Nothing happened to the Nerds. They are all showing their true colours.

They may have shared a love for technology, what they also shared is a deep immaturity.

The immaturity of a person not wanting to acknowledge and cary any responsibility for other people, for the consequences of their work, for any kind of accountability. Just play with their toys without any concern for the external world.

'I'm just here playing with tech and code'. Sure! but that stuff you're building is being weaponised by other (the venn diagram unfortunately overlaps) tech bro's so men can film women with their glasses in public like the little sick creeps they are. Or steal all their data. You can't pretend you are not responsible and complicit.

They want "what's theirs" and anything in their way - including people - have to comply or be destroyed.