This week, Nickelodeon itself continued to draw connections between SpongeBob and questions of gender and sexual identity, including the yellow, absorbent protagonist’s image in a tweet shouting out the LGBTQ community. That material depends in part on shock value, while by contrast, it seems chill for SpongeBob and the gang to be involved in the broader horny discourse that is nigh inescapable on the web.Ĭelebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month 🌈 Here, the joke was perhaps twofold, as SpongeBob - a sea creature - lies in what’s colloquially referred to as “ starfish ” position, flat on his back, with limbs flung out to accommodate a more active sexual partner.īut while all kinds of children’s entertainment is mined and recontextualized for bawdy internet humor, the SpongeBob memes in this vein don’t carry quite the taboo of, say, joking that the Beast from Beauty and the Beast purrs while he eats pussy, or posing Kermit the Frog so he’s spreading his asshole like Goatse.
You have the satisfaction of twisting innocence into smut for a laugh. Sexualizing a kid’s TV show is, for the average content creator, all in a day’s work, and really its own reward besides.
