[Graph] JOAS membership numbers 2001-2023

[Timoris]

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As we wait for 204 and 2024's (technically 2023's) fiscal report, I have gone back 23 volumes and graphed the reported membership numbers.

Note: Membership denotes the tier with additional publications (yearly and with every issue as of 202) as well as voting rights and special meetings.

Subscribers* are specifically a different tier, thus the actual amount of adherents are unknown.

The reported numbers of Subscribers were 1,140 in 2001 and 1,111 in 2023

Below are the reported Membership numbers

[Gerardo]

That's very... dedicated of you, Timoris. Thank you. Hmmm... seems like the highest points were during the global quarantines.

[Timoris]

You're very welcome!

In the first few years looked at JOAS mentioned how there was an increase in membership from the website

There's almost a doubling of numbers from 2005-2010 - my personal hypthesis was the Publication of Works of Satoshi #1 in 2005 put his creations in the spotlight, increasing interest in the art.

Even if the numbers continue to fall for 34, we have a stable plateau, if with a slight upwards trend, from 2010 onwards.

Membership may be down from covid numbers, but I suspect they'll be echos. Something will capture the zeitgeist, people pick it up again.

I predict that origami will settle in a happy medium - like the shallow seas of the Permian, we'll see a lot of bubbling of creativity with spikes here and there.

[Gerardo]

That is actually very interesting! Time will tell .