They have called us all our lives. It is very likely that you do too. And we are 99% sure that the one who preyed on the high school geeks... has now gone to the dark side.  

With that and because this week has been Geek Pride Day, we have come to recognize that we are geeks like everyone else, bare chested.

To the mess 👇

Manual geeks: the official turra

The RAE says that a geek is “extravagant, strange or eccentric”, “a colorful and extravagant person” or “a person who excessively and obsessively practices a hobby”. And perhaps that definition was true to reality... at the time when the word geek did not yet appear in the dictionary. 

When reading comics or dressing up as Chewaka at carnivals was for “weirdos.” When geek was only synonymous with bottle-bottom glasses, hooks and role-playing games in a basement. Luckily, the geek movement has expanded boundaries and things have evolved (or digivolved). 

Now being a geek is fashionable.

Nerd is the new sexy 🥵

Don't get confused, we're not talking about whether Clark Kent is hotter with glasses than Superman is without them. Examples to helmet: 

• Now the one who called you a geek at recess has her entire room customized as Harry Potter  
• The one who called you a geek in the hallways cried at the end of “Avengers: Endgame 2.”
• Now he who plays Dungeons and Dragons is no more a geek than he who makes Temptation Island memes. 
• Now, being a Messi or Evangelion whore is on the same level of geekism. 

But... what stuff are today's geeks made of?

X-ray of a Spanish geek

Well, if you wanted data, here are two cups :

• When a geek falls in love, he doesn't feel butterflies, but aliens in his stomach. (Okay, we totally pulled this one off, but it was almost justified.) 
• 60% are men, (up with that 40% of women!!). 
• The vast majority are between 20 and 39 years old (the true geek boom came between the 80s and 90s with movies from our childhood, animes, bookstores with comics that we didn't even know how to pronounce...). 
• Only 65% ​​of people who are recognized as geeks by their colleagues identify with that label. 
• Although 69% of Spaniards consider themselves a bit of a geek, only 1 in 4 feel proud of being one . You see that not all heroes wear capes.

Asumelo:

We all have a geek inside

What is it to be a geek? You say while you stab your lightsaber into who knows where. What is it to be a geek? Are you asking me that? Geek you are. We are geeks. We are all geeks. 

We have all rehearsed Kame Hame Ha.
We've all had a LOL, even if it's just because of the lols.
We've all spent a summer playing Pokemon.
We have all uttered the magic words “es leviosa, no leviosá”.
We have all done the “I am your father” Darth Vader thing.
We've all been pissed off by Game of Thrones spoilers.

And anyone who has never done it nor is willing to try it can live in peace. Especially in the event of a zombie apocalypse, because they only eat brains (JK)

It will always be infinitely more boring to reject geek culture than to fantasize from time to time about epic, impossible, movie worlds. So if you change your mind, we'll wait for you on the dark side.

A lot of geek pride and a lot of love for a tube.🤘

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We do cool right,
Siwon