This is the viral video everyone can’t stop talking about, and it’s when 16-year-old Gracie Cunningham declares on Tiktok that "math isn’t real!" while applying makeup on August 23.
"I don’t think math is real. And I know it’s real because we learn in school or whatever, but how? How did he come up with this? He didn’t even have plumbing," Gracie said in the now-famous clip.
Already racking up tens of millions of views on Twitter and TikTok, Gracie delivers a simply brilliant analysis of the history of math and asking where it all came from, down to what Pythagoras was thinking in her Virginia home.
"You didn’t even need it, why did you come up with it?" Gracie concludes.
While some have dismissed her comments as "dumb," many more have leaped to defend her inquisitive video as a provocative thought experiment.
"[The reaction was] a little positive, a little negative. Some people tried to really cancel me, which I was definitely upset about," said the 16-year-old who got an A in both geometry and algebra to Newsflare.
"I thought it through and I know that none of my videos had ill intentions. It’s weird cause I’m just like some kid and I don’t really know how to handle being a meme, you know what I mean? I’ve never had this much attention on me and now all these people are reaching out to me," said Gracie, who can be found @graciegcunning on Twitter.
