SpongeBob meme creator would like some credit for that Travis Scott intro, please
In the middle of a boring halftime show in the middle of a boring football game, audiences were (sorta) given the SpongeBob Squarepants tribute they rallied so hard for when Travis Scott took the stage to perform “Sicko Mode.” But, as The Daily Dot notes, the idea for this idiosyncratic cultural mashup may have been lifted from a popular meme. The creator of that meme? He’d like a little credit.
See, a very similar mashup of SpongeBob and “Sicko Mode” was shared back in September by Twitter user Anthony Trucco. That tweet went viral after getting a nod of approval from the official SpongeBob Twitter account, and, following last night’s performance, Trucco reposted his version of the clip, tagging the NFL and CBS while declaring, “No credit. No payment. No nothing.”