>Boston police ridiculed for doing what cops do and overreacting to a well known kids toy connected to a battery lit up in public.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic

Nerd shit was fun. Non nerd shit was serious, and the two were mering at this time. Boomers were getting ridiculed for responding too serious to nerd shit. But now nerd shit has become mundane, normified, and often serious. I think the fun level is still the same, we're just all burned out on it. Memes have been done to death.