Wil Wheaton Shows Us Why Nerds Are Awesome in Viral Video

Sometimes the Internet resurfaces a gem from out of the blue that's worth our attention. Over the weekend, this 2013 video of actor and blogger Wil Wheaton started to trend on Reddit.

In it, a young woman in a crowded Denver Comic Con room asks Wheaton, “When you were a kid, were you called a nerd? If so, how did you deal with it?”
 
Without a pause, Wheaton jumps in with a genuine and earnest answer. He says he was called a nerd all the time, adding, “I wish that I could tell you that there is really easy way to just not care, but the truth is it hurts.”
 
Wheaton makes the point that being called names and being bullied is more about the bully and not the person they are targeting.  And for that, we applaud him (again).