Your favorite ip is next

A comicbook is released. 1000 readers love it. Moderate success. Expand into a toy!

Toy based off comic is released. 1000 fans and 9000 toy buyers love it. More success! Expand into tee shirts, lunch boxes and other merch.

Teeshirts, lunch boxes and merch based on the toy based on the comic are released. 10,000 fans plus 90,000 other consumers who buy clothes and bullshit love it. Great success! Expand into videogames!

Videogame based off the merch, toy and comic is released. 100,000 fans plus 900,000 gamers love it! All aboard the hype train. Expand into Hollywood!!

A summer block buster based off a humble comic that a thousand readers enjoyed is released. It has undergone all the butchery that an ip goes through before processed into a Hollywood movie. 1 million fans plus 90 million movie goers see it! This is where the fun begins.

100 million people are now aware of this formerly obscure comic ip. Normies thought it was pretty cool. Og comic readers are seething over Hollywood's failure to faithfully adapt it. But the fact is, nobody gives a fuck what a thousand comic dorks think. The property was successfully milked for hundreds of millions of dollars. Jobs were made, people were entertained. The world moves on and comic fans are left to sulk about it.

This seems to be the way of things. Even after the golden decade of marvel movies, everyone wearing superhero tee-shirts, normies with social and sex lives openly enjoying d&d or starwars.. The actual fans are still ultimately seen as cringe and worthy of being shoved into the proverbial locker. They never accepted us. They just finally started enjoying our shit because it was dumbed down and scaled up for them. This created an illusion of a geek culture Renaissance where it was cool to like all the stuff that used to get you wedgies and reminders that you will always be a square and a virgin.

Yes, it is cool to like geek shit. But it's still not cool be a geek. It never will be. You still obsess over details and complexity. You want your hobbies to be innovative and imaginative, lore faithful, accurate. You don't except the phoned in mediocre dreck Hollywood turns your hobbies into. You question things and object. You have the wrong opinions. In the last decade you have been deemed repulsive, far right (?), a bigot for not accepting the arbitrary and radical changes made to the characters you've known and loved. Wondering why a dozen pale redheads were recast as black makes you a klan member and an incel. Calling out bizzare lore inaccuracies makes you a troll and impossible to please. They still hate geeks and they always will. All the normies are happy to consume product and eagerly await next product. But geeks are a thorn in the side. This shit actually matters to geeks