Taylor cmon!
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Taylor Swift has 500 songs about guys leaving her and 0 songs about using the Gram-Schmidt algorithm to decompose matrices into an orthonormal matrix Q and upper triangular matrix R
Overview
This meme features a still shot of musician Taylor Swift wearing a light blue button-up shirt, looking directly at the viewer as if she is speaking. Below the photo, white text on a black background presents an absurdist joke: it notes Taylor Swift has approximately 500 songs centered on the theme of romantic breakups with male partners, but zero songs about the Gram-Schmidt process, a linear algebra method used for QR matrix decomposition. The humor comes from the absurd contrast between Taylor Swift's widely known lyrical subject matter and the hyper-specific, niche STEM topic.
Origin notes
This meme was originally shared on Reddit's meme-focused subreddits, with the original posted title 'Taylor cmon!'. It relies on two widespread internet joke tropes: the recurring observation that Taylor Swift frequently writes songs about her past romantic relationships, and relatable student humor about the often frustrating process of learning linear algebra concepts like the Gram-Schmidt algorithm.
