Guys In 2020 SpongeBob Might Look Like

Submission 12,567

Part of a series on SpongeBob SquarePants. [View Related Entries]

About

Guys, In 2020 SpongeBob Might Look Like is a memorable quote from a viral clip from a video by YouTubers XtremeGamez. While the clip was originally posted in 2017, it went viral in December 2019, as people participated in a mock countdown to 2020 when, supposedly, the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants would look like a human.

Origin

While the original video has since been deleted, on June 27th, 2017, XtremeGamez tweeted^[1] a link to the video (shown below). They wrote, "THIS IS WHAT SPONGEBOB WILL LOOK LIKE IN 2020!"

The clip shows the hosts of XtremeGamez showing an image of SpongeBob in his classic form and a rendering of SpongeBob as a cartoon human boy labeled "2020" (shown below). The hosts say, "Guys, in 2020 SpongeBob might look like this in the animations."

[This video has been removed]

Spread

On June 11th, 2019, YouTuber ape hole shared a parody of the video. Within one year, the post received more than 4,600 views (shown below, left).

On December 6th, 2019, YouTuber Jibboston posted the clip with the image of the boy SpongeBob replaced with an image of Peter Griffin from the television cartoon series Family Guy. The post received more than 10,000 views (shown below, right).

On December 27th, Redditor ^[2] PokeBrick02 posted a screenshot from the video in the /r/Pyrocynical subreddit. They titled thread, "5 Days Left Gamers…"

On December 31st, Twitter user @Fl0r_Geneva tweeted the video with the caption, "T H E R E I S N O G O I N G B A C K N O W." The tweet received more than 95,000 views, 14,000 likes and 3,600 in less than four days (shown below).