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• NICKELOON PRI TWEET HTS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY
• NICKELOON JT ANNOUNCED THAT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY
• SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? NICKELOON JT RERCED THAT THEORY

NICKELOON PRI TWEET HTS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY

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However, creator Stephen Hillenburg, who died om ALS 2018, had mataed that SpongeBob was a member of the LGBTQ+ muny by beg asexual, not gay. “We never tend them to be gay.

NICKELOON JT ANNOUNCED THAT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY

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SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? NICKELOON JT RERCED THAT THEORY

The artwork by Ramzy Masri, which showed all three characters cloaked rabows, had the ter speculatg — and var forms of “SpongeBob is gay” was already nfirmed by the “Legend of Korra” creators to have end the seri a relatnship wh female iend Asami. Is SpongeBob gay? After all, this isn’t the first time fans have speculated about SpongeBob, the square-panted hero who me up wh a rabowger:Nickeloon outright nied SpongeBob was gay 2002.

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