Is anyone else tired of this "nerd" fad?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>Because they take off the 3-d lens and end up looking like this :
<a href=“http://images2.chictopia.com/photos/jadorecn/2382867025/black-3-d-glasses.jpg[/url]”>http://images2.chictopia.com/photos/jadorecn/2382867025/black-3-d-glasses.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>exists here in Los Angeles, especially the school I go to (mainly sports school + jocks + stoners)</p>

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<p>Fake glasses are definitely a hipster thing. They’re not being nerds, they’re being what they consider ironic.</p>

<p>And don’t worry, [everyone</a> hates hipsters](<a href=“http://www.latfh.com/]everyone”>http://www.latfh.com/).</p>

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<p>Can someone explain the significance of plastic glasses or those glasses with the lines in the middle where it looks like you can’t see? All I know is Kanye West wears them, and then one day I randomly see people wearing them.</p>

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<p>^They’re “cool.” They have that aesthetic in general, but because they can be worn ironically, hipsters disproportionately enjoy them.</p>

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<p>The group of “jocks” at my school (as much as I hate lables, frankly I don’t know what to call them) are exactly like this. We have a school uniform but around once a month we have a day where you can wear whatever you want to and bring a dollar for a charity, and they always dress in high riding shorts and thick glasses. At dances, it is even worse!</p>

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<p>I decided to be creative (!) and turn my 3D glasses into a necklace, but then my friend informed me that kids had been doing this in Florida for ages. It was saddening. D:</p>

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<p>Get with the times you lack of fungus you.</p>

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<p>Fake Nerd?</p>

<p>“Fake nerd glasses” fit in with the postmodern aesthetic, rather than the traditional notion of aesthetic value equating to “beauty.” Fake nerd glasses shock and awe, yet are subtle in the statement in which they are trying to communicate–what Lyotard references to as the sublime of the postmodern aesthetic. </p>

<p>For many, it is a a reference to the state of the hyper-connected information age in which we live, where the boundaries of what is valued and what is admonished (‘nerdism’) are blurred, sometimes broken. This is doing what society has been paying lip-service to for so long, the development of a more progressive values system. A system which is rigid and stereotyped, but sustained due to society’s cowardice and sheer laziness</p>

<p>The wearing of these “fake nerd glasses” typifies postmodern expression; once, societal conundrums such as this were dealt exclusively within the realm of academic mediums (essays, etc) and academia, but as these methods of expression have failed to solve many problems, many have lost faith in it, and modernism in general–thus the birth of postmodernism, where emotion and a complete saturation of all of the senses are valued in a medium of expression. An expression that more closely approximates the innate in which the human mind operates, rather than the esoteric notion of the separation of emotion, objectiveness, that is characterizes modernist intellectualism. </p>

<p>Thus, the wearing of “fake nerd glasses” is ironically more “nerdy,” perhaps, than what the nerds wear themselves.</p>

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<p>I am definitely in shock and awe every time I see a profile picture on Facebook with “fake nerd glasses.”</p>

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<p>^I don’t really mind when I actually do see people wearing them, as long as they don’t look COMPLETELY stupid like on that hipster site.</p>

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<p>I’ve never seen nor heard of this (before now.)</p>

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<p>This is happening at my school also. It doesn’t bother me though.</p>

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<p>No, I really like it…</p>

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<p>My school is still on the little kid backpack phase, the ones with Spiderman and Dora the Explorer on them. I see a few people with the punched out lenses though, mostly in Facebook pictures, often with a very high angle and some contrast.</p>

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<p>^ The Dora stuff was in at my school two years ago. All these juniors and seniors covered their folders in Dora the Explorer stickers.</p>

<p>I personally don’t like the “fake nerd glasses” because the people at my school that wear them think they’re so in doing it all. Many of them have prescription glasses but try not to wear them because they don’t want to stand out. But when they wear the oversized nerd classes (matching to their friends) they don’t mind a bit.</p>

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<p>^^ my school has both (nerd + little kid).</p>

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<p>Hahaha that reminds me when people made backpacks out of cereal boxes.</p>

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<p>^What? Lol. I’ve never seen that! And yea, my school has the little kid backpack thing too, but it’s starting to die down. It was really popular two years ago when I was a freshman.</p>

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<p>ahahah! same at mine LOL. i was just about to post that…like little kid backpacks with spongebob and dorathe explorer…lol at first i thought they couldn’t afford a proper backpack…now i realized they thought it was cute</p>