What Is Tear Jerker?
4.6BRAINROT SCOREtear jerker An emotionally charged film, book, song, episode or scene meant to make the audience cry. On the TV Tropes wiki, Tear Jerker is also the name of the page type where fans list the saddest moments of a work.
Origin:Wiktionary defines tearjerker as an informal noun for a work with sad passages or a sad ending and gives its earliest dated citation as 1990. The TV Tropes use as a fan-curated list label comes from that wiki, founded in 2004.
First Seen:1990 (earliest dated citation on Wiktionary)
Peak Era:Ongoing
Aura Impact:+1 Aura (Using It Correctly In Context)
EXAMPLE USAGE
""The finale's last scene is a real tear jerker: half the fandom posted about crying at it.""
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