10 Best Yellowjackets Memes That Will Make You Laugh-Cry

Yellowjackets often uses humor to dispel the terror of a high school girls’ soccer team crash landing in the wilderness, unsure if they’ll get rescued and survive the coming winter. Even those who survive the plane crash and grow up to get married, have children, and run for political office use it to offset the creeping malaise that haunts them decades after their harrowing experiences.

Fans have wasted no time coming up with memes to celebrate the unique blend of comedy and tragedy, creating Yellowjackets memes that perfectly reflect the eerie tone that sets the Showtime series apart from other recent teen dramas.

Season 2 Pangs

The snow is barely cold and fans already have burning questions for Season 2 of Yellowjackets, desperate to know what’s going to happen to Simone and Taissa’s marriage, Shauna and Jeff’s blackmail conundrum, and of course, Natalie being black-bagged and kidnapped.

With so many tantalizing tales to look forward to, it’s no wonder that fans can’t wait another year, especially given the revelation that Jeff has known all along what Shauna and her teammates were up to in the Ontario wilderness.

A Tree By Any Other Name

One of the biggest mysteries in Yellowjackets is presented when Sammy, Taissa’s son, starts talking about the “Woman in the Tree.” He informs his mother that she sits outside his window, creepily watching him while he sleeps, but Taissa refutes his protestations as nothing more than an overactive imagination. Some fans have come to believe that the nefarious entity watching him is Taissa herself.

Some people look at a tree and see building materials, some people see firewood, and some see the materials to build furniture, but Taissa sees a perch from which to give into her primitivism.

A Little Roleplay

When their marriage counselor suggests that they engage in a little roleplay to spice up their sex life, Jeff and Shauna don’t know how to proceed. Jeff suggests Shauna pretend to be a customer at his store looking for some furniture, but her awkward advances kill the mood.

Perhaps Shauna should have admitted what she was doing all along since her actual narrative was far more scintillating than anything Jeff could have suspected. But therein lay the lesson – both Jeff and Shauna were so oblivious to each other’s lives they couldn’t possibly have connected to each other’s fantasies.

The Actual Antler Queen

There have been teasers throughout Season 1 that Lottie Matthews becomes the Antler Queen, a deity-like leader for the remaining survivors of the plane crash. But what if it were someone else entirely, perhaps a four-feathered friend of Misty’s?

By far one of the most hilarious elements of the season Caligula (Misty’s pet parrot), has become a standout star in their own right. Present for just about every malevolent action Misty does, it’s only a matter of time before Caligula talks.

In A Van Down By The River

When Taissa, one of the bravest characters on the Showtime show, decides to head south in search of civilization, there aren’t many people who volunteer to go with her. One person who won’t let her navigate the wilderness alone is Van, but the goalie of the Yellowjackets is plagued by Lottie’s remarks about a “river of blood” as a harbinger of doom.

When Van discovers the river, flowing red as expected, Taissa dismisses it as water with an abundance of mercury. Unfortunately for the intrepid group, it heralds a sinister altercation involving starving wolves.

Jackie’s Death

As the captain of the Yellowjackets, Jackie was a tough leader who was actively responsible for the welfare of her team, but once they were plunged into the wilderness, her authority began to drift away, usurped by other girls who were more adaptive to the fight for survival.

Regardless of initial impressions, when Jackie perished in the series finale, her death struck a chord with fans. Though she was seen as superficial and shallow in the beginning, by the end of the season she was the only person to see the very real implications of the girls descending into a feral state by casting off the bonds of society.

Mental Health Warning

Watching Yellowjackets isn’t always easy, especially since the series vacillates between survival horror, murder mystery, and teen angst. Investing in the series means going on an emotional rollercoaster without ever knowing what to expect around every turn.

Fans know that certain elements of the drama might be triggering, but they’re so caught up in the characters’ stories that it’s all but impossible to turn away. Luckily, there are forums around the internet full of fellow fans building communities in solidarity, pouring over plot twists, and dissecting character narratives, constructing positivity on a foundation of chaos.

Sleepwalking

Lottie is a fascinatingly complex character (who will only be more intriguing in Yellowjackets as an adult), deprived of her psychiatric medication after the plane crash and free to interpret the natural world around her anyway she sees fit. Many of the other girls choose to align their decisions with her perspective, making her a de facto leader in the group even as her visions get more unhinged.

When she witnesses Taissa wandering the woods, eating dirt in the middle of the night, it’s an interesting assumption that she most likely views her teammate at one with the arboreal world around her, an animal at home in its natural environment. It makes violence against her that much easier.

Shauna And The Rabbit

One of the most shocking moments in Yellowjackets Season 1 happens when Shauna kills a rabbit that’s been munching on her home garden, slitting it from “chin to anus” and serving it in her family’s chili. The action serves as a stark reminder that Shauna has another side to her unafraid to unleash her killer instinct.

One hit from Shauna’s shovel ends the rabbit, administered with the callous ferocity of someone who’s used to killing animals for her meals. There’s no telling just how many rabbits she killed to survive in the wilderness, or how many people.

Comfort TV

While Yellowjackets can inspire nostalgic trips down memory lane and celebrate some of the more positive aspects of teenage girl friendships, much of the material inherent to the series is mind-bending, violent, and hauntingly visceral.

Part of the appeal of the series is its intense emotional center, highlighting the myriad ways in which small things can be conflated to big things when everyone’s young and immature, and actions have unintentional consequences when civilized society is abandoned in favor of anarchy.

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Kayleena has been raised on Star Wars and Indiana Jones from the crib. A film buff, she has a Western collection of 250+ titles and counting that she’s particularly proud of. When she isn’t writing for ScreenRant, CBR, or The Gamer, she’s working on her fiction novel, lifting weights, going to synthwave concerts, or cosplaying. With degrees in anthropology and archaeology, she plans to continue pretending to be Lara Croft as long as she can.

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