Nickelodeon has confirmed that the popular LGBTQ + icon SpongeBob cartoon character is bisexual. The message has been accompanied by an image of SpongeBob, transgender actor Michael Cohen and Korra from The Legend of Korra , on Twitter .

The tweet read: "Celebrating pride with the LGBTQ + community and its allies this month and every month (sic)." The announcement has caused "SpongeBob is gay" to start trending on Twitter, although Nickelodeon has not specifically confirmed the character's sexuality.

Speculation about SpongeBob's sexual identity has been going around for years, but in 2005, Stephen Hillenburg , the show's creator, who died in November 2018, revealed that he never intended for SpongeBob or his best friend, Patrick Starfish , "go gay".

"I consider them almost asexual. We just try to be fun and this has nothing to do with the show," he said. Hillenburg also insisted that the popular cartoon series preaches a "tolerance" message: "I think the show's attitude is about tolerance. We are all different, and the show embraces that."

"No one is excluded"

Nickelodeon has removed comments on the post, except for people followed by his profile. A Twitter user has criticized: "Announce that SpongeBob is gay and then disable comments because there is no debate."

Another person has said on the microblogging platform, "Are you surprised that he's gay? Has he been hinting at it for years?"

SpongeBob first aired in 1999 and is now the fifth oldest American animated series in history.

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