The rest of the characters are slightly younger (the witch, for example, is just 30 years old) and slightly less cult. But most of them know anyone who is more or less on the internet.

I have a counter-proposal to you – name at least one Nobel Prize winner in chemistry of the 2000s. It should be easy, because their names always appear in the news and in order to remember them, it is not necessary to force the internet in search of comics.
I don’t even know half of the names from the original quotation.