Full-on sobbing, whether from genuine grief or, just as commonly now, hyperbolic laughter or overwhelming secondhand embarrassment — Gen Z in particular has adopted it as their go-to 'I'm dying (of laughing)' emoji, displacing 😂 in that role. This dual meaning (real crying vs. ironic crying-laughing) makes context essential to reading it correctly.
Keywords: bawling, cry, crying, face, loudly, sad, sob, tear, tears, unhappy