About
Chrissy Teigen’s Cry Face refers to the emotional reaction of American fashion model Chrissy Teigen captured on camera as her husband and singer-songwriter John Legend gave an acceptance speech for the “Best Original Song” award at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, which quickly went viral on Twitter as an exploitable template for reaction image and photoshopped parodies.
Origin
On January 11th, 2015, singer-songwriter John Legend and rapper Common were given the award for “Best Original Song” for the song “Glory” off the soundtrack for the 2014 historical drama film Selma. During the acceptance speech, Legend’s wife Teigen was filmed crying while watching him speak (shown below).
Immediately after the speech, the Entertainment Weekly Twitter[1] feed posted a screencaptured image of Teigen crying (shown below).
Spread
That evening, Twitter users began posting the photo of Teigen’s face along with humorous captions about what could cause the expression (shown below).
Meanwhile, Teigen responded to the reaction by tweeting that she didn’t have a chance to practice her “cry face” and noted that she had become “a meme” (shown below, left).[3][4] Additionally, Teigen posted a photo in which she is shown posing with her husband while wearing cry faces on Instagram[2] (shown below, right). Within 17 hours, the post gained over 102,000 likes.
On January 12th, Twitter user @JAndre_Oh[5] posted a photoshopped mouth eyes version of the cry face image (shown below). In less than 24 hours, the tweet received more than 630 favorites and 130 retweets. In the comings days, several news sites published articles about Teigen’s cry face, including NY Daily News,[6] In Touch Weekly,[7] E! Online,[8] The Huffington Post,[9] People[10] and MTV News.[11]
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External References
[2]Instagram – chrissyteigen
[3]Twitter – @chrissyteigen
[4]Twitter – @chrissyteigen
[6]NY Daily News – Chrissy Teigen proves shes game
[7]In Touch Weekly – Chrissy Teigens Ugly Cry Face
[8]E! Online – Chrissy Teigens Cry Face is Taking Over the Internet
[9]The Huffington Post – Chrissy Teigens Crying Face is Our New Favorite Meme
[10]People – Chrissy Teigen Gets Meme-ified
[11]MTV– Chrissy Teigen Handled Becoming a Cry Face Meme Like a Boss