Top hat Memes

Modern chemistry: spending years on research for a minuscule improvement that'll be irrelevant before your paper clears peer review. Meanwhile, Victorian chemists were out there licking unknown compounds and declaring "splendid taste, old chap!" before promptly discovering three elements and inventing a new dye industry between breakfast and tea time. Back when science had style and the periodic table still had plenty of blank spaces labeled "adventure opportunities." Sure, they occasionally poisoned themselves, but they did it while looking fabulous in formal wear!

Chemistry's most dapper molecule showing up to electron-sharing parties with a top hat and monocle. The positive charges are like, "We donated electrons and got dressed up," while the negative charge is all, "I hoarded electrons and still managed to look fancy." Basically what happens when atoms decide to be bougie about their electron distribution. Electronegativity has never been so classy.