About a year ago, a high schooler named Gracie Cunningham posted a video to her TikTok.

Gracie's videos look a lot like a typical Gen Zee TikTok feed.

It's little snippets of her daily life and hobbies, showing off her meals, doing all these

little TikTok dance challenges with their family and friends.

And this video started off pretty much the same.

She's putting on makeup, looking directly at the camera.

And then Gracie starts talking about math.

I was just doing my makeup for work, and I just wanted to tell you guys about how I don't

think math is real.

And I know that, like, it's real because we all like

learn it in school or whatever, but who came up with this concept? And you're like, Pythagoras.

But how? How did he come up with this? She even rips Pythagoras a new one. He was living in like the,

I don't know, whenever he was living, but it was not now

where you can like have technology and stuff, you know? Like he didn't even have plumbing.

And he was like, let me worry about Y equals MX plus B, which first of all, how would you even

figure that out? How would you like start on the concept of algebra? Like what did you need it for?

This video about Gracie's gripe with math went viral and not in a good way.

Today it's got 1.6 million hits and many millions more people saw it when it got posted to Twitter.

And a lot of these people called her idiotic, dumb.

But it wasn't just Twitter trolls weighing in.

She also got some solid support from places she probably did not expect.

Because Gracie, she spoke the unspoken. A lot of us who were subjected to algebra as kids were probably wondering the same thing. Where did this come from? And why do you need it?

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