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Buffy seems the obvious answer, Smallville seems the realistic option, I can see a darker timeline where it's Homestuck somehow, but I'm gonna say the funny answer is somehow Geronimo Stilton

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Like, the Homestuck fandom is not in any way majority rationalist, but there's definitely some very real overlap in the interests of the two groups.

rationalist homestuck would kill us all but I'd love to see someone try to really concretely arrange and justify all of homestuck's weird rpg-parody bullshit

a long-winded chapter where the concept of the strife deck is tested and then discarded as an irrational relic of unorganized thinking

EY is on record as a Buffy fan, but it doesn't quite work for his fanfic needs because Joss Whedon is already the patron saint of "characters (think they) are smarter than the genre they are in." You can't do meta self-aware Buffy because that's just Buffy.

i think no wizkid also means no YA boom, or rather a heavily reduced version as publisher wouldn't look for "the next wizkid", so stuff like Twilight or Hunger Games might not exist in the same form i think Game of Thrones? we already have tons of LotR stupidity in tech, but this one's Hip