Emphasis On Thanklessly

Oh the AUDACITY! The entire modern programming humor ecosystem is basically built on top of ONE XKCD comic that's been getting ruthlessly copy-pasted since 2020, and nobody's even sending Randall Munroe a fruit basket. Every single meme format you see? Just layers upon layers of abstraction stacked on that poor little XKCD comic at the bottom, holding up the entire weight of our collective creativity like some kind of comedic Atlas. It's the dependency hell of meme culture—we've all just been importing the same base template and slapping different text on it. Zero attribution, zero royalties, just pure shameless reposting energy. That tiny comic is doing more heavy lifting than all the JavaScript frameworks combined.