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i remember the vintage nerd tribes of the 90s, when it seemed every group had a "strong nerd" (had lifted weights once), the "hot one" (wasn't incel / went on "dates"), the "sports nerd" (a kind of walking sports encyclopedia), the "sci fi / fantasy nerd" (the same but for SF/F)
these little subcultures thrived in places like mIRC or the used bookstore or the used record store, but the arrival a) of the monoculture (some of their interests became bland ad mainstream) and b) nerd entitlement takes (they weren't special) has pushed them towards extinction
extinction or towards various political extremes, sometimes the "alt right," sometimes a kind of anonymous-avatar shitposting "chaotic neutral," sometimes the "dirtbag left" ... and a few grew up and became lanyard-wearing "wonks"
i tackled the rise and fall of these tribes of nerdy 90s masterminds and the world they created in this @parisreview piecehttps://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/08/16/the-big-i/ …
and addressed the more problematic long-term implications of the disintegration of these groups of "masterminds" in this essay for the awlhttps://www.theawl.com/2016/08/the-last-days-of-the-boy-masterminds/ …
@ me next time oliver
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