“Neckbeard” is a pejorative online term to describe a person who exhibits social awkwardness, underachievement, and pretentiousness.It’s a reference to the poor grooming and hygiene standards associated with these folks, and their facial hair in particular, which, according to the stereotype, is unkempt and extends down their neck.This doesn’t mean that every guy with man fur under his chin automatically becomes one. Plus, people’s personalities are so nuanced that it’s often impossible to make an accurate assessment of them from something they say on the internet.However, it it does mean that if you are hateful towards others just because you need to mask your personal insecurity and a lack of self-confidence, you might end up on the subreddit ‘Neckbeard’ as punishment. Here are the ones who did.This post may includeaffiliate links.
“Neckbeard” is a pejorative online term to describe a person who exhibits social awkwardness, underachievement, and pretentiousness.
It’s a reference to the poor grooming and hygiene standards associated with these folks, and their facial hair in particular, which, according to the stereotype, is unkempt and extends down their neck.
This doesn’t mean that every guy with man fur under his chin automatically becomes one. Plus, people’s personalities are so nuanced that it’s often impossible to make an accurate assessment of them from something they say on the internet.
However, it it does mean that if you are hateful towards others just because you need to mask your personal insecurity and a lack of self-confidence, you might end up on the subreddit ‘Neckbeard’ as punishment. Here are the ones who did.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
“The fat, pony-tailed and bearded sarcastic misanthrope [is] more commonly known as the Comic Book Guy,” shesaid. “In theBart the Finkepisode, Albertson wheels a barrow full of tacos through town commenting ‘Yes, this should provide adequate sustenance for the Doctor Who marathon.’
“At a cursory glance, the neckbeard is an easy figure to both loathe and laugh at: he’s the fat guy whose whole pathetic life plays out exclusively in cyberspace,” Dr. Rosewarne said.“This screen stereotype, however, has other interesting elements to it.”
“At a cursory glance, the neckbeard is an easy figure to both loathe and laugh at: he’s the fat guy whose whole pathetic life plays out exclusively in cyberspace,” Dr. Rosewarne said.
“This screen stereotype, however, has other interesting elements to it.”
At its inception, virtually every new technology had been associated with fears of addiction and the internet certainly hadn’t avoided this, either.
“The screen’s neckbeard is a product of this: he’s not just a user of the technology, the technology is his life.”
In this context, the neckbeard is a physical incarnation of modern gluttony – too much sedentariness, too much darkness, too much isolation, too much computing.“He is what happens to the body – to society – when we become too reliant on machines: we go soft, we go to fat,” Dr. Rosewarne added.
In this context, the neckbeard is a physical incarnation of modern gluttony – too much sedentariness, too much darkness, too much isolation, too much computing.
“He is what happens to the body – to society – when we become too reliant on machines: we go soft, we go to fat,” Dr. Rosewarne added.
“The neckbeard is unkempt, of course, because heft and dishevelment are regularly coupled on screen in a culture loathing of fatness,” she continued. “But he’s unkempt because of his computing. He’s not leaving his basement, he’s not socializing; the machine has made him reclusive and facilitated his isolation.”
Dr. Rosewarne said the repulsive exteriors of this stereotype “function as an insight into their filthy psychology.““These men are socially isolated, and behind their monitors (and invariably in the bravery of mom’s basement), they get to stand up to their tormentors – to the women, for example, who ignored them – and feel a modicum of (digital) power,” she said.No wonder we love to hate these characters.
Dr. Rosewarne said the repulsive exteriors of this stereotype “function as an insight into their filthy psychology.”
“These men are socially isolated, and behind their monitors (and invariably in the bravery of mom’s basement), they get to stand up to their tormentors – to the women, for example, who ignored them – and feel a modicum of (digital) power,” she said.
No wonder we love to hate these characters.
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