Ive noticed that the influx of nerds came at the same time as the rise of the internet. Whats up with that?
What an astute observation! We have a theory about this. Let’s take, for example, the mailing list in our city which will remain nameless. It was run by a wonderful cool person whose first name is Althea (we won’t give you her last name). She went out to clubs and asked cool people to join the mailing list in person, and it was fun and cool and wonderful. Unfortunately, there was a stupid fat nerd who was hosting the list on his computer. His first name is Cliff (we won’t give you his last name). Cliff decided that a good thing to do would be to put up a web page that advertised the list to anyone who did a web search on “goth” and the name of the city, and let them subscribe automatically. Soon the list was riddled with people who had never been to a goth club in their lives, and knew nothing about the music. The cool people hadn’t quite been scared off yet, so they made the mistake of telling the losers where the clubs were, and the losers started going. That’s when the clubs started
