But there are already enough talented commentators and content creators in that space that I dunno if there’s room for me to ever carve out a name for myself.

If they’re not on the Fediverse, this might be the space to give it a go?

Myself, I pick up new fandoms here just based on who is here and sharing content.

That’s why I confessed. I’m glad to help.

Okay. I briefly ate the onion, on this one. It tastes like sysadmin tears.

I think it’s older than that. Well, parts of it are.

Though I adore the addition of the fade to chaos in the 2009 Stack Overflow post, I recall seeing the exact early text from that answer linked and re-pasted on older CS forums as early as 2000. It needed posted a lot, shortly after XHTML became popular.

Part of the contextual humor of the 2009 SO answer, is it takes the trend of the previous answers - getting longer and less coherent each time it needed posted - and extended it to it’s logical conclusion.

I do think the Stack Overflow post is the definitive version.

I wish I could find the original, or something closer, because we could compare and measure our collective loss of sanity.