AboutWhat does the meme depict?

The 'Fun Facts with Squidward' meme features an exploitable image of the cartoon character Squidward Tentacles from ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’. This template shows a painting of Squidward accompanied by a speech bubble. The humorous aspect comes from users customizing the speech bubble’s content to generate comedy, drawing parallels to other image macro formats like ‘Kirby Explains’ and ‘Sonic Says’.

OriginWho did it first?

The origin of the 'Fun Facts with Squidward' meme stems from the 'Tentacle Vision' episode of ‘SpongeBob SquarePants,’ which first aired in the United States on July 19th, 2009. In this episode, Squidward, voiced by Rodger Bumpass, hosts a TV show titled 'Squidward Chat'. The broadcast starts off with a visual of a painted Squidward beside a speech bubble displaying the show's title. On May 23rd, 2015, a significant alteration to this image was made by a Tumblr user named rockbusted, who modified the speech bubble's text to the word 'heterophobia', gaining notable attention online.^[1]

Origin: 2015