Yesterday I decided to do a little bit of actual journalism in the name of OFWGKTA.

I was thinking that maybe I’m alone here in liking this group. I mean, being active on the internet, I’m exposed to a lot of music that others are not. I remember being absolutely shocked, back in High School when no one in my Senior Study Hall had never heard of Animal Collective and the only Radiohead song they knew was “Creep.”

So, I wanted to know if maybe this time it’s different. I mean, OF is pretty popular on the internet, but what is their real-world popularity with people my age?

I surveyed many different students at my school on their thoughts about OF.

(Well, ok, actually I just asked everyone in my Freshman Writing Seminar 105 class and everyone who happened to be in my dorm lobby at about 7:00PM…)

Nevertheless, my results are interesting.

Only 60% of students had even heard of OF. (20% of the other 40% had heard of Tyler, the Creator, though.)

Of those 60%:

20% consider themselves “huge fans”

50% just “like them”/are “casual fans”

15% are “indifferent”

15% “hate them”

Pretty varied response.

This actually proves that my initial response upon taking up this project was pretty close to being correct. The number of actual fans was pretty damn low. Still not as popular as deserved, but I would be willing to bet that if I did this same thing just a couple months ago, the numbers would have been much lower.

Their popularity only continues to climb!