@siguza @iris_meredith

To be clear, however, my contextualization of this as coming out of "a generation for whom being socially abused for being geeky and nerdy" speaks not simply to enthusiasm for the tech. The entire culture in the 90s (which, notably, had by this point all but fully displaced the prior culture of women programmers a decade prior) was defined around enthusiasm for all the standard interests of geeks and nerds of the era. This being part of why myself, self taught in 6502 machine language on loose leaf notepaper as a child, felt so out of place, as most of the concerns of franchise fandom fell flat for me even then.

It was this culture, that thought of itself as the new status quo, that was subsequently hollowed out, leaving only the husk of what preceded it. By 2010, this hollowing out was already entering its second generation.

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