Funny Holidays - Embrace Your Geekness Day

Nerds are schoolchildren and students obsessed with studying and gaining knowledge to the detriment of other realities of life. People who are passionate about high technology, computers and gadgets in particular are called geeks. These include all smart people who have deep knowledge and are experts in any field. The most famous of the geeks today is Elon Musk, who broadcasts the ideas of teleports, space tourism and human settlement of Mars. Geeks are communities of people who have a thorough knowledge of video games, movies and comics, science, or modern technology. Geeks are considered to be boring and are characterized as smart people who are ready to prove themselves right on any issue, foaming at the mouth. A fun holiday is designed to destroy stereotypes about these eccentrics and increase the self-esteem of intellectuals. July 13th is Embracing Your Geekiness Day. The word geek appeared in the 19th century. This was the name given to eccentrics who committed various stupidities and obscenities at fairs. Over time, the word lost its negative meaning - it began to be used when talking about representatives of a certain subculture. Before the era of digitalization, communities of people passionate about one idea were called fandoms. The first of them, fans of detective stories about Sherlock Holmes, appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century. Science fiction communities emerged in the 1930s. Fandoms were also organized by experts in films and cartoons, books, radio and television shows. With the advent of the Internet, geeks began to communicate online on forums and discussion platforms that had a hierarchy and a status system. Intellectuals created norms of communication within the community, communication in which, due to the large presence of terms and allusions, was accessible only to participants. Analogues of forums began to appear on social networks, which gave representatives of the subculture weight in the eyes of the mass consumer. The geeks had a great grasp of the Star Wars galaxy and the sprawling Marvel and DC universes, a fact that was undeniable despite the eccentricities and fanatical attitudes of the experts. Today, these smart people are making discoveries and bringing into our reality technologies that have long been in the realm of science fiction. Thus, the Boston Dynamics team, which builds robots, relies in its developments on Asimov’s three laws of robotics. Geeks study any phenomenon, science or subject not for the sake of meaningless accumulation of knowledge. They share available information, thereby influencing society, the economy and the media. Embrace Your Geekness Day encourages geeks to stop hiding their talents and proudly show off their deep knowledge to people on July 13th.