Obituary

A small boy insisting, with total confidence, that nine plus ten equals twenty-one became the internet's image of being confidently wrong. He died when a remix of the clip charted and the kid — by then a teenager — asked the internet to please let it go. It did not, but he did.

Born

2015

Died

2017

Cause of death

Fought a losing battle against arithmetic

Last sighting

A math class, 2017

Resting place

Section O, Row 2

Category

event