Why Nerds are Unpopular
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Why Nerds are Unpopular
Saved by Ajinkya Wadhwa and
Teenagers claim they want to be cool, but they mostly just want to avoid being uncool.
Succeeding socially in that universe required them to devote a large part of their consciousness—perpetually—to managing what became their online brand. This was now necessary to gain acceptance from peers, which is the oxygen of adolescence, and to avoid online shaming, which is the nightmare of adolescence. Gen Z teens got sucked into spending
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