Idiot Nerd Girl is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of a teenage girl wearing thick rimmed glasses with the word "NERD" written on the palm of her left hand. The upper caption often contains references to "geek culture" while the bottom caption demonstrates a lack of knowledge or expertise in the subject. The series bears many similarities to the Technologically Impaired Duck and Musically Oblivious 8th Grader advice animals. While the definitive source of the image is unknown, an unedited version of the photo was posted on the Gaia Online Forums [14] shown below, left on May 8th, , making another appearance in a comment on Fark [12] that June.

This article is from the archive of our partner. Idiot Nerd Girl — a meme featuring a girl in oversized glasses with the word "NERD" written across her hand — is one example of geek culture's entrenched misogyny, but recently one woman decided to take action on the matter, or, rather, the meme. The new Nerd Girl memes are celebratory. Some poke fun at recurring themes in the old meme; others speak from personal experience or rehash specific incidents.

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