And imagine telling someone that Sun is a star...

No matter how you feel about her, this is one of those pics that speak a thousand words.

Can someone explain the memes template/what it is trying to convey.

I get the text, but I am unfamiliar with the meme and what the face it meant to be portraying.

I'm still not totally clear on where the line for plants is, what's the deal with phytoplankton? Why isn't brown algae a plant? What are archaea? Also wtf is a species? is there a point in learning biology where things start to make sense again or does in only get muddier from here

I think language plays a factor in how you think.

When I think of the English word "Animal", I think of a picture of a deer or a cow in a textbook. When I think in Chinese, 动物, I extrapolate the meaning of the word, 动 which means "moving", and 物 meaning "object", 动物 = "moving object", so its easy to know what is and isn't a 动物 (animal), the word is self-explanatory.

To be fair I had a good crack at convincing my missus that manimals are a subclass of animal and she’s smarter than me - just at practical humanities subjects instead of STEM bollocks.