What is I Would Cry. Cry Myself to Sleep?

It is a 2023 copypasta pulled from a sincere TikTok DM sent by a user named BIGMAN, screen-recorded by @yellowfellow8 and overlaid with a Thousand Yard Stare image.

Where did I Would Cry. Cry Myself to Sleep come from?

TikToker @yellowfellow8 posted the DM screen-recording on October 11, 2023, after BIGMAN sent them the long-form message in response to a 'Sticking Out Your Gyat For the Rizzler' lip-dub by @skyeuwusummers.

What does I Would Cry. Cry Myself to Sleep mean?

People use the copypasta to perform exaggerated, heartbroken devastation at trivial or absurd prompts, playing on how out of place BIGMAN's sincere confession felt in a brainrot context.

How do you use I Would Cry. Cry Myself to Sleep?

Posters paste the opening lines or the full text as a reply to unrelated posts, as @Minoxi did under @EverythingOOC's viral repost of the clip.

Is I Would Cry. Cry Myself to Sleep still popular?

Peak usage was October and November 2023; the full copypasta is still archived on r/copypasta and the original TikTok's view count held at around 1.5 million within its first month.

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I Would Cry. Cry Myself to Sleep

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Published October 29, 2026

I Would Cry. Cry Myself to Sleep, continued Knowing I'm Never Good Enough is a copypasta taken from a long-form TikTok DM sent in October 2023 by a user named BIGMAN in response to a goth e-girl's 'Sticking Out Your Gyat For the Rizzler' lip-dub. TikToker @yellowfellow8 screen-recorded the sincere confession, overlaid a Thousand Yard Stare image, and the clip reached 1.5 million plays within a month. By late October 2023, X users and r/copypasta were spamming the full text as a reply template.

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Overview

The copypasta reads as a sincere, multi-paragraph emotional confession that opens with the line 'I would cry. Cry myself to sleep. Knowing I'm never good enough.' Its joke hinges on the mismatch between that heartfelt vulnerability and the context BIGMAN sent it in, a brainrot lip-dub TikTok dancing to 'Sticking Out Your Gyat For the Rizzler'1. @yellowfellow8 overlaid the Thousand Yard Stare image, which reframes the DM as trauma rather than parody and sets the tone that most reposts kept1.

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In practice, posters spam the opening line or a trimmed fragment of the full text in replies to unrelated videos, tweets, and comments, performing exaggerated devastation at trivial offenses3. The source material is a specific DM to a specific stranger, so the humor is in deploying its intimate, overserious tone far outside its context6.

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Origin & Background

Platform

TikTok (DM screen-recording) / X and Reddit (viral spread)

Creator

@yellowfellow8; copypasta text written by TikTok user BIGMAN

Date

2023

On October 11, 2023, TikToker @yellowfellow8 posted a screen-recording of their DMs with a user named BIGMAN (handle @emtuisthebest)1. BIGMAN had forwarded a video by goth e-girl TikToker Skye (@skyeuwusummers) lip-dubbing and dancing to 'Sticking Out Your Gyat For the Rizzler'2, then followed it with a long-form, sincere confession beginning 'I would cry. Cry myself to sleep.' @yellowfellow8 added a Thousand Yard Stare image on top of the recording before posting4.

The TikTok reached roughly 1.5 million plays and 225,300 likes in its first month, according to Know Your Meme's log of the clip4. BIGMAN wrote the copypasta text itself; @yellowfellow8 produced the meme format that turned it viral by pairing the DM with the stare image1.

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How It Spread

Reposts moved to Instagram and X inside a week. Instagram account @needless.mp4 reuploaded the clip on October 17, 2023, where it drew roughly 33,000 likes over three weeks5. Two days earlier, X user @smallboyfeet had posted the full copypasta text on its own, though it only earned 14 likes8.

The larger X breakout came on October 23, 2023, when the Everything Out Of Context account @EverythingOOC reshared the video and racked up over 1.1 million views and 23,000 likes in two weeks3. In the replies, @Minoxi pasted the copypasta as a comment, gaining more than 200 likes7. On October 18, Redditor SincoBerryLoo archived the text on r/copypasta, where it earned 66 upvotes in three weeks and became the version most people copy from today6.

Beyond that initial October 2023 run, the copypasta kept circulating as a reply template on X and TikTok through late 2023, often shortened to its opening line and used against unrelated e-girl or thirst-trap posts4.

Timeline

2023-10-11

TikToker @yellowfellow8 posts the screen-recorded DM with the Thousand Yard Stare overlay, launching the meme.

2023-10-15

X user @smallboyfeet posts the full copypasta text on its own.

2023-10-17

Instagram account @needless.mp4 reposts the video, drawing about 33,000 likes.

2023-10-18

Redditor SincoBerryLoo archives the full copypasta on r/copypasta.

2023-10-23

Everything Out Of Context (@EverythingOOC) reshares the TikTok on X, where it clears 1.1 million views.

2023-11

The original TikTok passes 1.5 million plays and 225,300 likes about one month after upload.

How to Use This Meme

Posters typically paste the opening lines, 'I would cry. Cry myself to sleep. Knowing I'm never good enough,' as a reply to any post they want to react to with faux-anguish, often an attractive person's video or a minor inconvenience. A common convention is to drop just the first two sentences for a quick hit, or the full multi-paragraph version for maximum overcommitment, as @Minoxi did under @EverythingOOC's repost7.