That reads to me as "Rails is a pop culture icon that only XYZ people know about." I'm not XYZ because I don't know who that is.

Actually, perhaps unintentionally, you still hit the nail on the head.

Glad to be your unintentional hammer.

Dane Cook is a comedian who hit it BIG, in part, due to MySpace. He's been in a couple of movies, including "Employee of the Month."

He's got millions of fans, but also a sizeable group of haters, inlcuding many of his fellow comedians. He's just another in a series of people or items that hit it big, leaving many of us wondering why.

Could it be that he's hated because he steals material?

Well, I didn't want to get into the details here, but yes, that's part of it. :-) He's also been criticized for not actually telling jokes when it is his material, being/attracting the worst sort of humanity, etc.

Just think of him as a comedy aggregator, something like a real life Digg/Reddit/etc. :)

A worse insult would be calling it the 'Carlos Mencia of frameworks'.

Be glad.