Katie Fang’s Crying Work GRWM
Creator moment · 2023 · Viral
A crying work GRWM reached 57.9 million TikTok views before Fang built a beauty career.
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How it worksNumbers
- Seed + ten derivatives: seed-only press snapshot
- 47.5M
- As of May 6, 2025 · TikTok · Adweek
- Milestone date
- Week of Jan 29, 2023
- Jan 29 ’23 to Week of Jan 29, 2023
- Platforms
- 6
- Started on TikTok
- Leverage
- 59375×
- 47.5M on 800 followers at seed
How it spread
Trace the originFang’s crying work GRWM broke out from an account with 800 followers. Daily makeup videos followed. Press retold the launch, Reddit users discussed it and a Tenor GIF reused the clip. Glow Recipe and Wildflower later sold collaborations.
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January 2023
@katiefanggg seed · Jan 29 ’23
Fang posted herself crying while getting ready after being called into work.[1][2][18]
57.9M views, live lookup 2026-10-13Open the first post ↗February 2023
Katie Fang owner response · Week of Feb 5, 2023
Fang posted a makeup tutorial after pausing for a week.[2]
Changelogupdated Oct 16 ’26
- Added 1 number
- Fact-check passed (44 claims)
- Revised 6 events · Added 7 sources · Archived 4 sources · Added 2 evidence checks · Score 62 → 67
- Added: 16 events, 20 sources · Score 62
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