Sees ace trending and i'm like oh god who's shitting on me now Others embrace SpongeBob as a member of the LGBTQ+ community and wish him a happy Pride month. Some social media posts suggest that it’s extraneous or even inappropriate for a cartoon sponge to come out as LGBTQ+. The news about SpongeBob’s sexual orientation has Rule 34 artists sharing their fanart and others using memes to make comments about SpongeBob’s sexuality. Crabs is straight, Sandy is a butch lesbian, Plankton is a chaser Spongebob is a twink, squidward is an old queen, Patrick is a bisexual jock, Mr. Spongebob is asexual biromantic, thank you for coming to my tedtalk. According to Stephan Hillenburg, he’s asexual. Spongebob isn’t actually gay, however he IS on the LGBT+ spectrum. I consider them to be almost asexual.” Whatever the specifics of SpongeBob’s identity may be, many queer fans are taking this as a win for representation and celebrating Nickelodeon’s announcement. In a 2018 interview with the show’s creator Stephen Hillenburg, he said of SpongeBob and Patrick “We never intended them to be gay. Some fans are debating where SpongeBob, a character who has long been considered a gay icon, falls under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. Oil on canvas.On June 13, 2020, Nickelodeon Tweeted a picture of SpongeBob SquarePants along with the caption “Celebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month.” Many fans took this to mean that Nickelodeon was officially announcing that SpongeBob is a member of the LGBTQ+ community and started posting memes to welcome him and celebrate his identity.Ĭelebrating #Pride with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies this month and every month ?
Walter Gay (1856–1937), Interior of the Artist's Apartment, undated. Across Photoarchive files, researchers can make their own connections among themes of portraiture and emptiness, and artists like Water Gay, Joseph Ducreux, and Goya and his followers. In Interior of the Artist’s Apartment, Ducreux stands in as the identifiable face to Walter Gay’s living room, and the directness of Ducreux’s portrait remains central to both pictures. Working in his own home, Gay sometimes included images of himself and Matilda, adding a more literal expression of portraiture to his work. Half-closed doors, wrinkled sheets, and cluttered arrangements of bibelots speak as much to the unseen occupants as they do to those qualities innate to a space itself. The portrait also complemented Walter Gay’s interior scenes, in which he imbues rooms with moods and personalities. It is also possible that the Goya-esque quality observed in 1949 references Matilda Gay’s appreciation of the Spanish temperament: in a diary entry, she describes an acquaintance who “looks just like a Goya, and has the fougueux quality of a man of that epoch.” The picture presumably appealed to the Gays’ love of eighteenth-century French art. It is not known when the Gays might have acquired this version of Ducreux’s painting, of which several replicas and copies are known to exist. Its twenty-first-century fame is due largely to a 2009 internet meme called “Archaic Rap,” in which images of Ducreux’s paintings captioned with slangy one-liners and Britishisms were widely tweeted and shared on Facebook. When Interior of the Artist’s Apartment was exhibited at the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, in 1949, five years before it was accessioned by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the portrait was listed as “probably by Goya or one of his followers.” Today, it is recognized as a self-portrait by the French painter Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802). The portrait hangs above a bright blue settee and is surrounded by a cluster of five small landscapes. Prominently featured in this corner of the room is a large portrait of a man, grinning and pointing at the viewer. Interior of the Artist’s Apartment, made sometime after 1910 by the American painter and watercolorist Walter Gay, shows a narrow view of a sitting area in Walter and his wife Matilda’s Paris apartment at 11 Rue de l'Université, where the couple had moved in May 1909.