This week’s collection might seem like a random assortment of odds and ends, but there’s a throughline: vibes and absurdism over logic and order. Slang words like 7×7=49 and lowkenuinely don’t make logical sense, but they are intuitively perfect. The Sea Lion is a purely absurdist anti “dance-craze” taking over TikTok, and Pizza Movie takes “drug flick” tropes to surreal new levels. In other words, Gen Z and A are not trying to make sense of anything anymore.
What does the “7×7=49” meme actually mean?
This piece of math-slang is growing popular on TikTok as a way of explaining what women find attractive in men. It’s about how the equation feels. 7X7=49 makes intuitive sense in a way that something like 51÷3=17 does not. It’s an attractive equation, so it’s becoming a shorthand way of saying “man that is attractive in a self-evident way.”
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