“Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.”
“There's not even real *popularity* at my school.""That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.”
“Avoid popularity if you would have peace”
“The nerd flavor of masculinity has overwhelmed the macho kind in real-life power dynamics, and therefore in popular culture.”
“Popularity can be a real headache.”