It isn’t exactly news that a good deal of people, especially in social media, are co-opting geek culture for credibility and profit.
Any real geek who saw this video would laugh their ass off at these people.
Some of these people are real geeks, Leo Laporte, Kevin Rose, Kevin Pereira and Alex Albrect may not spend much time in IRC channels these days but I suspect they paid their dues when they were young.
Shira Lazar, MC Hammer, Kevin Pollack, iJustine, and Julia Fucking Allison? Give me a break. Your credibility goes way out the window when you’re throwing in people who decided it would be a good career move to align themselves with geek culture. I would bet dollars to donuts none of them were coding, scripting, tinkering, and hacking in their formative years.
Having a twitter account doesn’t make you a geek. Making a video about having a twitter account however does make you a social media douchebag.
I find this especially ironic given the definition in the beginning: “one who passionately pursues skill and imagination, not mainstream social acceptance.” I’d bet half the people in this video see the web as little more than a wet tee-shirt contest.
We gotta get over this. We stopped being special a long time ago. It’s cool to be a geek! It took years for me to be comfortable with that statement, but it’s true. The internet belongs to everyone now and that ain’t a bad thing. But let’s get one thing straight. This anger isn’t about geekery. It’s about celebrity, and attempts to reconcile it with internet culture.
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issue here isn’t about trying...‘take back the internet’,
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We gotta get over this. We stopped being special a long time ago. It’s cool to be a geek! It took years for me to be...
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In high school, nerds...geeks didn’t have cheerleaders. Now Geeks
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#iamageek video. Geeks, what’s with...elitism? The fact that non-geeks consider
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ironic given the definition...the beginning: “one
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Kevin Rose in a douche-beanie pretty much nullifies all geek cred he might have had.
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