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Saxon Looking Back refers to a reaction image and meme from the third season of the HBO television show The White Lotus showing Saxon, played by Patrick Schwarzenegger, looking back at Chelsea, played by Aimee Lou Wood, with a pained, longing expression on his face. The scene came to be used as a meme to signify disappointment and fear on Twitter / X in April 2025.

Origin

The season finale of The White Lotus season 3 aired on April 6th, 2025. One of the final scenes featuring Patrick Schwarzenegger as Saxon showed him looking longingly at Aimee Lou Wood, who played Chelsea. The scene is shown in a fan video posted to YouTube^[1] on April 11th, 2025.

The earliest known use of the image in a viral post was an April 6th, 2025 tweet by X^[2] user @ali_sivi that read, "legit pissed off that this made me cry," gathering over 20,000 likes in ten days.

Spread

On April 7th, 2025, Instagram^[3] user @vibeslut posted a slideshow of The White Lotus memes, including a Saxon Looking Back meme. The post read, "When my bestie calls her husband her best friend," and gathered over 1,000 likes in a week.

On April 8th, X^[4] user @tom_tuna tweeted, "Seeing that blue tooth speaker at the beach coming your way," gathering over 80,000 likes in a week.

On April 10th, X^[5] user @DTBrookeLin tweeted, "in the front seat of the uber while gang chops it up in the back," gathering over 120,000 likes in five days.

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