In the early 2000s, I think when D&D 3E came out, my coworker told me a story of how he was in a comic shop that weekend and a gaggle of high school girls come in, excitingly talking about a new expansion that was coming out and looking for it. They bantered back and forth about the next game etc.
He was just sort of in a daze wondering, “When did the people who used to tease me for playing D&D and call me a dork start playing??”
And whenever I watched Big Bang theory, I wondered, “How is this show so popular. There is no way the average person is getting all of these references. I am missing some of them!”
I think geek/pop culture has just become much more main stream and most of the stigmas associated with it are no longer there.
Which is great.
One thing that sucks with this pandemic is not spending time with my kid like I would like to, but at least she has discovered Doctor Who and Star Trek TNG in the meantime!
