Nickeloon's 21-year old character, Spongebob Squarepants, me out as gay — or so many fans speculate | Al Día News

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• NICKELOON JT ANNOUNCED THAT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY
• SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY! NICKELOON (FALLY) CONFIRMS HIS LGBTQ STAT FOR PRI
• SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? NICKELOON JT RERCED THAT THEORY
• DID SPONGEBOB FALLY COME OUT AS GAY?
• NICKELOON PRI TWEET HTS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY
• NICKELOON'S 21-YEAR OLD CHARACTER, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, ME OUT AS GAY — OR SO MANY FANS SPECULATE

NICKELOON JT ANNOUNCED THAT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY

) Patrick both wh limp wrists, forhadowg this revelatn by reprentatn children's media remas srce, largely due to phback om studs and parents who equate visible gay, lbian, bisexual or trans characters wh the "sexualizatn" of children. Jt last month, Pixar released a short film on Disney+ featurg a gay protagonist; Out followed his journey to e out to his parents and troduce them to his boyiend. And later this year, Marvel Studs will but the first openly gay superhero the MCU — and his hband.

Given the fandom’s long-held belief that SpongeBob intified as gay, ’s the least Nickeloon uld do for this beloved kids show, and social media reactns did not disappot. Fans quickly reacted sharg stills om the show and celebratg SpongeBob’s om SheKnowsGrey's Anatomy Fan-Favore Chyler Leigh Com Out Heartfelt LetterCoolhs Founr Natasha Case Spills Her Kid-Snack Hack & It Involv Eel, Not Ice CreamThe Trans Moms Hate Mother's Day -- Here's WhyNot surprised about #SpongebobIsGay sce has always kda jt been the way I have seen SB, but that do not stop me om beg DELIRIOUSLY happy about SB reprentg lgbtq+ culture ❤️?️‍?— ℍ???? ???? (@EmmaHso) June 14, 2020Other fans of the show have taken issue wh this, however, potg out that SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg had intified the character as asexual years ago. Further, sce SpongeBob is not explicly lled gay, fans are left wonrg whether the tweet was fact a misguid alln to his asexualy, which is not referenced the LGBTQ Nickeloon would undoubtedly have ma a stronger statement by, well, makg an actual statement, this is still a big step forward for reprentatn kids’ TV, which has long led LGBTQ characters and relatnships too “adult” for s ntent, spe their fort cludg adult heterosexual relatnships.

5% feel unsafe at kids had jt as many beloved gay rtoon characters as those they assume to be straight, how many LGBTQ kids might feel better accepted and unrstood? #SpongeBobIsGay started trendg as many cid the tweet was nfirmatn of the character’s sexualy. Due part to his close relatnship wh bt iend Patrick Star, the ter had long ago cid that SpongeBob was ed gay.

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY! NICKELOON (FALLY) CONFIRMS HIS LGBTQ STAT FOR PRI

“We never tend them to be gay. The cln of the rtoon sponge igned a social media nversatn surroundg SpongeBob’s sexual inty, wh some folks clarg him “a gay in. “We never tend them to be gay, ” Hillenburg said of SpongeBob and Patrick 2005, per People.

” (FYI someone n be both gay and asexual, as such inti are not mutually exclive. One follower asked: “Did they jt nfirm spongebob as gay?

He said of Spongebob’s character creatn 2005: “We never tend them to be gay. If you ask the girls on Twter, SpongeBob SquarePants is gay.

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? NICKELOON JT RERCED THAT THEORY

"We never tend them to be gay, " Hillenburg said of SpongeBob and Patrick 2005. Spongebob, gay? “We never tend them to be gay, ” said Hillenburg 2005.

SpongeBob SquarePants' sexualy has entered the chat -- and lo and behold, the Biki Bottom dweller might be, as many spected for years, gay. Fans have known for a while Korra was gay/bisexual -- as was revealed the show self. Spongebob gay?

DID SPONGEBOB FALLY COME OUT AS GAY?

Funny enough, Nickeloon AND the seri creator Stephen Hillenburg me out firmly the early 2000s and explicly said SBSP was NOT gay... 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. ”Hillenburg doubled down on those ments to Rters 2005, sayg: “We never tend them to be gay.

”Unls Nickeloon is gog back on seri creator Hillenburg’s statements, SpongeBob isn’t gay.

NICKELOON PRI TWEET HTS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY

While Nickeloon’s post had some perhaps erroneoly spreadg the word that SpongeBob was “nfirmed” to be gay, others were celebratg him as the asexual in he already is:You May Like. Absorbent and yellow and poro is he… and gay?

Fans of the ntil rtoon, which began airg 1999, have long-spected Spongebob to be gay. “Announcg Spongebob beg gay then turng ments off e a’t no bate, ” tweeted @Drebae_, notg how the work turned off the abily to reply to their tweet. “Spongebob gay?

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. Nickeloon sparked exced discsn over the weekend after a tweet om the work appeared to out inic character Spongebob Squarepants as gay.

NICKELOON'S 21-YEAR OLD CHARACTER, SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, ME OUT AS GAY — OR SO MANY FANS SPECULATE

Seri creator Stephen Hillenburg nied the allegatn that Spongebob is gay a 2002 terview, but that didn’t stop his populary growg wh queer viewers. It also didn’t stop noted homophobe Jam Dobson of Foc on the Fay om attackg the character 2005 for promotg homosexualy. Related: Netflix shoots down cricism featur too many gay characters.

Not long after, the hashtag #SpongebobisGay began trendg on social media. SpongeBob's image was shared alongsi photos of Korra om Avatar: The Legend of Korra, whose bisexualy has been wrten to the show, and transgenr Canadian actor Michael Cohen, who played Schwoz Schwartz Henry Danger, leadg many to believe that the tweet signaled SpongeBob as beg more than jt an tweet immediately had fans speculatg that meant SpongeBob intifi as gay, or somewhere on the LGBTQ+ spectm, and immediately drew praise. Reactg to the tweet, one person wrote, "we stan spongebob the gay in, " sharg several imag of the character.

Another person lled for "GAY SPONGEBOB STANS RISEEEEEEE.