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Has anyone been to any kind of convention for nerdy things. Nerds are so captured by the marketing and products being sold that they let it take over their personality and they can’t stop buying junk.
Nerds in arrested development over a franchize is not the same as seeing any ad and then that makes them want to buy a product.