Spengbab

About

Have you ever seen a picture that was so hideous, so disgustingly morbid that it made you want to gouge your eyes out with a rusty spork and shove them into a secluded space never to be found again? No? Then you’ve never had the privilege of viewing a Spengbab creation.

Spengbab (also known as Spengbob, Sprengebrob, Splenborg, and various other charming names) is a name given to any piece of grotesquely deformed fanart of Spongebob Squarepants. The first Spengbab is believed to have appeared around late 2006, however no one is completely sure of where he exactly originated from. Some say he first made his debut on a Youtube video from October of 2006, which has long since been removed by the creator.

Spread

Although it’s origin and even the whole point of it was vague, Spengbab quickly became popular and literally spawned over hundreds of pieces of fanart. Spengbab pictures ocassionally appear on sites such as Encyclopedia Dramatica, DeviantArt, and 4Chan.

Accordng to Google Insights interest in Spengbab peaked in December of 2006, and dropped down to about half the search volume by February 2007. But interest in Spengbab has remained fairly steady through today.

• A Myspace page

• DeviantArt is one of the main providers of many (ehem) “gorgeous” Spengbab drawings

• The Lurkmore Wiki provides a brief description of Spengbab

• A whole 4chan thread

Media

Many Youtube slideshows of Spengbab have appeared. Here are some of the few: