Are you a closet geek, or an open geek?

[mDuo13]

Well, it ain't like I keep it secret that I like games and anime.

[Meirin]

"I'm not a nerd; nerds are smart." - Milhouse. hurrdurrhurr
I'm more of a geek than anything. Other than animu, I like some obscure stuff and I'm evolving into a theater geek.
But generally, I'm fairly normal socially, albeit sometimes too quiet, but that isn't abnormal. I guess I was a nerd before I devolved to a geek, so I didn't lose any of my socialization skills(ish); just my work ethic. ww

[JTchinoy]

Come back to being a nerd, it's awesomer o.0

[HarpB]

i dont have friends to kepe it secret from :D

[JTchinoy]

i dont have friends to kepe it secret from :D

I'm not sure how to respond to this...

There we go.

[HarpB]

mock me?

[JTchinoy]

Not at all sir.

[RooBird]

They will usually find out eventually. I don't strut into a room and shout, "I'M AN ANIME NERD! YAYZ!" but if it comes up in conversation, (i.e, What's your favorite show?) it'll come out. I'm absolutely not ashamed of anime/being a geek, so I have no problem telling people this.  :) Since I've become home schooled, I find that a lot of people in my classes (My homeschooling program has classes like once or twice every two weeks.) know or like anime, so I'm not socially unaccepted either. XD

[Knightfire]

I dip a little into both. You wouldn't tell if just saw me walking down the street. But once you got to know me you will start to catch on. And then you see my room. : O

[JohnnyAR]

I don't really care if you say I'm a geek or nerd. Just don't assume because I'm one doesn't mean I'm a weakling and you can push me around, thinking I won't do anything about it.

I don't think the stereotype of geekiness includes being a wimp in it anymore.  I think geeks are faster to talking crap than other types of people these days.  Just my observation of the entire "noob" culture that being a geek tends to involve.

True, but some schools do have those or at least believe in the old stereotypes. My school used to have a problem with the stereotypes last year.

[Lactose]

Neither? I'm into geeky things, but realistically you can't really call me a geek.

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[Kawaii_the_ULTRA_chibi]

Hmmm I wear anime shirts to school, read Manga, talk about anime 50% of the time, Cosplay as death note characters to school (Only Death Note I swear!), brag that I can pwn some of my guy friends at SSB and SSBB, go to my schools lan parties, say LOL, and make random anime references (example: My drama teacher had just got everyone quite and all the sudden I shouted "FUTAWARI WA PRETTY CURE!" while raising my arm flamboyently. And most my friends are geeks XD however even when my geeky friends see my room there like WTF

[neko ewen]

My parents were Trekkies (and are still huge sci-fi/fantasy geeks), so it never would've even occurred to me to try to hide it, much less to not be a geek. I don't shove it in people's faces of course, but given that I translate video games for a living, conversations with random people I meet do tend to go in that direction very quickly. No one's given me a hard time for being a geek/nerd since middle school, and I would find anyone who did as an adult to be pretty damn pathetic.

I thought the word "Otaku" was not so great a word to use....?

In Japan the word does have kind of a negative connotation, though not nearly as much as it used to in the wake of the media hysteria of the 80s, partly on account of stuff like Densha Otoko. It does have connotations of being a loser with a few too many plastic moe figures and such. I definitely wouldn't go around labeling myself with it in Japan, unless I was totally surrounded by otaku on all sides or something.

On the other hand, when you use the word "otaku" in English, you're using an English loanword based on the Japanese word "オタク", so its meaning is potentially different. American "otaku" are of both genders (Japanese otaku are mostly male; the women who are into such things are called fujo), a bit younger, and to me at least the stereotypical image that comes to mind is more of teenagers parked in Borders' manga aisle reading Inu-Yasha.

[Gekido 87]

I was a closet geek until a devil showed up at my doorstep. He told me "If you get non-anime people to join, I won't take your soul." So, in highschool I ended up getting others to get into anime. Ironicly, I now rule the Devil, he's currently renting at my house LOL. You can say the apprentice(me) succeeds his master(friend). ;D

[PyronIkari]

In Japan the word does have kind of a negative connotation, though not nearly as much as it used to in the wake of the media hysteria of the 80s, partly on account of stuff like Densha Otoko. It does have connotations of being a loser with a few too many plastic moe figures and such. I definitely wouldn't go around labeling myself with it in Japan, unless I was totally surrounded by otaku on all sides or something.

On the other hand, when you use the word "otaku" in English, you're using an English loanword based on the Japanese word "オタク", so its meaning is potentially different. American "otaku" are of both genders (Japanese otaku are mostly male; the women who are into such things are called fujo), a bit younger, and to me at least the stereotypical image that comes to mind is more of teenagers parked in Borders' manga aisle reading Inu-Yasha.

False info is false.

Otaku still holds very negative connotations, that's why the "akiba-kei" trend was started. Otaku started calling themselves akiba-kei so that there was less of a negative connotation, and realistically they do mean 2 different thing.

An otaku is comparable to hardcore hardcore nerds. The kinds that learn ficticious languages from series, and the such. While as akiba-kei is more as what American misinterpret as being otaku. Overall enthusiastic fans.

By realistic standards, Kawaii_the_ULTRA_chibi, for example. Most American fans would call her an otaku. They'd be dead wrong, but they would. She's an akiba-kei for sure, but not an otaku. She's just extremely socially awkward.

Fujyoshi is more of a sub-group of otaku than it is a "female" otaku. It's specific in fandom for what a fujyoshi likes, where as an otaku can be any hobby at all.

[Moogleborg]

I'm a geek and smeggin' proud of it, so i'm an open geek. XD

[Kawaii_the_ULTRA_chibi]

:D I'm socially awkward! Yeah me and my friends tend to only call each other Otaku if we mean it in an offensive way XD

[ELDEMONIO]

I keep in kinda secret. like 4 people know I like anime and yet others in my work, most family, and friends don't know what anime is and mock anime conventions.

[macaulayman]

i am the worst  of all geeks: a rouge geek!

[G.I.R]

Would anyone admit to being a "Big Bang Theory" type of Geek?