Another holiday season, another viral sensation! As we inch towards the Holiday season after navigating through festive occasions like Halloween and Thanksgiving, Christmas is upon us – and along with that, a new viral trend as well! It’s the ‘Queen Never Cry’ trend we are talking about, that has taken over social media lately. What is it? What’s the origin story behind the viral trend? Read on to know all about the social media sensation.
What is the viral ‘Queen Never Cry’ meme?
The ‘Queen Never Cry’ meme has recently taken social media by storm especially on platforms like TikTok, Reddit, X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram. With its catchy phrase and humorous premise the meme has captivated countless users sparking a wave of creative recreations and reinterpretations.
The webtoon panel features a mother and her newborn baby. In the panel, a nurse who helped deliver the baby hands it over to her mother. However, the child soon starts crying. Immediately after this, the nurse whispers “Queen never cry” to the baby’s ears.
This is then followed by the baby stopping to cry and putting up a blank and cold facial expression. This same expression continues in a subsequent montage depicting the baby’s growth into an adolescent and later an adult.
Where does this come from?
The ‘Queen Never Cry’ or ‘Queen Don’t Cry’ meme originally comes from the Korean webcomic ‘The Ki Sisters’. In this scene from ‘Chapter 34’ a nurse hands a newborn baby over to its mother. The baby begins to cry prompting the nurse to whisper in the infant’s ear Queen never cry. Almost immediately the baby stops crying and adopts a cold emotionless expression. This unflinching look continues throughout a montage showing the baby growing into an adolescent and later an adult still unbothered by any emotional turmoil.
The internet reacts:
The ‘Queen never cry’ meme quickly went viral due to its unique combination of drama humor and the stark contrast between the baby’s sudden emotional shift and the intense phrase Queen never cry. It also became viral because of how it combines emotional expression with drama and humor and resonated with many people as a funny yet exaggerated reminder of how to keep composure in difficult situations. Consequently, netizens then took to social media platforms to act out the meme and film their own renditions of it.
One TikTok user remarked, “The fact that seeing her cry made me wanna cry too.”
As the meme gained traction fans began to recreate it using characters from popular media. For instance, fans of the animated series Arcane and the Bayonetta video game franchise put their own spin on the meme often using famous characters to express the idea of maintaining control in the face of adversity. Some even took the meme to a global scale creating versions that represented different countries like Saudi Arabia.
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