Which age section's people are mostly shippers?

Ofcourse there are fans from almost all ages but still, who are mostly shippers? Because the toxicity they spread is unfathomable. Liking an onscreen pair - anticipated, admiring their offscreen bond - understandable, wishing them to be romantically involved - okaish. But what is this whole bashing, dragging, threatening, verbally abusing and not just the actors and remotely associated people with them too aren’t spared. My whole X homepage is a warzone without heads and tails. So was just curious what do the fans do in real life and how do they get so much time, energy and interest to literally fight online over people who don’t even know about the existance of the fans particularly