something exported from a country, that you first got bullied for (watching anime during 90s 00s 10s) that then turnt mainstream.
comics? pulp fiction books? rock albums?
i am genuinely interested in the answers
Food. At lunch having “exotic” food was weird and you got teased for not having a bland sandwich.
Look at this fuckin nerd with his bento box
xenophobic af of 'em
In my school (back in my day), exotic was a taco.
There used to be this hierarchy of nerdy stuff. The comic nerds looked down on the war gaming nerds who looked down on the tabletop nerds who looked down on the larpers. As a comic reading, war gaming, roleplaying, larper I always thought it was weird.
For me it was the wargaming nerds looking down on the CCG nerds originally. Warhammer was fine, we were the cool nerds (lol). Magic The Gathering was not. Hell, even the anime nerds were better than the Magic nerds.
Then it was the “virtually anything else but…” nerds looking down on the Starcraft clan. No one liked them, even if we played Starcraft too. Forming a school clan was just, death to anything else.
This is what I hate about any kind of hobby culture and have always been hesitant to identify as any. The amount of toxicity that comes out of what is supposed to be entertainment is unreal.
So many people demand respect for their esoteric obsessions yet refuse to respect anyone else’s. Like, in the end none of it matters so just enjoy what you like doing and let others enjoy what they like doing. Why bother spending your limited time and energy hating on stuff when you can just ignore it?
People are people. Some decided long ago that tearing others down is the same as building yourself up. If it’s going to happen anyway, I try not to let them spoil my fun. Luckily the next generation seems to be better about it, and even when there’s so many jerks their’s always better people having their fun.
interesting anecdote!
I don’t think there was any actual bullying because of it (I’m not American, school was pretty nice and my memories are almost entirely positive, lol) and I don’t think it’s become any less nerdy but Magic the Gathering was certainly my nerdiest passion growing up. And yes, there was a hierarchy: the Beyblade kids were less nerdy than the Yu Gi Oh kids, who were less nerdy than the MtG kids. 😅👍
fuck we held beyblade tournaments so often in kindergarten
then it got shamed, playing marbles and trading pokemon cards were the cool. not playing with em or even making up how to. yugioh cards were less cool. digimon cards were the uncoolest like bully material
Oh shit I forgot Pokémon cards! But yeah, Beyblade was top notch, I was letting it rip for a good year IIRC. 😅
British comedy like Monty Python
Really, people got shunned for watching Monty Python in the 80s and 70s?
Shunned? No.
Mocked? Yes.
Why? How come? I never imagined either would be the case
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