Why this old man eating a hamburger has the internet in tears

Early Wednesday evening, Northeastern State University student Kelsey Harmon tweeted perhaps the saddest photo in the medium's existence:

dinner with papaw tonight…❤️ he made 12 burgers for all 6 grandkids and I'm the only one who showed. 😢 love him pic.twitter.com/0z0DkPtUiR

— kelsey harmon (@kelssseyharmon) March 17, 2016

The photo clearly evoked a shared feeling of deep sadness and empathy for one's own parents or grandparents, and as such, papaw's sad face has reached full-blown meme status. As is custom, "papaw" has produced some creative responses. Here are some papaw tweets:

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https://twitter.com/dobrevsbIake/status/710342082767003648

https://twitter.com/JusttMaher/status/710508839494406149

In an interesting twist, papaw's other grandchildren might be…less than upstanding citizens:

https://twitter.com/6ixmuna/status/710539022645501954

But whatever their views may be, at least papaw got one cousin to come eat burgers:

Papaw :(

Michael Rosen is a reporter for Fusion based out of Oakland.