About

Crytyping refers to a form of typing one does either when under intense emotional stress or when attempting to show they're under stress, resulting in many typos and misspelled words. It grew into a joke format on Tumblr, growing in popularity in early 2017.

Origin

While it's unclear where exactly crytyping has its origins, it was defined by Pickle Farmer on Urban Dictionary^[1] on December 22nd, 2012 as "When you're crying so hard, you can't type properly. This is usually exaggerated to make whoever you're talking to feel bad." (Shown below.)

Spread

Crytyping began to be more popularly used in jokes on Tumblr starting around the summer of 2016. On July 26th, 2016,^[2] user egowave posted a joke about French King Louis XVI crytyping before being executed (shown below). The post gained over 28,000 notes.

Other popular jokes tie crytyping to current events, including the Kendall Jenner Pepsi Ad, the Trump presidency, and Paul Ryan after the passage of the American Health Care Act (shown below, left to right). The meme has been documented by memearchives.^[3]

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