[huggyface]

The media are the hoaxsters, as they are with most "trend" type stories. Find one example of something (rainbow parties, crazy diet "fads", etc) and you have the diversity that is natural with billions of people. Cast that as a trend, however, and suddenly it's something that everyone needs to be aware of and concerned with.

[knowtheory]

This isn't a trend of fluff pieces, and i think it's rather demeaning to attempt to dismiss it as such. Even if there aren't any folks that actually exemplify the brogrammer, developers are being catered to, regardless of how tongue in cheek, as brogrammers.

And that's pernicious for a whole pile of reasons.