"Weird Al" Yankovic - White & Nerdy (Official 4K Video)

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Imustaskforhelp · 2026-06 · Reference

I think that the title should be more, what the fuck happened to tech executives as compared to nerds. because previously it was mostly the nerds who were at the forefront of the innovation (they still are), but they now have a playbook where they see all the other people (grifters) who are entering tech for money and the playbook of the attention economy and doing that because its a profitable strategy. It's basically the fact that there are multiple companies where a grift culture is promoted within tech (ironically I am on YC website and YC had a company which you might've heard called delve :D) As people realized that the technology has value and finance people realizing it to pour head over fist money into it. With such eggregious trillions of dollars worth of money (basically the whole economy getting floated by tech), you are bound to see people within this do the grift playbook and talk about themselves and succeed and that has become the playbook. So I think this is what has happened to nerd culture. It simply became profitable and then commoditized and used by people who could then grift. BUT people are respecting the nerd culture (well the non grift version of it) a lot more For some reason, I wish to recommend Weird Al video song about White & Nerdy[0] and how people within the comments are saying that Nerd culture has its own unique identity and many if not all appreciating the nerd culture [0] [VIDEO] So TLDR: people like the previous nerd culture and it still e

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jodrellblank · 2020-06 · Joke / meme

> " if anything can ever be qualified as "dorky", this is " Segway made it into Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" parody song [VIDEO]

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peter_d_sherman · 2019-06 · Reference

Fun fact: This page is about 43-Man Squamish, referred to by the 6th question on the faux Trivial Pursuit game card shown for a brief instant, at approximately 1:10 of Wierd Al Yankovic's "White And Nerdy" video: Video: [VIDEO] Trivial Pursuit Game Card: [LINK]

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