Seriously, there aint much to it. Mockery of the village idiot goes back to the freakin bronze ages, and we are just a modern evolution of the ancient concept of "look that silly fellow is acting foolishly in public! let us laugh at his antics!"
On the whole, the community here does seem more mature than other places - I think the philosophy of "anyone can be a lolcow - even you" (imagine a finger pointing out from the screen) leads to a fair bit of self-policing, and the practice of allowing mockery of others on the board who veer into the 'tism category lead to a lot less open stupidity - and hopefully, some self-reflection.
Everyone knows that being interested in lolcows is pretty indicative of autism. Who fucking cares if sped watching is my autistic hobby. Think of it like bird watching, but I can stay inside all day.
It's mostly shaudenfreude for me since being employed means my life is going much better than a lot of cows even with a shitty job. Most of the people we cover are so autistic its kinda hard for me to draw much introspection from them.
I'm here because my tism stretches back to the previous forum where we all sperged about CWC. I'm simply here because at this point I'm stuck forever and there's some users I like once the novelty of lolcows wear off. There are still some that are interesting though that's more in just seeing drama and the like they're getting into. If you join because you want gratification and the like, you're more autistic than me.