and plenty of aspects of what once made up “nerd” “”“culture”“” is now found everywhere
works the reverse way too. Normies became nerdier, but now nerd culture also became normier (less focused on discussion of ideas and intellectual curiosity)
It's because the nerds run the spaces. The nerds cultivated the spaces into nerd spaces. The spaces that aren't run by nerds aren't nerd spaces.
Reddit as a whole was a niche of the internet that blew up. Its upper-tiers of mods were created when it was still a niche and it was ultimately a tech nerd site to begin with. They are literally all nerds.
works the reverse way too. Normies became nerdier, but now nerd culture also became normier (less focused on discussion of ideas and intellectual curiosity)
It's because the nerds run the spaces. The nerds cultivated the spaces into nerd spaces. The spaces that aren't run by nerds aren't nerd spaces.
Reddit as a whole was a niche of the internet that blew up. Its upper-tiers of mods were created when it was still a niche and it was ultimately a tech nerd site to begin with. They are literally all nerds.
I wouldn't say all, it's definitely become more and more norm and gamed