Crying Soyjak vs. Mewing Jaw

About

Crying Soyjak vs. Mewing Jaw is a series of memes in which one subject is labeled with an image of a crying Soyjak and another is labeled with an image of a mewing diagram depicting a jaw practicing proper mewing technique. The format is similar to the idea of Virgin vs. Chad memes, with the mewing diagram representing the Chad or a looksmaxxer. The meme was popularized on TikTok in January 2024.

Origin

On January 13th, 2024, TikToker^[1] @crystell posted a video of a calm cat lying in a bed with an angry caracal with an image of a mewing diagram and the caption "the cat started mewing" assigned to the cat and a crying Soyjak assigned to the caracal, garnering over 50,000 views in a month (shown below). It is unclear if this is the first instance of the meme, but is the earliest known.

Spread

The meme spread over the following weeks. On January 15th, 2024, TikToker^[2] @alex.tdx posted a version of the meme using a video of streamer iShowSpeed and an orangutan, garnering over 2.1 million views in a month (shown below, left). On January 17th, TikToker^[3] @real__literalmenteeu posted a version of the meme using a clip of Ricky Berwick talking to a cat, garnering over 1.7 million views in the same span of time (shown below, right).

On January 18th, TikToker^[4] @random_contentfortheboys posted a version of the meme that gained over 1.5 million views in the same rough span of time (shown below). On February 20th, X^[5] user @PunchingCat reposted the Ricky Berwick version of the meme, garnering over 55,000 likes in a day.

Various Examples

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