About

DEUUEAUGH is a descriptive noise made by an incidental character in SpongeBob SquarePants that spawned many YouTube Poops due to the absurdity of the sound. Additionally, many photoshop parodies were created with the fish’s face and are often used as reaction images for disgust similar to Do Not Want.

Origin

The scene comes from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Something Smells," which first aired on October 28th, 2000. The scene with the distinctive noise was uploaded to YouTube on November 15th, 2010, gaining 220,000 views (shown below, left). On October 6th, 2007, a video was uploaded exclusively of the sound, gaining 1.3 million views (shown below, right).

Spread

In late 2011, a Facebook page^[1] was created for the fish, gaining 2,000 likes. On Tumblr searching^[2] for the tag brings up several examples of the fish being used as a tag in disgust for a post. On December 9th, 2009, YouTuber SmashLuigi25 uploaded a Sonic The Hedgehog version of the scene, gaining 1.4 million views (shown below, left). On September 30th, 2011, YouTuber MrExctbhj uploaded a video showcasing the meme in 8 different languages, gaining 1.3 million views. This video was later deleted, but a similar video posted by AzUrArInG showcasing the scene in 27 different languages posted in March of 2017 gained over 584,000 views (shown below, right).

On March 4th, 2010, SmashLuigi25 uploaded another parody of the scene using Pikachu from Pokémon gaining 1 million views (shown below, left). On July 23rd, 2010, YouTuber Bros Before Giraffes 2 uploaded a 10 minute version of the scene, gaining 1.2 million views (shown below, right).

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