When Geek became cool

[PyroChamber]

In the past few years or more, was there ever one particular moment where being a geek was considered cool? When I was in school being a geek was looked down upon, especially if you were a black geek; but nowadays it's been embraced by pop culture, some people even try to get "geek cred".

It's a good thing, but I'm just curious as to when it all turned around.

 

[PhotoJones]

Geek became cool when Weezer hit it big.

 

[Erzengel]

I blame the internet.

There was a time that I'd beat up most of you and take your lunch money.

 

[Prognosticator]

When all non-nerds turned into high school coaches!

 

[Dorian Gray]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl6QDNZUxqk

 

[PhotoJones]

I blame the internet.

There was a time that I'd beat up most of you and take your lunch money.

Says the guy with Yodo in his avatar? Yeah, right.

 

[Mee]

Says the guy with Yodo in his avatar? Yeah, right.

He had to practice his saber moves on someone.

 

[DorkyFresh]

i'd say around the turn of the century is when we started to first see the shift. movies started coming out that embraced nerdism....Matrix, LotR, Star Wars, etc. and at the turn of the century comic book movies started to come out. Spider-Man in 2002 undoubtedly made being a nerd seem cooler.

 

[PhotoJones]

He had to practice his saber moves on someone.

Oh, that was him? Yeah, I saw that on the internet.

 

[AhabTheArab]

Says the guy with Yodo in his avatar? Yeah, right.

haha agreed, he is in geek denial.

 

[Erzengel]

Says the guy with Yodo in his avatar? Yeah, right.

How much do you got on you?

 

[Immortalfire]

I blame the internet.

There was a time that I'd beat up most of you and take your lunch money.

You'd only being doing us a favor, apparently. http://www.liquidgeneration.com/Med...hived_News/Special_Reports/Bully_For_America/

 

[Ghostvirus]

I blame the internet.

There was a time that I'd beat up most of you and take your lunch money.

You can have my lunch money, but you can never take..MY SNACKY CAKE!!!

 

[PhotoJones]

How much do you got on you?

Well, counting the $5 I just took from you, it looks like $33.56

 

[Erzengel]

Well, counting the $5 I just took from you, it looks like $33.56

Maybe some locker time will smarten you up.

 

[DeaDheaD]

i'd say around the turn of the century is when we started to first see the shift. movies started coming out that embraced nerdism....Matrix, LotR, Star Wars, etc. and at the turn of the century comic book movies started to come out. Spider-Man in 2001 undoubtedly made being a nerd seem cooler.

Very much so.

 

[FreeRadical]

In the past few years or more, was there ever one particular moment where being a geek was considered cool? When I was in school being a geek was looked down upon, especially if you were a black geek; but nowadays it's been embraced by pop culture, some people even try to get "geek cred".

It's a good thing, but I'm just curious as to when it all turned around.

It's the media! Movies with geeks are hot now, especially after American Pie. A guy like Jim attracting a girl like Nadia? It happens in films, it's happening in reality.
Spider-man
Transformers
Road Trip
The Faculty
Superbad
Knocked Up
The O.C
40-year old Virgin
Those are some of the above films and tv shows that have made geeks hot.

Seth Rogen is geek of the moment....

 

[Carcharodon]

i'd say around the turn of the century is when we started to first see the shift. movies started coming out that embraced nerdism....Matrix, LotR, Star Wars, etc. and at the turn of the century comic book movies started to come out. Spider-Man in 2001 undoubtedly made being a nerd seem cooler.

 

[FreeRadical]

Spider-man in 2001?

 

[PLAS]

has anybody seen an 80's movie called "Just One Of The Guys"?

 

[Erzengel]

has anybody seen an 80's movie called "Just One Of The Guys"?

Are those ****? t:

 

[Ghostvirus]

Spider-man in 2001?

It actaully came out in 2002. At least that is what the nerd I was beating up said.

 

[Hole Shot]

Geek isn't cool, it's just more socially acceptable. No one out there is scoring more ass because they're a level 15 Paladin.


And it happened as a result of Columbine and all the copy cat incidents that followed. You guys all stopped getting shoved into lockers when jocks became scared *****less you'd gun down the whole campus.

 

[Erzengel]

Geek isn't cool, it's just more socially acceptable.

And it happened as a result of Columbine and all the copy cat incidents that followed. You guys all stopped getting shoved into lockers when jocks became scared *****less you'd gun down the whole campus.

Uh if memory serves, they weren't so much geeks than they were social outcasts.

 

[FreeRadical]

In the 80's it was Anthony Micheal Hall....

Today we have Shia LaBeouf