This is the viral video everyone can't stop talking about, and it's when 16-year-old Gracie Cunningham declares on Tiktok that "math isn't real!" while applying makeup on August 23.<br /><br />"I don't think math is real. And I know it's real because we learn in school or whatever, but how? How did he come up with this? He didn't even have plumbing," Gracie said in the now-famous clip. <br /><br />Already racking up tens of millions of views on Twitter and TikTok, Gracie delivers a simply brilliant analysis of the history of math and asking where it all came from, down to what Pythagoras was thinking in her Virginia home.<br /><br />"You didn't even need it, why did you come up with it?" Gracie concludes.<br /><br />While some have dismissed her comments as "dumb," many more have leaped to defend her inquisitive video as a provocative thought experiment. <br /><br />"[The reaction was] a little positive, a little negative. Some people tried to really cancel me, which I was definitely upset about," said the 16-year-old who got an A in both geometry and algebra to Newsflare.<br /><br />"I thought it through and I know that none of my videos had ill intentions. It’s weird cause I’m just like some kid and I don’t really know how to handle being a meme, you know what I mean? I’ve never had this much attention on me and now all these people are reaching out to me," said Gracie, who can be found @graciegcunning on Twitter.
