About

Adult Wormy Closeup is a remix and reaction video series intercutting a clip of the character Wormy from the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants into various other videos.

Origin

On February 24th, 2001, Nickelodeon aired the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Wormy" in the United States.^[1] In the episode, Wormy, a caterpillar, goes through a quick metamorphosis and becomes a monarch butterfly. When they come back in the morning, Patrick and SpongeBob discover the butterfly and the show cuts to real footage of a closeup of the insect.

Over the next decade, people shared videos of themselves and other media figures reacting to the image of Wormy. The earliest available was published on April 8th, 2015 and received more than 4,400 views in less than six years (shown below).

Spread

On April 16th, 2016, YouTuber nikkdisneylover8390 published the video "Pikachu's Reaction To Wormy. The video features a scene from the anime series Pokémon cut with the clip from SpongeBob so it appears as though the character Pokémon Pikachu is reacting to Wormy. The post received more than 32,000 views in less than five years (shown below, left).

Days later, YouTuber Ian Sweeney published a variation that replaced Pikachu with the characters from the animated series VeggieTales. The post received more than 10,000 views in less than five years (shown below, right).

Various Examples

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