Dirty Bubble Challenge

About

Dirty Bubble Challenge refers to an exploitable image taken from the Spongebob Squarepants episode "Have You Seen This Snail?" The Dirty Bubble Challenge is to attempt to hit a ball on a paddle over 29 trillion times in a row. In the exploitables, the card showing the challenge changes "hit the paddle ball" with something else.

Origin

In "Have You Seen This Snail?", which aired November 11th, 2005.^[1] In the episode, Spongebob undertakes the "Dirty Bubble Challenge," which is to hit a paddleball over 29 trillion times. During the episode, a card lays out the rules (shown below).

Spread

Parodies of the image first started spreading in December of 2016. One of the earliest known posts appeared on Instagram user verythicc's^[2] account on December 11th, 2016 (shown below, left). It is unclear if the user was the first to post the parody. On May 10th, 2017, a Respect Women parody appeared on /r/dankmemes,^[3] gaining over 1,600 points (shown below, right).

The joke continued to see minor spread over the following two years. On February 24th, 2018, a compilation of memes appeared on Amino Apps^[4] as part of a Photoshop Battle (example shown below, left). More recently, an Expand Dong example posted to /r/expanddong^[5] on February 15th, 2019, gained over 1,100 points (shown below, right).

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