>>16729556 (OP)
I think the creation on the left is cool. Both the caption and picture on the right are unnecessary but it serves as a reminder that in current social media climate the images that have the greatest ability to propagate and spread most effectively are those that contain some degree of irony or express a sort of implied hierarchy or contrast between two broad groups.
The underlying message can be interpreted as a slight against the "system" and implies that credentials are meaningless as an indicator of actual skill or worth. This sort of message resonates with a lot of people who feel frustrated or upset that the current regime elevates those who participate in education system to attain degrees or credentials and they likely feel overlooked or at least unhappy with this state of affairs. I would generally agree with this seeing as on paper I am "qualified" and licensed in the industry I work in but in reality many casual hobbyists have far, far greater domain knowledge and real experience in this field.
Only other insight I have to offer is that had someone simply shared the image on the left and accompanied it with "look at this!", it almost certainly would not have been saved and reposted as many times, and thus I would be unlikely to have ever seen it in the first place.
The takeaway is that if you have some idea/data/image/information etc that you wish to share with a large number of people, the superior strategy is to create a sort of image macro that paints it into a broad, vaguely political social statement, especially one that ties into comparisons of superiority or merit of one group over another. Sort of similar to how on social media the best way to get a response is to post an insulting or incendiary message. Ex: "what movie is this from?" Will be ignored but "this image is from x movie" will get more responses in the form of people correcting you "actually its from y movie, dumbass"
>>16729574
This
