Published 11:52 IST, June 14th 2020

Nickelodeon celebrates Pride Month by hinting SpongeBob SquarePants is gay, netizens cheer

Nickelodeon turned off its replies to the post, but fans were adamant and took to the social media anyway to celebrate the presumptive revelation. 

Reported by: Vishal Tiwari
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Nickelodeon on June 13 shared a post on Twitter which took every SpongeBob SquarePants fan by surprise. Nickelodeon posted a Tweet celebrating Pride Month and also shared three pictures along with post of its three famous characters SpongeBob from SpongeBob SquarePants, Schwoz Schwartz from Henry Danger, and Korra from Legend of Korra. All three characters were wrapped in coloured clothing and were pictured in front of a rainbow coloured background. Although tweet did t say that SpongeBob was gay, but fans were quick to assume that he is part of community. 

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SpongeBob Gay?

show that was created by Stephen Hillenburg and began premiering in 1999 h never revealed SpongeBob's sexual orientation. However, Stephen during an interview in 2005 said that SpongeBob is asexual, meaning he doesn't have sexual feelings. American animated series once hinted Sandy Cheeks to be SpongeBob's girlfriend, genius Texan squirrel who lives in undersea town Bikini Bottom with or characters of show. 

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Netizens are just loving hint that Nickelodeon gave m about SpongeBob being gay. Some hardcore fans were also surprised by fact y did t tice it before. Nickelodeon turned off its replies to post, but fans were amant and took to social media platform anyway to celebrate presumptive revelation. 

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11:52 IST, June 14th 2020