Dad who 'works three jobs' surprises daughter with formal dress in viral video

Feel like crying today? Good, because this viral video of a dad surprising his daughter with a formal dress will throw the floodgates open.

Shared on Reddit and Twitter, the footage shows a teenage girl throwing her arms around her father after he unzips a garment bag to reveal a white floral dress.

The girl can be heard crying during their embrace, while her father smiles joyfully.

"It's the dress," she says through tears.

However, according to various social media accounts that have shared the video, there's an extremely sweet explanation for the girl's emotional reaction to the dress.

It's said the father works three jobs, and had initially told his daughter he couldn't afford to buy the dress she wanted for her eighth grade school dance.

MMA star Will Brooks, who posted the clip on Instagram last week, explained: "She was sad and disappointed because she thought he was buying her a different dress than the one she wanted.

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"He surprised her with her dream dress for her school dance. Even though they couldn't afford it, the father made it happen for his baby girl."

Regardless of the story behind it, the video is inspiring a fairly universal response from viewers: tears. So many tears.

"Way to go Dad! I'm sitting here with tears rolling down my cheeks! As a single parent who has worked 50-60 hrs a week for more than 20 years, I GET IT!" one Twitter user wrote.

Others were touched by the teen's clear appreciation of her father's gesture.

"The cutest thing is that she went straight to hug her dad after realising it was a dress for her, and every time she went to hold the dress or touch it she would just revert to hugging her dad," one Redditor wrote.

"She really does seem to be happiest that her dad did it for her than over the object itself."

"Instead of looking at the dress, she can't stop hugging her Dad and crying because she knows how hard he had to work for it and what that means. This is more than a kid getting what they want," another person mused on Twitter.

"It's a little girl realising how loved she is."