Take your place in the ritual and enjoy these 23 Turning Red memes

A film about puberty set in peak Y2K? I’m in x

2 years ago

Okay, so I unironically love Turning Red. I swear I don’t often sit around watching kids’ shows and films, but something about this new Pixar instalment had me hooked.

First and foremost, when do teenage girls EVER get to see themselves represented properly on screen? We were wild, teary, anxious, angry balls of hormones who were constantly hyper-aware of our looks and easy to embarrass. Starting our periods and being picked on at school were our worst fears, and this film captures that perfectly.

So, try not to spontaneously turn into a giant red panda, sit back and enjoy these 23 memes about my new fave Pixar film:

1. Take that, critics

Turning Red is unrealistic, when I was 13 I did not live in Canada.

— Daniel Kibblesmith (@kibblesmith) March 14, 2022

2. U ok hun?

i may have enjoyed turning red pic.twitter.com/WULyJUoZqr

— ⸜(๑’ᵕ’๑)⸝* (@ariphobe) March 13, 2022

3. Is this a Drake lyric or what?

hey just saw Turning Red. it made me think about how my personality started Turning for the worse because you started leaving me on Read. anyways hope ur doing well just thinking of u

— frax #popstarattitude (@fraxiommusic) March 14, 2022

4. Obsessed with Mai’s mum

Don’t think this is a spoiler, but—idk that I *ever* (as a teen) saw anything depict women’s health and care (mental & physical) with the normalcy #TurningRed does.

There’s something revolutionary to that level of transparency about adolescence being HARD. pic.twitter.com/HScLJ6ew0l

— Sam, Esq. 🌈 (@loverlydarling) March 12, 2022

5. ‘Siiiick’

If Turning Red took place in 2012 instead of 2002, these girls would run Tumblr like the fucking Navy pic.twitter.com/F5CZld9iz9

— sam y’all (@samiamrosenberg) March 13, 2022

6. I am Abby, Abby is me

// #TurningRed spoilers

she has such an evil face I love it 😭 pic.twitter.com/MJWMlyHeBC

— 🍭✨ (@sweet_asukal) March 11, 2022

7. Just another Abby appreciation post

abby’s gremlin energy is the best thing ever#TurningRed pic.twitter.com/CaVDdajFTF

— triv 🎀 turning red era?! (@iHrtDolores) March 14, 2022

8. The real curse is this

Turning Red is about a teenager in 2002 so… pic.twitter.com/eWSFTOJq8K

— LunarLiv (@LunarLivH) March 14, 2022

9. More films about girls being loud and taking up space pls!

Seeing older white men say they didn’t like “Turning Red” because it wasn’t relatable and the girls were “obnoxious” fills me with a deep sense of joy
lmao GOOD. pic.twitter.com/eFCiVx1Q19

— ☕️✨caffeinatedcantrips✨☕️ (@caffeinecantrip) March 14, 2022

10. Billie Eilish wrote it btw, you’re welcome

turning red soundtrack kinda god tier. i, too, am a 4*town stan. i get it.

— zae | industry plant (@ItsZaeOk) March 14, 2022

11. She’s lawful evil

Seriously getting Wario vibes from this character #TurningRed pic.twitter.com/6ci4j6frb3

— Elliot Duby (@elliotduby) March 15, 2022

12. Teenage girls will always be chaotic!! It’s a rite of passage

“turning red is cringe because 13 year old girls don’t act like tha—” let me stop you right there because this was me in high school pic.twitter.com/IqWVqNr2Nt

— marm♡ @ 4*TOWN CONCERT (@marmgie) March 14, 2022

13. Me 30 minutes in

just watched turning red this is the entire movie pic.twitter.com/c7olCHJQgA

— Willow ♡ (@grimoirekitty) March 15, 2022

14. Omg

Turning Red was a brilliantly animated, aggressively sincere, highly relatable story about coming of age, self realization, generational inheritance, and GIANT FLUFFY RED PANDAS THAT I WANT TO HUG UNTIL I LITERALLY DIE

— Scott Frerichs 🏳️‍🌈🐯 (@KaiserNeko) March 14, 2022

15. I think this 100-minute-long film was a personal attack

y’all did not tell me one of turning red’s themes is daughters’ complicated relationships with their mothers like i really cannot take this emotionally rn 😭

— dash is watching ATLA (szn 1) • they/them (@thedigitaldash_) March 14, 2022

16. Leaving the cinema feeling cleansed and soothed

turning red is gonna become my personality and i haven’t even seen it yet pic.twitter.com/VORgIwxr8f

— not trin (@unknowntrin) March 14, 2022

17. Perhaps the real Y2K boyband was the friends we made along the way

Literally 4Town from turning red pic.twitter.com/UMiiYF0Vol

— ✰ ika (@jonkojoestar) March 14, 2022

18. OAP points if you’re old enough to remember this era

Turning Red live action omg 😍 pic.twitter.com/B4EPLtG8JR

— HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty (@keyon) March 14, 2022

19. Personally, I never left my teenage phase

turning red has revealed that a large portion of our society thinks 13 year old girls are these docile little flowers when in reality they’re some of the most unhinged motherfuckers

— 💫 j u n o ! ⚢ 💙💛is working on comms ✍️ (@28_cardz) March 15, 2022

20. Eh

the red panda in turning red is a metaphor for the natural female bodily process of becoming canadian

— ziyu (@kittyvomiit) March 15, 2022

21. Ahahahaha

the people who hated Turning Red for being too “narrow” and “specific” are gonna go cream themselves when Lightyear comes out because everyone of course can relate to being an astronaut!

— Waystar Royco Coordinator (@kingbealestreet) March 14, 2022

22. Oh right x

“Turning Red is unrealistic because 13 year olds don’t have weird obsessive crushes on-“

When I was 12 my friend helped me code an entire website so I could write anonymous love letters to the guy who played Marius in our local high school production of Les Mis

— kroger winona ryder (@bristianchale) March 14, 2022