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ANNCast - Spring The Pain

No, there's something more there than in other places of the internet, and it's not simply higher concentration of idiocy.

You probably don't care enough to find out, so just take my word for it.

To put it into a physics metaphor, 4chan (especially parts of it like /a/) has somehow undergone a phase transition from gas (random) to plasma (chaos). The turbulence of plasma is somehow ordered.
Although it looks random the randomness arises naturally from set equations.
It's fascinating to me (and many others) and you can trivialize it as "not complicated" all you want if that makes you feel better for not understanding it.

I'm not trying to trivialize it but please stop acting as though it's this incredibly complex thing that only geniuses like yourself could possibly understand.

No one is doing that. Obviously people may take pride in belonging to a group, but what is said here is that you'll need to spend some time in that place to understand how it works, which is true about pretty much any subculture that significantly deviates from the mainstream in behaviour.