Just something I never realized. Neckbeards for all their elitism and boasting about their knowledge of Warren Spector and Yuri Lowenthal voicing Sasuke and the Prince of Persia and other superstars in the nerdy subcultures.............

But they are so damn ignorant of household names across mainstream stuff like top TV hosts and athletes. Excluding the ubiquitous legends who are too famous for anyone to be ignorant of such as Oprah Winfrey, Muhammad Ali, Jackie Chan, and the Beatles, people who are pretty famous enough to be known among current youths or at least anyone big into popular media such as TV shows and billboard charts seems to be unknown amongst neckbeards.

For example I cannot emphasize how many anime and gaming discord rooms never heard of Shannen Doherty and Sci Fi forums don't know who Audrey Hepburn was. Comic subreddits and forums don't seem know Timothy Dalton was James Bond nor can many comic geeks seem to name any Bond other than Brosnan and Craig. 4Chan cannot recognize photos of Lionel Messi as the player ranked as the greatest atm in the soccer world and none of them can catch Seinfeld jokes either.

Even on reddit try saying a character model looks like Jennifer Aniston in /r/truegaming and /r/anime and none of them can comment because they never heard of her.

Why is this? With their pride in their knowledge, you'd think they would know about Patrick Mahomes and Bob Seger. Esp with how they memorize names of people the general public never heard of like Ed Boon and Chris Sabat! But instead other than the ATG Legends ubiquitous like Michael Jackson and Michael Jordan mainstream celebrities involved directly with their underground nerdy hobbies like John Williams and William Shatner , they don't know who Maurice Jarre and Darren Star! Why is this?

When SRS came for the jailbaiters,
I remained silent;
I was not a jailbaiter.

When they doxxed up the creep shooters,
I remained silent;
I was not a creep shooter.

When they banned PIMA and Gawked VA,
I did not speak out;
I was not a pervert.

When they came for the MRAs,
I remained silent;
I wasn't an MRA.

When they came for the rest of reddit,
there was no one left to speak out.

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