Rick & Morty is about a man who, within the show's setting, is unarguably the most brilliant intellectual mind in not just the universe but the multiverse, yet is a cynical, callous, antisocial, selfish asshole whose entire pseudo-nihilistic philosophy in life is essentially "never follow the crowd, be your own man no matter what, fuck the haters, nothing really matters" (which truthfully isn't actually profound at all, but the same shallow unthinking drivel spewed out by your generic angsty teen rebel-wannabe who thinks himself the next Socrates because he got a low B on his Psychology midterm)…

…and unsurprisingly, with this basis to build upon, the show’s fanbase is comprised almost totally of meme-spouting imbeciles who will, practically down to a man, blindly and gullibly latch onto whatever thing from whichever newest episode one of them thinks is cool or funny or edgy and drive it and themselves into the dirt, like lemmings off a cliff, convinced they are intellectual and philisophical geniuses on par with their boozed-up hero Rick Sanchez, all the while utterly oblivious to how stupid they actually are.

And that's how one fictional scientist's drunken incoherent rant about twenty-year-old fast food promotional tie-ins led to people trying to sell (and some willingly buying) a few ounces of mass-produced chicken nugget condiments for over a thousand dollars or more.

Behold the future of humanity - complete dumbasses.