The scientific community's most prestigious career path has evolved into a four-quadrant YouTube personality matrix. Spent 8 years getting that doctorate just to make videos with clickbait thumbnails and explosion sound effects!
Top left: "This is legit a theoretical report" - where serious academics pretend they're not desperately chasing views with periodic table jokes.
Top right: "This is what I use my PhD degree for" - brilliant minds who've traded peer-reviewed journals for becoming the "Smarter Every Day" crowd, explaining basic concepts with excessive enthusiasm.
Bottom right: "Let's build some stuff" - where engineers with safety goggles perform experiments that definitely weren't approved by any ethics committee.
Bottom left: "Science is for fun" - theoretical physicists who've given up on solving string theory and now just blow things up for views.
And somewhere in the middle? Pure, unfiltered academic existential crisis.
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