Exercise for the reader Memes

That moment when your textbook casually drops "the proof is trivial" and suddenly you're Donald Duck questioning your entire existence. Nothing quite like staring at a page for 3 hours only to realize the author skipped 17 critical steps because they were "obvious." Mathematical trauma in cartoon form! Next time someone says "it's straightforward," I'm sending them this duck's existential crisis face.

The universal panic that strikes when a textbook casually drops "the proof is trivial" and suddenly YOU'RE responsible for filling in 17 logical steps! Nothing makes a math student question their life choices faster than those four little words. The character's bewildered expression perfectly captures that moment of mathematical betrayal when authors decide their 8-page derivation is somehow "obvious" and "left to the reader." Pro tip: if your professor ever says "clearly" or "it can be easily shown," brace yourself—nothing easy follows those phrases!