Maladjusted Nerds Have Power

Maybe empowering maladjusted nerds and geeks in our brave new digital world was not the best idea BREAKING: Facebook leaked internal memos indicate that site was brought down by disgruntled systems admin Samuel Hyde, allegedly displeased with the path company was taking in recent months I don’t mind him taking down Facebook—but I find the idea that people who look like this have any power at all to be aesthetically offensive. What can you do.

A screenshot of a social media exchange shows a bespectacled man in a black hat and white shirt, presented as Samuel Hyde, alongside jokes about Facebook being taken down by an angry systems administrator. The punchline mocks both the imagined power of an awkward-looking internet nerd and the ugliness of the person shown, making it useful as a sarcastic reaction to incompetent or unsettling people gaining influence. EN: A screenshot of a social media exchange shows a bespectacled man in a black hat and white shirt, presented as Samuel Hyde, alongside jokes about Facebook being taken down by an angry systems administrator. The punchline mocks both the imagined power of an awkward-looking internet nerd and the ugliness of the person shown, making it useful as a sarcastic reaction to incompetent or unsettling people gaining influence.

• @eternalclassic / 910 2021-10-06