Geek is the new black

Geek is the new black

So why did being geeky suddenly become so popular? Last I recall, geeks (or nerds/dorks, interchangeably) were exiles, pariahs on the social playing field. They didn’t get the girl, they stayed home and chatted online while their peers were out boozing the night away. They weren’t considered acceptable by society’s Abercrombie standards.

That is, until bands like Weezer and films like Napoleon Dynamite made geekiness popular. Cue the resulting flood of self-proclaimed “nerds”, fully equipped with faux-vintage shirts, Converse All-Stars and chunky, black Buddy Holly glasses. Suddenly, being uncool was, well, cool. Which makes it that much better for us Original Geeks then, right?

Not so much. DU sophomore Brian Carrisoza, who refers to himself as a fellow “true geek”, gripes about the new fad, saying that when it comes down to it, these born-again dorks just aren’t the real thing.