>>151178358
The lack of women characters in the core cast besides Sandy (who lets admit was and still is a second tier character), and SpongeBob's demeanor made everyone who thought about that kind of stuff think he was gay and not do much art.
>>151179316
Pearl has like two episodes during the golden years and if you never saw the "Spongebob is gay" backlash then you lived a bit to much of a cloistered life.
The Core cast is SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, and Mr.Krabs, with Sandy technically being a member not getting as much play as the others.
>>151179829
no, people claiming spongebob was gay didn't even watched the show, were just edgelords posing, there were plenty of episodes of bob trying to impress sandy and even having dates.
>>151181617
And yet those episodes weren't enough to develop a real NSFW fan art culture nor overcome the Gay meme, which is the point I'm getting at.
You can cite the show as much as you want, but the culture of the time disagreed with you.
>>151181657
what the fuck are you talking about anon, is spongebob, nobody wanted to fuck him, that's why it didn't developed a nsfw culture. By your same logic, there should be a bunch of spongebob gay fanart, there wasn't because people weren't into the characters that way
>>151182091
All fanart is older than the internet, but in proportion it was way less and so there was less gay fan art back then, certainly not enough for spongebob NSFW to be a real thing till the 2010s
