Nickeloon celebrated Pri month by announcg that SpongeBob SquarePants is gay. Check out how fans are reactg here.
Contents:
- 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
- IS SPONGEBOB GAY?
- NICKELOON REVEALS THAT SPONGEBOB IS GAY
- IS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? HERE'S WHAT THE SERI CREATOR HAD TO SAY.
- WA…IS SPONGEBOB GAY?
- IS SPONGEBOB GAY? WHAT’S SPONGEBOB’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN?
NICKELOON JT ANNOUNCED THAT SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY
Is SpongeBob gay? Maybe not, but the Nickeloon rtoon character draws gay fans for his flamboyant liftyle and tolerant attu * spongbob 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.
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS IS GAY! NICKELOON (FALLY) CONFIRMS HIS LGBTQ STAT FOR PRI
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.
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? NICKELOON JT RERCED THAT THEORY
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.
IS SPONGEBOB GAY?
Due part to his close relatnship wh bt iend Patrick Star, the ter had long ago cid that SpongeBob was ed gay.
“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.
NICKELOON REVEALS THAT SPONGEBOB IS GAY
” (FYI someone n be both gay and asexual, as such inti are not mutually exclive.
IS SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS GAY? HERE'S WHAT THE SERI CREATOR HAD TO SAY.
Is SpongeBob gay?
Maybe not, but the Nickeloon rtoon character draws gay fans for his flamboyant liftyle and tolerant attu Is SpongeBob SquarePants, Nickeloon’s buoyant rtoon character, a iend of Dorothy?
WA…IS SPONGEBOB GAY?
Certaly plenty of his fans are gay, the Journal says, notg that stor New York and Atlanta that ter to gay ctomers n’t keep SpongeBob merchandise on the shelv. ” As an article on the Gay Fancial Network’s webse puts , ”You do the math, folks.
” While Nickeloon tells the Journal that the characters on ”SpongeBob SquarePants” are not gay, and that the show is aimed at kids ag 2 to 11, the channel acknowledg an adult fan base, airg the show as late as 11:30 p.
IS SPONGEBOB GAY? WHAT’S SPONGEBOB’S SEXUAL ORIENTATN?
Not only are mature fans buyg SpongeBob ems stor gay neighborhoods New York and Atlanta, as the Journal reports, but Wt Hollywood and San Francis, too, reports. ”They are pretty good sellers pecially wh young gay kids, and guys their 30s thk ’s hilar, ” Raymond Ridrg, the assistant manager of the Don’t Panic store San Francis’s Castro District, tells the webse.
”I don’t thk anyone has bought bee they thk he’s gay. He don’t have anythg on him that screams gay. But the gay populatn lik him.