Jonathan Kennedy's 'Infected' Art

About

Jonathan Kennedy's "Infected" Art refers to a longstanding Twitter (now called X) thread featuring crude Come and Learn with Pibby crossover fanart drawn by user @Jonatha76257883, A.K.A. Jonathan Kennedy. The art typically features characters from different cartoons, television shows, and movies being taken over by a glitchy corrupting shadow, with some characters getting "infected" while others remain "survivors." The artwork is inspired by the 2021 promotional materials for Adult Swim's Come and Learn with Pibby. The Twitter user has been adding different characters to a thread of artwork since December 2021, with other users marveling at the years-long dedication to the project, the lack of artistic improvement, and the breadth of fandoms represented, with some users calling Jonathan Kennedy's "Infected" Art the One Piece of Twitter.

Origin

@Jonatha76257883 A.K.A. Jonathan Kennedy first began his Come and Learn with Pibby inspired art thread to Twitter in December 2021, writing, "So #pibby has taken the mantle as #fridaynightfunkin category. I have some ideal pibby mods some fans like @TheJakeneutron & @UniqueGeese would love. Let me show them (At the bottom)."

The first piece of fanart drawn by @Jonatha76257883 showed Diary of a Wimpy Kid characters Greg and Rowley, showing Rowley being captured by a black glitch blob. The December 4th, 2021 post^[1] gathered over 5,000 likes with the caption reading;

Part 1 Diary of a wimpy kid:
Infected: Rowley, Frank, & Manny
Survivors: Greg & Rodrick

Jonathan Kennedy continued posting his fanart in the following months, posting fanart of Sonic the Hedgehog, Peanuts, Invincible, Veggietales later on December 4th, 2021.

Spread

On October 8th, 2023, Twitter^[2] user @AnnKiyamer quoted @Jonatha76257883's initial Wimpy Kid post with the caption, "scroll down rq," gathering over 23,000 likes in a year. Later that day, @Swag_K1RBY^[3] called the thread, "Twitter's one piece," gathering over 9,000 likes in a year.

Also on October 8th, X^[5] user @joshnamesnotjo1 quoted a January 21st, 2023 post by Jonathan Kennedy, showing characters from Boondocks being taken over by the glitch, gathering over 16,000 likes in a year.

Later that month on October 16th, 2023, X^[4] user @Trey_Explainer quoted an August 4th, 2023 post by Jonathan Kennedy, showing various The Amazing Digital Circus characters being taken over by the glitch, gathering over 4,000 likes while the original drawing gathered over 2,000 likes.

On September 22nd, 2024, X^[6] user @OceanManEX quoted a September 8th, 2024 Fugget About It drawing, writing, "are yall seeing this," and gathering over 30,000 likes in a day.

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