Is Nerd Culture Dying?
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Is Nerd Culture Dying?
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#2I think that nerd culture has just gone mainstream. It's far from dying.
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#3I think that nerd culture has just gone mainstream. It's far from dying.
Indeed. And "real" nerd culture has just became deeper, and more specialized. Back in the day, a lot of the nerds were into the same type of things, while now there are sub-groups. Some nerds are anime-nerds, others are programming-nerds, and not every programming-nerd is an anime-nerd, and vice-versa. And the amount of nerd-sub groups is huge, every quarter or so I encounter a nerdy topic and sub-group I had no idea about before.
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#4I think that nerd culture has just gone mainstream. It's far from dying.
Yogi Berra: “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded”
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#5I think that nerd culture has just gone mainstream. It's far from dying.
When you have a Dungeons and Dragons movie hitting over 100mil in the box office, and when comic book movies are some of the highest grossing, i think its pretty safe to say nerd culture is incredibly mainstream.
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#6One could hope that what is dying is the idea that there is such a thing as "nerd culture".
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#7Nerd and hacker culture aren't the same ... I think hacker culture is alive and well, albeit less so than in the past. Some posts here on HN give me hope - people are still breaking things and figuring out how stuff works under the hood, but nerd culture seems to have developed into rampant consumerism. The article touches on that a bit. It's prob a result of the 20-30 somethings of today being advertised to super heavily. Corporations realized that nerds have quite a bit of spending power, and with the rise of silicon valley/the internet, its become a big market.
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#8I think that nerd culture has just gone mainstream. It's far from dying.
> has just gone mainstream
Care to provide some examples? Most "nerd" interests like SciFi have been neutered if not completely bent out of shape while going mainstream.
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#9I think that nerd culture has just gone mainstream. It's far from dying.
I think 'geek chic' (i.e poseurs) went mainstream a while ago, but actual nerds will never be popular by definition.
I've tried in vain to find people at parties who care about my favourite arcane programming languages and obscure political doctrine, it's impossible :(
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#10Wait, hipsters have...gone? They missed my town