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An anorak arc is the character development — usually visible to everyone except the person experiencing it — where someone gradually becomes a full-blown niche obsessive. It starts innocently: a passing interest in vintage cameras, a single Wikipedia page about canal boats, one YouTube video about rare coins. Then the subscriptions multiply, the specialist books arrive, the vocabulary shifts, and before anyone can stage an intervention, the arc is complete. Friends watch it happen in real time, helpless and mildly entertained. The anorak arc is inevitable for certain personality types; the only question is which subject will claim them.
He started with one podcast about trains and now he has a trackside photography setup — full anorak arc.
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