“I will never be able to watch SpongeBob the same way again,” another person wrote, complete with a crying-face emoji. One user agreed that the show had been tainted for them as well.

SpongeBob SquarePants is the only kids’ comedy show in TV history that could get away with making amazing jokes about Art ... as fans shared viral clips from the show that had them crying ...

Paramount Pictures describes the upcoming film as “love letter to SpongeBob’s beloved creator Stephen Hillenburg (who died in November 2018), the fans, and the residents of Bikini Bottom.

A fan has claimed Nickelodeon used his SpongeBob SquarePants artwork without his permission. Matt Salvador, 17, says the art was featured in an advert for the show which was aired in June.