[ssijak]

Or people pasting gotcha dumb math “problems” where hundreds of people reply the answer. I could never understand that.

[vulcan01]

People like being told that they are smart, indirectly. If someone posts a "hard" math "problem" and the viewer can solve it... that indirectly means that the viewer is smarter than the poster. Which viewers love.

[staycoolboy]

Did you read the comments from the guy that left facebook? It was like reading YouTube comments. People were flaming him from their professional accounts.

[_v7gu]

It's like the reverse of the /g/ or /sci/ meme with a picture of Makise Kurisu saying "You should be able to solve this" accompanied by a laughably difficult problem.

[the_af]

"83% of people won't be able to solve this" (some basic puzzle follows).

[Phrenzy]

83%‽ That's almost half!