Forking Memes

That irrational urge to fork every major open source project hits differently at 3 AM. "Just in case GitHub disappears tomorrow" is what we tell ourselves, as if we're single-handedly preserving digital history. Meanwhile, our GitHub account becomes a digital hoarding museum with zero commits and that sweet, sweet dopamine hit of seeing 500+ repositories in our profile. It's basically the programmer equivalent of buying books you'll "definitely read someday."

OMG, the EVOLUTION of code ownership in three acts of pure DRAMA! 🎭 Act I: Designers having an absolute MELTDOWN over similar ideas. One's all smug while the other is literally CRYING TEARS OF RAGE! The audacity! Act II: Programmers being utterly UNBOTHERED. "I stole your code" meets "It's not my code" with the emotional investment of discussing yesterday's weather. The NONCHALANCE is killing me! Act III: GitHub users achieving PEAK ENLIGHTENMENT. Not only is stealing acknowledged, it's THANKED FOR! This is the digital equivalent of someone breaking into your house and you offering them tea for reorganizing your furniture! Welcome to open source, where your precious code belongs to EVERYONE and nobody simultaneously. What's mine is yours and what's yours is... forked.

The SHEER AUDACITY of those forkers! You spend HOURS tracking down a hideous bug in a repository, dragging your soul through the mud of someone else's code, only to discover that FIFTY-SEVEN people forked the project and NOT A SINGLE ONE bothered to fix it! They just... synchronized with the original like mindless drones! What's the point of open source if everyone's just going to copy-paste the same broken garbage?! The collective disappointment is CRUSHING. It's like opening the fridge fifty times hoping food will magically appear, but it's STILL EMPTY EVERY TIME! 😭