The Crying Wojak, aka the Angry Crying ... a standard Wojak face variation with a smirk and side-eye, as though pretending to be smug or confident while inwardly suffering. ...

The image was subsequently shared to the German imageboard Krautchan in 2010 by a user called “wojak,” and thus a meme was born. Wojak eventually became a popular meme on the imageboard 4chan ...

Wojak’s brain variations have collided now with another meme known as Whomst, which involves aggressively ornate, nonsensical variants of the word “whom,” as a way of implying pretentiousness.