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NCAA Tournament: Advice for 'crying Dayton fan' and CBS

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It took one day and change for CBS to find Crying Piccolo Girl 2.0. At the tail end of Dayton's blowout loss to Syracuse, we got this:

This about sums it up for Dayton today. pic.twitter.com/8lAQwTbIFn

— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) March 18, 2016

Which, inevitably, leads to stuff like this post. It's turning into a trend for NCAA Tournament games — cinematically sad fan gets caught dropping tears; there is a GIF; the GIF turns into retweets, and then posts; the posts turn into pageviews; and all the while, people are feeling discomfort over either revisiting someone's sports-sadness or mining it for professional purposes.