Everyone in sixth form likes me or is amiably indifferent, I'm well-known, and can talk with anyone should I choose to (I often don't, as whilst I can get on with people, I can still hate them intensley)
What makes me and my friends this "popular" for a bunch of intellectual wannabees? Simple, we don't care. We don't care about the pop culture, or what's IN, or who the hell is "Lady Gaga" or "50 cent", or, for me anyway, give a damn about fashion.
Since the rule of cool is appear uncaring and "whatev's", this, paradoxically, makes us fit in