I feel that nerdy stuff became trendy with Big Bang Theory and MCU movies. I remember thinking that was a good thing but now I know better. What is weird is that once nerd culture became mainstream and it became fashionable to say you read comic books or played video games that is when the attacks on nerds (especially white males) started in full force.
Why do you think that it happened that way. Partly due to the large number of feminists who weren’t real fans getting involved in the hobbies. But I’m still surprised to this day how it all went down and definitely miss the days when you were made fun of for liking these things.
Different things I think.
People from the 80s-90s grew up with cartoons based on comics, so the market just aged enough to afford to watch and enjoy the new content and Hollywood capatalized.
Big Bang theory had a huge bandwagon of pple who wanted to say they 'watched big bang and understood the jokes which makes me smart'. They wanted clout.
Neither, of these normal groups of pple r gonna care all that much about the culture.
Then along with everything that becomes popular, u gonna have leeches, here we have thots n feminist trying to make a living with their vagina.