wow that's so specific

people keep asking me what my thesis is about, and EVERY TIME they're like "wow that's so specific" and that's so funny to me because like

1. of course it's super specific, all the easy topics were taken by the 60s or so, so all of us poor suckers trying to do science in the good year of 2021 have to look for crumbs
2. not it's not lol, my thesis topic is super unspecific and disturbingly broad because there's not really anything on this subject yet, so i have to do a "fishing expedition"

i live in fear of finding out that someone already has studied my topic, which could happen literally any day, because then my fishing expedition would lose its raison d'être