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Even the blog post mentions the raging debate about what really makes one a "true geek". People calling others posers.

That is happening because it is now hip to be geek. Shirts should have geeky stuff on them, glasses should have thick black frames, toys and video games are used as part of the design when decorating, Comic Con is sold out a year in advance... list can be made however long you want to.



Wait, don't generalize. TBBT portraits geeks as asozial, awkward, not into sports, unable to communicate with women etc.

I got confronted several times with exactly this image of nerd or geek, when meeting people, exactly because of TBBT (as the persons I met stated).

Nothing to do with Comic Con, video games, black frames etc.


But this image of nerds existed way before the Big Bang Theory first aired. They just picked that up, stereotyped it and made a comedy show around it.




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