That's My Quant
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Look at My Quant is a catchphrase originating from a scene from the 2015 comed-drama film The Big Short in which character Jared Vennett, portrayed by Ryan Gosling, introduces his quantitative analyst. Online, the catchphrase has achieved ironic popularity, often as a comment on posts in which somebody makes an obvious mathematical error, such as Andrew Huberman's Math clip.
Origin
On December 11th, 2015, biographical comedy-drama film The Big Short premiered.[1] In one scene of the film, character Denny Moses questions the underlying math supporting character Jared Vennett's opinion, with Vennett parrying by introducing his quantitative analyst (his "quant") Ted Jiang, mispronouncing his name and hinting at the "all Asians are good at math" stereotype (scene shown below).
- Look at him, that's my quant.
- Your what?
- My quantitative. My math specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face. Look at his eyes, I'll give you a hint, his name is Yang. He won a national math competition in China! HE DOESN'T EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH! Yeah I'm sure of the math.
Spread
On August 14th, 2019, Redditor MajorasMask162 posted the earliest discovered meme based on the scene, a meme about presidential candidate Andrew Yang to the /r/PresidentialRaceMemes[2] subreddit, where it received over 110 upvotes in six months (shown below).
The scene saw more occasional use online before to 2024, when the phrase "That's my quant" achieved popularity as a caption. On February 20th, 2024, X[3] user @growing_daniel used the phrase to caption a photograph of convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried next to another inmate. The post (shown below) receive over 230 reposts and 5,700 likes in one year.
Through 2024, the line achieved popularity as a social media comment, often used on posts in which someone makes an obvious mathematical error or mispresents data. For example, on November 17th, 2024, X[4] user @PtrPomorski posted a caption meme (shown below) that received over 940 reposts and 9,800 likes in three weeks.
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[1] IMDb – The Big Short
[2] Reddit – From the movie 'The Big Short'
[3] Reddit – u/Criand and u/brocaaa – the perfect team
[4] X – @growing_daniel
[5] X – @PtrPomorski
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