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Is Your Smile Stitched? also known as Why Is Your Smile Stitched? refers to a series of animation memes riffing on an original fan animation, created by YouTuber Pinknase in July 2024, about the characters Alastor and Charlie Morningstar from the cartoon Hazbin Hotel. Alastor's smile is "stitched" in the animation, and when Charlie asks, "Alastor!! Is your smile stitched?" he responds, "I'm fine." Charlie then says, "I'll fix whatever or whoever did this to you." She then cuts the green stitches with a pair of scissors. Alastor is then shown crying while other Hazbin Hotel characters react and console him. Alastor also says, "Don't look at me!" The animation was set to the Bo Burnham song "All Eyes On Me."

The animation, according to some fans, was loosely based on an Alastor quote from the show about fake smiles, when he told Charlie, "Just because you see a smile, don't think you know what's going on underneath." The animation was reposted to Instagram Reels and TikTok in late 2025, where it inspired largely ironic variations involving different characters that became increasingly nonsensical and absurd. A widely held perception on TikTok was that the original "Is Your Smile Stitched?" animation was cringe.

Origin

On July 22nd, 2024, YouTuber^[1] Pinknase shared an original animation, focused on Hazbin Hotel characters Charlie Morningstar and Alastor. The animation shows Charlie saying, "Alastor!! Is your smile stitched?" and Alastor responding, "I'm fine."

Charlie then says, "I'll fix whatever or whoever did this to you," and she cuts the green stitches with a pair of scissors. Alastor is then shown crying as other characters console him. The animation is set to the song "All Eyes On Me" by comedian and musician Bo Burnham.^[2] Over one year, the video received over 3 million views and 168,000 likes.

Spread

In November 2025, the "Is Your Smile Stitched?" video notably spread memetically as animators and digital artists inserted new characters into the format and played with the phrasal templates of each character's quotes.

For instance, on November 18th, 2025, YouTuber^[3] @kiiirariii shared an iteration with characters from the visual novel video game series Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, gaining over 16,800 views in 15 days. The creator also shared the animation on their Instagram^[4] account, @kiiirariii, gaining over 3,800 likes during the same timeframe.

On November 20th, Instagram^[5] user @_giyoooo_ shared an animation that used characters from the cartoon South Park, gaining over 11,800 likes in 13 days.

On November 22nd, 2025, TikToker^[6] @dogetfox reposted the original "Is Your Smile Stitched?" video, gaining over 126,600 likes in 11 days.

Several iterations of the meme surfaced on the new platform in the following days. For instance, on December 1st, TikToker^[7] @t4ngerine1 shared an anti-meme version of the original animation, showing a green stitch asking another green stitch, "Is your smile Alastored?" Over two days, the video received over 298,100 likes.

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