Crying Cat Meme Generator
Pure, unfiltered feline sadness. Make your own Crying Cat meme with our generator for every time you have to keep going through something that is absolutely not okay.
Pure, unfiltered feline sadness. Make your own Crying Cat meme with our generator for every time you have to keep going through something that is absolutely not okay.
What is the Crying Cat Meme?
The meme for everyone performing wellness while quietly struggling. A crying cat. sometimes giving an earnest thumbs-up. represents the act of saying 'I'm fine' when no part of you is fine, and doing it with a smile that fools no one.
Also Known As
- Sad Cat Thumbs Up
- Teary Cat Meme
- Crying Kitty
- Cat Giving Thumbs Up While Crying
- Fine Cat Meme
About the Crying Cat Meme
A white cat with enormous, glassy, tear-filled eyes stares into the camera. Cheeks flushed, a single tear threatening to fall, the cat sometimes extends a small thumbs-up as if to say everything is going great. It is not going great. The face is the internet's portrait of putting on a brave front while internally dissolving.
The Crying Cat is a heavily edited version of an already-sad cat photo, pushed to cartoonish extremes with oversized glassy eyes, flushed cheeks, and tears streaming freely. Some versions show the cat giving a thumbs up, which became the definitive form. absolute suffering paired with performative positivity. The format fills a specific niche that Sad Pepe doesn't: not just sadness, but the brave face you put on while falling apart.
How to Make a Crying Cat Meme
- The Crying Cat template is ready. Just add your text
- The classic structure is a statement of forced positivity on top with the underlying reality on the bottom. Or just describe the situation and let the cat do the emotional labor
- Classic layout puts text over the cat's tearful expression. Classic Bars works particularly well if you want the cheerful front line and the suffering line clearly split
- Try bold white Impact for the 'fine' statement to make the irony hit harder. Smaller or italicized text for the bottom line adds to the defeated energy
- Download your brave-face PNG or Copy it to send to everyone asking how you're doing
When to Use the Crying Cat Meme
Forced Positivity
- •It's fine, I only needed 4 hours of sleep anyway
- •Great, I love being the only one who does the dishes
- •Totally okay that you canceled plans I was looking forward to all week
- •Oh no worries, I'll figure it out myself as usual
- •All good! I enjoyed spending my weekend redoing the work I submitted Friday
- •That's so funny, I was also planning to take the last parking spot
Work Suffering
- •This is fine, it's only my fourth consecutive meeting with no break
- •Happy to stay late on a Friday, that's what I'm here for
- •Great feedback, I'll just completely redo it by Monday
- •No worries, I'll take notes, present, and run the agenda for our team meeting again
- •Sure, I can take on that project, I wasn't using my evenings
- •Everything's under control, the production server definitely just fixed itself
Relationships & Social
- •It's fine, I like being the one who always texts first
- •Totally cool, I didn't need to be included in those plans anyway
- •No hard feelings, I'm sure they're just busy for the fourth week in a row
- •All good, I was just excited to tell you about my day but you can keep talking
- •It's great, I love being the person who always compromises on where we eat
Example Crying Cat Meme
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