Cult Memes

Everyone thinks Pythagoras was just the triangle guy, but he was actually running a FULL-ON MATH CULT! The top image shows how most people see him—surrounded by fancy equations and theorems. Meanwhile, the bottom panel reveals his true form: a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist connecting red strings on a crazy wall! Fun fact: Pythagoras and his followers were OBSESSED with beans! They literally believed beans contained the souls of the dead and refused to eat them. So when someone says "Beans aren't triangular," they're nodding to his bizarre bean prohibition while his geometry theorems live on forever. Math class never mentions the bean thing, huh?

When mathematicians discover category theory, they enter a point of no return. The meme perfectly captures that cultish fervor where category theorists place their hands on your shoulder and insist with intense eye contact that "functors" and "natural transformations" are totally normal things to obsess over. Meanwhile, they're drawing mysterious diagrams that "commute" and speaking in tongues about "morphisms" and "adjunctions." The irony? They genuinely believe they're making math more accessible while literally creating their own mathematical religion. Next thing you know, you're also drawing arrows between arrows and explaining to confused family members why everything is just a special case of a monad.