Chances of, as sb who‘s into vore as a prey, meeting another person who‘s into vore as a pred.
Executive summary
As someone who prefers the prey role in vore, the probability of finding a willing predator partner is real but constrained: community surveys consistently show a plurality or plurality-adjacent of users who identify as prey or as “switches,” meaning many people either prefer being prey or can play both roles, which increases match odds in practice [1] [2] [3]. These findings come from self-selected online polls and community forums, so while they point to a meaningful pool of potential predators, they cannot produce a reliable population-level probability and tend to vary by platform, subgenre, and niche preference [4] [5].
1. What the numbers say: prey is common, but predators and switches are substantial
Multiple community surveys and censuses report that prey is a dominant self-identified role—one early community tally put prey preference at about 43% [1] [6]—while larger recent censuses find the “prey” category remains prominent but that “switch” (people who enjoy both prey and predator roles) often approaches parity with strict predators, and strict prey proportions vary by survey (roughly ~22% strict prey cited in a 2022 census while switch categories are nearly equal in size to predators) [2] [3].
2. What that means for meeting a predator: more pathways than a single statistic
Because a sizable subset of the community identifies as switches or play both roles, a prey-only person looking for a pred partner has multiple avenues: find a strict predator, recruit a switch to play predator that night, or engage in role-play where people rotate positions—strategies that community members report using to solve perceived imbalances [2] [5] [7]. Interviews and feature reporting on the community emphasize role-play and online RP as common ways to connect with compatible partners, underlining that “finding a pred” is often social and creative work rather than a simple odds problem [7].
3. Platform and subgenre matter: the pool is uneven across spaces
Demographic snapshots differ by site: smaller DeviantArt or Eka’s Portal polls skewed heavily North American and platform-specific [1] [6], and forum discussions on Aryion and Fur Affinity describe noticeable shortages of certain predator types—especially soft- versus hard-vore specialists—so one’s chances depend strongly on where one looks and what exact flavour of vore one prefers [4] [5].
4. Quality of matches is not just quantity: preferences and granularity reduce workable matches
Surveys show role granularity—preferences about fatal vs. non-fatal vore, predator and prey genders, species, and soft/hard distinctions—affect compatibility; many users are picky about predator gender or fatality level, while being more open about prey gender, which narrows the practical pool despite headline prey/pred proportions [2] [5].
5. Methodological caveats: self-selection, anonymity, and small-sample biases
All available figures derive from self-selected community polls, censuses, and forums—some with only dozens of respondents, others with a few thousand—which means results reflect active, grouped communities rather than a representative population and are subject to platform bias, underreported identities, and changing participation over time [1] [2] [4] [3]. Analysts within the community explicitly warn these are rough snapshots, not precise prevalence measures [1] [4].
6. Practical advice implied by the evidence: diversify venues and be explicit about niches
The empirical pattern—prey common, switches plentiful, genre preferences constraining—suggests the best practical strategy: broaden searches across sites and subforums, be explicit about hard/soft and fatality preferences to avoid wasted approaches, and consider roleplay or switches as legitimate ways to meet predators; community reporting and interviews highlight RP as a primary mode for finding compatible partners [2] [7] [5].