Weeping In The Attic

About

Weeping In The Attic refers to a series of unsettling void memes where one character says there is weeping coming from the attic followed by a cut to an image of an open attic door and weeping sound effects, often edited to sound as scary as possible. The meme began as a void comic posted to Facebook in April 2021, which became an exploitable and inspired numerous original variations over the course of the year.

Origin

On April 7th, 2021, Facebook^[1] page Yeah I'm Stuck in the Void, Keep Scrolling posted a four-panel webcomic that begins with a child stick figure asking its mother, "mummy what can I be when I'm all grown up?" The mother answers, "No," then the child says, "There is weeping in the attic." The third panel shows a close-up of a scared man's face and the fourth a black-and-white image of an open attic door (shown below). The post gained over 580 shares and 1,200 reactions in eight months.

Spread

The comic was reposted a number of times over the following months, including a post to iFunny^[2] on April 10th, 2021, gaining over 800 smiles in eight months. On August 15th, YouTuber^[3] Ivanzuelo123 Gaming posted a voiced-over version of the meme adding distorted weeping over the attic panel, gaining over 3,000 views in four months (shown below).

On August 20th, 2021, YouTuber^[5] Theokman99 posted an original video playing off the meme showing a Trollface character happily skipping through their home when all the lights go off and a deep weeping starts to echo from the attic, turning him to a trollge face as he listens (shown below). The video gained over 2,800 views in four months.

On October 9th, YouTuber^[6] Dank Danny posted a video titled "there is weeping in the attic" using the Black People Be Like format, gaining over 1,000 views in two months (shown below).

On November 10th, Instagram^[4] page cheemsitz posted an edited version of the meme replacing the third panel with a close-up of a Shiba head and further distorting the fourth panel, gaining over 9,000 likes in a month (shown below).

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