the word "nerd" is so weird because you can be considered a nerd for speedrunning or vocaloids (very common even if slightly marginal interests) but you can also be a nerd for less popularized shit, like atmospheric optical phenomena, plant reproduction, 1800s poems
look at the sky.
taste me, as the food and drink Alice found almost said. she was cast unto a stormshorn sunderedsea. you too will fall beneath my waves in time.
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in reply to @lookatthesky's post:
As far as I'm concerned, all interests are "nerd interests".
Yeah it's really just like anything that's not physical activities. It probably originates from weird masculinity nonsense or something idk
theres also just been some semantic shift because of nerd having been a derisive term in the past, mostly in the direction of neurodivergent white dudes, and nowadays being used as such much less often