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Crying Cat Meme
Crying Cat is the close-up of a white cat with huge, watery eyes that looks like it is about to burst into tears. Add your own caption to this sad reaction image right here and save it as a ready-to-post meme.
What does the Crying Cat meme mean?
Crying Cat is a reaction image for sadness that's real but small. It's the face you post when your food order is wrong, a show you love gets canceled, or someone sends a photo that's sweet enough to make you emotional. Usually there's one caption on top describing the situation and the cat does the rest. It can be sincere (touched, moved) or mock-dramatic (overreacting to something minor), and the exaggerated tears make both work.
Where is the Crying Cat meme from?
Crying Cat is an edited image rather than a single untouched photo. According to Know Your Meme, the earliest known version was posted by an anonymous Meme Generator user on June 11, 2014: a picture of the older Serious Cat meme with its face swapped for a teary-eyed kitten. Who made the edit, and where the kitten photo came from, has never been established. The picture circulated on ask.fm and the German image board pr0gramm in 2014 and 2015, then spread through 4chan and Facebook meme pages in 2016 and 2017, often with captions like "sad react only." By 2018 people were asking Reddit where it came from, a sign of how widely it had been shared.
Crying Cat meme caption ideas
- When the delivery app says "your driver is nearby" for 20 minutes
- Me after the last episode of a show I binged in two days
- When you finally get a reply and it's just "k"
- Me watching someone else get the last slice of pizza
- When a stranger's dog chooses to sit next to you
Tips
- One caption on top is enough; the cat's face covers most of the image, so text on the bottom can hide the tears.
- Write it in the first person ("Me when…") — the format works best as a self-reaction.
- For a mock-dramatic version, pair the tears with a tiny problem.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the Crying Cat meme come from?
It's an edit of the older Serious Cat image with a teary kitten's face added; Know Your Meme traces the earliest known version to June 2014. The original kitten photo's source is unknown.
What does the Crying Cat meme mean?
It shows being sad, hurt or touched, either sincerely or as an overreaction to something small.
Sources: knowyourmeme.com
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