Gaming nerds 🤝 Theoretical physicists: Optimizing performance at all costs.
The meme brilliantly combines the absurd "glasses = smart" stereotype with computer gaming logic. Claiming smart people have poor eyesight because they're running their brains at higher processing speeds is hilariously wrong yet weirdly satisfying as a theory.
Then comes the savage punchline about Stephen Hawking "closing background tasks for more fps" - a dark but genius joke about how his brilliant mind operated despite his physical limitations. It's the perfect collision of gamer culture and science humor that's simultaneously terrible and brilliant.