Zendaya wore a big hat to the 2025 Met Gala, resurrecting a strange TikTok meme known as the “Zendaya Big Hat Theory”—but what does it mean?

Umm… No. The meme works because it plays on how easily people online will chase meaningless “clues” and act like they’ve uncovered a major conspiracy. There’s no real theory. No creepy backstory. It’s literally just Zendaya in a nice hat. But the internet has decided to pretend it means something terrifying, and that’s what makes it so good.