Big Ed Crying

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About

Big Ed Crying is a reaction video meme featuring a clip of Ed Brown from the American reality television series 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days crying.

Origin

On May 18th, 2020, the verified YouTube account for TLC published the video "Big Ed Cries Over Rose Leaving!." In the video, Big Ed cries after discussing having a child with his romantic partner Rose. The post received more than 8.5 million views (shown below). The clip comes from the May 10th, 2020 episode of the series.^[1]

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That day, Twitter posted a Bomboclott prompt featuring the clip. The post received more than 35 million views, 66,000 likes and 32,000 retweets in less than two weeks (shown below).

Bomboclaat pic.twitter.com/nENrTBInfN

— Bomboclaat (@Bomboclaato) May 18, 2020

Following the post, people began sharing the image with various captions. For example, that day, Twitter user @kardikee shared the video with the caption "When I text him at 2:15 And he doesn’t respond at 2:10." The tweet received more than 181,000 likes and 51,000 retweets in less than one week (shown below).

When I text him at 2:15 And he doesn’t respond at 2:10 https://t.co/7y15WpGG9J

— Sweetener (@kardikee) May 18, 2020

On May 19th, Twitter user @Ellebeezyy tweeted the video with the caption "When you feel a change of tone in his texts." The tweet received mroe tahn 102,000 likes and 32,000 retweets in less than one week (shown below).

On May 26th, Junkee.com^[2] published a report on the meme.