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How a game-show champion became the embattled conscience of American male geekdom
In January of 2014, I started getting text messages from my college friends asking whether I was following our old classmate Arthur Chu on Jeopardy! I wasn’t—I hadn’t watched the show for years—but I tuned in the next day. From then on, I watched rapt as Chu racked up what was, at the time, the third-longest winning streak in the show’s history, drawing attention not only for the size of his haul (almost $400,000 in the end), but also for his supremely stereotypical nerdiness.
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If Arthur wants to bring nerds together and make the culture better, he might want to start by not participating in dumb Twitter fights.