SpongeBob and friends have their own comic books, films (with the third one, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, releasing in 2020), video games, and more. SpongeBob SquarePants was created by Stephen Hillenburg and premiered on Nickelodeon in 1999, becoming one of the longest-running American animated series, and one that has successfully expanded to other media as well. SpongeBob SquarePants hasn’t been safe from controversy, and the biggest one is that about SpongeBob being gay and “trying to turn children gay”.
