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Smiling And Unsmiling Seong Gi-Hun Redraws refers to edits and redraws trend by using scene of smiling and unsmiling Seong Gi-Hun from Squid Game. The edits have similarity with SpongeBob's Where Do the Years Go which showing characters appearance different in the past and present.

Origin

On October 31st, 2024, the official Twitter / X^[2] account for Netflix posted a two-panel image comparing Seong Gi-hun taking his ID photograph in seasons one and two of the show. The post (shown below) garnered over 17 million views, 14,000 reposts and 240,000 likes in two months (shown below).

Spread

As well as 2024 which the image gained popular as reaction. In early 2025, the images starting popular on Twitter / X which artists using it as edits and redraw references. For example on January 12th, 2025, Twitter / X^[2] user @arisu__art uploaded fan art of Utena Hiiragi a.k.a Magia Baiser from Gushing Over Magical Girls. The post received more than 24,000 likes in three days (shown below).

On January 14th, 2025, Twitter / X^[3] user @AZ_Ciam uploaded fan art of Goku from Dragon Ball. The post received more than 78,000 likes in one day (shown below).

On January 12th, 2025, Twitter / X^[4] user @ItsRenRie uploaded the template of the image. The post received more than 145,000 likes in three days.

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