Sponge

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sponge is one of the various nextbots that hunts down players in nico's nextbots. He can be found in nn_backrooms and arcade mode.
sponge was added on July 29th, 2022 within the small patch. As of now, he became exclusive on January 22nd, 2023.
==Overview==
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===Appearance===
sponge appears to be a more realistic SpongeBob with small eyes with blue pupils, yellow teeth, making a frowning face, fluid going down his mouth (most likely drool), and a large nose with some snot coming out of it. He has some hairs on the top of him, he is also opening his hands, which makes him look like he is going to hug someone.
The image of sponge was hand-painted, as characterized by the texture of a paint. SpongeBob has pimples around his face and on top of his head, his limbs were abnormally thin, exposing bones, necktie and pants were torn apart, his fingernails were long and pointy, and his eyelids were veiny and swollen. His white shirt was slightly stained due to presence of yellowing. He has only one shoe with a sole being ripped off, exposing toes, and his shoelaces were untied. On his left leg, SpongeBob's sock is also torn off, but this time, expose one toe; this can be seen in the Miscellaneous Gallery section.
In the game, the Admin Panel/Killfeed image is squished, while the main version is wider. There were some background parts that weren't completely removed, and the colors are darker and less saturated. The image also has some artifacts, presumably saved it as a JPEG 2000 format.
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===Audio ===
sponge emits an upbeat funky music, accompanied by an orchestra hit and synth bass. His jumpscare is him screaming, albeit being in low quality due to improper computer speaker's setting; it also sounds muffled as well.
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==Origin==
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sponge originates from the SpongeBob SquarePants series. The episode where SpongeBob makes this face is in the Season 5 episode "What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?". In the episode, SpongeBob makes his friends angry, so he leaves Bikini Bottom and ends up receiving amnesia. He makes this face when he goes up to someone and asks them if he looks normal. The creepy SpongeBob face is often associated with the "Sunday Morning" meme, though they are from completely different episodes.
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The audio emitted by sponge is a music track called Stadium Rave (A) from the season one episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, "Jellyfish Jam". This is where SpongeBob and a jellyfish spend time together in his house; later on, the next morning, a group of jellyfish came along to dance due to their obsession.
The jumpscare sound is SpongeBob screaming, originating from the season 2 "The Graveyard Shift", in the scene where he and Squidward thought they have witnessed the infamous Hash Slinging Slasher.
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== Gallery ==
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=== General ===
File:blackout_sponge.png|sponge during a blackout event.
File:bloodmoon_sponge.png|sponge during a bloodmoon event.
File:Sponge in legacy.png|sponge in the legacy version.
File:SpongeCrossPillars.jpeg|sponge near the Cross Pillars.
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=== Miscellaneous ===
File:Ugliest spongebob.webp|Source image for sponge.
File:Full Morbid SpongeBob.webp|Ditto, but full body.
File:SpongeOriginalAppearance.png|Original appearance of sponge.
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==Trivia==
*As of January 22nd, 2023, sponge is unable to spawn naturally, which causes some players to think that he was removed possibly. He is now only spawnable through the admin panel.
*For some reason, sponge's image used to be wider when it was first added. 
**When questioned about it on the January 30th, 2023, holidae confirmed that the removal of sponge and bateman no longer naturally spawning was intentional, even after nico himself has said it. They do not have an official reason on why they did it however.File:Spongebatemannoreason.PNG sponge, along with bateman, might have a chance on coming back to public servers as holidae said "maybe, maybe not" when questioned whether or not they're coming back.File:Spongebatemanpublicserversmaybe.PNG
**As of January 23rd, 2024 (at the time of editing this), sponge and bateman haven't returned yet and it could be possible that they are not going to come back but only time will tell.
* In sponge's sneak peekhttps://discord.com/channels/999812888195772457/1001664427629748315/1002406667318726656, it can be seen that sponge is in the nn_mall map. So, this could heavily imply that sponge was originally going to be in nn_mall.
==History==
==References==
== Navigations ==
Category:Browse
Category:Nextbots
Category:NN backrooms nextbots
Category:Exclusive
Category:Uncommon Nextbots
Category:Open world nextbots