@Katzalcoatl made it very clear.
I believe the problem is not intelligence at its own, there is very smart and intelligent people but their behaviors and overall interactions with other individuals affect the way they are perceived. Of course, in big crowds people will likely side with a mayority than being targeted like the individual that is different, or that forces their way to be different while disregarding the other people.
I have met very intelligent jocks, at the same time I met annoying geeks or nerds, same goes for teacher's pet.
I've met very relaxed people that everyone would think they were going to drop out of school, but was loved by everyone and they demonstrated how capable they were when it mattered.
There are a lot of geek/nerds that are particulary arrogant about feeling unique and special, some purposefully go and become an enemy of the group just to continue feeling some kind of superiority while playing the victim, something that the "common folk cannot comprehend". There are nerds and geeks that are just overbearing, having no societal norms, lacking social skills, imposing their preferences onto other people and shutting down anything that is not of their interest.
No one had an issue with the dude that watched anime but knew how to behave at school, with the one they had an issue was that classmate that came naruto running to class, wearing weird accessories out of the school norm that made them stand out, talking only and solely about anime and being dismissive of anything else that anyone else provides. And don't get me started when they bring their SHARP ninja weapons or being overal edgy because they just watched Mirai Nikki.
Same with that girl that had the most beautiful note book, nicely written, perfectly decorated and that anyone would love to study from since she is also smart and very reliable... but damn everyone hates her when she goes out of her way to ask the teacher to give more homework, not let anyone make a question and that the teacher should only assist her, she calling out if a classmate was doing "something wrong" (Not really, Jimmy and his other 3 friends were watching a surgery video hidden behind the stairs, why, because curiosity) and she basically makes the whole classroom feel like shit because no one is allowed to take the spotlight from her.
It's all a matter of the actions of the person that behaves differently, and what a mayority says. TV has made people think that bullies only go against the wormbooks with glasses or the weaks individuals who lack self love because many tv directors, or actors, illustrator and animators, have been pretentious at a certain point too. But in their eyes they probably still think they never did anything to piss other people off and thus, they create parodies of their bullies just to make them look bad so others say "Oh, poor nerd, they didn't deserve this".
There does exist that power play where one starts bullying a person that doesn't defend themselves and the rest join in. Yet there are several cases where both sides are to blame and the rest just doesn't tolerate their bullshit.
This, perfectly is this.
Not every creative or intelligent person is responsible of the things we love and enjoy, or there are things that we don't necessarily love enough to worship.
The geek or nerd doesn't seem to be an intelligent person to me, just someone with an hyperfixation or very obsessive interest. Intelligent people don't need to brag, don't necessarily seek some king of treatment for what others have created.
Yeah, someone created the iPhone... but it ain't neither me or you. Is like saying, oh because an Argentinian invented the walking stick for the blind, every blind person should show me some respect! No, I didn't create shit regardless of how creative or intelligent I might be, its not of a smart person to try to acclaim someone else's invention based on a trait we might, or might not share.
