Yummers

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About

Yummers is a slang term and series of memes referring to a scene from The Boys TV series in which Homelander (played by Antony Starr) asks A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) what he's drinking, with A-Train telling him it's a milkshake as Homelander says, "Yummers" (meaning "Yum") before calling him fat and poking his stomach. The scene appears in the first episode of season 3, which aired in June 2022. The term and scene itself then became the subject of memes over the following years, including video edits and fan art redraws in which a character pokes another character's stomach and says, "Yummers."

Origin

On June 3rd, 2022, The Boys season 3 premiered. During the episode, Homelander, angry about his girlfriend Stormfront being exposed as a Nazi, takes his anger out on A-Train. He sees A-Train drinking a milkshake, asks him what he's drinking and says, "Yummers." He then proceeds to call A-Train fat for getting extra whipped cream and prods his stomach with his finger (shown below).

The scene was posted to YouTube^[1]^[2] numerous times in June 2022, including two examples titled, "Homelander says Yummers," which gained over 95,000 views and 1.4 million views in two years. The term "yummers" soon started to see use as a catchphrase online and in memes.

The earliest known example of a meme referencing the scene was posted by Redditor u/Farma_Karm145 to the /r/OkBuddyFresca^[3] subreddit on July 15th, 2022, garnering nearly 100 upvotes in two years (shown below).

Spread

The term "yummers" became notably popularized on the /r/OkBuddyFresca^[4] subreddit over the following years, often used as a title for posts.

The meme was further popularized in mid-2024 as it continued to spread to various platforms. On June 19th, 2024, TikToker^[5] @mbvlayne posted an edit of the scene in which Homelander pokes A-Train's stomach multiple times, garnering over 125,000 views in a month (shown below). On June 22nd, X^[6] user @zerowontmiss reposted the video, writing, "Why can’t I stop watching this video 💀," garnering over 47,000 likes in a month.

On June 12th, X^[7] user @bootleghomiee posted an edit of the meme, reducing the overall quality of the video and audio, garnering over 43,000 likes in 10 days (shown below). It was reposted to /r/OkBuddyFresca^[8] on July 13th, garnering over 1,400 upvotes in a week.

On July 19th, 2024, X^[9] user @Doxxylbox posted a piece of artwork depicting a hand poking a woman's stomach as she drinks a milkshake, captioned, "Yummers," garnering over 7,200 likes in three days (shown below, left). On July 20th, X^[10] user @APOAPSlS posted a similar piece of furry artwork, garnering over 2,400 likes in two days (shown below, right).

On the same day, X^[11] user @vunnbunn posted an animation of someone poking a woman's belly, writing, "yummers…..," garnering over 5,000 likes in the same span of time.