Admit It, Geeks Run The World

Geeks, freaks, nerds and tweaks, welcome to Nexus’ Geek Culture, where I’m sure you’ll find something in these pages to tickle your deepest geeky fancies and fantasies. Somewhere in these delectable pages to come, I’m sure you’ll find something that speaks to you, whether that’s Dylan yet again talking about fucking a tree, Ruby writing some insanely detailed fanfiction with R18 content, or Toby’s exclusive photoshoot where he cosplays as many of your favourite characters as possible. 

Just kidding, there’s none of that in here. I know, I’m disappointed as well. Better luck next time. 

But what is in these pages is for all you highly invested, extremely caffeinated, possibly stoned, and very opinionated souls that make up the geek community’s heart of Waikato University and far beyond. You know who you are: the people who sit there buzzing in their lecture theatre seats when your hyperfixation is even slightly mentioned in class. Don’t lie and say you don’t do that. I’ll even admit that I do that, but I won’t reveal my geek hyperfixation just yet because I get enough shit for it already. God forbid a girl loves something so much it consumes her life. 

There’s a lot we could say about geek culture, but I don’t think it would all fit within the confines of what we can put in the magazine. God knows the Nexus staff have many opinions and things to talk about in this edition, but unfortunately we also have to print all the ads that keep things going. If we printed everything we wanted to, you’d be picking up a magazine with the thickness of a whole novel. Hell, I’d get behind that. (Big boss, if you’re reading this, I think you should let me print books through Nexus, just saying.) Broaden the horizon.  

But aside from using the front page to get messages to the boss (gotta do what you gotta do right?) I should probably talk more about geeks, geek culture, and the whole shebang of this week’s topic. Because in all honesty, geeks are pretty much what keeps pop culture alive these days. If there was no one to heavily fangirl/fanboy/fanthey over things, no one would get anywhere up in the bright lights of fame. Who would crash the ticketmaster site trying to buy concert tickets, or line up at insane hours outside shops to get the first release of something, or stay up until horrific hours of the morning under the influence of a glowing computer screen? That’s right, nobody. The world wouldn’t be the same without those people. And without geek culture, who would you supposed ‘non geeks’ roll your eyes at whenever someone does something ‘geeky’?  

So pick up your cosplays, throw your notebooks full of secret fanfiction in your bag, roll a twenty, and settle in for some good old geek culture.