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On another note, I don't like the disintegration of nerd culture because this post was vaguely on topic even if it was 3d slop.
Being a Final Fantasy fan and a Sanrio girl could technically put her under nerd status but it probably also doesn't she looks more Stacy than any 2d girl ITT.
Ever since the late 2010s nerd monoculture sort of gradually bloated and then violently died, as the popularity of games, anime, and all that shit grew before you even had Covid thanks to TikTok, and YouTube, and all forms of social media you now have a strange world where it's all foggy and messed up.
Back in the day you expected Call of Duty to absolutely be the frat boy video game, but what about Elden Ring? If you told Demon Souls players their hobby would eventually get filled with the same kind of people who probably bullied them at some point they wouldn't consider it a victory.
There was a weird time from the 60s to 2010s wherein a certain kind of monocultural hype sort of existed. The kind of culture that always knew horror movies, comics, only the most curated anime and j vidya ever, with varying levels, but as those all gradually grew in popularity starting from the MCU and YouTube to TikTok, you had always known and had confidence in the sort of certainty of these things. Since then however it just sort of dispersed after dying out, and now there is no monoculture, only varying polycultures you can't even be shocked at, like Sanrio overlapping with a lot of Stacy-lites. It muddies the real world capabilities to find people you want and completely destroys any sense of community. I think maybe once or twice in my entire life I ever met anyone with similar interests to me. It's all very dissociative. I can say I like nerdy stuff and mean Sanctuary, Psycho Patrol R, Snyder or Frank Millers Batman runs, Lars Von Trier, and someone else can mean Valoran, flipnote art, bug taxedermy, and Sanrio and it wouldn't even be wrong to umbrella type both into the same group.