If by “the Internet intelligentsia” you mean one guy last month, sure. Not his fault a few VCs are promoting it.

His actual point is more like “ML developers are making a lot of money but don’t talk about themselves in the media; journalists don’t earn as much and you have to hear them complain about it all the time”.

It's a nonsensical idea that serves a narrative, so it's promoted by ignoramuses. Check.

Take this "actual point" to its logical ... well, I was going to say "conclusion", but it occurs to me that there's no point here at all. The unemployed are not happy? The ultra-wealthy know better than to incite class wars? No idea.

But anyone who coins the term "wordcel" to label a group they are not a part of, certainly seems to have ill intent.

Well, it is a joke. There's a genre of Twitter jokes based on "men are better at spatial visualization" studies where they imagine men entertaining themselves by rotating objects in their heads as a hobby.

I think the joke inventor made up a philosophy behind it to stop the VC guys from turning it into a culture war thing. He also put crypto guys under "wordcels" not "shape rotators" because they like writing whitepapers.

https://roonscape.substack.com/p/a-song-of-shapes-and-words

I feel that I'm a victim here.