Textual Analysis 1

Boogie2988's internet comedy character 'Francis' can be viewed as a typical nerd. In this screenshot from one of his videos, he is wearing a batman shirt. Batman is a franchise that can be associated with nerds, and it is also seen in 'The Big Bang Theory'. In a clip that I included in a previous post on this blog, Howard from 'The Big Bang Theory' gets excited when he sees a new batman belt-buckle in the comic book store. Francis seems to enjoy batman so much, that he risks wearing a T-shirt devoted to it that could lead to him getting teased an bullied. Francis also wears glasses, which is another piece of clothing that is common with nerds. There are also multiple posters on the wall behind him, which are positioned there deliberately so the viewer can see them. They are posters dedicated to adventure games that Francis plays on his computer, and again could be the subject of bullying by the many people on the internet that could view his videos. It's almost as if Francis and other nerds take a massive amount of pride in their interests to the extent that they are willing to risk the bullying to express themselves, not caring about people's views of them.

This second screenshot is taken from a different video from the first, and Francis yet again wearing the same batman T-shirt. The surroundings are the main focus of this screenshot, as character himself has previously been talked about. Francis has been gaming or is about to start gaming, and the x-box and TV are prominent in this image. Gaming is another activity commonly associated with nerds, mainly because it displays a lack of interest in social activities. You can see that Francis is sitting in a different room to the one that he is in in the first screenshot, and this room contains a seperate TV and gaming system to the technology he is using in the first screenshot which is out of view. A normal person woul use one gaming system, but Francis has a computer, PS3, x-box, Wii U and two TV's. It is obvious that  he feels so passionately about gaming to the point that he spends a lot of money of the technology required for it.