About

Bad Bunny Crying at the Grammys, also known as Bad Bunny Grammys Facepalm, is a reaction image, GIF and video of musical artist Bad Bunny crying at the 2026 Grammy Awards after winning the "Album of the Year" award for his album Debí Tirar Más Fotos. The 2026 Grammy Awards aired on February 1st, 2026, and the clip of Bad Bunny crying went viral that night, becoming the subject of memes over the following days. The meme is typically used as an image macro or GIF caption format alongside captions about feeling exhausted or regretful over a decision, or to express relief.

Origin

On February 1st, 2026, musical artist Bad Bunny won the Grammy award for "Album of the Year" at the 2026 Grammy Awards. That day, X^[1] user @SpencerAlthouse posted a video capturing Bad Bunny's reaction to winning, showing him putting his hand on his face and crying, garnering over 26,000 likes and 8 million views in four days.

It was posted 10 minutes later by X^[2] user @zavanchy, garnering over 50,000 likes and 1.2 million views in the same span of time.

On the morning of February 2nd, 2026, X^[3] user @corporatedudes posted the clip, writing, “Congratulations, you got the job! You start at 8am on Monday…” garnering over 170,000 likes and 3.8 million views in three days. This is one of the earliest known viral memes using the format.

Spread

The Bad Bunny meme from the 2026 Grammys continued to spread over the following days.

On February 3rd, 2026, X^[4] user @kirawontmiss posted the meme with the caption, "How it feels when I click 'confirm payment' and they take away my money," garnering over 113,000 likes in two days.

Later that day, X^[5] user @oscarpiastrisss posted a version of the meme reading, "When it's time to watch the sport that no one is forcing me to watch," garnering over 53,000 likes in two days.

On February 4th, 2026, BuzzFeed^[6] then published an article about the meme as it garnered attention online.

That day, X^[7] user @kamayanitweets posted a version of the meme reading, "When you set an alarm at 6am and it’s actually 6am," garnering over 244,000 likes in a day.

Various Examples

Template

Search Interest

External References