Bibliography Memes

That smug satisfaction when academic worlds collide! Nothing validates your research choices quite like discovering someone else cited the same obscure paper you dug up from the depths of Google Scholar. It's the academic equivalent of finding out your weird music taste is actually cool. *raises glass* Here's to the bibliographic echo chamber where we all pretend we're not just citing the same five papers in different orders!

The academic version of "between a rock and a hard place" – trying to write about illegal drugs while facing the impossible choice between paywalled research nobody can access or sketchy rehab center propaganda. Nothing says scholarly desperation like standing at this fork in the road, contemplating whether to cite a $60,400 paper with an abstract so vague it could be about literally anything, or resort to bullet points from a website that probably has pop-up ads for miracle cures. This is why half our bibliographies are just Wikipedia sources we've laundered through their references section.