How old were you when you got into vkei/jrock? if you cant remember guess

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  • less than 11
  • 11-15
  • 16-20
  • 20-25
  • 25-30
  • 31-35
  • 36-40
  • 40-45
  • 46+
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I’m pretty sure 90% of the “below 15” people are under 30 :smile:
When I was in my early teens the possibility to discover Visual Kei in Europe was lower than winning big time in a lottery :laughing:

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Early '00s I remember there were many of us in the middle of our teens. Yes tweens in the fandom were rare because there weren’t many of them freeranging on the internet without supervision like now, but around 13-14 was your average millenial age of internet access at the time, at least in my country.

When I was 14-15 y.o. Vk was the impulse for me to start to use Internet more than the usual 1-2 hours a week I did before it (because you’d pay EVERY minute you were online).

Also, the late '90s-early 00’s pipeline for VK, in Europe, was the manga/anime fandom.

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35 here but you might be right. I know at least a few more uncs on here.

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About 12~13?

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I was 25 (but I’m no manga/anime person, so there was no connection through that before).
I just had changed to WiFi which was very helpful, too.

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I think it was in 2005, so I was 12 years old. For some reason, the music channels in Germany played Saishuu Ressha by MUCC and I was captivated by it.

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Yeah, things got a bit more known at that time and Viva+ showed MV’s.
They once even did a show of an hour or so where they played quite some MV’s.
I even recorded it back then but I don’t remember where I put it.

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I used to read the german Metal Hammer a lot. Back then they used to have a CD or DVD with the magazine and on one of those DVD’s was the PV for Saku by Diru. I instantly fell in love with Kyo’s look. So i checked them out further and the rest is history. That must have been around 2005-2006, basically around the time Diru had their first Concert ever in Germany.

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I was 15 when I first found out about it…this year I’ll be 31 :smiling_face_with_tear: I’m an old man by now

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  1. I was 12.
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At 15 years (in 2002), while i’am reading a french magazine named “Otaku” related to japanese animation who was talking about a band called Dir En Grey. Shortly after, i found a mail order shop and i bought my first album of visual kei called “Macabre”, the aptly named. A musical and visual thunderbolt.

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Maybe I was young because of Gackt and animes.

I was 13 for An Cafe and i discovered visual kei via French Rock Magasine in 2000’s.

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that’s a fantastic first mucc song :slightly_smiling_face:

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I feel called out XD I discovered it at 13 and I can’t say its been too long..

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I was around 13-ish? My friend in 7th grade showed me the PV for Dir en Grey’s ‘Obscure’ and I was confused and grossed out and intrigued. From there dived into more of Diru’s discography and discovered Girugamesh

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a lot of us discovered it around that age! soon, you’ll be the ‘old’ one :joy:

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Im 34!

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7 baby!

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I recently turned 41. When I was 14, only the upper middleclass and above families in my environment had internet access at home. And as it was not cheap to be online, the time frame were we allowed to connect to the internet was very restricted and we usually used the time to chat with strangers :smiley:
I think we got a modem at home around two years later, but the online access was still quite resticted due to costs. Therefore not much time to browse the internet for music, besides, search engines weren’t that good back then and youtube did not exist yet.
Things changed when I discovered P2P filesharing clients - rapidly :grimacing:

But well, enough “Granny tells stories of the ancient times” stuff :laughing:

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