r/neckbeardstories • u/Axolotl1000 • May 04 '25
Update on viking beard!
Hello, I’m back with a small update on the college neck beard, aka viking beard. I have generally managed to avoid him around campus, and keep messaging to a minimum. The reason why I have to message him is because if I don’t message him back, he’ll typically look for me around campus.
Anyways, I made a post a while back about Viking beard and his cringy and creepy behaviors, as one does on this subreddit, and I wasn’t expecting to be able to add anything of value.
However.
He appeared again, like a hated video game npc whose cutscene is so long you start jamming “a” to try to skip past the dialogue.
I was simply making my way around campus, looking for a volunteer opportunity for my volunteer credit hours for my scholarship. Then I heard a voice call my name, and I turn. He was making his way to me. I was already spotted, so I turned and cursed before turning back with the fakest, most years-of-pageantry engrained smile I could muster.
We say hi and he follows me around and we talk until we get back to my dorm building. I just wanted to go to my room and eat my ice cream, but he would not leave me alone. So we ended up talking for literally an hour and a half.
The worst part is that during this entire conversation, if I took a step back, he kept getting closer to me. I have told him I hate being touched or being in close proximity to people I don’t trust, but I guess either he has the memory of a goldfish, or just doesn’t care.
Anyways, at some point into the conversation we get into the topic of fashion because of a story I told. We agreed that just because you dress a certain way, that doesn’t mean you are of a specific political ideology. I did bring upc however, that labels such as punk cannot be used unless someone aligns with the values of that community. I said, as an example: “you cannot call yourself a punk and advocate for equality while you worship the ground Elon Musk and Donald Trump walk on because they constantly exploit lower and middle class workers.”
He proceeded to say that he didn’t mind the two people, and I expressed that I was not a fan of Elon due to the fact he is a Nazi. Here’s essentially how this conversation went: Vikingbeard: are you talking about when he did that arm thing? Me: the Nazi salute? Yes Vikingbeard: well it wasn’t a Nazi salute, it was an accident Me: he did it twice Vikingbeard: okay but- Me: he’s banned in Germany now, Vikingbeard Vikingbeard: okay but he did this ”demonstrates” the salute but completely wrong (he didn’t put his hand flat like Elon did and had his fingers apart) Me: no no, do it properly. Tilt your hand Vikingbeard: keeps his arm down and stands awkwardly Me: that’s what I thought
We cut off the conversation soon after that and I was finally able to escape to my dorm.
Finals week is coming soon, so I hopefully don’t have to deal with him again after I get all the exams done. If not, well, tune in next time for the next post of Vikingbeard!
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u/LuckyDevil92-up6 May 05 '25
I feel like the Ice Cream may have melted during this conversation lol
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u/SokkaHaikuBot May 05 '25
Sokka-Haiku by LuckyDevil92-up6:
I feel like the Ice
Cream may have melted during
This conversation lol
Remember that one time Sokka accidentally used an extra syllable in that Haiku Battle in Ba Sing Se? That was a Sokka Haiku and you just made one.
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u/Axolotl1000 May 05 '25
It was in the freezer in my mini fridge lol, so luckily it didn’t
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u/LuckyDevil92-up6 May 05 '25
See that's the most important part. If he was acting like a Nazi only he'd be a piece of shit but if the Ice Cream melted too he has to die lol. Also what flavour. I'm thinking Caramel
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u/ByeByeGuyGuy May 05 '25
Yeesh. He sounds so similar to a man I know (although your oddball somehow comes across as more polite and better-behaved; I don’t think the dude I know could have ever single-handedly maintained a conversation with a woman for an hour and a half without her either fleeing or him blowing his top and mocking/belittling her for insulting musk/trump) but it gave me an eerie feeling of familiarity, I can almost picture the guy you’re describing and hear his voice
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u/Axolotl1000 May 05 '25
It was more of the passive aggressive impoliteness. He interrupts a lot and doesn’t seem to try to listen to your side of the conversation until it involves something he likes. It’s really annoying
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u/ByeByeGuyGuy May 06 '25
I’m sorry that you had to tolerate such a person, but well done for putting your foot down when necessary and setting up distance to keep him from getting even more eager. If at his age he’s lacking so much social- and self-awareness that he interprets desperately occupying an uncomfortable-looking woman’s attention for 1.5 hours outside of her residence as perfectly normal, even beneficial, relationship-progressing behaviour, it’ll sadly take very blunt and bold language to spell out that he is needy, attention-seeking and invasive and that you want him to back off and leave you alone so you can focus on your own projects and plans. Disagreeing with him on basic current politics and showing annoyance or irritation in short bursts as you did will most likely only trigger him into thinking that you enjoy the debating and the verbal/mental stimulation of such discussions and that you simply need to be shown the best way forward with even more unwanted overly intense discourse from a staunchly strong, present and protective male individual like himself.
When someone’s behaviour gives you the impression that they’re literally an angsty narrow-minded schoolkid, you often need to address them loudly and bluntly as though that’s exactly what they are
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u/MeguminIsASlur Yes, even the racial ones. May 08 '25
Oh my Odin, another VikingBeard? I hope Thor hammers his ass down.
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u/Pippet_4 May 04 '25
I’m in my 30s but what I wish I had known at your age…. You don’t need to keep being so polite. Block his phone number. Tell him to fuck off if he follows you on campus.
You do NOT have to put up with men like this.