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# To Be Fair.

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2026-01-16Runtime: 0:58

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The high-IQ copypasta, rewritten for Claude Code.

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# To Be Fair.



AI-generated; not human-verified. Timestamps are approximate.



A parody meme video parodying the 'Rick and Morty high IQ' copypasta adapted for Anthropic's Claude Code, featuring a talking pickle with a sculpted face superimposed over a woman eating pickles with green code overlays.



## Timestamped description



[00:00–00:19] An animated muscular pickle with a chiseled face speaks over a background of a woman eating pickles in a mukbang video, overlaid with floating pickles, digital memory addresses, and word-by-word captions.

[00:19–00:43] The talking pickle elaborates on Claude Code and philosophy while the background clip continues showing pickles being eaten amid crunching sounds and electronic ambient music.

[00:43–00:58] The talking pickle smiles condescendingly while delivering the conclusion of the speech against the looping pickle-eating footage and code stream.



## Speech transcript



[00:00–00:03] Pickle Speaker: To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to use Claude Code.

[00:03–00:10] Pickle Speaker: The workflow is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical computer science, most of the agentic loops will go over a typical user's head.

[00:10–00:19] Pickle Speaker: There's also Claude's relentlessly helpful disposition, which is deftly woven into its constitutional training. Its personal philosophy draws heavily from Kantian deontology and Theravada Buddhist literature, for instance.

[00:19–00:29] Pickle Speaker: True Claude Code users understand this stuff. They have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these diff outputs. To realize that they're not just code changes, they say something deep about existence.

[00:29–00:34] Pickle Speaker: As a consequence, most people who use Claude Code truly are idiots.

[00:34–00:44] Pickle Speaker: Of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the elegance in Claude's existential catchphrase, 'You're absolutely right,' which itself is a cryptic reference to Hegelian notions of the Absolute and how it relates to... well, you wouldn't understand.

[00:44–00:55] Pickle Speaker: I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons hitting enter on vague prompts and pulling the slot machine lever, scratching their heads in confusion as Dario Amodei's genius alignment work unfolds itself in their terminals.

[00:55–00:58] Pickle Speaker: What fools! How I pity them.



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