Overhyped Memes

Computer scientists and mathematicians love throwing around "exponential growth" like it's going out of style. Then you peek at their actual algorithm and find it's just a sad little quadratic function pretending to be impressive. The cat's expression perfectly captures that moment of disappointment when you realize your colleague's "revolutionary O(2^n) solution" is actually just O(n²) with extra steps. Classic mathematical clickbait.