>>715316957
From their perspective, his intelligence is their intelligence. It's a very reddit mindset that intelligent people keep intelligent company, so if they watch the big brain hackerman, that must be because they're also big brain boys. So when his intelligence is in question it's a personal threat to them. If they've been "hanging out" with a liar and a mid-wit all this time, especially without realizing, what does that make them?

Same reason redditors went crazy for Rick & Morty just because it paid lip service to theoretical physics and existentialism. People forget the Rick & Morty copypasta was not ironic at first.