“I thought, ‘That’s aggressive.'”
The infamous Dawson Leery crying meme has found a new (and apropos) audience.
“So it started, my eldest sent me a meme of myself.”

James Van Der Beek as Dawson Leery in ‘Dawson’s Creek’.Columbia TriStar Television
“I thought, ‘That’s aggressive.'”
Van Der Beek said, “It’s been an interesting thing to navigate but I think.
they only kind of get it.”
Van Der Beek said of the meme.
Jackson quipped, “It’s not how many times you cried.
Still, Van Der Beek appreciates the meme just as much as the internet and his daughter does.
“I love it.
It’s my favorite thing about the whole show,” he joked at the time.
“It’s hilarious to me that you could work for six years on a show.
and it gets boiled down to three seconds.
It’s a perfect way-of-the-internet.”