Meet Starbuck Nguyen
I don’t who this Aussie lass is, because she’s apparently got quite the following on YouTube and I very much hope it’s because she’s genuinely clever and funny and not because she’s an attractive 15-year-old Asian girl whose very nerdy and goes to cons and does Battlestar Galactica cosplay and oh god, what hell have I unleashed by posting this here? Look, if you have something awful and depraved to say, please just keep it to yourself — I’m posting the Pok?mon story at 2pm, and I really, really can’t handle any more inappropriate sexual behavior right now, okay? Please. Please.
About The Author
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.