Scratch My Bellayyyy

About

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.

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