>>4267872because men (and some women) like gear, tools and fixing/messing with stuff and adjusting stuff - but on the other side, they also like being right about things, even though they are not right 90% of the time. then you throw a neet or a obsessed shill/brand slave into the mix and you have an even shittier person to deal with. thats why that happens...
and its not just photography, gearfagging happens everywhere and for everything... all the gearfagging here on 4chan is a fucking walk in the park compared to when normies gearfag... and like it or not, photographers in general, are the least retarded when it comes to gearfagging, because in photography, most gearfagging can at least be justified in one way or another, whether the justification is technical, mechanical. statistical, financial or something else, with cameras and camera gear, you can find at least one, probably two or three point of justification for gearfagging. because with photography, gearfagging is NOT mostly emotional, like it is with most other shit...
if you think photo gearfagging is bad, you havent seen shit yet. try looking at car bros? construction bros? fashion retards? camping degenerates? cook fags? alcoholic bros? sport and gym bros? etc., etc...now those are fucking borderline cognitively impaired, degenerate levels of gearfagging. and its not just men, women gearfag too, for example women gearfag when it comes to clothes, makeup, footwear, kitchen, interior design, healthcare products, bla, bla, blaa... and its even worse than when men do it.
so yeah, theres that. i wanted to type something about gearfagging in specific, but i got distracted by typiing about this shit so here you go.