Why do you guys try to be so funny and witty?

Is there a reason why everyone on /prog/ is trying so hard to be funny. Is it because programming is a difficult endeavor and we're trying to make light of it? Is there a deeper philosophical reason for our behavior or are we all just socially awkward aspies? Or worse, are we all a bunch of bandwagon fools who are monkeying a select few of retards who seeded /prog/'s questionable culture?

>>6
It's a vicious cycle. No one wants to waste time posting things that get ignored (except the /g/ro who thinks he's bumping threads off the board when he floods every once in a while), so we post more and more shitposting. The real shame is that the shitposting used to be of much higher quality as well. Now it's a quantity thing it seems.