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@Hounder While there's some truth to what you're saying, let me point out this is by no means inevitable. Some groups manage to renew themselves and replace their entire staff over the years. I scanlate with Death Toll and while very few manga readers know or care who we are, we've been around for almost 12 years and are still kicking. Nobody of the founding generation remains, but new blood comes and goes. Groups like Sense-Scans, EGS and Chibi Manga are almost as old as we are, and others like Illuminati Scans and Evil Genius are far older.
Scanlation can be, and is a long-term hobby for many people. If you don't go supernova and avoid burnout, it can be enjoyable for years, decades. Again, non-scanlators don't know them, but there are people from the late and even early 2000s who are still scanlating. We have had people older than you in our group, even people who were already older when they first joined. One of them was a senior citizen. All salaried adults with families. We have lots of working adults right now. One of them has just celebrated buying their first house. I started scanlating long after I had graduated university, too.
All a group needs to live long is a core of people who enjoy this hobby. Death Toll had only four members at a point. Groups often die by choice, not inevitability.
Scanlation can be, and is a long-term hobby for many people. If you don't go supernova and avoid burnout, it can be enjoyable for years, decades. Again, non-scanlators don't know them, but there are people from the late and even early 2000s who are still scanlating. We have had people older than you in our group, even people who were already older when they first joined. One of them was a senior citizen. All salaried adults with families. We have lots of working adults right now. One of them has just celebrated buying their first house. I started scanlating long after I had graduated university, too.
All a group needs to live long is a core of people who enjoy this hobby. Death Toll had only four members at a point. Groups often die by choice, not inevitability.
