How High School Stereotypes Got Their Names

[@NameExplain]

What was your favourite outfit of mine in this video?

[@Bass_Guy]

The goth one

[@burikinodance]

Popular Girl 100%

[@gavy4306]

The jock one nvm I like them all

[@jacobe.8809]

The mean girl one

[@grndragon7777777]

Mean girl definitely

[@tildesofie1533]

Here is something I think explains the difference: Geek: may the force be with you Nerd: may the force be equal to the mass times acceleration

[@Know_Clu]

Ahah it's the opposite way round in the UK, geeks are 'smart' & nerds like gaming/comics etc

[@t65bx25]

Both nerds and geeks are “smart” and comic-booky, but geeks have better social awareness and timing.

[@jayfrank1913]

@@infernoearth7267 Look how his social life turned out. Many children and he couldn't pick a decent mother for them. Marrying "club rats" who were only attracted to his money and lifestyle didn't work out so well for him. At least he's got all the money and power to sooth him.

[@mariusssssss]

Tilde Sofie hit em with that mass x the 2nd derivative of displacement or that ((q_1)(q_2))/(4(pi)(E_0)(r^2))

[@alexxio8656]

Lol so true

[@sharpshotefx]

Can't wait to see 50 years in the future when people are proudly calling themselves simps

[@St4r_Z0mb13]

They already be doing thay

[@sadandlow7217]

Lmao it's so near

[@KiaraLegends]

More like 50 seconds

[@shadowling77777]

Lmfaoo oh God

[@codemiesterbeats]

That time is now... People got no respect for themselves. White knighting and stuff...

[@grndragon7777777]

I would like to see how music genres got their name

[@PersonManManManMan]

Yed

[@finleyrolfe2947]

Indie

[@fanBBL]

Vaporwave

[@erraticonteuse]

Spoiler: it's called metal because it's harder than rock.

[@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage]

LexiDizzle funny u say that. There exists genres like Metalcore (e.g. Architects and While She Sleeps)(hardcore punk + metal) And then there's Heavy Hardcore Punk (like Kublai Khan) What's defined as heavy or hard is very... Multi-defined, with a lot of crossover. And then Deathcore comes in and muddles everything (Hardcore Death Metal) (e.g. Thy Art is Murder and Chelsea Grin)

[@PockASqueeno]

I’ve always thought of “nerd” and “geek” in reverse of what the video says. Nerds are the smart kids who get good grades, while geeks are into something more specific like computers (computer geek) or music (band geek). Nerds are good at all things academic, while geeks are good at one or two specific academic fields.

[@InfernoDragon1]

Essentially Nerds are the Jack of all trades while Geeks are the specialists of one field.

[@chameleoncool]

Yes agreeded

[@Unus_Annus_]

@@chameleoncool *agreed

[@Jervenshmine]

No no no! Geek is a clown that bites animal's heads off while they're alive for entertainment!!!

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

Hence, "Geek squad".

[@9box906]

missing: hood kids (kids all from some poor neighborhood that all stuck together, regardless of how unkind they often were) band kids (kids who play in the band and usually repeat annoying phrases to each other constantly) weebs (japan-obsessed kids) druggies (those guys that all got together behind the school to smoke pot) incorrect: nerds (the smart ones) geeks (the gamer ones)

[@jkahl5596]

Yes

[@kandy1643]

🤨….

[@poggamer69]

Imo geeks are the less extreme version of nerds

[@fo-ef8qo]

I think we called druggies "burnouts"

[@bobcharlie2337]

@@fo-ef8qo burnouts were the strung out drug kids in my Gen x group. Geeks were computer kids who played a lot of video games. It's interesting to see how somethings change and some stayed the same.

[@adamwojtasiak6204]

“High school is a very strange time in a person’s life.” Me: (sitting in my basement in quarantine) I haven’t known high school in ages.

[@clouddd8053]

Hahatrue

[@georgenelson172]

Ok goldfish.

[@pummisher1186]

It's been like a few weeks...

[@georgenelson172]

@@pummisher1186 If you forget highschool in a period of a few weeks than you have bigger problems during summer

[@pummisher1186]

@@georgenelson172 He's doomed.

[@SgtLenor]

I had always imagined nerds & geeks to be the opposite, aka geeks are really into something but don't need to be that intelligent while nerds are striving for the perfect grades.

[@nathanalexandre137]

that's what I had always imagined too, and I'm sticking to it!

[@sirsteam181]

@@nathanalexandre137 same

[@solehsolehsoleh]

Yes you are right, Patrick got it switched.

[@gijsdevries1201]

@@solehsolehsoleh I always had them as stated by Patrick, geeks being people really hard studying and school focused while nerds mainly focus on the more games/comic book side of things

[@jayfrank1913]

@Egg TThey're* (You've been visited by the pedantic asshole)tm

[@sophiejones7727]

also, many of the "Greasers" were the children of the Italian and Mexican immigrants to whom the term was originally applied. They often knew a lot about cars because their fathers were mechanics. This is true of Danny Zuko in the movie Grease. He's Italian-American, and his dad is a mechanic, and the boys work on their cars in his dad's big garage.

[@honolulublues5548]

Now people who enjoy cars are just called motorheads and don't necessarily have a look.

[@krisrhood2127]

They were called greasers because they put grease in their hair

[@krisw9526]

@@krisrhood2127 Pretty sure this is a different stereotype compared to the greasers back then or it just changed overtime

[@catchthesehandsmma5419]

@@krisrhood2127 greaser was a racial term coined during the late 1800s.

[@jongeorge3358]

@@catchthesehandsmma5419 fun fact! The greasy hair type greasers called themselves "greasers" because they wanted the same name as those 1800s greasers

[@marshalt0201]

Emo is short for emotional, which is generally the message and mindset you get from listening to the music, the instrumentals are usually somewhat similar to punk or grunge music which would make you happy and energetic and the lyrics are often sad in one way or another

[@guiltyhxc]

Not quite. Emo is short for Emotive Hardcore, which is a subgenre of punk

[@analphabetapolothoIogy]

"Real Emo" only consists of the dc Emotional Hardcore scene and the late 90's Screamo scene. What is known by "Midwest Emo" is nothing but Alternative Rock with questionable real emo influence. When people try to argue that bands like My Chemical Romance are not real emo, while saying that Sunny Day Real Estate is, I can't help not to cringe because they are just as fake emo as My Chemical Romance (plus the pretentiousness). Real emo sounds ENERGETIC, POWERFUL and somewhat HATEFUL. Fake emo is weak, self pity and a failed attempt to direct energy and emotion into music. Some examples of REAL EMO are Pg 99, Rites of Spring, Cap n Jazz (the only real emo band from the midwest scene) and Loma Prieta. Some examples of FAKE EMO are American Football, My Chemical Romance and Mineral EMO BELONGS TO HARDCORE NOT TO INDIE, POP PUNK, ALT ROCK OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM GENRE

[@Danielle14..6]

mcr isn’t a band about self pity most of their albums have storylines u don’t know what ur talking about when it comes to mcr

[@deannelson7027]

My dad was a greaser when he was a teenager in the late 50s to early 60s. He was the family mechanic.

[@DylanMatthewTurner]

I think you've got nerd and geek backwards

[@alphabettical1]

Perhaps it's different in the UK, or in the past. Does anyone know? In my more recent Canadian experience, I would agree with you

[@devenscience8894]

From my view, you're exactly right. The smart kids are nerds. Answer a question correct in school, and someone might whisper "nerd!"

[@jonathanmitchell2040]

Definitely agree. Nerds = Brainiacs, Geeks = Superfans

[@candicoated2001]

Thank you

[@LedosKell]

Honestly as far as I remember, nerd was becoming the catch-all for both smart kids & super fans. And geek was just being left in the dust, like goths.

[@hkrohn]

In Norwegian, the word for "boy" is "gutt", and when you said that "gutar" meant "men" in Old Norse, I realized that "gutt" might have the same origin as "goth". That's pretty cool.

[@formicidaeinc.8075]

all Norwegian boys are goth

[@wuzze8312]

In Sweden we have Götaland and Gotland (Land of the Goths), which were where the Goths originated, so I don't doubt what you say. Beowulf king of the Goths is said to have been king of Gotland I'm pretty sure :D. Really shows our closeness between us Nords.

[@Punaparta]

The Nordic name Gustav most likely derives from the Old Norse Gautr-stafr or 'staff of the Geats'. In this context, 'staff' likely referred to a chieftain. So one reading of Gustav/Gustaf/Gösta would be Goth Boss.

[@viscountrainbows6452]

@@Punaparta Gustav does have a "Goth [final] Boss"kinda ring to it for a potential villain.

[@gnas1897]

Bruh I thought goth had to do with Hitler saying that croats are not Slavs but Goths so he could excuse the mass killing of Serbs in Yugoslavia without being questioned.

[@loganarnoldkicks4321]

My high school most definitely had groups, but we never had cliques. Almost everyone could be in at least two groups and were not confined to one stereotype

[@lysaali50]

same with British schools. you can sit with any group and... e x i s t

[@bryanmartini6467]

I go to school in the us and that is true to an extent. Some of the "preps" and "jocks" would still talk and hangout with other groups but some wouldnt

[@jn.r]

@@lysaali50 true

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

Mine too. And the popular kids were no more or less mean than anyone else. For the most part, everyone just accepted everyone as they were. If you liked them, you talked to them. If you didn't... you didn't.

[@thetillerman5538]

"Nobody likes being called an emo, especially if they are an emo"

[@elinto_xbox]

umm

[@Slomurr]

That's very emo.

[@SwarxWasTaken]

What an emo

[@socks420.1]

Don't be a emo then

[@elinto_xbox]

I know some people

[@stanleyhouse8055]

Something wise i was told by one of my coaches is the difference between a athlete and a jock is that a athlete is disciplined and works hard, while the jock screws off and doesn't try very hard.

[@tonyarmbrust]

True. There’s a lot of athletically-talented people who aren’t bullies, get good grades, and are down-to-earth people. I think the pure jock stereotype is beginning to fade.

[@matti706]

I’m super Canadian so in my school we call “jocks” hockeys because they all play hockey

[@snowcatapeller]

eh

[@burikinodance]

eh

[@Luingus]

eh

[@uzhers]

Mattie Jones eh

[@cl4655]

eh

[@smalltowngoth9591]

The term "goth" became applied to the goth subculture (a music based subculture like punks, metalheads and emos) by way of the band Sex Gang Children. The frontman, Andi Sex gang, was referred to as the "little gothic goblin" and fans of that band referred to themselves as "goths." Journalism helped spread this to expand to fans of goth rock in general. This includes post-punk, deathrock and darkwave, etc.

[@jangofett0807]

yeah, upsetting that the term has been completely shat on.

[@smalltowngoth9591]

Weedy Burton yeah. Anything that looks pseudo-alternative is getting the word "goth" slapped on to it. It diminishes the meaning.

[@phifflon]

Sort of not. We are looking at 1979 as the Key date that the turm was used in this sence, with Joy Division and Bauhaus.

[@wwe666q]

Goth actually started when theda bara was around. It's not a modern thing. Theda bara was an old time actress.

[@smalltowngoth9591]

@@wwe666q no

[@KimTaura]

Nerd and geek are definitely switched. Nerds are the super smart academics and geeks are the cultural obsessed. And of course, you can be both. I'd love a video aboutwjere music genres get their names!

[@synflwr]

I’m an example of being both, haha. Even though I wouldn’t really consider myself as smart, I just put a lot of effort into my schoolwork as I want to get rich when I’m older.

[@Derpity]

And then there’s the weebs

[@applecake2209]

@@Derpity I feel attacked

[@Mynameishassan0]

R/Ihadastroke

[@Leathurkatt]

I know I'm both. My best subjects in school were math, science, literature, and art. I'm also a second generation sci-fi and fantasy fanatic and third generation bibliophile.

[@Willow-wv6cv]

Super appreciative that you got Goth right! The music is the most important part but that tends to be overlooked for fashion these days.

[@anunknownperson4018]

ngl but it would be nice to see more goth and emos

[@JestersSHOES87]

@@anunknownperson4018 no it wouldn’t. the less the better

[@phantomski1]

"I hope your high school is enjoyable" yea COVID disagrees

[@moonlight_oats]

I feel like there is a new stereotype has been made: The weebs. People obsessed with anime and everything Japan.

[@joslynn2508]

Isabella Genova that’s like a subcategory of geek imo

[@CutesyEldritchHorror]

@@joslynn2508 I would actually disagree. I feel like weebs have become their own category now, since they are much more distinct from typical geeks. Plus, I also like to think of geeks and nerds the other way around, but that's just me.

[@joslynn2508]

Spiritwolf480 I the other way around than what was described in the video? or

[@frostyvr9805]

And boy are they obnoxious

[@osnaikaaugustin9259]

We prefer to be called weeaboos or dweebs to Americans

[@mr_h831]

The way you see nerd and geek is actually reversed for me. Nerd equates to a sort of unpopular brainiac type. Geek equates to the pop culture slightly less unpopular type.

[@normanclatcher]

Geek culture has _become_ pop culture in the past decade. So it's more possible than ever to be popular _and_ geeky, but a true nerd will ignore that paradigm in favor of their own intellectual interests.

[@mariothedog2949]

I always thought Nerds were more book smart and into reading scientific things while Geeks were more Tech smart and into reading comic books and science fiction. Maybe because The Geek Squad helps repair appliances and TVs so I associated them with technology

[@anunknownperson4018]

well in America you are right nerds are old fashion academics and geek are techno heads

[@robertlandrum1971]

Those stereotypes existed - especially when I went to high school in the latter half of the 1980s. I was the geeky nerd (a bit of both a geek and a nerd). Now at the time I was in high school, a nerd was someone who was just too smart for their own good. While the geek was someone who was into computer 👨‍💻 technology which was really starting to take off in the 1980s.

[@upshitdownshit4200]

a lot of these stereotypes still exist (especially goth/emo) but the concept of cliques is nonexistent in most schools

[@alejandrohernandez-pq4wu]

@@upshitdownshit4200 no cliques still exist

[@ohnoes423]

cool!! thanks for sharing

[@anunknownperson4018]

@@upshitdownshit4200 the groups dont exist anymore but yes ppl prefer to hang out with their own kind

[@train_go_boom2065]

Im random kid

[@uekiguy5886]

When I went to high school in the late 70s. "nerd" had a lot more to do with appearance than it does now.

[@rembrandt972ify]

I never heard the word nerd until "Happy Days" premiered.

[@pipe2devnull]

@@rembrandt972ify The Fonz!

[@Tsuruchi_420]

I couldn't differentiate most of the nerds and jocks in my high school just by looks, but I guarantee that as loose stereotypes, they're there

[@LeoHodges]

John Bradley Evans Aaaaaay!

[@jayfrank1913]

@@LeoHodges "don't be a nerd!." It must have come from some obscure 50's term almost not one heard.

[@SamLemont]

When I was in HS in the late 00s, clichés were still a thing, but not as one dimensional as films portray. the Chads and Stacys usually hung around each other in the front of the school, the metal heads hung out in D-hall. Like most schools I'm assuming, the majority of the student body do not fit into these clichés, and hang out with their own friend group.

[@brunomuller2440]

Huh you use 4chan

[@oliveroliveroliver]

Chads and Stacys? what are you, an incel?

[@aita2565]

As someone in HS right now, basically still the same

[@elimalinsky7069]

I was the introvert weird kid at school who was into poetry and art films. In my country we didn't have names for all these different stereotypes, and the division was mostly binary: popular and non-popular kids. It's not that non-popular kids had no friends, it's just that their circle of friends was much smaller but also closer and more initimate. The popular kids had a lot of friends, but these friends were not as close, so to us introverts, they seemed like the lonelier bunch.

[@jayfrank1913]

@@elimalinsky7069 I remember having one or two close friends and still envying the "popular kids" whose lives must have bee hell, trying to conform to expectations

[@JakeSanMartin]

I was / am a greaser . I like how you included cars being an important focus for greasers. No one actually puts grease in their hair, we use pomade . Some are oil based, but almost everyone uses water based now.

[@greggabel7238]

Oil base pomade is understandable for hair grease

[@Katzztar]

I went to high school in the 1980s (era of the Breakfast Club) we had about 5 main stereotypes. The Jocks & Preps fit much what is said here. Though at my school, during the 80s there was some more to them. Such as Preps also included the Popular girls. As said these following groups were the main groups at my school. While there were artsy kids, the "theatre kids" and whatnot they weren't too many at my school, our rival school had more artsy than we did, almost as much as they had the preppy kids. Preps- the Preppies the "in" crowd, the "popular group", Cheerleaders, Mean girls, Prom queen ect, They were said to have fashion sense, preferred pop rock, would tolerate country. Picked on Headbangers & Geeks Jocks- athletes ' all males, as there were no female teams (at school, not in general) back then not even swim team, Cheerleaders and dance class was only choice for any girl wanting physical activity, and cheerleaders were folded into Preps Friends with ropers, dated preppie girls. hated Headbangers and picked on Geeks. Ropers- refers to 'roping' done in rodeos- covers the country music fans, students of 4H (dealt with farming, ranch hands ect) They loved the cowboy boot and hats, drove pickup trucks. Headbangers- names comes from the Heavy Metal & Hard Rock fans and how they 'head banged' while listening to music, Purposely torn jeans, concert t-shirts, wild make-up (for boys & girls) love to mock Jocks & Preps due to their "better than thou" behavior. Didn't like Ropers due to music difference XD no really it was Ropers would team up with other two clicks to pick on others. Geeks- also included nerds, back in 80s they were interchangeable- the unpopular kids, often seen as the smart ones, though some Preppies were also in the smarts. If smart would find a Headbanger friend to act as buffer against other clicks. Headbangers & Geeks would get together to play D'n'D. Switching between the clicks was often hard due to the animosity between them If someone was branded a Geek, Nerd or Headbanger in early High School years, it would stick with them for rest of the year. Because Headbangers would include them, some Geeks had easy time to switch over and become Headbangers.

[@RetroBerner]

I asked my 15 year old if kids still separate themselves in cliques like that and he had no idea what I was talking about LOL

[@ViniSocramSaint]

Was gonna say I was so proud of the newest generation not worrying so much about established unwritten and totally unnecessary social rules and embracing differences... then I remembered 4chan, KZbin Twitch and Tweeter. They now separate into fanbases - cults - revolving around the concepts believed and "life teachings" or just peer pressure of the community formed around their God of preference - influencer - basing their entire sense of self on these groups, not being lumped together or trying to fit, but just being shaped by them. Nerds, geeks, greasers, mean girls, jocks, preps and ripsters are gone. Jakepaulers, the internet, incels, memers, animators, 9 year olds, griefers, social justice warriors, right centrists, gamers, kekistanese and what not were born. And there is animosity or brotherhood between groups based on ideologies. Basically they do the same as we did, just with a different base method and a little pinch of old school politics.

[@Thatonepersonyouheard]

@@ViniSocramSaint so I'm still in high school and none of those exist, everyone is in groups of 3-6. The groups are based on how long you known the people and how many classes you have together.

[@awesomelyshorticles]

@@ViniSocramSaint you are so wrong. All our social groups intermingle now. There is no social hierarchy. Athletes can be nerds and geeks now too, and popular people dont get to be popular without being kind, and intelligence doesnt hurt either.

[@ViniSocramSaint]

@@Thatonepersonyouheard Try asking about their online lifes, who they follow and why, and who they hate and why, then you will see what I am talking about. They are bound to blindly consider a specific influencer as some type of god or the cult formed around them as morally perfect, and blindly hate another group of people based on their group' s teachings. Examples are 9 year olds that consider as demons and plot the online harassment of anyone, but mostly feminists, that dares to say bad or even slightly non favorable things about Pewdiepie. By the way, I am proud of whatever generation you are part of. I am probably just 10 years older than you, still, in my time highschool was divided like that. I mean in nerds, jocks, preps, etc. And you would be forced into one of these groups, as becoming a nerd and hanging out only with nerds if you weren't atletic or sexually active as a teenager and were into comics, games and Star Wars. Forming groups just based on friendship and time spent together is commendable, and the way it should have always been. I can't imagine someone with a taste for fanfiction being in the same group as someone that lost it's virginity or someone that is popular and social. It just didn't happen when I was in highschool.

[@ViniSocramSaint]

@@awesomelyshorticles Glad to hear that. Forming groups just based on friendship and time spent together is commendable, and the way it should have always been. I can't imagine someone with a taste for fanfiction being in the same group as someone that lost it's virginity, someone that is socially awkward, someone that strive for good grades and some other one that is popular and social. It just didn't happen when I was in highschool. It was either nerd, jock, popular kid, teacher pet, or lone wolf, and you would mix with only "your kind." But it's not like that these days. I am just proud. You still separate into these new groups I talked about though, but online.

[@TheElphenor]

Goths get their name from the music subculture of the 70s/80's, itself a kind of suburban UK spin-off of Punk Bauhaus, Sioux, The Cure etc I think it's endured so well as a universal cultural stereotype beyond the music, because the unique fashion was an integral part of the scene

[@gabrielbennett9376]

More post-punk than punk

[@Jay-wt6gj]

Sioux my beloved

[@cadr003]

For me, nerd is primarily academic focused and high achievers, and geeks are those who are obsessed with traditionally "not cool" and "weird" interests. Both can be and stereotypically dweebs or dorks, i.e. socially inept.

[@nikolastokic4209]

I started highschool 4 days ago Honestly everyone is nice. No one is a big show off no one is a nerd no one is the bully . Everyone is just chill

[@alexgrubb1057]

I’m starting in a couple of days too. Although I’m definitely going to get bullied more because im a short dude :(

[@nikolastokic4209]

@@alexgrubb1057 ok thats just dumb So what if your short I dont get those people. Like. Damn, those bullies bust be bored as heck if they have to make fun of you for being short

[@fixdbd6532]

@@alexgrubb1057 whats ur height

[@TheAlison1456]

I like to view these things as archetypes and not as stereotypes. The stereotype part comes from people filling in what they don't know about others with the archetype. The archetypes themselves are very much real and embodied in people, just not in an all consuming manner.

[@zen4realfightman426]

High schools canceled for the rest of the year because the virus

[@NameExplain]

Of yeah I forgot about that. Well if you're missing school hopefully this video will make you feel like you're still there.

[@supremegeneral2424]

I am in year 11 and our GCSEs have been cancelled because of the virus

[@gothenix]

Adam The Star Wars Nerd Well, I can say I kinda graduated.

[@DefyDistrict]

the rest of the year? shut up, no school is closed for the rest of year.

[@zen4realfightman426]

@@DefyDistrict at least the academic year

[@thedisturbedone5026]

Teacher: are emo kids still a thing? Kids: yea, it's just everyone now.

[@andyalien2578]

You're name sounds like a gamer/emo breed

[@thedisturbedone5026]

@@andyalien2578 metal head lol

[@sticks4632]

Boomers: why is the new generation so deppressed? Me: well have you looked at the world right now?

[@vito7361]

Depressing

[@maxonmendel5757]

Oof

[@vtron9832]

5:50 well, I remember them from the novel: “The Outsiders”.

[@grahamturner2640]

Vtron I’m pretty sure I had to read that in 8th grade.

[@brianwalker3074]

@Graham Turner not only did we read it back in 8th, we also watched the movie

[@Mollusc_music_and_memes]

Vtron it bangs

[@benmcsweeney199]

We read that book in school too

[@lawman592]

One thing that wasn't discussed was the role of social class in the designation "greaser". Greasers were almost always kids from working-class neighborhoods and often ethnic (e.g., Italian, Polish, Hispanic) backgrounds. You never saw a rich WASP kid become a greaser.

[@TheBerzekerC]

🇦🇷 In Argentina smart kids are called "Traga", because of "traga libros" (book swallower) Preps are "Chetos", probably from the Italian "Cetos" wich means "social class". We don't really have a name for jock but we do have it for those who are bad at sports. "Ojota" (flip-flop). Because that's a footwear useless for any sport

[@tricksor6589]

"If you're in highschool right now" does sitting at home in quarantine count

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

A jock may bully the computer nerd in school, but when that computer nerd becomes their boss, they get to bully the school jock. Life is wonderful.

[@sunnybugaboo9478]

How are u everywhere???

[@siphobrisloks8133]

EvRyWhErE dude is back again

[@Jay_Bready]

I always see you!

[@RaylaEclipse]

I take it you must be a nerd, then.

[@jamesdelacour2675]

You probably watched too many movies tbh

[@ohaba4286]

In Norway there's a clique called "Råner", which is a catch all for car/motor enthusiasts.

[@ConnorSimonis]

Can confirm. Not from Norway, never been there.. but the profile picture on this guy makes him look like he’s from Norway with the big beard

[@mrmimeisfunny]

Therapist: "Mean Girl Patrick isn't real, they can't hurt you" Mean Girl Patrick: 3:25

[@zacharyriley4561]

You mean can't seduce you right?

[@tonyalindsey3887]

@@zacharyriley4561 shouldn’t talk bud reality check no one wants you neither so nahhhhh 🤘🏻👻🤘🏻

[@zacharyriley4561]

@@tonyalindsey3887 Who crapped in your bed?

[@zacharyriley4561]

@@tonyalindsey3887 Wait, were you talking to the other guy?

[@afk_is_ok]

Ah yes, the famous childrens writer, Dr. Zeus

[@celtic5yamum]

Dome morr things to add about hipsters: Hipsters were also named possibly because of the style of pants they wore - tight fitting hipster jeans became quite popular in the crowd. In the late 2000s the emerging clothing style trend became popularised as "geek chic" in some circles, predominately the thick black glasses, red plaid collared shirts and long messy hair (with/without iconic beanie). There are also variations of the hipster stereotype, with a "preppy" style of hipster sharing many characteristics of both preppy kids and hipsters, with a focus on personal success and rejection of the idea/self calling of being a 'hipster' - the niches they find in their hobbies/work are often quite unique, specific and not well known amongst the general population (at least back then). Thought to share! Gteat video really enjoyed it.

[@wannabehistorian371]

Despite the abundance of high school media here in Japan, I can’t exactly recall any specific high school tropes that aren’t copy-pasted from other slice of life media and/or generally are defined by their relation to the protagonist (tsundere, childhood friend, baby faced girl...). I think. Or it might just be a midnight brain fart. There’s also stuff like the coolheaded, glasses-wearing Prodigy/Yuutousei, the Science Kid (possibly an offshoot of The Yuutousei), the Overly Powerful Student Council President, The Banchou or The Yankee/Delinquent with a pompadour, sunglasses, and leather jacket (think greasers; less present the more modern the media is), The Rich Kid, the idol (the most cheerful, bubbly, attractive nice girl), maybe The Otaku, occasionally there’s a random white foreign exchange student (though there may be one from Osaka instead) to spice things up, and... actually, thinking about it, clubs are often used for putting high schoolers into tropes; the kendo kid is traditionally Japanese and generally badass, the traditional sportsmen (track and field, baseball, soccer...) are cheerful, hotblooded, determined, and generally great guys to be around, the ones in the occult clubs are a bit weird and equivalent to “emo” kids in western media, The Newspaper Club Kid is exposition incarnate, there’s at times a club made up of slightly creepy Otaku (like a Maid Cafe club). Though the clubs often have shows of their own (K-On is about the high school band, Haruhi Suzumiya is about a supernatural club, the oodles of sports anime, etc.). I think a unique thing about Japanese high school in contrast to American ones in pop culture are that the popular kids aren’t the jocks. The most admired kids are The Yuutousei, the Student Council President, or depending on the setting, the rich jerks whose parents bought up the place, I.e. your Mean Girls (and often the love interest. See: Boys Before Flowers. That story is basically what happens if you take a Mean Girl posse, flip their genders, and make the heroine end up with the Alpha Bitch. If not you’ll probably find your Mean Girl in the student council). Well actually jocks are popular, but they’re seen as charismatic and fun, not big, dumb bullies. Generally high school is pretty romanticized too, with less emphasis on drama and more on idealized romance, and I think these archetypes reflect them (and IMO it makes way more sense that people who are actually nice are popular. Except for the mean girl but I don’t think people actually like them). The role of bully can probably be more conflated into The Delinquent if there are no Mean Girls, though they are honorable thug types half the time. But in elementary school shows you’ll sometimes find what I like to call “The Gian”, the fat bully, especially in older shows.

[@ФилипРадојковић]

The moment i read Japan i threw up, got a heart attack and got hospitalized.

[@wannabehistorian371]

@@ФилипРадојковић Ok racist.

[@ФилипРадојковић]

@@wannabehistorian371 Big Racist

[@wannabehistorian371]

@@ФилипРадојковић I’m just sharing my culture. Not sure why you have to be so negative.

[@ФилипРадојковић]

@@wannabehistorian371 Cuz i hate ya culture lul.

[@g4fly4ever8]

3:12 I have a new crush

[@burikinodance]

Ikr 🖤🔥

[@NameExplain]

😘

[@ST-qh1td]

Hahaha

[@bluehatpro6517]

0:33 You could say I’m “in” high school but corona has other plans.

[@PlutoPigeon]

In Australia we kinda have a steryotype called an Eshay but it's more like a subculter or slang term for a boy who's involved in gang drugs rock metal punk all that stuff

[@sidthejovian5105]

Well, I'm a metalhead at my school and I'm still being called emo and I gotta admit, I do like emo music, just not as much as metal music ○

[@katan844]

HEY I SAW YOUR COMMENT ON A HEAVY METAL ENTERTAINMENT VIDEO

[@anunknownperson4018]

@sirdoomerin my school a guy sings pure metal would u like to support him?

[@katan844]

@sirdoomer it really is, it's also my backpatch on my battle vest

[@sidthejovian5105]

@@katan844 Yup, I was there

[@fo-ef8qo]

"Some people look back at high school as the best time if their lives. Others look back at it as a terrible time in their life" Why not both though?

[@honolulublues5548]

I suppose you are right. I think for me, the days were great because you were gaining some independence from your parents, but still had them as security blankets for failure. But, on the other hand, you were still required to play by rules that both the school and your parents set...some more than others.

[@unavela]

@@honolulublues5548 the school rules are kind of whatever tbh, most people don't care and go around them and it's not like it is that hard

[@sadandlow7217]

This is shit

[@dharmaboyd7928]

Por que no los dos?

[@KingNedya]

For me it's pretty much both. 1st and 3rd trimester of my Freshman year were great, 2nd trimester was bad. My Sophomore year started as the best year of my life, but then November came and it the worst year of my life because of personal stuff, then I got better but then quarantine made it the worst year of my life again. Junior year was terrible all the way through, though not quite as bad as the bad parts of my Sophomore year. And now I'm hoping that my Senior year will be good.

[@brooksrownd2275]

"Bender" in the Breakfast Club would have been considered a "Skid" in my high school. (same era) Presumably due to the group of them smoking on the edge of the school property in the morning being "skid row".

[@honolulublues5548]

We would have called him a "burnout".

[@CalebJMartin]

I'm fascinated by the fact that your definitions of 'nerd' and 'geek' seem to be opposite of my own, where geeks are into popular culture and nerds are highly intelligent -- and both struggle with social interaction. Since I'm from the US and you're from the UK, could it be this is representative of a small divergence in the culture of the two nations? 🤔

[@electric_leo1630]

9:46 I’m a nerd and I know for fact that it is the other way round nerds are the more intelligent ones and geeks like the specific topics

[@anunknownperson4018]

i just know physics is awesome and technology is not that bad

[@wee7458]

I did once want to experience this but schools here got rid of creativity and made you wore a uniform.

[@mabelccr1000]

Frr

[@malachite_black2492]

Same

[@jn.r]

my uniform looks cool but yeah, there's still non-uniform days once every 50 years

[@gyrostabilizergracen]

My school did a bullying lesson and one of the things that went under bullying was "Telling someone what to wear" my school doesnt have uniforms but right when i heard that i thought of how schools are kinda bullies

[@delly2088]

I am an outcast so naturally, I despise High School

[@uekiguy5886]

So was I and I know it's impossible to believe right now but after High School, life gets much, much better.

[@WaterShowsProd]

I second what Uekiguy said. The last day of high school I still hold as a great moment in life. To this day (over 30 years later) the month of September makes me feel gloomy and Back To School signs cause my blood to boil. But life (while not always easy) is wonderful.

[@blackpikachu3840]

@@uekiguy5886 really thx for telling but u sure

[@honolulublues5548]

And, outcasts have their place...just not in high school.

[@delly2088]

@@honolulublues5548 you said it chief!

[@michaeltnk1135]

I see nerds as being into math and science, and geeks as being into fandoms

[@ivonnecaradenacho3726]

So wrong lol

[@michaeltnk1135]

@@ivonnecaradenacho3726 No

[@anunknownperson4018]

well i guess im a geek lol and nerds are into academic old fashion while the geeks are into technology stuff

[@arlord_100]

“Oh yeah it’s all coming together”

[@cjwhitmore1881]

Growing up in a small American school we still used these terms, but it was super unclear who belonged to what label. Many of us were in all the different activities. Based on my electives and extracurriculars, I was a nerd/ band geek/ jock/ thespian/ metal head/ otaku; but I never identified with most of these terms.

[@robson2939]

It is rather the opposite of what you said , Nerds are the ones who are really smart and have scientific knowledge and would dress ordinarily while the geeks are the ones who get their knowledge from pop-culture and have interest in computers as well as sci-fi, video games (often retro games) and superheroes, fantasy /board games. Both are similar and they tend to overlap.

[@sam3524]

We all know the true stereotypes: -That kid who runs through the halls -The white kid who tries to sound black -The kid who skipped 2 grades -The autistic kid screaming in the halls during study hall

[@alejandrohernandez-pq4wu]

those aren’t stereotypes??

[@notspider-man7777]

I can’t afford any tardies, okay?

[@robertshort9487]

Nerd is someone who is REALLY into technology and has practical skills. Ie a computer nerd is someone who is in good at computers in a practical way. Geeks are people who are just into certain aspects of culture. But are seen as not having a useful skill. Ie a computer geek is someone into computer games only. You see this in other places too, a band nerd is someone who is into music and has a lot of talent while a band geek is someone who is into the band culture.

[@mikitz]

So, basically, a jock is a sports nerd and sports geeks are colloquially known as 'commentators'.

[@robertshort9487]

@@mikitz lol. Yeah. Hadn't thought about it like that before.

[@formicidaeinc.8075]

@@mikitz I don't think sports nerd and jock is really the same thing, as a jock is someone who plays sport and might be good at it but a sports nerd is someone who has a lot of theoretical knowledge about sports

[@jacobe.8809]

There are also though kids that just exist although I'm not sure what those kids would be called

[@wakawakawakawaka8804]

Their called the outsiders. ..... it's also a good book

[@caseybouquet]

One coach at my school calls them “hallwalkers”

[@jacobe.8809]

@@caseybouquet I like that

[@ryanjohnson4073]

Background characters

[@tusenbensen334]

Wallflowers

[@Crasho327]

Yes, please do the music genre video. I've always differentiated nerds and geeks by how they approach the subjects they are into. Geeks seem to love tinkering and modding along with debating things that seem trivial to others. An example would be someone who argues passionately about why Android is better than iPhone based upon specs or who came up with what first and so. To me, it's similar to people with their tuner cars or vaping equipment. Nerds, on the other hand, seem more interested in research and application in search of how whatever they are into works as well as how to improve it. I think one possible example of the differences might be Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Woz was all about the mod aspects of the machines whereas Jobs was more about how to bring it to the public. It's not a perfect analogy but I think it works.

[@___-ht6js]

They don't exist all too much anymore, the athletes are usually more popular than the average person and then there's the weird kids and the 3 main groups have many subgroups

[@tmiller3095]

I absolutely love how he drew Robert smith for the goth character, amazing :)

[@soysauce4814]

The stereotypes of high school don’t exist anymore. Mainly mixtures of all of them.

[@sticks4632]

Yeah its just friend groups now. You know you have one table devoted to josh and his friends the the one next to it is stacy and her friends. No big themes.

[@EverlastingHobnocker]

Because each of us is a jock, a princess, a brain, a basket case and a criminal

[@honolulublues5548]

@@EverlastingHobnocker ah, a Breakfast Club reference. That is actually the point of that movie and I think many social groups with these constructs began to breakdown after this movie. I know I was in HS just after this movie and our groups began to show the bridges between them.

[@ConvincingPeople]

The irony of the use of "Gothic" to describe an ostensibly more primitive, less enlightened era is doubly ironic given that not only were the Visigoths were among the foremost preservers of Roman material culture and infrastructure, but the architecture typically referred to as Gothic was often constructed using Roman building methods despite hewing to slightly different architectural and aesthetic principles. Heck, the key literary languages all came from the Eastern and Western Empires: Church Latin, Byzantine Greek, Old Church Slavonic...

[@justbeyondthecornerproduct3540]

"Despite what Bowling for Soup may tell you" oh buddy, you aged yourself and everyone who got that reference there 😂

[@chaoticwj1772]

Just Beyond The Corner Productions And that song is still true. XD

[@Chris-be3kl]

Jesus, what’s the last time I heard that song, it was probably when I was 8.😂😂😂

[@St4r_Z0mb13]

I'm not in HS yet but I already know they gon be right

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

2000s kid here, I mainly know them for singing the _Phineas and Ferb_ theme. Also, the lead singer voiced Danny, the lead singer of the fictional band Love Handle on the show.

[@jackcade68]

In the early 80's, it was jocks, stoners and geeks.

[@XxMomentSpeedxXShinkou]

Right now it's stoners and people who care about school

[@anunknownperson4018]

@@XxMomentSpeedxXShinkou LMAOOO

[@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938]

Nerds were a subclass of Geek...I went to a very big high school and most kids were ghosts...but yeah...Jocks, Cheerleaders, Preppies, Stoners, Geeks (nerds), and Shop Kids...and the ghosts

[@ZomBunny]

The pictures of my mom with a mohawk in the early '80's are a testament to the fact that at least in some schools there were also punks

[@jackcade68]

I speak in generalizations. You didn't have to play sports to be in the jock clique. Geeks was an all encompassing term as well, many types fell under that category. And not all stoners were metalheads, they included punks and hippies as well. But generally, they were the 3 types of people.

[@fearless_cloud]

You got nerds and geeks backwards. Rhett and Links old Rap Battle: Nerd vs Geeks is actually really helpful in explaining this.

[@-haclong2366]

00:35 I saw it as a neutral time, I had bad bullies and good friends, when you're an adult you will keep making good friends and unfortunately keep meeting bad people that want you to suffer.

[@OfficeSupplyRobot]

I went to a public high school, so there was no uniform requirement, but showed up every school day with the same few t-shirts promoting a local radio station. Classmates, teachers, and other staff knew me for it. You could say that was my "uniform".

[@Benjey657]

I know some groups in german. "Kiffer" who are the ones who smoke weed, "kiffen" means smoking weed. In east germany we have Simson gangs. Simson was a company that made motorollers. And their motorollers are popular among teens, because your allowed to drive faster with them than every other motoroller.

[@crimson5pider]

I fit into three of these, nerd unsurprisingly and thespian, but this taught me that apparently I am also a hipster, I hit every checkmark you listed in the stereotype except for facial he (though one could argue I make up for that one by growing my hair out long) so that's really neat

[@ProjektTaku]

I see nerds as people who are academically smart and focused on brains, essentially the reverse of jocks. Geeks meanwhile are people who are more into fiction like sci fi, movies, games and comics but aren't necessarily book smart. Geeks can also be split up into dweebs, who are more into american cartoons and comics, and weebs, who are more into japanese cartoons and comics.

[@Random2]

Goths -> Visigoths and Ostrogoths -> came from Gotland. This is attested by Jordanes in his book "Romana".

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

Götaland ja!

[@Cittiverse]

I'd love to see the music genres name explain. It'd be cool to see stuff like where the different subgenres of rock/metal got their names.

[@justsomeguy5628]

The stereotype are very true for the most part, although sometimes more tame. However, lots of highschoolers, at least were I live have a different subsection; the chaotic energy group, who are responsible for 90% of the stuff that happens at school. (I'm American BTW)

[@duchi882]

*Dr. PinkCake:* Name Explain, you forgot to include the _"DIKs!"_

[@Ash_W04]

In America, nerds are smart while geeks are really into specific kinds of media deemed geeky (Sci-fi, video games, etc). It’s shocking how your definitions are completely opposite of what American’s definitions are.

[@gilliandaemon1788]

Yes! a history of music genre names would be awesome!

[@gligordzolev2549]

6:25 That picture is from Skopje, Macedonia you can tell by the plate. The picture is called "Čairski Mangupi/Fraeri".

[@hirandompeopled4968]

Oh, pretty interesting! The capital, noice

[@catman2157]

You forgot chad in the thumbnail

[@cl4655]

Pots you are a mega chad

[@Roof_Gang]

*I AM NOT A HIPSTER* BUT HIS DEFINITION EXPLAINS ME PERFECTLY

[@rocket_1288]

1:20 to answer this question, yes they had existed although maybe a little exaggerated, the absolute truest thing being that there was and still is cliques. Half the stereotypes like the jock, emo, goth died out in the last decade or so but they can still be seen or have become a different form of stereotype like just being popular or an average student.

[@Hdod-vs6fi]

3:12 patricia lookin like a snack

[@kightsun]

I use them exactly opposite: nerd means studying and being academic and geek means being obsessed with something cringe.

[@KingNedya]

Huh, I consider myself a nerd but I've literally never studied for anything.

[@lihzzahrdspeed6631]

Something cringe? So you mean popular girls are geeks?

[@lihzzahrdspeed6631]

(Bad joke that doesn’t really make sense)

[@kightsun]

@@lihzzahrdspeed6631 tbf the popular kid stereotype has become more and more looked down upon

[@bengalnorr9624]

I was going to like this comment until I saw the word "cringe" 🤔

[@th3garbageman]

As a guy who grew up in the Metal scene then on to the Hardcore Punk scene, then onto the 80s Goth/Industrial scene, I’d very much like to see what you have.

[@stvxofcorpses]

highschool was pretty fun, but i still like being an adult way more.

[@vibaj16]

There aren't really popular people anymore. Some people are more known, but everyone is in much smaller groups. There's the people know one really interacts with because we don't know them (maybe from a different school), and many friend groups. I have my small friend group of people I've known and been friends with for years, and there's tiny friendships with the people I sit next to ("friends" as in we know each other's names and we sometimes talk about something that isn't a project we're working on in class). There aren't really bullies anymore. The worst that will happen is someone says you're annoying or weird.

[@Jervenshmine]

Fun fact: geeks are actually clowns that bite animal's heads off while they're alive for entertainment purposes

[@Sugarswann]

No those are the future serial killers

[@kimifw58]

Isn't that what he said?

[@anunknownperson4018]

@@Sugarswann then the quiet kids category lol

[@normanclatcher]

Cliff reaches into his backpack and extracts...

[@fairycat23]

this video: preps my brain: PREPZ R FLAMING MY FIC this video: goths my brain: geddit cuz im goffic

[@teds_life]

bro please look back at this comment in a 5 years. you will regret

[@mshill001]

Hey man, I like your videos and etymology as a personal interest. I realize you’re pretty young and admire your entrepreneurial spirit. Keep it going. Constructive feedback: As an American I think your interpretation of the evolution of terms in recent hours and final take away on their characteristics as well as general perception is a little off.

[@mshill001]

@Pïnky Flöd then it would be about secondary school, wouldn't it? Maybe you didn't notice me preface my point with 'constructive feedback:'

[@christianschoch182]

The stereotypes are definitely real, some people really exemplify their stereotypes and others barely even fit in one. And thanks for the excellent video my guy!!!❤

[@jodiemaes4636]

Being preppy is just being a smart and studious jock basically

[@dulcimerrafi]

I thought nerd and geek were the other way around. I usually think of nerds as introverted intellectuals and geeks as socially awkward obsessives who are maybe also good with technology. Maybe I'm wrong. Also, I had no idea that jock came from jockstrap and not the other way around.

[@matthewhoover8591]

"Doctor Zeus"

[@uekiguy5886]

Yes, when the Greek gods lost their jobs due to Christianity, Zeus went to med school, Mars became a lawyer, and Venus a fashion model..

[@uekiguy5886]

@@Chad_Eldridge == Hmmm, intriguing idea. If you happen to be a writer, go for it.

[@carlv1379]

Athena became a CEO and Apollo a Rock Star.

[@thepatriarchy819]

:17 I beg to differ, I believe Juice said it best: "What I didn't know was that this grown up world, was school in a blown up world."

[@satorugojo6921]

Let me make a simple distinction between nerds and geeks. Nerds: Plays DnD at the table. Geeks: Plays an instrument at band. That easy.

[@gooddayma8]

High School Stereotypes: Nerd, Jock, Goth, Quiet Kid, Etc. Me, who has been called all of them: *I AM ABOVE THE LAW*

[@padraigpearse1551]

One of my teachers basically bullied me out of school so I never got to finish :(

[@theArab__]

Padraig Pearse what the fuck

[@ittszimyikes]

wha

[@rejectfalseicons]

HUH

[@padraigpearse1551]

@@theArab__ yup my French teacher singled me out for every single tiny mistake I made and praised everybody else bar one other girl who she did the same to. That other girl is now in school in Bosnia for the same reason.

[@padraigpearse1551]

My French class went from 12 people at the start of the year to 4 people because everybody hates her and the 4 people who are still in it want to drop it but they can't because we have to do a minimum of 3 subjects