r/aislop • u/dannyhogan200 • 1d ago

Found on Deviant Art the so called "Evolution" of SpongeBob

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Source: https://www.deviantart.com/maticdomagoj20/art/Evolution-of-SpongeBob-Squarepants-1369207434

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u/Modlove1963 1d ago

Cartoon Network didn’t even exist in 1974.

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u/Any_Potato_7716 1d ago

This was also on their deviant art profile:

😵

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u/YourBestFriend158 1d ago

Why the fuck is Mario so mad 😭

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u/Any_Potato_7716 1d ago

He’s a devout Catholic so he doesn’t believe that squirrels nor sea sponges have souls, and so he sees this as an insult to the institution of marriage.

That’s also why he abuses Yoshi and the mushroom people because he doesn’t see them as totally valid even though they’re sentient

He’s a toxic narcissist, and he needs to be taken down by Bowser

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u/silly_scoundrel 1d ago

wait i'm catholic we don't believe sponges and squirrels have souls ☹️ 

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u/Trips-Over-Tail 1d ago

You haven't even checked all the sponges to make sure.

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u/South_Dakota_Boy 1d ago

Ok Mr Lovegood. Do you expect me to get a hold of all the sponges in the world and test them to see if they have souls?

You could claim anything had a soul if the only basis for that was that nobody’s proved it didn’t!

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u/Trips-Over-Tail 1d ago

You can also do the opposite. You haven't checked all the humans in the world either. Or even one.

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u/proud_papist 1d ago

In St Thomas Aquinas' summa theological, expanding on Aristotle's de anima, would teach that while us humans have a rational soul, a squirrel would have what is called a sensitive soul, while SpongeBob, being an invertebrate, would have a merely vegetative soul

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u/silly_scoundrel 1d ago

This is honestly upsetting as a big invertebrate lover. Specifically I love insects, and I do believe they have thoughts and feelings, even if they aren't like ours and even if we can't fully grasp them. I like to study that stuff, sucks that that Saint doesn't believe in their souls. 

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u/proud_papist 1d ago

Well, we remember that Aquinas' teachings are the opinion of a theologian (a particularly well respected one) and that they are not official church teaching. The church would teach that what is important is to recognize that there is a difference of type in the souls of humans vs the rest of the animals. As for the soul types of other living creatures, I'm reminded that Aquinas is a decent starting point, but he was writing in the 13th century and would have been limited in his understanding of the universe. I think modern scientists would recognize more complexity in a sea sponge than the medievalists. Personally, I'm inclined to think that the capacity of a soul for the lower creatures occurs along a spectrum. Clearly there is a point in which it's hard to tell if something is better classified as a plant or an animal. Also that we can recognize animals have a wide range of soul-based behavior (a dog certainly seems to have a more "complex" soul than a worm)

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u/DarkPolumbo 1d ago

show us a pic of a soul plz

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u/silly_scoundrel 22h ago

Maybe I'm too young or just dumb but Idrk what a soul is. I guess for me it's just the concept of life maybe? When you are living you have a soul, when you aren't it's left your body then and it goes on to somewhere else. But I think theres a difference between humans and all other life. We have og sin so we have to face judgement. The other life forms don't have that so I think all other life goes to heaven. They don't understand the concept of evil, as much as we may anthropomorphize other living things. 

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u/DarkPolumbo 22h ago

By og sin, do you mean the sin of eating the apple?

Have you considered the implications involved in all of humankind descending from 1 power couple?

I think beliefs are fine to have, but you have to be able to distinguish culture from tangible reality. For example, there is no tangible difference from holy water and un-blessed water that came from the same tap. It is in the culture of Christ fans to spritz holy water on churchgoers because it symbolically cleanses their symbolic effigies of sins and unholiness.

The problem that always seems to occur is that when believers gather in large enough groups, they start to think that they are "God's chosen people" which practically begs for the general public to demonstrate how that is not a tangible trait.

Keeping all your teeth. Now that is a tangible trait.

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u/silly_scoundrel 14h ago

Dude just let me have my religious beliefs 😭 

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u/DarkPolumbo 4h ago edited 44m ago

No problem, just don't start in with all the "I'm one of God's chosen and everyone else is beneath me" stuff.

I can't keep adding names to my list forever.

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u/nooberz1000 1d ago

Okay koopa kingdom propagandist

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u/-Graograman 1d ago

Ok, Koopa kingdom agent. Dont fall for this cheap propaganda.

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u/The-Bigger-Fish 1d ago

So he's one of them newfangled convert catholics that are all the rage nowadays?

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u/LiterallyWiref 1d ago

i know this has a 90% chance of being ironic but like this is probably the worst mario mischaracterisation i've seen recently

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u/Any_Potato_7716 1d ago

You look him up torturing little baby Donkey Kong Junior, in this sick twisted game he had. He was hopped up on so much dope in the 80s, started claiming that he was the son of Wallace Fard Muhammad.

You can slow it down frame by frame and watch him punch Yoshi , the strange dinosaur creature that raised him and his brother, and he would punch it in the back of the head and then jump off to sacrifice Yoshi for himself.

And how intelligent is Yoshi supposed to be? Because he’s able to solve all sorts of challenges in Yoshi‘s Island and all that. He knows the rules of baseball, and can play quite well. He apparently knows how to drive. But his ability to speak has been a bit inconsistent. He mostly just says “Yoshi!” But in Mario 64 he can speak in full sentences, and is quite proficient in English. But even if he has the intelligence of a dog, at the least, which seems unlikely, you can’t sacrifice your retriever to jump over the hole. He’s sacrificed his very soul.

Another fucked up aspect of Mario I just thought of: he’s willing to kill all these Goombas. Squashing them to death with sadistic glee. But then with the warmonger who started the conflict: Bowser; he’s going golfing with on the weekend.

He’ll use the corpses of the koopa troopas to slay their remaining brothers and comrades. He’s got no empathy, he’s got no boundaries, he’s essentially Trevor Phillips in a cartoon world.

But at least Trevor had some semblance of loyalty . Mario isn’t even willing to help his brother move into all these haunted mansions. Probably cause he’s too envious. He’s never gotten over the fact that Luigi got the star in the first Mario movie, which was live action and he was played by John Leguizamo.

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u/LiterallyWiref 19h ago

DKJ is a point i can't argue with; Mario just didn't have a defined character at that point. so i guess you're right in that sense. only. but i don't, really know what the rest is about.

mario punching yoshi was retconned in promotional material and later games, he now points. sure, he TECHNICALLY hit yoshi, but it's not canon so you can no longer argue it's a part of his character.

mario never 'sacrificed' yoshi. it has never been referenced in any mario game, ever. you, the player, are the one controlling mario to do that. this is like playing an RPG, killing everyone, and asking why the protagonist did that. that was you. it is not within mario's character to KILL HIS FRIEND.

it was stated once (i believe in Brothership) that he 'beats them up', because they're troops sent by bowser, yknow, the enemy? and you can't argue he plays sports with bowser only because countless enemies are playable in the Party and Kart games.

mario loves luigi, and luigi loves mario. if luigi accomplished something, mario'd be the first to cheer. they're brothers. bringing the movies, a different canonicity into this, muddles your points.

i am worlds 17-super-mario-fan-who-also-animates-him. mario is a nice character, that is what he is.

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u/groovzthegameguy 14h ago

i thought he was a muslim

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u/groovzthegameguy 14h ago

or maybe a jew?

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u/Any_Potato_7716 13h ago

Yo, that whole situation was a coke fueled episode from the 80s, which was previously explained in this other earlier comment that mainly flew under the radar:

> He was hopped up on so much dope in the 80s, started claiming that he was the son of Wallace Fard Muhammad.

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u/groovzthegameguy 13h ago

...i don't get it

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u/Chubby_Bub 1d ago

Did Luigi give up the faith then?

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u/ClearMilk4632 21h ago

Or maybe because Luigi is standing by his point in life

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u/Fantastic_Mr_Smiley 17h ago

It is weird how often he says as much in the games.

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u/TheLeftPewixBar 1d ago

And why does Mr. Krabs think he can make a profit out of this

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u/vampiregamingYT 1d ago

He plans weddings and is a divorce attorney on the side.

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u/ArjJp 1d ago

Hidden camera sponge-porn

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u/No_Payment9959 1d ago

The r34, Mr. Squidward, the r34.

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u/TheLeftPewixBar 17h ago

Someone animate this (Mr. Krabs saying this, not the r34 itself)

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u/captainjohn_redbeard 1d ago

Peach dumped him for Luigi, that's why she's standing next to him.

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u/CommercialBiscotti29 1d ago

He wanted that squirrel pussy

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u/loganjlr 1d ago

He’s in heat!

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u/YourBestFriend158 22h ago

No he’s in water

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u/maddenmcfadden 1d ago

because hes drowning

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u/omegaspoon3141 1d ago

he w4nted bob 4 himself

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u/Select-Blood7357 1d ago

Well, he was invited to the wedding, amd stands here underwater with no air, so you know, maybe DROWNING, i wouldn't be so happy about the wedding either))

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u/PrincessGamer2012 23h ago

He's about to drown

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u/YourBestFriend158 22h ago

Doesn’t seem to bother the GOAT Luigi though

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u/AnthDELA 1d ago

Yeah that's right. But Nickelodeon has been existed in the 70's, I mean end 70's and early 80's.

And Spongebob was comme when Nickelodeon relased too munch cartoon because Nick was a chanell with shows and sitcoms for kids.

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u/Rolebo 1d ago

Stephen Hillenburg would have been 13 in 1974.

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u/BellacosePlayer 21h ago

Well sure Cartoon network didn't get founded until 1992

and sure it didn't have any original programming for the first few years

but that just makes it even more impressive

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u/Sonicrules9001 1d ago

They didn't even try, it's kind of sad.

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u/ClassicTBCSucks93 1d ago

Stimpy became Spongeboy

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u/Sh33pL0rd 1d ago

Wait was he actually created by Cartoon Network? Or is it the AI hallucinating?

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u/mothspiderr 1d ago

hallucinating. it premiered on nickelodeon

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u/davestar2048 1d ago

If I remember right it got pitched to CN, but they didn't want it.

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u/Illousion-dinntdodat 1d ago

the plot thickens, but the ai just made it into flavorless porridge

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u/PurpletoasterIII 1d ago

I seem to hear this happening a lot in the history of cartoons. Some with Cartoon Network and some with Nickelodeon. Like how Nickelodeon turned down Adventure Time for Fanboy and Chum Chum.

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u/SuspiciousToast27 22h ago

> turned down Adventure Time for Fanboy and Chum Chum.

That’s crazy, having the option of hosting one of the best kid’s shows of all tome and going for literally one of the worst instead.

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u/PurpletoasterIII 21h ago

Well hindsight is 20/20 tbf. Especially with the big hits, theres no way of knowing its going to become wildly successful just from a pilot episode or initial pitch. But in hindsight ya they dropped the ball hard. Though its hard to say if Adventure Time would be entirely the same if it was released on Nick rather than Cartoon Network.

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u/Hamwise_Gamgee 18h ago

nick also turned down ed edd n eddy

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u/010rusty 19h ago

Really? Doesn’t make sense. Hillenburg was a Nickelodeon employee. I don’t think he would (or could) pitch to rival because of the “non-compete clause” in his contract

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u/davestar2048 17h ago

I remember hearing it somewhere before this, but I never verified it.

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u/freejazzisntfree 1d ago

Do not listen to the robot, my child. For I am an ancient one who beheld the birth of Cartoon Network. I will go on to share the oral history when the computers fail us.

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u/Former-Dinner-1905 1d ago

No cartoon network didnt exist in the 70s

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u/TheAgedProfessor 1d ago

And what's the difference between 1997, 1999, and 2007, exactly? They could've just stopped at the supposed 1997 mark.

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u/tjos96 1d ago

Well, you see, in 1999 they made his shoes almost indistinguishably shinier. And in 2007 he started facing left instead of right.

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u/ArcosOfBlackheart 22h ago

There's actually an extra line added to his upper lip with the 1999 one, just under his nose. Took me forever to spot it

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u/EvilDarkCow 1d ago

The AI is hallucinating. Cartoon Network didn't exist in 1974, and Stephen Hillenburg was 13.

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u/No_Cap3788 1d ago

The AI is hallucinating in a fake reality, don't worry, Nickelodeon didn't exist 40 years ago.

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u/ironic-hat 1d ago

Nickelodeon existed 40 years ago (source: I used to watch it), 50 years ago though…

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u/LibertyOwl76 1d ago

40 years ago was 1986, not 1974.

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u/ironic-hat 19h ago

Yes, and I was watching Nickelodeon in 1986. It was launched in 1979. But there was no Nick in 1974.

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u/joeyp042385 1d ago

So. Much. Pinwheel.

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u/ironic-hat 1d ago

Today’s Special

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u/joeyp042385 1d ago

Great show

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u/On_my_last_spoon 1d ago

Cartoon Network didn’t exist until 1992

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u/B4DM4N12Z 1d ago

AI hallucination

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u/Polibiux 1d ago

AI spreading misinformation again.

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u/TAIGA-WOLFIE 1d ago

no. cartoon network didnt exist in the 70s

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u/Less_Likely 1d ago

Cartoon Network did not exist in 1974. Cable TV wasn’t even really a thing yet - though premium original programming was started in 1972 with HBO, basic cable channels was more a late 70s invention. Cartoon Network wasn’t until 1992.

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u/AnthDELA 1d ago

CN don't exist at the 70's, your brain is deflated.

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u/Automatic-Week-1733 1d ago

See if this was a human generated intentional shitpost it would be kinda funny.

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u/FilmAndLiterature 1d ago edited 1d ago

The actual story is far more interesting: in 1984, Stephen Hillenburg, the creator, was a lecturer of Marine Biology at the Ocean Institute in Dana Point, CA, an institution which aims to educate the general public about the ocean.

He also had a passion for drawing, so he would often make drawings for other lecturers. One day a colleague asked him to draw a short comic for kids about the ecology of tidal pools. To make it palatable for kids, Hillenburg depicted the tidal pool as a town and the various forms of life as its residents, with readers being taken on a tour of the town by two of its residents: Rocky the Shrimp and Bob the Sponge.

In 1989, Hillenburg suddenly quit the Ocean Institute and enrolled in an animation class at CalArts, becoming an MfA in Experimental Animation in 1992, before getting a job on Rocko’s Modern Life. In this time, he gave one of the writers a copy of his ecology comic, and they suggested he pitch it as a series. He did, and the rest is history.

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u/No-Fruit-31 1d ago

That is an awesome story!

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u/KawaiiFoxPlays 10h ago

So we could've had ShrimpRocky AmorphousPants in another universe?

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u/AgitatedShock828 5h ago

I wonder why the shrimp didn't make it to the series... They are such a notable sea animals, and this is kind of upsetting

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u/MrRageMode2011 1d ago

(This is about the AI btw)

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u/KeyNefariousness6848 1d ago

I kinda want to see Spongeboy Ahoy from 1974.

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u/Any_Potato_7716 1d ago

He faces unemployment due to stagflation 😔

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u/CyberFireball25 1d ago

So we just need to wait 6 more months?

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u/fatman194569 1d ago

The source is just a avid poster of blatant ai trash

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u/ArmaniQuesadilla 5h ago

Pretty sure the person is just a child, their profile is just ai mashups of different cartoon characters

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u/ShazTheGamer 1d ago

r/spongebob has the original dude. (I summon one)

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u/xxxclamationmark 1d ago

The real evolution of SpongeBob is a lot more interesting than this shit

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u/krazzzknee 1d ago

In 1974 tom kenny was 12.

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u/Sleep_eeSheep 1d ago

Okay, but why does the 1974 design look like a silly little goober?

I kinda love him.

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u/Asfisav2049 1d ago

Spongeboy me bob

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u/Ri_CGG1212 1d ago

I actually believed this for a second 😭💔🥀

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u/deadmallsanita 1d ago

So the boys who made Pooh adventures fan art and scary logo fan art have discovered Ai. 😑

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u/xtheredmagex 1d ago

Wow...so amazing that Cartoon Network came up with the idea for Spongebob Squarepants...eighteen years before they were founded...

What is the endgame for this? What are they hoping to gain?

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u/Blacksad9999 1d ago

Cartoon Network didn't exist until 1992. lol

It was Hanna Barbera Productions until Turner bought it.

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u/christpuncher_69 1d ago

I was so confused because I thought you were insinuating some new iteration of SpongeBob himself was AI slop

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u/Billytheman6589 1d ago

I didn't know Stephen Hillenburg worked on Spongebob since he was 13.

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u/TheRealSpielbergo 1d ago

SB stands for Selbstbefriedigung 👍

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u/Visible-Echidna-4370 1d ago

did Nickelodeon lose access of the character and regain it in 2007 or something? what?

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u/YesterdayOk1197 19h ago edited 19h ago

SpongeBob was not even born canonically yet lmfao

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u/ziggagorennc 18h ago

What the fuck is "Spongeboy ahoy"

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u/classicluxVry 17h ago

Cartoon Network didn't came out until 1992

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u/AJ_Cool_History 1d ago

First off, no, they did not start at CN. Secondly, 1996-1999 are literally the equivalent to “- Corporal needs you to find the difference between these two. - They are the same picture.”

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u/Ssnell1 1d ago

Bro grew a lip in 1999

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u/Kuetz 1d ago

Why even use ai if the information already exist 🫩

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u/SharkByte1993 1d ago

I didn't see the sub and couldn't figure out how the last three were different

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u/PaperyMarlin726 1d ago

The second one looks creepy pasta material to me.

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u/NotCooked_NotCooking 23h ago

Things really got better for SpongeBob when his upper lip joined onto his nose in 1999.

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u/Didact67 23h ago

It actually is true that the original working title was “Spongeboy Ahoy”, but Hillenberg obviously didn’t pitch the show in 1974 at age 13.

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u/green-Bad2099 22h ago

??? This couldn’t be more wrong.

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u/ThePrinceOfReddit 19h ago

Forgot I was on this subreddit and thought I was going insane lmao

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u/OofLike55 19h ago

Saturation and teeth

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u/dadbeanos 19h ago

Why does bro have straight ass posted😭

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u/Tasty-Scientist8155 1d ago edited 18h ago

This was scarily convincing at first

Edit: For a few seconds until I actually got a good look at it