In 2016, a man from Scotland who goes by Aidan CC on Twitter posted a calculator made out of ASCII characters. Above the calculator, he wrote: “According to my calculations.” On the calculator’s screen, he wrote: “ur maws ur da”.
It’s a fairly common joke in Scotland that was made funnier by the amount of effort put into creating the calculator art.
It’s not clear if Aidan CC was actually the first to use the calculator meme or just an early adopter, but since being posted nearly three years ago, it has received a modest, yet respectable 202 retweets and 319 likes. Not bad for a guy who only has a little over 1,000 followers now, and probably had far less at the time.
https://twitter.com/AidanCC/status/756276406829588480
Once the art was available for anyone to copy and paste, it became a snowclone meme, meaning one where you fill in a missing part of the phrase, basically the mad lib of memes.
People also sometimes scrapped the calculator and just used what looked like a complex math equation.
according to my calculations:
— RiceGum (@RiceGum) October 15, 2016
∆ = b² – 4 a c
-b± √∆
x1,2 = ————
2a
All my followers are LIT 🔥
according to my calculations:
— rt your kink (@rtyourkink) October 7, 2016
∆ = b² – 4 a c
-b± √∆
x1,2 = ————
2a
i want to kill myself
For some reason, the meme began making a comeback in 2019 and has been all over Twitter this month. It’s mainly being used in a wholesome, almost overly sweet fashion.
according to my calculations..
— andrewww (@AFricknFilipino) April 6, 2019
━━━━━ ━━
┃ I’m going |
┃ to miss my ┃
| college friends
| in the summer |
└━━━━━━ ┘
7 ┃ 8┃ 9┃ / ┃
━┛━┛━. |━ ┛
4 ┃5 ┃6 ┃ + ┃
━┛━┛━┛━ ┛
1 ┃ 2 ┃ 3 ┃ = ┃
━┛━┛━┛━ ┛
according to my calculations..
— courtney (@HERPRlDE) April 10, 2019
━━━━━ ━━
┃ christy |
┃ altomare ┃
┃ deserves all ┃
the joy in this world
└━━━━━━ ┘
7 ┃ 8┃ 9┃ / ┃
━┛━┛━. |━ ┛
4 ┃5 ┃6 ┃ + ┃
━┛━┛━┛━ ┛
1 ┃ 2 ┃ 3 ┃ = ┃
━┛━┛━┛━ ┛
according to my calculations:
— bailey (@adoreyourueI) April 3, 2019
━━━━━━━
| jack avery is |
┃ so damn ┃
| perfect 🥰 ┃
└━━━━━━┘
7 ┃ 8┃ 9┃ /┃
━┛━┛━┛━┛
4 ┃5 ┃6 ┃ + ┃
━┛━┛━┛ ━┛
1 ┃ 2 ┃ 3 ┃= ┃
━┛ ━┛━┛━
https://twitter.com/idevol_1/status/1115923763093225473
according to my calculations…
— nobodysfineok (@nobodysfineok) April 6, 2019
━━━━━ ━━
┃ I need ┃
┃ love &
┃ affection
┃ 💞┃
└━━━━━━ ┘
7 ┃ 8┃ 9┃ / ┃
━┛━┛━. |━ ┛
4 ┃5 ┃6 ┃ + ┃
━┛━┛━┛━ ┛
1 ┃ 2 ┃ 3 ┃ = ┃
━┛━┛━┛━ ┛
Although a few users seem to remember what Twitter is really for: calling out other people on things they enjoy.
According to my calculations…
— Max Grossman (@GrossmanMax) April 8, 2019
━━━━━ ━━
┃Adults who |
┃are obsessed ┃
| with Disney are|
| psychopaths |
└━━━━━━ ┘
7 ┃ 8┃ 9┃ / ┃
━┛━┛━. |━ ┛
4 ┃5 ┃6 ┃ + ┃
━┛━┛━┛━ ┛
1 ┃ 2 ┃ 3 ┃ = ┃
━┛━┛━┛━ ┛
https://twitter.com/emilyfruendt/status/1115433725079228416
And, of course, defending Taylor Swift.
according to my calculations..
— izzy (eras tour 7/1 :)) (@13alltooswiftie) April 6, 2019
━━━━━ ━━
┃ taylor swift |
┃didn’t deserve┃
┃any of the hate
she’s ever
gotten
└━━━━━━ ┘
7 ┃ 8┃ 9┃ / ┃
━┛━┛━. |━ ┛
4 ┃5 ┃6 ┃ + ┃
━┛━┛━┛━ ┛
1 ┃ 2 ┃ 3 ┃ = ┃
━┛━┛━┛━ ┛
https://twitter.com/slaylegend_13/status/1114681908242210817
Thus far, there don’t seem to be any real standout versions of the meme. In fact, at this point, no one has even topped Adian CC’s “Your Mom” joke from 2016.
Of course, like vultures drawn to the smell of a dying corpse, brand Twitter is hopping on board, hoping to show all the kids how cool they are.
According to my calculations..
— NBC Sports Hockey (@NBCSportsHockey) April 10, 2019
━━━━━ ━━
| there’s |
| nothing like |
| playoff |
| hockey! |
└━━━━━━ ┘
7 ┃ 8┃ 9┃ / ┃
━┛━┛━ | ━┛
4 ┃5 ┃6 ┃ + ┃
━┛━┛━┛━┛
1 ┃ 2 ┃ 3 ┃ =┃
━┛━┛━┛━┛
If no one comes up with anything good soon, by our calculations, this meme will be dead in a week.
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