Smiling Friends As Steven Universe Redraws

About

Smiling Friends As Steven Universe Redraws refers to fan art that mashes up characters from the television shows Smiling Friends and Steven Universe. The trend was popularized on X / Twitter in April 2024, coinciding with season two of Smiling Friends, after user @roshinyukai_rin posted fan art depicting Pim and Charlie from Smiling Friends dressed as Pearl and Rose Quartz from Steven Universe.

Origin

On April 15th, 2024, X^[1] user @roshinyukai_rin posted fan art depicting Charlie and Pim as Rose Quartz and Peal from the Cartoon Network show Steven Universe. The post gathered over 4 million views and 21,000 likes in 10 days (seen below).

Spread

On April 16th, 2024, X^[2] user @piss_wizzard posted an edit of Charlie-as-Rose-Quartz alongside a caption that read, "When a Critter is made, it's for a reason. They burst out of the ground already knowing what they're supposed to be, and then… that's what they are. Forever. But you, you're supposed to change." The post gathered over 7,000 likes in nine days (seen below, left).

Also on April 16th, X^[3] user @Artsu_kai posted an edit of Charlie relaying an edited Rose Quartz dialogue to reassure Smormu, gathering over 5,000 likes in nine days on a post that read, "Look man, we can't both exist alright? So I'm going to become half of you, and I need you to know that every moment you love being yourself, that's me man, loving you and loving being you because you're going to be something extraordinary. You're going to be a human being man" (seen below, right).

On April 17th, 2024, X^[4] user @Quecaell posted another edit of Smiling Friends characters in a Steven Universe setting, gathering over 12,000 likes in a week, while X^[5] user @SapplesDigital posted an image shipping @roshinyukai_rin's original Pim and Charlie redraws together, gathering over 10,000 likes in a week (seen below, right).

Various Examples

IM SUPER LATE TO THE PARTY BUT ITS DONEthis is so stupid😭 #smilingfriends #smilingfriendsfanart #StevenUniverse https://t.co/pGaZbZLqr2 pic.twitter.com/wMElBM9bqu

— VAMPYRE🦇🦷|| SMILING FRIENDS YAOI (@DRACVAMPULA) April 24, 2024

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