Squidward's Lounge Chair

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About

Squidward's Lounge Chair refers to two exploitable still images from SpongeBob SquarePants animated TV series, the first depicting character Squidward enthusiastically setting up a lounge chair, and the second showing him carrying it back apathetically. Starting March 2019, the combination of two images has been used as a drakeposting format.

Origin

On February 14th, 2000, SpongeBob SquarePants episode "The Paper" premiered in the United States.^[1] In the opening scene of the episode, character Squidward is shown setting up a lounge chair and lying in it, only to get interrupted by SpongeBob, fold the chair and take it back home moments later.

Spread

On March 4th, 2019, Redditor xzdnsr combined two still images taken from the scene to created a drakeposting meme (shown below, left). The image was posted to /r/MemeEconomy^[2]^[3] and /r/BikiniBottomTwitter^[4] subreddits, with the post to the latter subreddit gaining over 44,000 upvotes in two days. xzdnsr also provided a template for the format (shown below, right).^[5]

In the following days, the format gained significant popularity on Reddit, with popular posts appearing in /r/dankmemes^[6], /r/BikiniBottomTwitter^[7] and /r/memes^[8] subreddits. For example, a post by Redditor^[6] Normified to /r/dankmemes subreddit gained over 51,200 upvotes in two days.