[onion2k]

Idiotic memes have a corrosive effect, largely unseen until it is too late.

I don't think that's true. I certainly see no evidence for the hypothesis. Memes have no impact on most developers except to make us laugh, recognize "yeah, I feel that", and then go back to writing some pretty amazing things.

To be honest, DHH's suggestion that funny pictures could be the reason for a proliferation of imposter syndrome rather than, say, hiring practises that turn down very capable developers because they can't present a proof that P=NP on a whiteboard in 30 minutes to a board of 10 people is downright offensive to developers.

We're an intelligent and capable community. Memes probably aren't root cause of many of our problems. We can understand when a funny picture is just a funny picture.