Fanboys how I loathe thee
With the up and coming rise of “the internet” (aka your internetz as I like to call them), have come a lot of new little words, hyperlink, e-mail addy, peer 2 peer, ftp, yadi yadi blah blah blah.
Amongst this swarm of new fancy little words, one will be the subject of discussion today!
I bring you, the horrid, incomprehensive and totally exagerated, nerve racking, FANBOY!
What is a fanboy you might ask! Urbandictionary has 3 inputs for the word fanboy, the third seems a little out of it’s content in my book as I don’t feel it really states what I want to talk about, but number 1 and 2 both come in line.
1.
A passionate fan of various elements of geek culture (e.g. sci-fi, comics, Star Wars, video games, anime, hobbits, Magic: the Gathering, etc.), but who lets his passion override social graces.
At the mall I almost got mowed over by some Dragonball Z fanboy on his skateboard.
2.
-A person who is completely loyal to a game or company reguardless of if they suck or not.
-A pathetic insult often used by fanboys themselves to try and put down people who don’t like whatever it is they like.
“If you don’t worship SEGA and send them all your money and pay $500 for the copy of Panzer Dragon I’m selling on ebay then your obviously a Sony fanboy even though I’ve never heard you mention a single thing about Sony the entire five minutes I’ve known you.” Said the SEGA Fanboy.
“Yeah but the SNES didn’t have Blast Processing” Said the Sega fanboy.
Number 2 is what I’d like to talk about mostly, the person whom is completely loyal to a game or company, regardless if they suck or not (add to that, regardless of any argument you might try to bring to the table when in discussion with said fanboy about his favorite brand / product and why you think it shouldn’t get the praise it receives from him, perfect example, the iPhone!).
Last week at work, I encountered such a fanboy, during lunch, I was talking with one of my collegues and we came to discuss pc’s vs mac’s, and all of a sudden, coming from out of nowhere I heard the “oh so you have a mac as well”-dong, hit on me like a hammer.
Now, let me clarify, yes, I too have a mac at home, and I’m happy with it, but guess what, I also have a good old windows xp running computer system which I’m as happy about as the mac (both serve different purposes).
Why oh why is it that when admitting to a fellow mac user, that you too have a mac, all of a sudden, they take you into their elitist “group” with their elitist “attitude” talking about mac and mac apps only, as if they were talking about a god sent gift?
I do not get it, it totally surpasses my every ability of moral thinking, the second before, you didn’t knew me, and now all of a sudden, bam, I’m like your best friend you had in high school, just ’cause I happen to be the owner of a freaking type of computer?
Give me a bloody brake, seriously, come on now, sod off.
To make things worse, said person, moved on to talk about how he himsel made some kind of uberleet haxx0r software (freeware for that matter), which had been downloaded x’hundred of thousand times and how he would’ve been rich by now if he would’ve put it up as shareware…
My thaughts? Get a grip man (or woman)!
Wether you’re a mac fan, a sony playstation avid, a nike sneaker freak, hell even a world of warcraft addict just like me, be a fan, but stay on the tip of your toes, look around you, there’s company’s constantly pushing off limits to make you buy their newest product, don’t idolise one company for it’s so called superiorism, ’cause you’re only fooling yourself and losing your criticism towards the general consumption…
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