And of course, if an ATtiny was used, there should have simply been a 555 timer. This time ... take up an unnecessarily large area on the PCB (even though these are small surface-mount chips ...

Definitely not in the meme category, though, is this overkill vacuum tube 555 timer. It comes to us via ... [David] built a large PCB to hold the 18 vacuum tubes and the handful of resistors ...