Gumball Watterson is the blue cat star of Cartoon Network's The Amazing World of Gumball, which ran from 2011 to 2019 and became a staple of internet meme culture thanks to its expressive, highly quotable animation. Clips of Gumball's exaggerated fake crying circulate widely as reaction audio, with fans lifting short snippets for edits, TikToks and soundboards. The bit endures because it is instantly readable: loud, wobbling sobs that collapse the moment they work, the universal shorthand for milking sympathy for laughs. It sits comfortably alongside other cartoon meme staples like the SpongeBob fail sound in fail compilations.