>>1454709>if it made nerds look bad?It kind of didn't. It had sterotypical nerds you'd previously find as stock characters and made them the main cast. The point was to laugh at them, but not in an entirely malicious and demeaning way. They were just quirky.
The show was a major outlet of popularising stereotypical "nerd stuff" and exposing normalfags to it. It started airing right at the time when internet began to shift from small and decentralised to massive and all-encompassing.
The problem rather was what
>>1454630 said. It wasn't a show for "nerds", it was a show that used those themings and hobbies to make an ultimately bog standard sitcom. Which is why most who'd be even a little bit like the main cast would find the show weirdly alienating. Others would find nothing weird about it, they'd just go "oh, those silly geeks".
The popularisation and how being a "nerd" suddenly became some trendy thing at the turn of the decade is what makes the show's legacy so rancid
