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No. Geek culture is not dead. When I walk past my local gaming shop and see it full of happy geeks I am somewhat envious that I no longer feel I fit in that tribe... but I'm working on it.
After maybe 20 years of renouncing my geekdom due to shame and societal pressure I am finding my way back. Geeks are some of the most interesting people on the planet and as I trawl around the small web I am finding more and more of them.
I'm also contacting them by email and they are replying. The tribe is there. Ignore what the mainstream is doing... the pure Geek culture is very much alive, you just have to know where to find it.
It's actually quite nice, isn't it?, that there is some acceptance of Geek culture from the mainstream. But of course they're going to dilute it, get it wrong, rob it of its essence while popularising and monetising it.
I agree tbh, We're just exposed to do much of it it's kinda hard to ignore. I don't want to sound like a gatekeeper but I feel like the mainstream will take as much cash out of it until they find a newer, more profitable thing to dry out.