![]() ![]() ‘No thanks,’ and then ‘yes, please give it to me.’ You know? ‘I was lying! I underestimated my self-reliance.’ That happens to me all the time. “I guess this meme is for those times when you’re trying to be all cool, and acting like you don’t need help. “(Fans) took it and turned it into another really cool, funny, applicable thing in different contexts. That’s kind of what I look at these memes as,” Kenny says. He would find some crazy old typewriter and then take out all the guts and turn it into like a metal insect or something like that. “I used to have a friend who would dumpster dive, find cool stuff, and then turn it into art. He sees the value in memes repurposing old art. He’s followed the undersea fry cook through more than a dozen seasons, several movies, and the Paramount+ prequel Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years(which returns for more episodes on July 22). ![]() Tom Kenny has been voicing the cheerful titular SpongeBob since the show first premiered in 1999. Thankfully, the voice behind the sponge agrees. And you know what? I’m quite alright with that! SpongeBob memes are great. When Earth is gone and the aliens have arrived one day, perhaps the only evidence that we were ever here will be images of SpongeBob emoting on a recovered hard drive. Memeable bites of the classic Nick Toon allow for older (some would call geriatric) millennials to share their feelings from their half-remembered childhoods in all new contexts. Sometimes it feels like SpongeBob SquarePants memes are the logical conclusion to Western popular culture. ![]()
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