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Scratch My Bellayyy is a catchphrase associated with an image popular on seal Twitter, depicting a plump white seal pup laying on his back, often alongside text that reads, "Scratch my bellayyyyy." The trend was popularized in January 2025, inspiring meme edits and redraws before becoming a copypasta and catchphrase meme in subsequent months.

Origin

On November 17th, 2019, Redditor^[1] /u/Eltorto posted an image of a seal pup to /r/aww, writing, "Well fed seal pup, The Farne Islands, UK." The Redditor presumably took the photo himself, gathering over 600 upvotes in seven years.

On January 15th, 2025, X^[2] user @cutecoric posted a screenshot of a Discord conversation in which a user named "angel" repeatedly wrote, "scratch my bellayyyyyy." The tweet gathered over 70,000 likes in two months.

Spread

On January 17th and January 22nd, 2025, X^[3][4] users @spilledcrawfish and @Nova_baggins reposted the image of the seal pup with the caption, "scratch my bellayyyy," gathering over 13,000 and 12,000 likes each in two months.

On January 23rd, X^[5] user @yuuareaseal posted a photoshopped image showing a hand scratching the seal pup's "bellayyy," gathering over 11,000 likes in two months.

On January 25th, 2025, X^[6] user @Mawce_PNG posted a Photoshopped image showing a white seal pup with a white transparent grid for a belly, gathering over 14,000 likes in two months.

On February 16th, X^[7] user @mistapussy posted a crude line drawing of a seal next to text that read, "scratch my bellayyy," supposedly drawn by X user @snoozlord. The post gathered over 70,000 likes in a month.

On March 24th, 2025, X^[8] user @paxtonsiempre tweeted a video of an older seal and a seal pup, writing, "son, let me teach you how to scratch yo bellaaayyyyy," and gathering over 40,000 likes in three days.

son, let me teach you how to scratch yo bellaaayyyyy https://t.co/DiNUiqbN7x

— paxton 🦭 (@paxtonsiempre) March 24, 2025

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