Will Byers Crying
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About
Will Byers Crying or Noah Schnapp Crying refers to a series of memes including image macros and image captions using a screenshot, video or GIF of Will Byers, portrayed by Noah Schnapp, from Stranger Things crying next to Mike Wheeler, his hand covering his mouth while the two are riding in the back seat of a car. The episode was released on Netflix in July 2022 and became the subject of memes that month.
Origin
On July 1st, 2022, the last two episodes of Stranger Things season four were released on Netflix. In episode eight, Will Byers cries after giving an emotional speech to Mike Wheeler about their friendship, a scene which many believe confirms that Will Byers is gay and in love with Mike. Will covers his mouth with his hand and looks out the van window to try and mask how hard he is crying (shown below).
On July 3rd, Tumblr[1] user nicostiel posted a tweet suggesting Will would be better off joining Vecna using the scene, gaining over 10,000 notes in a month (shown below, left). On July 4th, the Facebook[2] page The Stranger Things Memes posted an image macro captioned, "the scene / / what Mike saw," an image of Will crying on the left and an image of the back of someone with a bowl cut's head, gaining over 92,000 shares and 485,000 reactions in a month (shown below, right). The meme was also posted to the strangerthingsnetfliix Instagram[3] account the next day, gaining over 46,000 likes. These are the earliest posts using the scene.
Spread
On July 9th, 2022, Twitter[4] user @badboygargar posted an image of the scene captioned, "Flopping in the group chat," gaining over 54,000 likes and 3,200 retweets in a month (shown below). The meme was included in a BuzzFeed[5] article titled, "45 Funny Tweets From This Month So Far That Reminded Me Why I Never Delete Twitter" on July 17th.
On July 19th, Redditor planet_taz posted an image macro using the meme to /r/meme,[6] gaining over 40,900 upvotes in two weeks (shown below).
Template
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[2] Facebook – The Stranger Things Memes
[3] Instagram – strangerthingsnetfliix
[4] Twitter – badboygargar
[5] BuzzFeed – ajanibazile
[6] Reddit – another day, another dollar
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