About

Maris Racal Crying refers to a viral video of Filipino actress and singer Mari Racal in which she is crying and typing on a computer. The video was posted in September 2023 on Instagram showing Racal's emotional shifts, humorously switching between tears and a composed demeanor, which inspired Reddit and Instagram users to post the clip as an exploitable for memes and relatable captions about not wanting to work or do school chores.

Origin

On September 23rd, 2023, Filipino actress and singer Mari Racal uploaded a skit video on Instagram^[1] in which she appears switching emotions from sobbing to confident while typing on a computer. The video amassed more than 7 million views and 314,000 likes in a year.

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Maris Racal's crying meme was later used as an exploitable for comedic content, most notably a video using the "Your Password Is Incorrect" meme. For example, on July 26th, 2024, Redditor^[2] u/hirakath uploaded Racal's crying clip to the subreddit /r/funnyvideos as if she forgot her password, writing, "When an app has confusing UI/UX." The video (seen below) received more than 720 upvotes and 23 comments in five months.

On December 3rd, 2024, TikTok^[3] user @shophereph1 recreated Maris' crying meme in a parody post with the text caption "MARIS RACAL NOW" (seen below), which received roughly 8,000 plays and 18 likes in a day.

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