I think it's pretty weird - but also kinda awesome - that the internet is pulling all these memes from a source material that is so widely known and then just chopping off any context associated with them. It's for jokes where someone is being particularly devious or evil… but in the episode that particular frame is pulled from is about Patrick trying to catch SpongeBob with a jellyfishing net. Like, take the Patrick screenshot, which was really popular earlier this month. Krabs, Mocking SpongeBob, Savage Patrick, etc.) is that they really are completely divorced from any and all context the show might have given them in the first place. Joey: One of the things that strikes me about these memes (especially the newer single frame ones, like Blurry Mr.
What separates the winners from the losers? Can we even tie the appeal of some of these memes to the show, or are they so removed from context that it doesn't even matter?
That could explain why we've seen two memes pop off in the last month, but it doesn't really get at why there are communities like r/BikiniBottomTwitter (home to almost half a million subscribers!) circulating new SpongeBob memes all the time. One meme will gain traction and hit its peak in popularity, people are a little more primed to be receptive to SpongeBob memes, a bunch of memelords chum the waters of online with their best jokes and one of them piggybacks off the success of the first meme. Mat: Forgive the dorkiness of what I'm about to suggest, but it's almost like there's an Overton Window for SpongeBob stuff. The other odd thing is these are all pretty much meme superhits. Joey: Yeah, the frequency and grouping here is a little odd. The date for each meme is the start of the week Google searches for it trended the highest. The last thing I was doing before obsessively trolling gaming forums and obsessively AIMing my friends dumb links was obsessively watching "SpongeBob." Maybe that's just the natural progression of the Online Millennial: step 1) Watch and internalize "SpongeBob " 2) immerse oneself in the weird and absurd humor of the internet 3) apply that deep-seated "SpongeBob" knowledge to said weird and absurd humor. Kids who're about to graduate high school now weren't even born when the show premiered! The timing has to explain some of this. I think we'll get into how "SpongeBob SquarePants" is ripe with meme fodder, but on a surface level it feels like the show's peak in popularity came at the right time for perpetually-online folks in their twenties.
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Mat: As someone who generally stays away from any meme or shitposting groups, it certainly feels like SpongeBob stuff hits the mainstream more consistently than other cartoons and TV shows. What did we do to be so blessed as to receive such beautiful and creative SpongeBob memes as often as we do? Like, there are more SpongeBob memes than memes from anywhere else, right? 1 Am I crazy or does it feel that way? Joey: There is literally nothing I'd rather do.
Mat: I think it's about time a pair of doofuses team up to overanalyze the crap out of why memes about an 18-year-old Nickelodeon cartoon are so popular, don't you? Is there something bigger than just Bikini Bottom here? Digg editors Mat and Joey discuss: And later this year, Marvel Studios will debut the first openly gay superhero in the MCU - and his husband.But long before these two hit memes captured our imaginations and racked up retweets, a whole host of "SpongeBob" jokes have peppered the greater arc of internet humor in a way that may or may not show where millennial humor is headed. Just last month, Pixar released a short film on Disney+ featuring a gay protagonist Out followed his journey to come out to his parents and introduce them to his boyfriend. LGBTQ+ representation in children's media remains scarce, largely due to pushback from studios and parents who equate visible gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans characters with the "sexualization" of children. Several moments from the show's earlier seasons have resurfaced and been immortalized as memes in the last couple of years, including one still which shows SpongeBob and his best friend (or boyfriend?) Patrick both with limp wrists, foreshadowing this revelation by Nickelodeon. SpongeBob SquarePants started airing in 1999, and has become known for its mix of surrealism and slapstick humor. (?: by /pENmTaQB0h- Nickelodeon June 13, 2020 Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month ?