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Nickelodeon reveals SpongeBob SquarePants might be gay in a tweet

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Children’s network Nickelodeon is celebrating Pride Month, and in a tweet Saturday hints that a certain absorbent, yellow sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea might be part of the LGBTQ+ community.

In a tweet Saturday, the network posted pictures of at least two characters who identify as LGBTQ+ including Avatar Korra from The Legend of Korra who identifies as bisexual, and actor Michael D. Cohen from Henry Danger who reportedly transitioned from female to male two decades ago.
Twitter was a buzz Saturday when Nickelodeon posted an artist’s rainbow-colored SpongeBob, fueling the rumors again that the character is gay. Nickelodeon did not confirm nor deny this, and comments for the tweet were turned off.

Although widely rumored for years, creator Stephen Hillenberg denied SpongeBob was gay in a 2002 interview, stating that the cartoon character was ‘asexual.’ Hillenburg died in 2018.

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It's a cartoon character.

A. Cartoon. Character.

Shaking my head ruefully.

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Originally Posted by Platapus (Post 2677923)

Shaking my head ruefully.

You and me both.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju8Nz2cmCp0

Did this song have anything to do with it?

(Gary is a pet snail, by the way)

Nothing surprises me anymore!! :-?

Rank heresy. Next you're going to claim that the Teletubbies are gay too.

Are they? I didn't know that! :hmmm:

The character is pretty obviously asexual, this is just more insulting patronising pandering. Obviously there’s nothing wrong with someone creating a gay cartoon character, but it’s not relevant to Spongebob.

And while I can’t speak for them, I’m fairly sure that the kind of representation the LGBT community wants isn’t random characters being called gay once and nothing else.

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Originally Posted by August (Post 2678434)

Rank heresy. Next you're going to claim that the Teletubbies are gay too.

That would be Jerry Falwell. That man spent way too much time watching Telebubbies. :D