Oh sO ThIS is tHe ePiSodE wHeRe tHe mOcKinG SpongeBob mEmE Is fRoM https://t.co/sulwZnfFa6
— Rick SancheZ (@SamuelC_Younger) May 11, 2017
SpongeBob SquarePants premiered on Nickelodeon on May 1, 1999. Rugrats was still on the air at the time, as was Kenan & Kel, The Angry Beavers, and The Wild Thornberrys. Stephen Hillenburg’s animated series about a talking sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea bridged the gap between Millennials and Generation Z, and made Nick billions of dollars in the process. SpongeBob has also spawned two feature-length films, multiple video games, a half-dozen albums, and, most importantly, numerous memes.
“We Should Take Bikini Bottom and Push It Somewhere Else,” “Surprised Patrick,” “Caveman SpongeBob,” and “Confused Mr. Krabs” are all widely-used classics that aren’t going anywhere, but there’s a new SpongeBob meme that’s taking over Twitter. “Mocking SpongeBob” comes from the season nine episode “Little Yellow Book,” and according to Know Your Meme, it’s used to “indicate a mocking tone towards an opinion or point of view.”
The meme originated earlier this month, when Twitter user @OGBEARD posted a screenshot of SpongeBob acting like a chicken with the caption, “How i stare back at little kids when they stare for too long.” The next day, @lexysaeyang used the same image, along with a picture of a disgruntled-looking bird, and tweaked the format: it became a call-and-response.
https://twitter.com/lexysaeyang/status/860384038871220224
@DaniLevyyy finally perfected the meme by ditching the non-SpongeBob image, but keeping the irregular upper-/lowercase spacing.
https://twitter.com/DaniLevyyy/status/860870928586211328
And thus, a viral sensation was born.
https://twitter.com/poedamercn/status/861542284545978368
https://twitter.com/JayNoHoes/status/861680860139048960
https://twitter.com/ruhtwhut/status/861000788813922304
https://twitter.com/yeahmomjeans/status/861717771859755008
https://twitter.com/COCONUTOILBAE/status/861607149927116801
https://twitter.com/BigWangTheoryy/status/861743477209673730
https://twitter.com/zephaniiiah/status/861410643366354944
Boyfriend: "I'm sorry, I understand how you feel now. It won't happen again"
Me: "AIM THORY I UNTERSTAN HAW YHU FEEL NAO. ET WON HAPIN AGEN" pic.twitter.com/B8j9fwWwA0— gringa pendeja (@_zweee) May 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/adryzzle/status/861210807417393152
https://twitter.com/goldfishbabe101/status/861358272175104001
https://twitter.com/suburbantwink/status/861992639478083586
(Via Know Your Meme)