Crying Cat

Crying Cat is recognised as one of the most OG cat memes, a series of photoshopped cat images with teary, glassy eyes made to look sad. The origin traces back to an anonymous Meme Generator user who posted it on June 11th, 2014, splicing the Serious Cat's body with a separate photo of a teary-eyed, wet-nosed kitten face. From there it spread across 4chan, Facebook, and eventually mainstream Reddit becoming one of the internet's go-to "I'm sad/relatable" reaction templates.