Too much time on our hands...

Today, as I was hunkering down for the storm of the season with a bowl of hot soup and cocoa, I was on Facebook and saw that a friend of mine posted an equation on how to create Batman through a Google search.  Apparently, last year, Google added the function to plot graphs in the search for math people who needed to check what a graph would look like quickly. Needless to say, it has since been used for other purposes as well.  

So, the equation that someone posted is 2 sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))/((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1+abs(abs(x)-3)/(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)+(5+0.97(abs(x-.5)+abs(x+.5))-3(abs(x-.75)+abs(x+.75)))(1+abs(1-abs(x))/(1-abs(x))),-3sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)/(abs(x)-4)),abs(x/2)-0.0913722(x^2)-3+sqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)^2),(2.71052+(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)^2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)/(abs(x)-1))+0.9 

Now, for those math geeks out there, someone can explain it.  However, it begs the question, how exactly does one find out about this equation?  I mean, it isn't exactly a simple equation one would learn in math class, even advanced mathematics.   It would have to take a very mathematically inclined mind a while to figure out each part of the equation and then another while to figure out how to put it all together.  

Then, after this person puts it all together, it is put up on social media and goes viral... to the point that a person who hasn't seen an equation since grade 11 and really is no fan of Batman not only sees it but comment on it. 

I guess this week, my point to ponder is... do we generally have too much time on our hands that this is how we are keeping ourselves occupied?