Don McMillian - Geek v. Nerd v. Dork

Ever wonder if you are properly using the terms: geek v. need v. dork? Dan McMillian does a great job explaining the differences & uses a venn diagram for you visual learners.

[huojin]

I think he hit it right on the mark describing the differences between the 3 in a humorous way. LOL

[JM-usfr]

These terminologies have been used interchangeably for SO LONG, I'm glad someone is spelling out a Grand Unified Theory of Nerd.

[retrox]

I find it genuinely interesting (mostly hilarious) Nerds/Geeks and Dorks have come together to break down this comic diagram

[CertifiedSampoHater]

Here we see three ways to describe a nerd:
A socially awkward geek
An obsessed dork
(And my personal favorite)
A smart stalker

[AceArata]

So we need a part two where the three circles are

Stupid, Social, and Absent-minded

[CelebrityLyrics]

So if you become a more intelligent stalker you're a nerd. So nerds are extra smart stalkers.

[thundermtn]

I have never been so insulted by the truth as I just was by being called a dork

[tastypotato]

I appreciate how you left out the "stalker" part in the title. Because damn that caught me off guard.

[logand]

I used to be a nerd but they said my IQ isn’t high enough. I went to their house to assure them that’s not the case.

[oenrn]

The fact that he went to the trouble of drawing a Venn diagram for this is the biggest proof he's a nerd.

[Rhettopia]

I'm solidly in the Geek category. I've used this video so many times to explain the differences. Thank you for posting! So funny!

[BillTheScribe]

I love this.

My personal definitions have always been that a Nerd can figure out how fast the TOS Enterprise can get from colonies at Rigel, to Aldebaran, to Mintaka, then back to Rigel while traveling at warp 5.4.
A Geek will think that information can be used to pick someone up at a bar.
A Dork knows that knowledge won't get them a date, but they hang around because someone /might/ ask. It could happen.

[lucas_lipp]

Once, I had a stalker. I didn't really enjoy it, so I just gave him a couple of books from my Uni courses to educate him.
Solved the situation quite easily, really.

[RedWolfGG]

I saw him present this in America's got talent, it's hilarious

[gauravkelkar]

"If you are a dork, just be obsessed and move into the nerd region". This hit me harder than my uncle last night god damn. I'm watching myself transition from a dork to a nerd to a geek now...

[jeffonetoxd]

Spoon + dork = spork. I will not apologize

[johnny__boy]

“Im not a stalker Jessica, i’m a nerd”

[maxblast]

Oh, gosh. My brother has always denied being a nerd, and you've proven him right in just about the worst way.

So thanks, he'd hate it.

[GreyAcumen]

I have never seen the terms used in this manner. If anything, the three sections ARE the nerd/geek/dork aspects all by themselves, no overlap.
Nerd is the IQ; the book smarts. You get called a nerd for studying academics and taking interest in it. Because children only want to play, bully, and obsess over tiktok
Geeks are the obsessed, the ones who put emphasis on trivia for generally unimportant things like pop culture. These are the star wars geeks, or whatever fandom geeks, etc. Heck, you can even be a sports geek (though if you're a number crunchy statistics kind of fan, it's more of a sports nerd at that point)
People get called dorks for being socially awkward. You can be a nerd AND a dork if you're a socially awkward nerd, but on the flip side, if you're not socially awkward while being a nerd, you can be a nerd in a way that isn't necessarily a stigma. It's rare to have a sports dork, because being on a team or following a team usually has a certain level of social acceptance built into it.
It's harder to be a geek without also being a dork, because of the obsession over generally unimportant trivia, but proper social/hobby balance can mitigate that issue.
There are also fandoms where the obsession with the trivia ends up carrying a certain level of academic requirement /interest to the field, such as star trek, hence why you sometimes still get Star Trek Nerds alongside Star Trek Geeks.

Now, there ARE a bunch of people who, when using these terms as insults, uses them completely interchangeably, but that's usually dumb kids who don't know better and wouldn't care if they did. They're just trying to insult someone, the details are unimportant. Just because you've heard the term used incorrectly doesn't mean that use is correct.

[medeaMULTIMEDIAAAA]

I just got called a nerd by a video and never have I ever got offended by something I actually do 100% agree with