Instead of being fit from sports, we got NFTs. And even if Chads were notoriously sketchy towards women, it's not like the nerds are any better. In fact, there's probably a third the amount of jock incels compared to nerd ones.
Nerds have given us the means for better computerized planning, but jocks would have given us physical fitness needed to defend ourself from counter-revolutionary reprisals.
They were both archetypes created as a collection of shorthands to express underdog status vs dominant status. Insofar as they ever existed in the real world, they existed after those images propagated. I don’t know for sure, but I would guess the legitimate trends which gave birth to the nerdy stereotypes were rooted in various bigotries perpetrated by or against certain communities. And I would also guess that those communities bare little resemblance to the archetypes we know today other than certain clothing.
I don't think it's that they don't exist still I think they just have always only existed in high school
Oh I wasn’t saying they didn’t exist anymore. Just that the archetypes resembled the original things they referenced so little that by the time people did recognizably fit them, it was because they were familiar with the imagery and were trying to match it
I don't know I remember it being pretty similar to the more grounded versions of how it's presented. It's just that grown adults pretty much can't be nerds anymore as it's very much a highschool only experience.
And as with all things people who define themselves by what they were like in highschool suck