Straw Memes

The great topology debate that's splitting friendships and ruining dinner parties everywhere! 🤣 In topology (the mathematical study of shapes and spaces), a straw is actually a cylinder with a single continuous hole running through it - making it topologically equivalent to a donut or coffee mug! The diagram hilariously tries to "flatten" the straw into a disk with a hole, but our cereal-eating friend is having NONE of that mathematical trickery. This is basically the mathematical version of "is a hot dog a sandwich?" and I'm here for the chaos it creates! Mathematicians would side with "one hole" while the practical breakfast enthusiast counts the openings. Both technically right in different contexts - which is why it's such a perfect meme to start arguments with your smartest friends!

The eternal question of a straw's topology—does it have one hole or two?—has been weaponized for maximum notification chaos. Topologists would tell you a straw is homeomorphic to a cylinder (one hole through it), but the ensuing comment war will keep your phone buzzing like it's discovering a new subatomic particle. Nothing quite like using mathematical ambiguity for nefarious purposes. The perfect crime.