800 % in 1999 and a record low of 19.400 % in 2020. Burkina Faso BF: Prevalence of Stunting: Height for Age: Male: % of Children Under 5 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Burkina Faso – Table BF.World Bank.WDI: Social: Health Statistics. Prevalence of stunting, male, is the percentage of boys under age 5 whose height for age is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0-59 months. For children up to two years old height is measured by recumbent length. For older children height is measured by stature while standing. The data are based on the WHO's 2006 Child Growth Standards.;UNICEF, WHO, World Bank: Joint child Malnutrition Estimates (JME). Aggregation is based on UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank harmonized dataset (adjusted, comparable data) and methodology.;;Undernourished children have lower resistance to infection and are more likely to die from common childhood ailments such as diarrheal diseases and respiratory infections. Frequent illness saps the nutritional status of those who survive, locking them into a vicious cycle of recurring sickness and faltering growth (UNICEF). Estimates are from national survey data. Being even mildly underweight increases the risk of death and inhibits cognitive development in children. And it perpetuates the problem across generations, as malnourished women are more likely to have low-birth-weight babies. Stunting, or being below median height for age, is often used as a proxy for multifaceted deprivation and as an indicator of long-term changes in malnutrition.