Don't Cry, Little Monster

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Don't Cry, Little Monster refers to a series of memes based on a scene form the animated short film Night of the Living Carrots based on the DreamWorks Animation film Monsters vs. Aliens in which character B.O.B. is forced to eat massive amounts of carrot puree against his will. In March 2025, the scene inspired edits and redubs which humorously highlighted poor treatment of various fandoms by companies.

Origin

On October 13th and 18th, 2011, parts one and two of the American animated short film Night of the Living Carrots premiered on the Nintendo Video video service.^[1] In one scene of the short, character B.O.B. is told that he has to eat all the zombie carrots, which causes him to have a traumatic flashback to when he was force fed carrot puree at a military facility as a baby. In the flashback (shown below), General Monger tells crying B.O.B. not to cry, promising that he has enough carrot puree to last him a lifetime.^[2]

Don't cry, little monster. Uncle Monger's got enough carrot puree to feed you your entire life. Jerry, bring over the feed hose, ASAP. The boy's hungry!

On March 10th, 2025, X^[3] / Twitter user @Swag_K1RBY posted a clip of the scene to the platform, commenting, "Name a more tragic backstory than this". The post (shown below) garnered over 24.2 million views, 13,000 reposts, and 153,000 likes in four days.

Spread

On March 12th, 2025, X^[4] user @TheLmfssj posted a redubbed version of the scene, turning it into a meme about the Dragon Ball fanbase and Bandai Namco "having enough Xenoverse 2 DLCs" to last them lifetime. The post (shown below) received over 4,200 reposts and 35,000 likes in two days.

In mid-March 2025, the scene achieved massive popularity on X as a meme format, with users editing and redubbing it to make memes about various fandoms and their grievances. For example, on March 13th, 2025, X^[5] user @tcf_fandoms posted a Hollow Knight: Silksong meme that received over 2,500 reposts and 16,000 likes in one day.

Is this anything #SilkSong https://t.co/bR3Tlu67WP pic.twitter.com/EGioQvPIrq

— DeadEndCat (@tcf_fandoms) March 13, 2025

Later on March 13th, 2025, X^[6] user @thebobonutzz posted a meme about the Helluva Boss fandom that received over 3,200 reposts and 30,000 likes in one day (shown below).

https://t.co/jRzHmK2DXM pic.twitter.com/uonW6CqnXb

— steve blowjobs (@thebobonutzz) March 13, 2025

Multiple versions of the meme about various fandoms went viral on X / Twitter in mid-March 2025.

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