Let me tell you the two reasons why nerds are losers.
The first reason why they are losers is because the word nerd has gone through decay, it no longer means what it used to. It used to mean “Someone who is interested in intellectual pursuits.”, such as math, literature, science, history, etc. Basically, someone who finds the mental classes at school to be interesting, while most others hate those subjects because intellectuality is not for everyone, hence why the word nerd is associated with school.
Nowadays, however, the word nerd basically means “Someone who is a mindless consumer”. Nerds are no longer intelligent, they now only care about pseudo intellectual crap like Rick and Morty, superhero movies, and other things of second hand, childish banality nature.
"We dumbed down the definition of nerd and made it mainstream! Now you average people can dub yourselves nerds, even though nerds in the past only consoomed things that required intellectual effort!"
Like I said. Nerdism is now a cargo cult. Which brings me to my secondary point.
The second reason why nerds are sucky losers is because they allow their communities to be invaded by cringe normies who would have bullied nerds in the past, but now that being a consumer nerd has become mainstream, these cringe people are invading nerd communities and turning them into leftoid cesspools. Nerd communities are now infested with attention whoring sodomites and “gamer girls” and man children, and nerds do nothing to stop it.
Why are nerds so bad at defending their communities? They allowed the Trojan Horse, the normie hoards, in.
I went to r/dndmenes for the first time in a while, and first post I see, at the top of the page, is not even a meme. It was a screenshot from another subreddit.
The screenshot was a meme about goblins in another subreddit and the guy who was posting the screenshot to r/dndmemes was bitching about how goblins are an “antisemitic stereotype blah blah blah”.
Fucking jevvs ruin everything, even dumb meme subreddits.
TLDR: Nerds and geeks are losers and cuckold simps because they allowed the same whores who bullied and belittled and ignored them in the past to become the “Queens” of nerd communities after becoming a “”“”“Geek”“”" (Read: Movie/Television/VideoGame consoomer) became mainstream and “muh popular”.
I miss the old definition of nerd.
Anyway, what do y'all think?
Geek is a nerd with social skills.
Both are conflict avoidant, as a rule, so they are incapable of gatekeeping their respective communities.
I have a friend who is fond of saying "you can't gatekeep someone else's property".
If you're in a Warhammer "community", how do you influence Games Workshop? If you're in a gaming "community", how do you gatekeep Sony? Hell, if you're part of a sports fan "community", how do you stop your favourite team's owners from holding "Dildo Night" in June?
Jocks have the exact same problem, and it has nothing to do with the type of person involved. These people are not part of communities, they are part of customer bases. They have attached their social health to products, products controlled by massive companies. There's nothing to gatekeep because they were always just posers, instead of propagating the hobbies themselves.
You gatekeep it by rejecting it totally. I mean Games Workshop, I'll admit I'm not super familiar with it but I looked into last week after another discussion. It's just some IP. Make your own, quit giving them money. Not a little bit not I'm mad and I'll buy it anyway. Zero. If that means resource wise you're playing your makeshift Warhammer with an old set of rules you've altered a bit and the best you can do for figures is some creative origami, that's fine. The point was supposed to be about things to do with a group of friends, and creating things with your friends is way better than mindless consumption.
Exactly. You need to make something else because their product does not equate to your community. You aren't "gatekeeping" anything, in this case, you are leaving their walled garden.
And if people were actually doing that, subversion by outsiders would not be an issue at all.
Yeah but you think they would have enough courage to stand up against leftoids, faggots, trannies, and foids, none of whom are very physically imposing.
The problem is that their "communities" were never complete. A pathology of nerds (in the classical sense) is that they often, even usually, prioritise those intellectual pursuits to the detriment of everything else. So, yeah, they have these groups focusing on intellectual pursuits at a high level, but they are out of shape, socially awkward if not hostile, hygenically challenged, and often make it a point of pride to be different from "normies".
The means they can't really form communities, because communities need different kinds of people to be able to handle every situation. Nerds can't even procreate amongst themselves because women are largely not interested in intellectuallism.
So nerds were, and are, ecstatic when normies started showing interest in the amazing things they made, not understanding that those same people couldn't give less of a crap about the culture that created them.
And then there's the money aspect. Nerds tend towards wealth as a side effect of their yolked autism. Not having social obligations, they spend that money on their hobbies and companies, picking up on this, cater to the "whales". This subverts the whole system because, while the hobbies were all created for very little money in someone's basement and propagated through paper newsletters or online mailing lists, companies take the creativity out in order to serve the customers their repackaged slop. There would be zero issues with "gatekeeping" stuff like Warhammer, DnD, and MTG if the nerds were still making stuff themselves; instead, they farmed the creative aspects out to companies over which they have no control.
Tl;dr: the nerds are getting what they wanted, except they thought that the normie (and corporate) love of their hobbies would translate to acceptance of them, personally. Which it didn't.