The SpongeBob SquarePants franchise drew a line in the sand by shutting down one of the most common misspellings of the cartoon sea sponge's name.
The official SpongeBob Twitter account posted a short, simple message to the Internet to finally address the longstanding error. For the past two decades, land-dwellers all around the globe have blundered when addressing the great harbinger of nautical nonsense, and SpongeBob has finally had enough. According to the good noodle himself, "Spongebob" with a lowercase "b" is incorrect. "SpongeBob" is his name, the tweet declared, and the ruling is final.
Since premiering in 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has endured as one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. The Nickelodeon cartoon has run for over 250 episodes over the course of 13 seasons, and the show is still on the air. The franchise has also spawned various film and TV spinoffs, such as The Patrick Star Show and Kamp Koral, both of which have continued to keep SquarePants in the public eye.
Between the branching spinoffs, Internet memes and the occasional real-life SpongeBob sighting, the character has long lived large, which is why the "Spongebob" misspelling has become so notorious. The widespread error has endured throughout the character's entire lifetime, and it could possibly continue to do so until the very end of time.
Thanks to the correction tweet, however, the public now knows where SpongeBob himself stands on the issue. Countless arguments and mass misspellings can finally come to an end, so long as the "Squarepants" movement doesn't rear its ugly head.
Source: Twitter
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