“autistic users”??
Autistic individuals can be highly intelligent and can be very gifted. I have a relative with autism and as a young child had a fixation on electrical things. He took a bicycle from a kid and managed to turn it into a motorized bicycle. There was a show telling about companies using autistic individuals because they are fixated on a task. Everything has to be a certain way with them
I would look at it more like computer experts with ADD. Lots of people with ADD are brilliant in their fields.
When a person with ADD gets interested in something, they get REAL INTERESTED. They set their mind on something and just never quit or give in.
It's a self-deprecating in-joke.
4chan is pro-Trump. In March 2017, a leftist created a flag that said "He will not divide us" (meaning Donald Trump) and raised it on a flagpole at an undisclosed location that could have been anywhere in the world. The leftist then displayed the flag against the sky, in a continuous internet feed. The intent was to keep the flag flying through Trump's time in office.
In a display of "weaponized autism," members of 4chan required only 37 hours to locate the flag using star positions and flight patterns of airplanes passing overhead behind the flag. After locating the flag in Greeneville, Tennessee, in the middle of the night they replaced it with a Trump hat.
If 4chan members are autistic, they have a VERY highly functional autism. They are brilliant wizards of the internet.
Not sympathetic, but covers the facts:
For more info, search for "weaponized autism."