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I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Post by 001sky »

corresation wrote: post #358
jmduke wrote: post #120

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Reddit is visited by tens of millions of people of virtually every demographic. Corralling them as "internet nerds" seems a bit like you're trying for some bullying yourself. The post to which you're replying didn't even mention Reddit. Reddit is by no means the only place where a nerdy demographic (and I'll define 'nerdy demographic' as 18-25 that skew towards STEM education and exhibit above-average internet usage)…

The post to which you're replying didn't even mention Reddit. The post I replied to specifically mentioned Reddit. Although that was later edited out, it is hardly necessary given that the entire story is about a post and discussion on Reddit. Being a jackass isn't somehow excusable just because you don't know who you're being a jackass to While no one said it was excusable (at best I implied that it was ignorable ),…

Good point, and here is your citation:

[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriation_(art) ‎ Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The use of appropriation has played a significant ...

Appropriation art (spoiler alert) is as Hipster as it gets.

"T\ypewriter guy" appears innocent of the Appropriation he Approriating (un-wittingly). Which is something that happens...similar to other sub-cultural trends that get sent into the mainstream. So this is entirely hall-of-mirrors mockery, than anything pernicious...it seems.

Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Post by jmduke »

gioele wrote: post #339
jmduke wrote: post #120

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Reddit is visited by tens of millions of people of virtually every demographic. Corralling them as "internet nerds" seems a bit like you're trying for some bullying yourself. The post to which you're replying didn't even mention Reddit. Reddit is by no means the only place where a nerdy demographic (and I'll define 'nerdy demographic' as 18-25 that skew towards STEM education and exhibit above-average internet usage)…

> above-average internet usage I doubt that internet usage is any longer a measure of how "nerdy" a person is. There are teenagers, especially girls, constantly using internet-based services from their cell phones to communicate with other people for most of the time they spend awake [1,2,3]. Would you call them "nerdy"? I doubt. [1] http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/social-media/... [2] Madden, Mary; Le…

Your point is well-taken, but female teenagers who spend their entire day on the internet only fulfill one of the three qualifiers I had for "nerdy" (the other two being 18-25 and STEM-educated.)

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Post by doktrin »

Torgo wrote: post #221
sequoia wrote: post #153

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> Because I got treated like dog shit by the exact same class of person who now dresses in a parody of my life What suggests to you that these are the same people? Like, if I wore lensless glasses for kicks, would that put me into the "high school bully" class? You're doing what TFA complains about: making assumptions about people & speaking ill of them because of how they dress. Why make assumptions? Why get mad bec…

Because it's not arbitrary. I didn't get punched in the guts when I was a kid because I was wearing tight pants driving a pennyfarthing. I was punched in the guts because I was a "nerd" which meant "not cool." So when someone copies the cartoon version of me to be "cool" I'm entitled to be annoyed. I was who I was, I wasn't trying to fit an "image." Unlike hipsters, which are a real thing, I didn't get the privilege…

> It's "cool" to be a nerd now, only in the sense that you can generally like whatever you want and be accepted for it.

Can we stop for a moment to appreciate how amazing this is? As a social development, this is something I could barely even conceptualize when I was in high school at the turn of the millenia.

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Post by a3voices »

Apocryphon wrote: post #99
jlgreco wrote: post #57

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What is the obsession with t-shirts?

T-shirt obsession is really a universal techie thing. Everything from the latest hip startup to the most stodgy of conventions give out t-shirts, often sizes far too large for most people to wear.

Reminds me of Diaspora's t-shirt expense.

http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/104728404

Re: I Am An Object Of Internet Ridicule, Ask Me Anything

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Post by Tycho »

potatolicious wrote: post #7

Hipster-hate strikes me as just another thinly veiled form of bullying, and it's interesting to see how readily internet nerds - the people who are disproportionately to have been bullied in the past - engage in it. Look! He's different! Let's make assumptions about his motivations and get him! It's also interesting to see how many times Reddit (and other communities) fly into a rage-fest because of lack of context,…

I think it's considered 'OK' to hate hipsters. You won't be considered racist, sexist, agist or anything. So I guess it's an outlet of sorts.

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Post by benjvi »

mortehu wrote: post #321
benjvi wrote: post #202

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So, what do you think is the prior probability of being a disgusting reprehensible goblin? And what is the difference in likelihood of poor fashion decisions between goblins and non-goblins? Seems like would be interesting to actually try and find out which personality traits correspond most with poor fashion decisions (presumably introversion would be a given?)

I don't think it's introversion. I think it's the personality types that don't register or care how (negatively) people are reacting to them. For example, the guy that will talk to you incessantly about some topic you don't care about, or someone who's smelly because of their own fault.

Yeah, fair point. My reasoning was that introverted people, being more introspective, will just have seen less reactions and so be generally less able to interpret them. But, this could be balanced by other traits - for example, greater stimulus sensitivity might mean introspective people place more importance on people's reactions to them

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Post by eigenvalue »

gcanyon wrote: post #245
adt2bt wrote: post #156

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You are correct. In fact, I just drove x-country and Outliers was one of the books I listened to on the way. I haven't had the time to cross-check much of the information, as I just took most of what Gladwell wrote as fact (even if this was just an opinion).

Not to beat on Gladwell (more than a bit) but I tend to double-check most of what he says.

Ever since Igongate...

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Post by Tloewald »

jmduke wrote: post #382
gioele wrote: post #339

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> above-average internet usage I doubt that internet usage is any longer a measure of how "nerdy" a person is. There are teenagers, especially girls, constantly using internet-based services from their cell phones to communicate with other people for most of the time they spend awake [1,2,3]. Would you call them "nerdy"? I doubt. [1] http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/social-media/... [2] Madden, Mary; Le…

Your point is well-taken, but female teenagers who spend their entire day on the internet only fulfill one of the three qualifiers I had for "nerdy" (the other two being 18-25 and STEM-educated.)

18-25 is a really silly criterion.
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