Spong

Behold and despair at the most powerful meme farm ever to grace the surface of the earth
== Spong blob blair witch pants ==
Spong is a animated cartoon created by Stephen Hillenburg featuring a square yellow sponge as its protagonist, a fry cook at the prestigious establishment The Krusty Krab. The series began in 1999 and is ongoing to this day. While the series' "Golden Age", as its now called, lasted about from Season 1-4, its still watched by millions and is considered one of if not the largest and most popular childrens cartoon ever made.
It's Spong's brilliant use of comedy in its early seasons as well as its extremely powerful nostalgia that made it into the greatest source of memes of all time. No other piece of media has ever come close to the amount of memes spawned from this wacky undersea show. As of writing this, there are over 145 mainstream meme templates made from this show, and this is of course, only the surface and not counting the several hundred more obscure templates. The meme templates themselves became an industry standard, and grew so popular that now official Nickelodeon outlets are selling vinyl, 3-dimensional versions of these memes. Spong's meme-ness was also festered incredibly heavily on YouTube, particularly through YTP's, ranging all the way back to 2007. While YouTube has been cracking down on these over the years and many are lost to time, Spong can be personally thanked for propelling the YTP genre into the stratosphere, it was incredibly easy to meme, the show's brilliance and jokes practically writing the memes themselves already. Spong YTP's are still made to this day.
Now I can go on and on about Spong, talking about the Squidward suicide stuff, Deliver Us, how the new seasons of Spong are bad, the movies, the games, bla bla bla, but we're here to speak of Spong's influence in the Council so here we go (spong flute)
== History ==
Spong had its earliest influences in the fetus minds of memebers, particularly in Mike Kachowski and Meme Lord. They were the only memebers to have consistently, obsessively watched the show during their youth. Spong is responsible for molding everything to do with the Council. Spong's first mention in the Council was very early on, in the Hangout, starting with a "triggered" meme of Spong saying "who put you on the planet". It was posted by The Rare Meme Lord of Cinder on November 17, 2017 at 8:47 AM. This was Cinder's first message on the Council, and henceforth his first meme, and is the 13th meme ever posted on the Council. 
Spong wouldn't be mentioned by name until 11/28/2017, at 3:06 PM, by Meme Lord, in response to a sketch by Mike Kachowski. Spong would appropriately be referred to as "Spingebill", a popular spin on the name in YTP's, which Meme Lord quite enjoyed watching. Mike Kachowski would respond "spongbal". "Spongegar" was also said for the first time in the Council immediately after this at the same time. Spong would go by many names, but picked up almost immediately and idolized was SpongeGar. SpongeGar took the Council by storm, Meme Lord simply blown out of his mind that the frame of Spong he found hilarious as an 8 year old was a fully fledged internet meme praised by millions. It was such a popular meme that it was used as an essential template in Rare Meme Trading and is considered one of the original Meme Spirits.
On this same day, at 3:02 PM, the FCCD Spong videos were discovered, and posted for the first time by Mike Kachowski. These videos would grow to be Meme Council classics, and are still in the video archive to this day. On January 3, 2018, at 2:44 PM, Meme Lord sent the infamous "tire pressure" Spong image for the first time, which would become his profile picture for both his school gsuite account, his personal account, and his official YouTube channel, up until this day. While Grumpy Cat the Elf and The Booper both showed a keen interest to Spong, especially certain memes such as "hi how are ya", no memebers were more infected than Mike Kachowski and Meme Lord. The two have stated they have seen every episode so many times that everyday phrases give them ptsd to Spong references.
Spong's influenced never stopped. Megamind in particular has well over 20+ Spong-related memes. Meme Lord has made over 100 Spong meme videos on his channel, Mike Kachowski making a dozen as well. The Council currently employs 6 different Spong emojis. Several of the Council's famous and widely-used reaction images are from Spong, such as Mailman Image. One of the largest updates ever done for the MegaMeme Pack was Update Spongequatic, which completely retrofitted everything underwater to be Spong-themed, music and stings included. Spong editing is primarily done by recording on the funny site, as a certain streaming service has proven to be the worst of its kind, once turning an episode of a certain show, meant to be only 22 minutes in length, into over half an hour, as it had a 2 minute ad break before the theme song, a 2 minute ad break after the theme song, a 4 minute ad break between the segments, a 2 minute ad break before the credits, and a final ad break after the credits. (Don't use pair a mount plus)
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