Your proposed meaning is a more recent interpretation. Searching online I see the mysogynism angle becoming more prominent in the 2010s: https://pursuit.unimelb

Your proposed meaning is a more recent interpretation. Searching online I see the mysogynism angle becoming more prominent in the 2010s: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-neckbeards-have-become-a-screen-stereotype https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/how-neckbeards-have-... here's from stackexchange from some years prior: https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/3173/whats-the-non-literal-meaning-of-neckbeard https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/3173/whats-the-non-l... https://metatalk.metafilter.com/23545/Neckbeard-is-this-a-word-we-need https://metatalk.metafilter.com/23545/Neckbeard-is-this-a-wo... I've seen it used as a synonym for "unix beard". https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24 https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-06-24