Spongebob Badasspants

About

Spongebob Badasspants is a fan-made depiction of the fictional cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants, depicting the character as scowling with a grown man's body wearing a grey sweater with a plaid lining.

Origin

On August 8th, 2013, DeviantArt ^[1] user LauraRamirez published the image "Spongebob Badasspants." Within seven years, the post received more than 6,000 views, 190 reactions and 125 comments (shown below).

Spread

Two years later, on January 15th, 2015 the image appeared on Unreality Mag's^[2] list of "20 Children’s Characters Turned into Complete Badasses."

The following year, Redditor ^[3] _Ummmm shared an edited version of the image that featured the text, "Lord, forgive me, but a hustla ain't never not finna hustle ya feel me." The post received more than 290 points (99% upvoted) in less than four years (shown below, left).

On February 13th, 2019, a Redditor^[4] shared a version that included the text "One of you changed my roblox password and if you don't change it back there will be consequences" (shown below, center). The image was later shared on /r/okbuddyretard,^[5] where it received more than 1,400 points (99% upvoted) in less than one year.

The following year, on February 1st, Redditor^[6] InkyBoiiii shared a variation that included the text "I know what Victoria's secret is." The post received more than 20,000 points (99% upvoted) and 150 comments in less than one week (shown below, right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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