I love star trek / "may the force be with you!"
A Idiot Nerd Girl post.
A teenage girl in thick-rimmed glasses, holding up her palm with "NERD" written on it, on a pink background. The photo, from an unknown source, was posted online in 2010 and turned into an advice animal later that year. Nothing is known about her, and she was just posing for a photo. The meme mocks people who claim to be huge nerds without knowing the basics. The top line is a proud claim. The bottom line gives it away. "I'm such a 90s kid!" / "Born in 1999." "I love Zelda!" / "He's so cool." "I'm a total Star Wars fan" / "Which one is Star Trek again?" "Loves Nirvana" / "Only knows one song." It's really a meme about gatekeeping, which says more about the gatekeepers than about her. These days most fandoms are happy to have new people, wrong Zelda and all. **Why it caught on:** arguing over who counts as a real fan is one of the internet's oldest hobbies.