The term Genius is overused

I must be getting old, otherwise I wouldn't make statements like this:  On the internet, I see lots of comments on peoples projects, blog posts or related to pictures of cats doing bizarre things, describing them as genius.  I think this is probably one of the highest accolades that someone can bestowe and there have probably only ever been in the whole existence of humanity as many geniuses as I have fingers and toes.  I wish we would use other words - especially for the cat pictures.