Someone posted a graph this week. Model version number on the Y-axis, release date on the X-axis. The line goes up and to the right. The title called it “not quite exponential, but progress is progress.” It was a shitpost. A pretty good one.

The comments, predictably, split into three camps.

First, the people who got it immediately and just typed “lol.” Second, the people who genuinely started analysing the graph before realising the Y-axis was just sequential model numbers. Honest mistake, to be fair. I probably would have done the same. Third, and most entertainingly, the people who did not get it and then got very annoyed at the first group for saying they didn’t get it.