A big part of it for me is that in my head he’s this 18-year-old idiot who’s stolen my credit card information from me personally, even though he was 20 years older than me and that never happened. It’s who he was in the hacker legendarium, you know?

I don’t give a shit about either of those narcissistic men, but a pure chef’s kiss to you for this meme choice.

I think it’s a Marge Simpson “they just think it’s neat” situation

That bothered me less than whenever some thread got successful and a mod decided that their input deserved to be viewed as the top comment, so they pinned it to the thread. 95% of the time those comments had nothing to do with reddit moderation, just a normal comment that wouldn’t have even been upvoted if it hadn’t been made in sudo mode.