Tl;dr – Do you think most of the “geek”/”nerd” culture you see online and on other people’s profiles has little difference from SJW culture?
At this point, I think anyone who was an actual nerd/geek who didn't always consume "popular" media growing up would recognize that, in the past six years, a lot of people in what was then and is now sort of becoming "popular" media who may have started out as "edgy" and actually entertaining have progressively shown their true colors over the past 6 years. And if there's any list that honestly puts it all out there on who in modern social media is a SJW, it's OneAngryGamer and his "Traitors of America" list:
https://www.oneangrygamer.net/traitors-of-america/
If you look at the majority of the e-celebs on the list (because of course the popular companies are gonna be liberal), you'll notice a profile; does non-essential work that doesn't contribute anything of real value to our country, they complain about how America is every -ism, and Republicans are every -ist in the book, and a lot of them are revered in geek/nerd/outcast culture. They all support every other this or that group except for the one that they themselves are part of.
Now, I don't know about you, but honestly, if it came between I:
+Being able to speak his mind, +To be who he wants to be, +And, quite frankly, to just be myself
As opposed to:
-Having to be the voice of several brands and a platform for the ability to make money obsessing over what are, to be quite honest, mostly children/teenage/young-adult-at-most pieces of media, brands, and various other "objects," that companies are looking to sell, regardless if it's you saying the words they want you to say. -Being told that I have to devote my time to this or that lest you draw the ire of not only the company, but your customers as well, who, in the case of these YT celebrities, given how much they change with the tides of what’s popular to “stay relevant,” isn’t really them “being their own boss,” as much as they like to boast about to their NPC subscribers. -Running the risk of having too much information about your private life coming out due to your status as a “celebrity” coming with rumors, people talking about this or that behind your back, drama, and everything else in between.
When looking at both of these lists, and given my observations about most of these Youtube creators in addition to other related individuals/organizations, it makes you wonder if the leftists are using people like SomeCallMeJohnny to promote “All Lives Can’t Matter until Black Lives Matter” in the beginning of his latest video in addition to other people using the same catchphrase like this art-oriented girl here (who’s only a customer service manager who I can imagine complains a lot about customers being “entitled” when I’m sure it’s just her being bad at her job):
https://www.facebook.com/danielle.gross.923
Given all of this, am I the only one who’s noticed that, over the years, a lot of “nerd/geek” culture is just the same thing as SJW culture, and that there’s nothing original about it in any form?
Not sure about your premise. Nerd Star Wars fans hated the woke remakes. Nerd Star Trek fans rarely watch the two series with women leads. Nerd Dungeons and Dragon fans would be terrified leaving the basement to protest in the streets :-)
Nerds try very hard not to live in “current times”. They, like most subcultures, are co-opted by advertisers. Nerds will continue to live mainly in their own imaginations, happy to be heroes in their own minds.
My premise is that, when you look at a lot of the people these "nerds" and "geeks" tend to follow, you'll see that these celebrities/e-celebrities (more of a thing with Millennials, Zoomers, and those afterwards) are openly promoting the riots or praising things like a couple getting married at a protest which are things that. especially in the latter's case, they don't have to be concerned with.
A lot of the e-celebrities have also had fans who, like us, are going, "the fuck does what you do have to do with politics? Just do your thing, and leave the politics out of it," which usually has these creators standing their ground or, even better, making a tweet reply public so as to encourage a digital mob to gather around someone who probably just wants an escape from all of the stresses of their daily life without having to be reminded of said stresses again, with what I can tell you will be the implicit assumption on these e-celebs' parts that, if you're against politics getting involved, you're ripe for getting cancelled as well. IDK, they probably have already shifted to that goalpost by this point given how fast shit is falling apart in the big blue cities in especially blue states!