[saberience]

From my perspective, someone who bought the Marshall Mathers MP when it came and loved the song Stan (I'm mid 30s). I would say "Stanning" isn't ubiquitous at all, in fact, I've never heard of it until today.

Just did a quick check around my office (Fintech company)(mostly 25-35) and no one had heard of it.

So yeah, I don't think it's that commonly used.

[SolaceQuantum]

I'm well familiar with stanning (fintech, 26). It's ubituitous in certain circles and certain subscultural values, so if you don't hold them and don't participate in it you probably don't know it.

Also, I don't think fintech is anywhere remotely close to "an average consumer" population to judge whether or not tabloid/instagram relationship applies to large swaths of people.

[Multiplayer]

When you have teenagers, your cultural consciousness will be reset to the much, much faster flow of that age. And you will return to the era of non-stop slang and hipness.

Stan-ing is very much a common term for Gen-z. And they have stan accounts. And I sort of get it. :)

This happens gradually, but started in full force at my house around age 15.

I have 3 boys, 13-18. It's an incredible amount of fun.

[BoorishBears]

I wouldn't expect having a large sample size determines if anyone knows it. Having a diverse sample is what would determine that.

Definitely would not be surprised if a disproportionately large number of HN readers in Fintech have never heard of it lol

[owlninja]

Mid 30s here as well, I see this used on the internet all the time - especially in rap circles

[theNJR]

Same demographic, and I too just heard this word for the first time.