>>60880849>and why she doesn't connect with a wider audienceThis. People keep asking what can she do to try to incline? For starters, knowing when to not walk into actual gaffes is one thing that would help, and not knowing even the absolute fucking most common simple cultural cornerstone shit is a fucking gaffe. It's fine if she's like a specialist in anime/jpop/kpop etc because many are, but, that doesn't and shouldn't come at the expense of knowing about ANYTHING else culturally in the world period. She's not even that massive an otaku to begin with so it doesn't even really add up.
She seems to wear her ignorance like a badge of honor, but really that is nothing to be proud of. She clearly nowadays plays up not knowing common cultural stuff ... as far as I've seen with normalfags at work etc, this is acutally not uncommon, she's a space alien to us but actually there are a lot of people like her and at least with ones I've known they unironically list "walking" or "reading" or "hanging with their family" as their "hobbies" and truly make the NPC thing feel like reality because funny enough, NPCs don't know that they're NPCs etc. Fucking Bae, is a fucking NPC mistakenly being given a voice and as it turns out she has literally nothing at all interesting to say/observe about anything, she's a plain gray canvas.
The thing is, if you tried to gently prod around these types in conversation to figure out what/how they think, it's commonly that they think they're better for -not- knowing these nerdy things and they're above needing to care. They can argue nerd shit is cringe and indeed a lot of it is, but to not even recognize it by name is a downright fucking sheltered level of ignorance. When I was a little kid in sunday school there was one girl who had never seen Star Wars as it turns out and even there some people pretty much gasped going "wow you NEVER saw it!??" etc. Bae is like that ultra-sheltered type even among sheltered kids. In these peoples' everyday lives, probably everyone they know also doesn't care about geeky/pop culture things too, so it's normal for them and then it makes sense. However when dealing with not just one person but a group of millions of nerds where not knowing common knowledge is downright dumbfounding, she just looks like she doesn't fucking belong, she's got truly nothing in common and no reason to be there.
