The last thing I was doing before obsessively trolling gaming forums and obsessively AIMing my friends dumb links was obsessively watching "SpongeBob." Maybe that's just the natural progression of the Online Millennial: step 1) Watch and internalize "SpongeBob " 2) immerse oneself in the weird and absurd humor of the internet 3) apply that deep-seated "SpongeBob" knowledge to said weird and absurd humor. Kids who're about to graduate high school now weren't even born when the show premiered! The timing has to explain some of this. I think we'll get into how "SpongeBob SquarePants" is ripe with meme fodder, but on a surface level it feels like the show's peak in popularity came at the right time for perpetually-online folks in their twenties.
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Mat: As someone who generally stays away from any meme or shitposting groups, it certainly feels like SpongeBob stuff hits the mainstream more consistently than other cartoons and TV shows. What did we do to be so blessed as to receive such beautiful and creative SpongeBob memes as often as we do? Like, there are more SpongeBob memes than memes from anywhere else, right? 1 Am I crazy or does it feel that way? Joey: There is literally nothing I'd rather do. Mat: I think it's about time a pair of doofuses team up to overanalyze the crap out of why memes about an 18-year-old Nickelodeon cartoon are so popular, don't you? Is there something bigger than just Bikini Bottom here? Digg editors Mat and Joey discuss: But long before these two hit memes captured our imaginations and racked up retweets, a whole host of "SpongeBob" jokes have peppered the greater arc of internet humor in a way that may or may not show where millennial humor is headed.
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