{
    "category": {
        "name": "Science & Academia",
        "description": "For students, researchers, and anyone deep in the academic trenches. From thesis meltdowns and peer review rage to lab disasters and research spirals that lead nowhere fast.",
        "keywords": ["academia", "science", "research", "grad school", "PhD life", "peer review", "lab chaos", "thesis stress"],
        "subcategories": [
            {
                "name": "Research Rabbit Holes",
                "description": "You start with one paper and suddenly it’s 4am, 87 tabs open, and you’ve changed your thesis topic three times.",
                "meme_angles": [
                    "Went looking for one citation… emerged 3 hours later with a crisis",
                    "Researching like I’m trying to crack the Da Vinci Code",
                    "The deeper I dig, the less I know. Science."
                ],
                "keywords": ["literature review", "citation chasing", "information overload", "research burnout"],
                "sample_captions": [
                    "Accidentally found 12 new subtopics I’m not qualified to write about",
                    "Started with one PDF, now I’m drowning in 47 browser tabs",
                    "My thesis is now a conspiracy theory with references"
                ]
            },
            {
                "name": "Peer Review Pain",
                "description": "Getting feedback that’s more soul-crushing than constructive. Sometimes it feels personal.",
                "meme_angles": [
                    "Reviewer 2 woke up and chose violence",
                    "‘Interesting idea’ — academic for 'you tried'",
                    "Reading reviewer comments like it’s hate mail"
                ],
                "keywords": ["peer review", "academic publishing", "journal rejection", "revisions", "reviewer 2"],
                "sample_captions": [
                    "Reviewer 2 didn’t just critique my paper, they attacked my identity",
                    "Me pretending I understand their suggestions while crying inside",
                    "Peer review: the academic version of Fight Club"
                ]
            },
            {
                "name": "Lab Chaos",
                "description": "Experiments that don’t cooperate, equipment that breaks at the worst moment, and results that make zero sense.",
                "meme_angles": [
                    "My pipette is lying to me again",
                    "Experiment failed but at least the panic is reproducible",
                    "The only constant in my lab is the chaos"
                ],
                "keywords": ["lab life", "experiments", "data disasters", "equipment failure", "science struggle"],
                "sample_captions": [
                    "My experiment failed but my anxiety is thriving",
                    "Equipment said 'not today'",
                    "Results: 🔥 Error bars: 🚨 Conclusions: ❓"
                ]
            },
            {
                "name": "Thesis Anxiety",
                "description": "The never-ending draft, the looming deadline, and the existential dread of trying to contribute ‘original knowledge’.",
                "meme_angles": [
                    "Every time I write one sentence, I need a 30-minute break",
                    "‘Just finish your thesis’ — as if it’s that easy",
                    "Me explaining my topic: *internal screaming*"
                ],
                "keywords": ["grad school stress", "PhD life", "dissertation", "academic writing", "procrastination"],
                "sample_captions": [
                    "My thesis is 99% panic and 1% content",
                    "If I reread this intro one more time, I’ll lose it",
                    "Thesis update: still spiraling"
                ]
            }
        ]
    }
}
