James Van Der Beek [1], the man who brought Dawson Leary to life, knows why the internet really remembers him: That. Crying. Meme. The cast of Dawson's Creek recently reunited to celebrate the show's 20th anniversary [2] and the 41-year-old actor gave his viral meme the attention it really deserves.

"I feel like everybody on this show cried more than I did and I was the one who got caught in the loop!," Van Der Beek said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly [3], while Busy Philipps called him the "best meme ever." She even whipped out her phone to show fellow castmate and BFF [4] Michelle Williams [5], who had surprisingly never seen the meme before. Meanwhile, Joshua Jackson [6] reassured Van Der Beek that it's not how often he cried but how he cried that did it.

Image Source: The WB [7]

"I love it. It's my favourite thing about the whole show," Van Der Beek joked. "It's hilarious to me that you can work for six years on a show . . . and it gets boiled down to three seconds. It's a perfect way-of-the-internet."