The Insulting ‘Mocking SpongeBob’ Meme Is Taking Over The Internet

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

https://twitter.com/adryzzle/status/861210807417393152

https://twitter.com/goldfishbabe101/status/861358272175104001

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(Via Know Your Meme)