Idiot Nerd Girl

About

Idiot Nerd Girl is an advice animal image macro series featuring a teenage girl wearing thick rimmed glasses with the word “NERD” written on the palm of her left hand. The upper text contains references to what would be representative of “geek culture” while the bottom statement clearly demonstrates a lack of knowledge or expertise in the subject. This series is similar to Technologically Impaired Duck and Musically Oblivious 8th Grader.

Origin

While the definitive source of the image is unknown, an unedited version of the photo can be found the Photobucket of user SunShineSorrows^[1] titled “Scene Nerd” and was submitted in a comment on the website Fark^[12] by user BHShaman on June 26th, 2010. The macro is rumored to have originated on 4chan but the earliest known instance comes from the single topic “Idiot Nerd Girl” Tumblr^[2] with the caption “Self-proclaimed title of ‘Nerd’ / What is World of Warcraft?” posted on September 12th, 2010.^[2]

Spread

Derivatives of Idiot Nerd Girl have been shared on FunnyJunk^[3], with the earliest added on January 21st, 2011. On June 22nd, 2011, the Canvas Blog^[4] posted the top ten Idiot Nerd Girl images from their thread started earlier that month.^[5] A post titled “The Best of the Idiot Nerd Girl Meme” was posted on BuzzFeed on July 6th.^[6] The web culture blog UpRoxx^[11] posted an article about the series on November 11th and compared the series to a supercut of “Hot Women Pandering to Nerds”:

As of February 2012, search queries for “Idiot Nerd Girl” on Reddit^[7] yield 190 results, a Facebook page^[8] has 268 likes, the Memegenerator^[9] page has 354 items and the QuickMeme^[10] page has 2,369 submissions.

Notable Examples

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Search Interest

Search queries began rising in volume in September 2010 when the Tumblr was created. It has been steadily increasing since the Spring of 2011 when it posted on Buzzfeed and Canvas.