Men don't cry at Titanic but break down over the Opportunity rover's last message
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Overview
This is a four-panel meme following the popular "do boys even have feelings" template. The top left panel features a blonde woman in a blue daisy-patterned dress, with text below reading "he didn't cry during titanic!". The top right panel has a goth-style dark-haired woman wearing a choker, with text below reading "do boys even have feelings?". The bottom left panel shows the NASA Opportunity Mars rover alone on the surface of Mars under a starry night sky, with overlay text reading "MY BATTERY IS LOW AND IT'S GETTING DARK", which was the final transmission sent by the rover before its mission was declared ended. The bottom right panel shows a profile of a bearded blond man with heavy blue tear streaks running down his face, visibly crying. The joke subverts the common stereotype that men do not feel or express emotion, showing that while they may not cry at widely popular emotional media like the film Titanic, they become deeply emotional over niche, heartfelt moments related to science and space exploration.
Origin notes
This edited meme was shared on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, as noted in the provided source metadata. It uses the widely circulated "do boys even have feelings" meme template, replacing the original punchline with a reference to the end of the Opportunity rover's mission, which became a viral, widely mourned moment online when NASA announced the rover was permanently unresponsive in 2019. The poster stated they "fixed my meme" in the original post title, indicating they edited an earlier version of the meme to create this iteration.