>>14609362That's because humanity is midwit, and you're never going to see an open "community" online again that exceeds that bar after you've internet-onboarded half the species. It's still one of the higher-IQ boards on 4chan, as well one of the only ones where you can make a post longer than the Twitter character limit without inviting unironic "bruh tl;dr" from the phoneposters.
The pic's obviously just a troll anyway, but if anything, /sci/'s the weirder one to see ranked so high nowadays. Place is like 50% schizos arguing about covid memes, and borderline-indistinguishable from /pol/ or /x/ on its worst days.