There are many who are critical of Wagner for either his morals or his music. However, there is one thing that unifies the dissenters, and that is the undisputable, inarguable majesty of his glorious neckbeard.
Wagner was rocking the neckbeard action that would have made w0w guilders cry.
Wagner would have out-neckbearded every single other neckbeard who waited a week outside of Best Buy for a Wii.
He would have put l0Tr fanfic writers to shame.
*strokes neckbeard*
You see, many of Opera Chic's readers might not be hip to the latest leet-speak or internet meme. But neckbeards are all the rage among unemployed, college-aged internet nerds who sit online all day and haunt gamer forums, obsessively clock ebay auctions, and enthusiastically swap Manga.
If Wagner was a contemporary, Der fliegende Holländer may have had never been written, because he'd be sitting around all day playing DDR, a/s/l'ing on AIM, and...grooming his neckbeard.