>>105727168His name is in the title card of every opening. Created by Stephen Hillenburg. People who take more than a passive interest in the show know who he is. 1.2 million people wouldn't have signed the petition if no one did.
>>105727188>cameos are a metric for iconographyRetard. Even then there's been Spongebob jokes in every facet of pop culture. Try watching a modern TV show that doesn't have a Spongebob joke somewhere. Go to fucking China or even Egypt and you'll see Spongebob plastered on everything. He's an international star. Here's the Russian army singing his theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhuzb3WMntc>>105727215Do you literally only go to /co/? Spongebob is ubiquitous. You can't go anywhere without seeing a Spongebob meme or reaction image. /v/ has "describe a game with a Spongebob quote" threads.
Facebook and Twitter have constant Spongebob memes, like the one with Spongebob repeating what someone said with alternating capitals. Leave your goddamn house and ask someone on the street who Spongebob is and they'll know. The 2015 movie made 3 times as much as the 2004 movie did despite being 11 years later.
Fuck, when this half time show thing happened there were threads everywhere outside of /co/. Open your eyes.
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