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Forks, Washington, Might Be the Nerdiest Place on Earth (in a Bad Way)

Forks, Washington, Might Be the Nerdiest Place on Earth (in a Bad Way)

By June 30, 2009 Nerdery 0 Comment


I’m a nerd. Topless Robot is a nerd site. Generally, while I might poke fun at nerds who carry their obsessions too far, I recognize that I often do the exact same thing, and thus, it’s hard for me to maliciously mock people who are living out their nerdiest fantasies, no matter how embarrassing they are.

But then I see stuff like the above video, an MTV special on Forks, Washington — the real town that Stephanie Meyer chose to set Twilight in, despite never having been there — and all the Twilight groupies who have flocked there to get genially fleeced by the local populace, and I just can’t withhold my disdain. I know it’s not really fair, but I can’t help it. I think it might have something to do with the fact that Twilight is really, really awful. (Via FilmDrunk)

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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.