SpongeDubs

SpongeDubs (born: ), is a YouTuber who does "SpongeBob sings" covers of various songs (mostly ones that are popular), much like another YouTuber by the name of Maestro Ziikos, who does a similar type of content.https://www.youtube.com/user/XhamssaX/playlists
==Video Style==
Using applications such as YouTube to Mp3 Converter and softwares such as Notepad++, Sony Vegas Pro 13 and Celemony Melodyne Editor, SpongeDubs makes "SpongeBob sings" song cover videos with clips that contain "clear-enough" voice audio samples from where the character, SpongeBob SquarePants, speaks particular sentences, words and/or other phrases that can be used to 'dub' the lyrics of a song that he is covering. Moreover, there are plenty of guides that help to convert YouTube to Mp3 easily.
Other times, alternatively, SpongeDubs uses AI-synthesized SpongeBob voices — namely, 15.ai, vo.codes, or his friend, fellow YouTuber, SpeakingOfAI — for making SpongeBob sing.
He then exports the raw audio that's used from the aforementioned audio/video clips and imports the audio into the vocal intonation corrector software, Melodyne 4 (studio version), to tune/shift the pitches of the audio of the vocal notes of the sampled clips to the correct keys of the original song's melodies. After that step is finished, he exports the audio of the tuned vocals that he then imports into Sony Vegas Pro 13, (the video editor that he uses,) to lastly make some final-product edits to the audio & visuals for the video. Finally, after all of the entire process of making the dub video is completed, he renders the finished production of it into an output video file format. From there, he uploads it to his YouTube channel and (usually) sets a scheduled publish date for the video to automatically post itself on a particular date & at a particular time.
==History==
His first official "SpongeBob sings" video, under the "SpongeDubs" name, is "SpongeBob sings "No Tears Left To Cry" by Ariana Grande",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JgnhdOFL9w published on July 17, 2018.
However, in April of 2017, before "SpongeDubs" even came to be an idea of 
his, he made "SpongeBob sings "That's What I Like" by Bruno Mars",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik6Xp8bj1gE which he later decided to re-upload it to his "SpongeDubs" YouTube channel in 2018, after having rediscovered the forgotten video of it.
The video's description states: "This episode was lost to the sands of time...until I found a copy in my underwear drawer. In all seriousness, this video was made in April 2017, long before SpongeDubs was even an idea. I'm reuploading it here for posterity.", which means that this would mark one of the earliest times he has ever made a "SpongeBob sings" video.
It is also noted, in a pinned comment that SpongeDubs posted on the re-uploaded video,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik6Xp8bj1gE that he used to make dub videos of Donald Trump singing (or rapping), somewhat similarly to the ones he currently does on SpongeBob. It was revealed that he used to post these dubs on 2 separate YouTube channels; One by the name of "TrumpsDubs",https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChI5L1NdtlD2iVItJq1AXJA and one that is titled under his own name.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2AXKi8eAGY&list=PLsmiFp4T2jhbchjWOY2xveJotjhlNrpRn&index=1
===The "TrumpsDubs" Account===
SpongeDubs began this channel on March 10, 2017.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChI5L1NdtlD2iVItJq1AXJA/videos The format of video style used for this channel is practically identically alike to the format that's equated with the videos posted on the "SpongeDubs" channel. Only one SpongeBob-related video was uploaded to the TrumpsDubs channel, and that was the previously mentioned "SpongeBob sings "That's What I Like" by Bruno Mars" Dub video. "it was a sort of "special" video for that channel.", He says.
The idea of this video is what ultimately lead to SpongeDubs moving onward to the expansion of operating his SpongeDubs YouTube channel, and kept working on it, from there on.
===Significant rises in popularity & channel growth===
The first few moments in time where SpongeDubs started to begin spiking in popularity, was all the way back during the first couple of weeks where, 3 days after he created the channel, he uploaded a video titled "SpongeBob sings "In My Blood" by Shawn Mendes - acoustic version".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrKO94_bS1Y And in some short amount of time, users were re-posting his video on social media, via sites Twitter, Instagram, iFunny, and even YouTube. (other possible suspects include users on Reddit and TikTok. But more evidence needs to be given to help support the confirmation of this claim.)
This kind of internet exposure caused SpongeDubs' channel to gain a bit more attention. And not only that... but with other videos of his, like; "SpongeBob sings "Fireflies" by Owl City",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiRmZWe6tPg and "SpongeBob sings "Take On Me" by a-ha", he began to see recognition from bigger YouTubers such as Vailskibum94, Yoshimaniac, and Keeyuh.
His channel fully peaked in popularity once he uploaded Dubs of which were heavily requested by a lot of people.
 
From around this point in time, his channel would receive an exponentially massive growth in subscriber count, at such a greatly fast speed. Reaching a solid 100k new subscribers, between September 18, 2018 - December 18, 2018.
On May 21, 2019, SpongeDubs posted "SpongeBob sings "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pss0TYI7RP8 The video went on to gather over 8 million views within the first two months of it's existence. It is one of SpongeDubs's most fastest growing videos in history to ever get as many views as it does now, and is his most popular video. 
====Other notable points in history====
SpongeDubs' Published his first ever YouTube Poop on July 13, 2019 titled "[YTP] SpongeDubs' Jar Of Peanut Jokes Is Totally Empty.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOdoXWixSkg
The first Collaboration he has ever had, was with an animation YouTuber by the name of "ComedyLikerVideos". He did the animations for SpongeDubs' video "SpongeBob sings "I Want To Break Free" by Queen".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw69YzzHWp4
==Special Announcements: Social Media==
On January 10, 2019, in his video "SpongeBob sings "thank u, next" by Ariana Grande",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4XgCeY1VHU SpongeDubs announces that he finally has a Twitter account for his "SpongeDubs" channel. Later on July 13, 2019, he would go on to announce that he has both a new Subreddit and a new Discord server, in a video titled "join the spongedubs discord (and subreddit)",https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24EicbpwohA which was meant to advertise the afformentioned Subreddit and Discord server. However, in current day, this annoucement video has been deleted for unknown reasons.
On October 23, 2019, SpongeDubs announced the creation of his alternative YouTube channel "SpongeDouble", where he uploads any type of video content he wants to post on YouTube besides his well known "SpongeBob sings" videos. His reasons for creating a second channel were given in his announcement video he made about the channel, titled "welcome to SpongeDouble (also, a rant)".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU0LfTVf__o
==Subscriber milestones==
* 200 subscribers: July 26, 2018.
*469 subscribers: August 5, 2018.
*1,000 subscribers: August 26, 2018.
*2,000 subscribers: September 4, 2018.
==References==
Category:Users who joined in 2018
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers