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Sad Cookie or Sad Ass Cookie is a series of memes based on a photograph of an M&M cookie that looks like a frowning face. The cookie photo was posted to X / Twitter by @AphexQuinn and went viral as the subject of memes, including posts that compare the face to other characters and imace macro memes that attach funny captions to the image of the cookie.

Origin

On March 15th, 2025, X^[1] user @AphexQuinn posted a photograph of an M&M cookie sitting on a tray of other cookies. The cookie looks like a sad face, with an M&M acting as its eye. The post, captioned, "sad ass cookie," garnered over 705,000 likes, 54,000 reposts and 21.5 million views in roughly two weeks.

Spread

The image garnered viral spread and inspired memes over the following days. On March 16th, 2025, Bluesky^[2] user Uncle Ben posted the cookie, writing, "Websites when you don't accept cookies," garnering over 120 likes in two weeks. It was reposted to /r/Funnymemes^[3] that day, garnering over 600 upvotes in the same span of time.

That same day, Instagram^[4] user hagiwara81 posted an image macro made of the original tweet, garnering over 2,700 likes in the same span of time.

On March 17th, X^[5] user @levimintea quoted the original post with an image of Erwin from Attack on Titan, comparing their facial expressions, garnering over 6,100 likes in two weeks. That same day, Instagram^[6] user kinggeeker posted a version of the image captioned "pls don't eat me ahhh cookie," garnering over 2,100 likes in the same span of time.

On March 18th, Instagram^[7] user @glupious posted a version of the meme reading, "When you've been alive for 3 min and somebody pull up with a glass of milk," garnering over 5,700 likes in just under two weeks. On March 20th, X^[8] user @RealChyoden posted a drawing of Legoshi from Beastars as the sad cookie, garnering over 7,400 likes in 11 days.

On March 30th, 2025, artist Rappenem posted a drawing to Bluesky^[9] and X^[10] depicting the sad cookie as a fully detailed character, garnering over 1,100 likes on the former and 114,000 likes on the latter in a day.

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