#Tumblr Angelkin Census

[angelkincensus]

The Tumblr Angelkin Census Directory

When we began this census, our central goal was to help to rebuild our community. Events over the past several years have caused the community to drift apart, and our hope is that having a central place to look for other angelkin, we can make it easier to connect with each other and regrow our community. That central place is the Tumblr Angelkin Directory!

The directory itself can be found [here].

The directory is sorted alphabetically by name (as given in the user's response to the census), followed by the blogs of anyone who chose not to share a name in alphabetical order. Additionally, there were ten respondents who chose not to have any information listed in the directory.

We highly encourage looking through the directory, and considering following any blogs you like! Building connections is the best way to rebuild our community, and we hope that this directory will make it easier for members of the community to begin finding each other again.

If you notice any errors in the directory, feel free to send an ask to this blog, and we'll work to fix it as soon as we can. However, we will not be adding to the directory at this time. We intend to run another community census in a few year's time, at which point we hope that the community will have grown, and the directory with it!

-the @angelkincensus team

[angelici-scriptis]

Per the angelkin census by the @ angelkincensus team, a lot of users who responded also use discord.

Are there any active angelkin discord servers out there?

Do ppl find a stronger sense of community in that than tumblr?

[angelkincensus]

ANGELKIN CENSUS 2022: RESULTS HERE AT LAST!

After almost all of 2023, the results of the 2022 Angelkin Census are here! We here on the team thank everyone waiting for their patience with us. We have been hard at work when we had the free time and energy, and this ended up as a much larger project than expected! But we are incredibly excited to share the results with you all!

Before we do, we must state that these results have no scientific relevance. Our census is far from unbiased and only reflects the angelkin community on Tumblr during 2022, and even among those, only those willing to answer a survey. Even so, we consider the information gained to be interesting, and we're happy to share it with the community.

The format of our results will be as follows: First we will be sharing the graphs in a large photoset alongside a directory of respondents who chose to share their name and/or blog, and then there will be separate posts extrapolating on each graph and set of results. Finally, we will share the report written on the census as a whole, which includes an introduction and a discussion on our team's personal thoughts on the data.

We encourage everyone to reblog and to share their own thoughts! Thank you so much for participating and for reading, and we hope you enjoy.

With much enthusiasm,

The @angelkincensus Team

[angelkincensus]

Graphs of Results!

As promised, here are the graphs of our census results! These are cleaned up and organized versions of our results. In this post, the images will be presented alone. This doesn't mean necessarily that the graphs can stand on their own- we on the census team feel that the explanations and summaries we have prepared will add a lot of necessary context and background to them. However, for those who just want a quick overview, we have all the graphs compiled here! Enjoy.

Alt text for images is provided, and will be consistent across all posts. The writing for the image descriptions follows a philosophy of describing what seeing people would get from a brief look at it, as we believed that a full, detailed description would quickly turn into meaningless numbers. The numbers and percentages detailed in the graphs will be extrapolated on in the full posts these images belong to. If anyone decides to write image descriptions outside of alt text, we humbly ask that they copy what we wrote in the alt text.

Thank you,

-the @angelkincensus team.

[angelkincensus]

(re) these links attached below appear to (us at least) be broken! we are also so happy to see efforts of angelkins coming together! <3

#3 Aether aasimar-ascendant #5 Aizalren marztown #9 Anael fallen-feline-fae #13 Araceli / Anthaea / Amon angelici-scriptus #20 Avis / Uriel / Ry'leh rylehishere #21 Azkbella azkbellaangel #24 Barachiel guideing-light #32 Daz / Dazariel / Nexus nexus-angelic #33 doctrine-doctrine doctrine-doctrine #34 Doe your1god #36 Dumah / Baraqiel serapllm #37 Eden angel-face333 #43 Gabriel hallucinogenic-angel #44 Gabriel / Judas disasterqueerpunk #46 Harmoniel jellyangelic #48 Icarus angeloverrs #59 Larkin / Larkyn a-fire-pigeon #60 Lithoniel dr-j-bright #61 Luc pulchritudinouslacuna #63 Lucifer saulgoodbutch #75 Mori / Azaphael / Cult mossgardenswithsaltstatues #76 Narcissus angelic-help #80 Nico / Nicodemus infested-writes #81 Noth lost-hiraeth #86 Rafael rauraurasputin #90 Saint / Silas divinitystainedsaint #91 Sal wasgo #93 Sanguis sanguisambrosia #103 Verchiel veriangel #104 Wade cherubkin #105 Zadkiel mercifulhalo #107 Zadkiel (link isn't broken, but it's a double of #106) #109 Zyziel knightnox #110 abhorrentcanidae #113 angelromantic #118 catdog-txt #119 divinepasserine #126 guardian-anaphiel #127 justaeldritchbeing #128 lamassus #133 pastel-rosy-princess link isn't broken, just seems like a bot(?) #135 pythonstring #136 quiet_choirs #137 quiet_choirs (double) #142 sundrunklover

Thanks for letting us know about these! Most did turn out to be dead links, but a few (@disasterqueerpunk, @dr-j-bright, and @quiet-choirs) were simply linked incorrectly. (Apparently Tumblr is more finicky than we thought about the difference between "blogname.tumblr.com" and "tumblr.com/blogname"!)

All of the inactive blogs are still listed in the directory, though the links have been removed and a note added to each of them. The duplicate lines were also removed.

If the owners of any of these blogs are still active on Tumblr, feel free to let us know your new URL so we can correct any lingering errors in the directory. There's the possibility that some of the dead links are the result of errors copying information into the directory, rather than the blogs not existing at all. If that is the case, we take full responsibilty for any mistakes.

Again, thank you for letting us know about all of these!

[wirsindkrieg]

Regarding the issue of the divinekin community having a focus on Christian angels, I think that's more to do with visibility than anything. According to the Tumblr Angelkin Census, roughly 56% of the community doesn't actively identify as Abrahamic (19% explicity identifying as non-Abrahamic, and 37% unsure if they are Abrahamic). [Here's the post analyzing the relevant data.] That still leaves a plurality (44%) of the community that does actively identify as Abrahamic, but they aren't the majority. We non-Abrahamic angels are out here, but it seems we're a quieter bunch, so anything we post can easily get lost among everything else that fills the tag.

(There's also something to be said about the lack of discussion within the divinekin community, but I chalk a lot of that up to the community collapse around 2017-2018, and we're still rebuilding from that. I remain hopeful that having the Angelkin Census will help speed that process along, if only by helping us find each other.)

What I'm saying is that you very much should speak on your experiences. I can almost guarantee that you'll find people around who resonate with it, and it'd be good to see more discussion in general within the divinekin community.

the tumblr divinekin community is christian-angel centric. this is not an issue per se but i lack accurate language to describe my experience as a divine entity. the tag is nigh unusable for divine entities looking for community that aren't angels.

i'm reticent to interact with the otherkin or generally the alterhuman community, though i belong here, as i haven't seen anyone like myself in it.

i've observed hostility to nonhuman experiences that do not fit neatly under the big Two categories. the gatekeeping levied against otherhearted and copinglinks sucks enough. is there really space for someone who's primary connection to animality isn't strictly personal identity, but feeling that certain animals are "expressions" of your divinity, a la athena and the little owl?

i'm contemplating if it would be worth it to speak more on my alterhuman experiences or if i don't meet the benchmark to participate.

[angelkincensus]

ANALYSIS: Do You Consider Yourself Abrahamic in Origin?

Fig. 4. A pie chart displaying the proportions of responses that are Abrahamic angelkin.

With “Abrahamic” being defined as “any religion that recognizes the religious figure of Abraham as part of their religion, including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism”, this identification is the source of a large split in the Angelkin community, both in and out of Tumblr Angelkin communities. While the concept of an angel originates in Abrahamic religions, there are those within the Angelkin community who do not consider their origins to have ties to any of the Abrahamic religions. This may be because they originated with a deity from a non-Abrahamic religion; it may be because they’re of a fictionkin origin; they may not have religious or spiritual ties at all. 

According to the Census data, Abrahamic Angelkin dominate the Angelkin community. (This does not mean that they themselves practice an Abrahamic religion; simply that their Angelkin identity is tied to Abrahamic religion(s).) However, the proportion that definitively doesn’t identify as Abrahamic is more significant than hypothesized when creating the Census, and implies that non-Abrahamic Angelkin are a larger and more quiet part of the community than expected. The amount unsure is also surprising, and if future Censuses are administered, it would be interesting to observe any changes in these proportions as the “unsure” demographic learn more about their origins. A follow-up question asked “If not Abrahamic, how would you describe yourself?”. The answers of this were sorted into various broader categories. We hesitate to discuss these here, as the results can be somewhat presumptive, and would require definitions of the categories these results are sorted into, so they may instead be the subject of a future post.

[angelkincensus]

2022 Angelkin Census: Full Report

The angelkin community on Tumblr is, despite being small and obscure, a constantly shifting landscape with a surprising amount of history. While being fairly busy as of 2016, the makeup of the community has shifted significantly due to controversial events throwing members into disarray, invasion and disruption of community tags, and simply the passage of time. In 2022, our team decided to take a closer look at this new community landscape and display the data publicly in order to attempt to reconnect members to each other, bring some unity to the community, and analyze in what ways the community demographics have changed.

The 2022 Angelkin Census was created primarily by our leading team member, with input on questions and neutral phrasing by the rest of the team. Our primary goals were 1. To identify as many active members of the angelkin community on Tumblr as possible, 2. To identify ways in which the community has changed, and 3. To make the questions as neutral and system-friendly as we could. Though this was our aim, once the Census was closed, our team had to do quite a bit of data organization due to questions being misunderstood, and lots of unique fill-in answers. The data being presented is heavily cleaned up by hand, with fill-in answers being sorted into larger categories when possible. 

Additionally, though we attempted to make the Census as system-friendly as possible, we neglected to clarify this through Census instructions. As such, there are system members who each filled out the Census individually, and systems who filled out the Census as a group and only submitted one response. This is something that, with over 150 responses, we do not have the ability or insight to standardize ourselves. As such, we will be leaving these submissions as they are and not attempting to sort them together or apart. We acknowledge that this is a flaw in our data, but hopefully one that won’t cause too much bias.

Results

A NOTE: Alt text for images is provided, and will be consistent across all posts. The writing for the image descriptions follows a philosophy of describing what seeing people would get from a brief look at it, as we believed that a full, detailed description would quickly turn into meaningless numbers. The numbers and percentages detailed in the graphs will be extrapolated on in the full posts these images belong to. If anyone decides to write image descriptions outside of alt text, we humbly ask that they copy what we wrote in the alt text.

Social media used to engage in Angelkin community besides Tumblr

Fig. 1: Other social media platforms are displayed by percentage.

Though undisplayed, the most popular result with 120 responses was a lack of other social media platforms being used. This was not included on the chart above so as to make the other responses more comprehensible. A lack of response in this category is not necessarily to indicate that no other social media platforms are used at all; rather, it’s an indication that no other platforms are used to engage specifically with the Angelkin community.

Discord is by far the most popular non-Tumblr social media platform with the Tumblr Angelkin community at a whopping 61%. This is likely a reflection of not only the ubiquity and versatility of Discord as a chat platform, but also the last remnants of popular Angelkin discords from 2016 and earlier, such as the now-defunct Memeing Angels Discord server. Members of the Census team who submitted responses to the Census may have biased this result in Discord’s favor, as our team originates from and resides on a 2016-era Angelkin Discord server.

After Discord, the most popular results (though significantly less so) are Instagram, forums, and TikTok. Many Angelkin from Tumblr can indeed be found on Otherkin-specific forums such as Nonhuman National Park. While the Census team knows of the Instagram and Tiktok Angelkin communities, we have no experience with them and don’t wish to; as such, we cannot comment on the overlap.

Year Joined

Fig. 2: A bar chart displaying the year still-active members of the Tumblr Angelkin community joined.

An important thing to note is that this question is specifically asking still-active members what year they joined. As such, it’s difficult to tell whether the sharp increase in membership in 2022 and adjacent years is due to an increase in Angelkin awakenings, or simply due to members who joined more recently being more likely to still be active in the community than older members who may have left Tumblr or simply gone inactive within the community. 

An interesting note is that the increase in recruits began in 2016. A year frequently mentioned, 2016 was both a renaissance and a trial for the Tumblr Angelkin community. Despite how the Angelkin community was torn apart by the events in the years around 2016, there seems to be a decent amount of members from that time still active, though likely also biased by the submissions of the Census-runners. 

Regardless, the modern Angelkin community on Tumblr is still dominated by those who’ve joined in more recent years, especially 2022. The high levels of recruitment in 2020-2022 is most definitely influenced by not only recency bias, but also the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns bringing more opportunity for exploration and introspection. Whether the numbers from these years will stay active is the subject of a future Census.

Age

Fig. 3: A pie chart displaying age ranges of active community members.

The current Angelkin community is dominated by members aged 15-24. Any members outside of this ~10 year age range are an extreme minority. It’s difficult to analyze the ages of the responses who declined to share their age range; but they are enough of a minority that being included within this section of the results is insignificant enough to not clutter results. It could be speculated that the members of the non-sharing group are on the older or younger extremes of results, due to the influences of 90s internet safety campaigns on elder members and of good common sense for much younger members, but this is speculation and should not be taken as legitimate data.

It can also be speculated and discussed that the 15-19 age range accounts for many of the recruits in the 2020-2022 recruitment range, while many in the 20-24 age range were likely members in the 2016 era. But again, this is speculation and cannot be taken for a legitimate conclusion. 

All in all, the current landscape of the Tumblr Angelkin community is very young, which holds consistent with historical demographics.

Do You Consider Yourself Abrahamic in Origin?

Fig. 4. A pie chart displaying the proportions of responses that are Abrahamic angelkin.

With “Abrahamic” being defined as “any religion that recognizes the religious figure of Abraham as part of their religion, including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism”, this identification is the source of a large split in the Angelkin community, both in and out of Tumblr Angelkin communities. While the concept of an angel originates in Abrahamic religions, there are those within the Angelkin community who do not consider their origins to have ties to any of the Abrahamic religions. This may be because they originated with a deity from a non-Abrahamic religion; it may be because they’re of a fictionkin origin; they may not have religious or spiritual ties at all. 

According to the Census data, Abrahamic Angelkin dominate the Angelkin community. (This does not mean that they themselves practice an Abrahamic religion; simply that their Angelkin identity is tied to Abrahamic religion(s).) However, the proportion that definitively doesn’t identify as Abrahamic is more significant than hypothesized when creating the Census, and implies that non-Abrahamic Angelkin are a larger and more quiet part of the community than expected. The amount unsure is also surprising, and if future Censuses are administered, it would be interesting to observe any changes in these proportions as the “unsure” demographic learn more about their origins. A follow-up question asked “If not Abrahamic, how would you describe yourself?”. The answers of this were sorted into various broader categories. We hesitate to discuss these here, as the results can be somewhat presumptive, and would require definitions of the categories these results are sorted into, so they may instead be the subject of a future post.

Do you consider yourself a fallen angel?

Fig. 5. A pie chart displaying the proportions of responses that identify as fallen or not fallen angels.

With “fallen” meaning “was once in service of God/a deity and has since left/been banished from service”, 44.5% of responding angelkin (69 respondees) do not consider themselves fallen, while 33.5% (52 respondees), and 21.9% (34 respondees) were unsure. Unfortunately, a relevant portion of the unsure respondees seemed to also be unsure as to how to respond to a survey, and when clarified, said that they responded that way because they were not Abrahamic. This skews the data and could make the proportion of the results unreliable. However, we chose to keep the responses in because not being Abrahamic does not necessarily mean that an angel is unable to fall. As such, though it could skew the data, we felt the responses worth including in the results regardless.

The proportion of fallen to non-fallen angelkin was much more even than expected. Non-fallen angelkin dominate, though that may be because they have more tags frequented on the original census post than fallen angelkin, who overlap with demonkin rather than divinekin tags fairly often. If this census was run again in future years, it may be good practice to expand the unholykin tags so as to capture a larger relevant demographic, and/or to specify that fallen angelkin are included more visibly in the post, just in case there was unintentional bias.

If you are part of a multiple or plural system, are any of your other headmates/alters angels?

Fig. 6: A pie chart displaying the proportions of respondents who are or are not part of a system, and if so, whether or not they have other angelic headmates or alters.

While 57.9% (88 count) of respondees are not a part of a multiple or plural system, there are a total of 42.1% (64 count) of respondees to the census were indeed a part of a multiple/plural system. From here on, the 64 respondees that are part of a multiple or plural system will be addressed, while the respondees who are not will be ignored.

Fig. 7: A pie chart displaying a subset of data taken from the question about proportions of altars. It only has the data on those who are part of headspaces/systems, and depicts the proportions of those respondents who have or do not have other angelic headmates/alters.

Of the 64 total respondees, 68.8% (44 count) have other angelic headmates/alters besides themselves, while 31.3% (20 count) do not. While we are under no illusions that this data in any way counts as significant, as it’s a very small and biased sample size, the amount of respondees with other angelic headmates/alters is notably double that of those without, which, if it ever ends up being proven as a larger pattern in the angelkin community- depending on the proportion of respondees that identify as spiritual angelkin- could have very interesting theological implications within the angelkin community and could be a relevant topic of discussion. However, until this is fully explored (if it ever is) our team will not be jumping to make any conclusions about larger community patterns or about theology.

Do you consider your angelkin experiences to be primarily psychological or spiritual in origin?

Fig. 8: A pie chart depicting responses to whether the respondent’s experiences are primarily psychological or spiritual. Other categories are included, as responses have nuance.

To the question above, we had a total of 149 responses. As we can see from the results above, of the respondees to the census, a significant majority identify as spiritual angelkin, at over half of the responding community members as of 2022. This is followed by the lagging runner-up, psychological angelkin, at 22.1%. At 16.8% was respondees who identified roughly equally as both, with 4% unsure of their identity origin, and one notable respondee (0.7%) identifying as a literal angelkin. It should be noted that this was from a fill-in response. While most fill-in responses were cleaned into the categories above, this respondee did not fit into any. They also did not provide further explanation of what this meant in the context of the question, so we do not feel comfortable elaborating or further categorizing on this. We will let it stand for itself. The overwhelming majority of the angelkin community being spiritual does give a decent baseline for what one can expect among interactions with other community members. It is important to remember that this doesn’t mean that it should be considered the standard or default, but simply be used to help set a baseline of expectations for inter-community discussions. When we speak to angelkin community experiences, it may be good to note what origin one is speaking from.

Do you consider your angelic identity to also fall under another another label (like demonkin or faekin)? If so, what labels do you also use for your angelic identity?

To preface, the validity of the data of this question in particular is highly questionable. Going through the responses- which will not be presented here as a result of this question of validity. We suspect that many respondees did not answer whether or not their angelkin identity overlapped with another otherkin identity, but rather answered what other identities they have alongside their angelkin identity. As such, some respondees may have been answering the relevant question, and some may have been answering what they thought was the question. This part of the survey was mostly a matter of curiosity anyhow, so we’re not too upset over not being able to fully present the results. We did find a small amount of interesting data, which will be listed below under the assumption that they are overlaps:

17 respondees’ identities overlapped with demonkin

1 respondent overlapped with devilkin

8 respondees overlapped with deitykin

2 respondees overlapped with eldritchkin

And 1 respondent very interestingly overlapped with crystalkin.

While again, this data has no relevance to the overall survey, we thought it was interesting. Have fun with it.

Discussion

The biggest takeaway from all of this is about the number of respondents. We got a whopping 155 total respondents, though not all of them answered all of the questions. That is much larger than expected! Our team has fond memories of updating each other on the number of respondents, with us being exuberant when we reached 100, and shocked when it went over. The Tumblr angelkin community in 2022 was truly larger and more active than we had been expecting! For a small community that’s faced plenty of what can be called “extinction events”, the current age of the Tumblr angelkin community has an incredible amount of potential.

To reach this potential, however, we must know each other and be willing to speak with each other. In the beginning of our report, we mentioned how distant the angelkin community on Tumblr has become from itself. It’s challenging to find someone through the deluge of aesthetic tags, or through tags that have been hijacked and forcibly turned into aesthetic tags. To survive the current age, we must find each other and revive our community through connections. We must not only be able to find each other, but to know each other and be willing to speak with each other, even if only in a casual way. The members of our team have no expectation of theological discussion or even philosophical agreement between members of the angelkin community, especially due to the overall young demographic of the community as of 2022. But we would like to provide an avenue of finding one another to open that door.

It should also be noted that none of the data presented here should be considered significant or reliable. We have found difficulty with respondees correctly interpreting questions, which throws plenty of the data here into question, but there’s also a matter of the sample size. Our census has reached many more than expected, yes, but it’s currently the only data we have on the size of the angelkin community, and as such we have no idea if it actually represents an accurate community size. Without knowing if we were able to reach a large and varied enough portion of the community, with this census being by nature a self-reporting questionnaire, we would not take any of the data obtained or showcased to be representative of the community even back in 2022, before the inevitable demographic shifts that would have come in the 21 months that have passed since this survey was released, and the 9 months since it closed. The inadequate speed of the release of data by our team is to blame in part, demographic shift in a rapidly changing online environment is inevitable. 

In order to better understand and reach our community, we must reach out to each other, we must find each other, and we must know each other. If there is any takeaway from the 2022 Angelkin Census, it should be that. That we must rebuild our community and walk through 2023 and into 2024 together.

We thank you for your responses, and of course, for your time.

-The @angelkincensus team

[angelkincensus]

ANALYSIS: Do you consider yourself a fallen angel?

Fig. 5. A pie chart displaying the proportions of responses that identify as fallen or not fallen angels.

With “fallen” meaning “was once in service of God/a deity and has since left/been banished from service”, 44.5% of responding angelkin (69 respondees) do not consider themselves fallen, while 33.5% (52 respondees), and 21.9% (34 respondees) were unsure. Unfortunately, a relevant portion of the unsure respondees seemed to also be unsure as to how to respond to a survey, and when clarified, said that they responded that way because they were not Abrahamic. This skews the data and could make the proportion of the results unreliable. However, we chose to keep the responses in because not being Abrahamic does not necessarily mean that an angel is unable to fall. As such, though it could skew the data, we felt the responses worth including in the results regardless.

The proportion of fallen to non-fallen angelkin was much more even than expected. Non-fallen angelkin dominate, though that may be because they have more tags frequented on the original census post than fallen angelkin, who overlap with demonkin rather than divinekin tags fairly often. If this census was run again in future years, it may be good practice to expand the unholykin tags so as to capture a larger relevant demographic, and/or to specify that fallen angelkin are included more visibly in the post, just in case there was unintentional bias.

[angelkincensus]

ANALYSIS: Year Joined

Fig. 2: A bar chart displaying the year still-active members of the Tumblr Angelkin community joined.

An important thing to note is that this question is specifically asking still-active members what year they joined. As such, it’s difficult to tell whether the sharp increase in membership in 2022 and adjacent years is due to an increase in Angelkin awakenings, or simply due to members who joined more recently being more likely to still be active in the community than older members who may have left Tumblr or simply gone inactive within the community. 

An interesting note is that the increase in recruits began in 2016. A year frequently mentioned, 2016 was both a renaissance and a trial for the Tumblr Angelkin community. Despite how the Angelkin community was torn apart by the events in the years around 2016, there seems to be a decent amount of members from that time still active, though likely also biased by the submissions of the Census-runners. 

Regardless, the modern Angelkin community on Tumblr is still dominated by those who’ve joined in more recent years, especially 2022. The high levels of recruitment in 2020-2022 is most definitely influenced by not only recency bias, but also the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns bringing more opportunity for exploration and introspection. Whether the numbers from these years will stay active is the subject of a future Census.

[angelkincensus]

ANALYSIS: Do you consider your angelkin experiences to be primarily psychological or spiritual in origin?

Fig. 8: A pie chart depicting responses to whether the respondent’s experiences are primarily psychological or spiritual. Other categories are included, as responses have nuance.

To the question above, we had a total of 149 responses. As we can see from the results above, of the respondees to the census, a significant majority identify as spiritual angelkin, at over half of the responding community members as of 2022. This is followed by the lagging runner-up, psychological angelkin, at 22.1%. At 16.8% was respondees who identified roughly equally as both, with 4% unsure of their identity origin, and one notable respondee (0.7%) identifying as a literal angelkin. It should be noted that this was from a fill-in response. While most fill-in responses were cleaned into the categories above, this respondee did not fit into any. They also did not provide further explanation of what this meant in the context of the question, so we do not feel comfortable elaborating or further categorizing on this. We will let it stand for itself. The overwhelming majority of the angelkin community being spiritual does give a decent baseline for what one can expect among interactions with other community members. It is important to remember that this doesn’t mean that it should be considered the standard or default, but simply be used to help set a baseline of expectations for inter-community discussions. When we speak to angelkin community experiences, it may be good to note what origin one is speaking from.

[angelkincensus]

ANALYSIS: If you are part of a multiple or plural system, are any of your other headmates/alters angels?

Fig. 6: A pie chart displaying the proportions of respondents who are or are not part of a system, and if so, whether or not they have other angelic headmates or alters.

While 57.9% (88 count) of respondees are not a part of a multiple or plural system, there are a total of 42.1% (64 count) of respondees to the census were indeed a part of a multiple/plural system. From here on, the 64 respondees that are part of a multiple or plural system will be addressed, while the respondees who are not will be ignored.

Fig. 7: A pie chart displaying a subset of data taken from the question about proportions of altars. It only has the data on those who are part of headspaces/systems, and depicts the proportions of those respondents who have or do not have other angelic headmates/alters.

Of the 64 total respondees, 68.8% (44 count) have other angelic headmates/alters besides themselves, while 31.3% (20 count) do not. While we are under no illusions that this data in any way counts as significant, as it’s a very small and biased sample size, the amount of respondees with other angelic headmates/alters is notably double that of those without, which, if it ever ends up being proven as a larger pattern in the angelkin community- depending on the proportion of respondees that identify as spiritual angelkin- could have very interesting theological implications within the angelkin community and could be a relevant topic of discussion. However, until this is fully explored (if it ever is) our team will not be jumping to make any conclusions about larger community patterns or about theology.

[angelkincensus]

ANALYSIS: Social media used to engage in Angelkin community besides Tumblr

Fig. 1: Other social media platforms are displayed by percentage.

Though undisplayed, the most popular result with 120 responses was a lack of other social media platforms being used. This was not included on the chart above so as to make the other responses more comprehensible. A lack of response in this category is not necessarily to indicate that no other social media platforms are used at all; rather, it’s an indication that no other platforms are used to engage specifically with the Angelkin community.

Discord is by far the most popular non-Tumblr social media platform with the Tumblr Angelkin community at a whopping 61%. This is likely a reflection of not only the ubiquity and versatility of Discord as a chat platform, but also the last remnants of popular Angelkin discords from 2016 and earlier, such as the now-defunct Memeing Angels Discord server. Members of the Census team who submitted responses to the Census may have biased this result in Discord’s favor, as our team originates from and resides on a 2016-era Angelkin Discord server.

After Discord, the most popular results (though significantly less so) are Instagram, forums, and TikTok. Many Angelkin from Tumblr can indeed be found on Otherkin-specific forums such as Nonhuman National Park. While the Census team knows of the Instagram and Tiktok Angelkin communities, we have no experience with them and don’t wish to; as such, we cannot comment on the overlap.

[angelkincensus]

Analysis: Age

Fig. 3: A pie chart displaying age ranges of active community members.

The current Angelkin community is dominated by members aged 15-24. Any members outside of this ~10 year age range are an extreme minority. It’s difficult to analyze the ages of the responses who declined to share their age range; but they are enough of a minority that being included within this section of the results is insignificant enough to not clutter results. It could be speculated that the members of the non-sharing group are on the older or younger extremes of results, due to the influences of 90s internet safety campaigns on elder members and of good common sense for much younger members, but this is speculation and should not be taken as legitimate data.

It can also be speculated and discussed that the 15-19 age range accounts for many of the recruits in the 2020-2022 recruitment range, while many in the 20-24 age range were likely members in the 2016 era. But again, this is speculation and cannot be taken for a legitimate conclusion. 

All in all, the current landscape of the Tumblr Angelkin community is very young, which holds consistent with historical demographics.

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An Overdue Update

First, the team behind the Tumblr Angelkin Census would like to apologize for the lack of updates. Life suddenly became very chaotic for various members of the team over the past month or so, which has kept us from dedicating as much time as we'd like to getting everything ready. We recognize that we should have mentioned these delays sooner, and will be working to be more consistent going forward.

Progress is still gradually being made on getting the census results into a presentable form, and things seem to be settling down for all of us, so we're expecting to be able to release the results soon. We thank you for your patience, and look forward to being able to help rebuild our community!

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(image made by @sarakielsbreath​)

The 2022 Tumblr Angelkin Census has closed, and we’re hard at work organizing the results into an easy-to-use format! We hope to have everything ready by the end of the week, so be sure to follow @angelkincensus​ to make sure you get all the relevant updates!