kind of agree - its the same "humour" which devolved TV like big bang theory into canned laughter shit-shows - poking fun of "virgin nerds" (which make bank).
And worse. When, say, GvR was a kid, it was normal in many schools for nerds to be bullied.
Imagine someone doing this game back then, in that context, passing it around school (before cyberbullying), and it'd be pretty nasty.
We can say "but computer programming is OK, now that it's a status career that rich kids have blessed as cool, and kids don't get bullied like that in school so much, so now it's funny in a non-bullying way", I guess.
Still feels like punching-down, to me, but not everyone knows the earlier context.
It sounds like you're the one doing the punching down by tacitly assuming that who write software are or were wimpy, creepy nerds. If that's not a stereotype, than I don't know what is.
And trust me, there are plenty of bullies in tech.
Don't worry. There's no one needing to be rescued here.
