Duplicate questions Memes

Behold, the Silver Sentinel of StackOverflow! That cold, merciless stare is what every hopeful newbie programmer sees right before their innocent question gets obliterated with "Marked as duplicate" faster than you can say "but my case is different!" These StackOverflow veterans have evolved beyond human compassion. They hover above the digital city like vengeful deities, armed with nothing but their reputation points and an encyclopedic knowledge of questions asked in 2011. Their purpose? To ensure no question shall ever be asked twice in the sacred halls of programmer knowledge. Fun fact: Some say if you whisper "I didn't check existing questions" three times at midnight, this silver figure appears at your desk and forces you to read the entire StackOverflow help center documentation.

The four stages of Stack Overflow disillusionment: 1. You start as an innocent pink square with a question 2. You naively decide "let's ask Stack Overflow!" (still smiling, poor thing) 3. Your question gets flagged as "DUPLICATE OF SLIGHTLY RELATED QUESTION FROM 2006" that uses deprecated libraries and doesn't actually solve your problem 4. You return to being a square, but with PTSD and a solemn vow: "NEVER AGAIN." And that's how developers learn to debug by staring at their code for 8 hours instead of asking for help!