
In the coming days, other Twitter users began posting the images along with jokes about money spending problems (shown below). Within four days, the tweet gained over 211,400 likes and 85,200 retweets. On April 1st, Twitter user submitted the same images along with the caption "me spending money on my boo vs me spending money on me" (shown below, right). On March 30th, 2018, Twitter user tweeted a picture of SpongeBob holding a stack of dollars bills next to the Tired SpongeBob image, along with the joke "me spending $40 on food vs / me spending $40 on gas," gathering upwards of 67,700 likes and 28,700 retweets in one week (shown below, left).

The meme received media coverage from Daily Dot and Insider. Chum Bucket also were popular during that month) with an example of Tired Spongebob, gaining over 220 retweets and 1,400 likes (shown below). A tweet by user commented on the influx of Spongebob memes in March 2018 (Savage Patrick and Krusty Krab vs. User posted a very popular example that gained over 108,000 retweets and 271,000 likes (shown below, right).Ī thread about the trending meme was posted to /r/MemeEconomy, gaining 25 upvotes. Some popular examples include a tweet by which gained over 32,000 retweets and 81,000 likes (shown below, left). The tweet spread as people added captions describing tasks which require minimal effort.

On March 22nd, 2018, Twitter user uploaded the still with the caption, "Me after I take my strap off 😂," gaining over 530 retweets and 1,400 likes (shown below).

Notably, the frame comes only a few seconds before the image that was used in the Savage Patrick meme. The still comes from the Season 1 episode of Spongebob Squarepants, "Nature Pants" (shown below at around 7:00), which aired September 11th, 1999.
