Molecular bonding Memes

Chemistry pickup lines just reached a whole new level of nerdy brilliance! This meme introduces "Nilered" (a play on the popular chemistry YouTuber NileRed) with his orientation listed as "aromatic, mainly hydrocarbons" - because he's literally made of benzene rings like the benzaldehyde structure shown. The joke gets even better with his flirty promise to "bond with you covalently and ionically" and "enter your orbital if you want him to." It's basically a chemist's Tinder profile where molecular bonding becomes an innuendo for relationships. The title even references oxytocin (the "love hormone") with another chemistry pun about being "aromatic" (which in chemistry refers to compounds with rings of delocalized electrons). This is what happens when organic chemistry students try dating apps!

Three cats cuddling together labeled as Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Hydrogen. Classic H₂O formation but with fur and attitude. Chemistry students spend years learning molecular bonding only to end up drawing cat diagrams on their exam papers when sleep-deprived. The real miracle is that water exists despite hydrogen and oxygen having completely different personalities in the periodic table neighborhood. One's explosive, one's essential for combustion, yet together they make the substance we cry into our coffee when our experiments fail.