[ Wp ] Nerds and artists take over the world after everyone is given superpowers based on imagination .

( This is about creative types, specifically. ) 
 
 According to recent archeological studies, this primitive species might have gone extinct by losing almost all interest in partaking of the concepts that got them as far as they were, as a species. Almost overnight, their interaction became limited to inane pleas for praise. Since everyone wanted nothing more than adoration, none of them got any. All interactions consisted of meaningless recitation of praise for arbitrarily chosen artists of the past. Ruthless gangs sprung up, and fought for the power to say who's work was good, and whose was bad. Those who could n't take the childish bickering, and death it created, fled. Not all of them escaped. Many were gunned down, and their flesh was torn from their bodies, tanned, and used as a longer lasting material to write on. Some escaped, though, and hid. They continued to create, and most were able to live off the land, for some time. 
 Since the gang-ruled pockets of remaining civilization were doomed to mental and physical atrophy, language and culture declined very quickly. They died in squalor and filth. Some tried to escape, when they realized their fate, but the gangs killed them, if they tried to run away. Those who fled to continue creating died alone, often in immense pain. 
 
 This is how the human race went extinct.
