tag a mate / who can't take banter
A Crying Baby post.
Your boss says "don't take this personally" and then reads out your entire performance review. You nod. You hold it together until you reach the lift. The group chat goes quiet after your message. Four minutes pass. You check whether you've been left on read, or whether you've somehow been removed from the chat entirely. You haven't. It's worse. They just didn't reply. You wrote a long, sincere apology after the argument. The reply arrives within seconds: "k". You stare at it for an hour and a half, searching for hidden depths. The forum bans you for a post you thought was fair. You write a long appeal, hit send, and sit there refreshing the page like someone waiting on exam results. **Why it caught on:** the picture is a studio portrait of a baby in a blue vest, mid-wail with tears on his cheeks, and its original photographer and subject are unknown. People put captions on it for any occasion of wounded feelings, from being banned to being ignored, and a baby bawling at the camera suits a grown adult's smaller grievances well.