[ SECRET POST #6318 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6318 ⌋

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[meadowphoenix]

because the IT crowd is played like office humor rather than nerd culture humor. It is more than anything an exaggeration of nameless faceless companies and the entirely arbitrary hierarchy within it. the awkwardness is not just being a nerd, it's very specifically being a co-worker. you don't have to be a nerd to relate to the nerds...you just have to be mildly competent.

to a certain extent tbbt has a distance with its audience, where penny is for a long time the only audience surrogate amongst people the audience is less like to be able to relate to. this makes it easier to laugh at them and therefore feels more pointed about nerds. while the it crowd has Jen as its surrogate, she is often as much the one being awkward, and you simply don't need her to laugh at, say, nepo baby douglas making the company more ridiculous through arrogance. that's literally not about nerds and technically the nerds are often the "heroes" (and it is everyone else who is ridiculous or at least...not any better).

much like the other office humorist, turns out the writer merely has a victim complex they have turned outward upon ~progressive~ culture.