4d Memes

The math nerds have done it again! This brilliant meme shows the evolution of mathematical notation with increasingly enlightened brains. We start with the basic x¹ (just "x"), move to x² ("x squared") which gets our neurons firing, then to x³ ("x cubed") making our brain glow even brighter. But that final panel? TRANSCENDENCE! Instead of calling x⁴ just "x to the fourth power" like normies, the enlightened mathematical mind calls it "x tesseracted" - referencing the 4D hypercube known as a tesseract! It's the perfect mathematical pun that makes geometry and algebra collide in fourth-dimensional glory. Your math teacher would be so proud (or facepalm so hard)!

The dimensional confusion is real! This poor student is experiencing that primal moment of mathematical bewilderment when their teacher decided to torture them with 4-dimensional problems. In the student's primitive brain, dimensions beyond 3D might as well be witchcraft. "Why stop at 4D? Why not just teleport me to the 11th dimension of string theory while you're at it?!" The caveman-like confusion perfectly captures that universal academic trauma when math suddenly jumps from "I understand this" to "I need a PhD to comprehend what dimension I'm even in." Every STEM student just had flashbacks to their first encounter with hypercubes.