Why in fuck do Normies pretend they've always been massive fans of shitty geek culture shit now?
When I was in school, I was pretty much a uber-dweeb, spent my entire time reading Manga, playing Vidya, collecting Warhammer and engaging in System Wars bullshit. You didn't get much more nerdy than me. But even back then Comic books were a niche thing among even "geek" circles I rolled in because basically, everyone agreed outside of Manga and some graphic novels, comics were fucking shit and Capeshit was irredeemably shit.
I entered High School at the tail end of the Pokemon craze, in 1999, and by 2001 easily nobody gave a shit about Pokemon. Hell even when the Pokemon craze was big, it was still probably only three or four kids out of 10 that was into it. I still remember in Primary School the Pokemon Cards and Red and Blue and not actually that many people had the games.
So when Pokemon Go comes out and all the fucking Normies, many of which I went to school with on my facebook start going "OMG I ALWAYS LOVED POKEMON" I'm like "What the fuck, none of you fucking did". Why in fuck are they pretending they were massive Pokemon fans when I knew them as kids and they weren't and I've never seen them post about Pokemon until Pokemon Go?
Why in fuck do people pretend they like Comic Books now? I remember it wasn't that long ago when Comic Book stores were like fucking opium dens with some weirdo masturbating in the back and the store blatantly being a front for drugs.
The only thing I can think of is that it's because of the success of largely Iron Man and Capeshit at the cinema. I can distinctly remember for me at least, Comic book stores goes from dingy crack dens to actually brightly lit, properly staffed, retail stores after the success of Iron Man.
But I still don't really understand it? What compels Normies to pretend they were ever a part of any of this culture or that they know shit about it?