Spongebob creator, Steven Hillenburg was diagnosed with ALS

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bad joke

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>>90700291
>creator of a cartoon people turned into a meme is diagnosed with a disease people turned into a meme
this world has a weird sense of humor.

I've seen 2 people from my family die from this and I'll probably die from it too. Shit sucks.

At least it sounds like it's not the genetic version, which tends to progress faster.

What is it?

>>90701997
Age Location Sex

>>90701997
neurodegenerative disease that fucks up the pathways between your brain and your muscles. you gradually lose most if not all muscle function and usually die from respiratory failure, that is if you don't die from something that your now-shitty immune system can't fight off.

>>90701997
remember that time were retard started droping buckets of cold water at each other as a challenge

well that meme started as someting really serious to inform people about ALS

a disease that makes all of your muscles slowly fail until you die

it's a really a horrible thing

>>90702114
wasn't ALS actually cured because of that though?

>>90701997
Its a neurodegenerative disorder that leaves one paralyzed. The person dies usually 2 to 5 years after diagnosis.

>>90702174
no but they made lots of leaps in treating it from all the donations

>>90702174
cured?

i don't think so, it raised awareness and gave a lot of money to research but i never heard about a cure

>>90700291
Is it still 2016?

2017 isn't looking so good

>>90701997
Something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

>>90702174
no, but it did raise an unprecedented amount of money for ALS organizations. A lot of that money goes toward helping people diagnosed with ALS and their families, especially since health insurances tend to be shit and slow with providing equipment, if they cover it at all. Some of the money went to research and there have been some strides with certain types of ALS in terms of finding more gene codes that cause it and starting more drug trials.

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>>90702114
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>>90701997
Look up Lou Gehrig sometime.

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>>90700291

It's literally the worst fucking disease you can ever be diagnosed with

First your body goes through tremendous pain and becomes weaker by the day. Then you become a quadriplegic. Then you die all within a 5 year period

>>90700291
I'm sad now, ALS sucks

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>>90701997
Pic related

>>90700291
If dubs, he'll be fine
If trips, be ready to press F

>Hillenburg returns as a executive producer on the show
>he gets diagonosed with ALS

Goddamn it all

>>90702536
Pretty much

>>90702464
5 years if you're lucky. Or unlucky? I guess it depends on the person.

>>90702821
The majority die within two to five years after diagnosis
Don't know when Stephen was diagnosed

We were fooled. Anyone who thought this was "best timeline" or just a really good one because of things like Samurai Jack coming back were wrong.

This is our punishment for being happy, we get SJ back but Stephen gets the worst disease.

Don't ask for anymore miracles, because they aren't miracles, they're just strong monkey paws.

>>90702896
It says he was diagnosed early.

The progression depends on a lot of factors.

After witnessing and tracking multiple people I know dying from this, I swear that just getting the diagnosis speeds things up. Someone I know had trouble with their leg--pain, weakness they couldn't explain, it was getting worse very very very slowly and just in the one leg--for a year, got the diagnosis, then within a month couldn't move at all.

>>90702174
The found a gene that caused it, which means they're much closer to curing it, but a cure will take much longer to not only develop, but also get through all the FDA hoops n shit

Why is this not being talked about more? Why is there no sticky?

This is as serious as it's gotten in a long time.

This is bad

>>90703165
They're not really much closer to curing it, sadly. There are multiple types of ALS and within those types multiple genes and gene mutations that can cause it. They just found another gene. Which isn't to say that isn't progress, but unfortunately just finding this gene doesn't mean they're much closer to a cure.

>>90703403
because it's like 1:30 am

>>90703403
Popular media don't care for a producers from late 90's early 00's animation

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>>90700291

Would you kill yourself if you got this diagnosis?

Hahaha, can't wait for those EPIC Stan Jee Jokes XD

>>90703767
comic and cartoon /co/ are completely different

>>90703720
Of course

Now Spongebob will literally die.
Imagine, what would you fucking do if you had ALS?
It really makes me wonder how much of limit life has, and how incredible creators like Stephen are still able to make a tremendous impact in it within our memories.
Thank you Stephen Hillenburg for a show I will never forget.

>>90703823
It would be extremely painful

>>90703850
For Lou

>>90703720
having seen it in my family, no... but I would definitely put provisions in so that I didn't go on a ventilator, and that once it got to a certain point I could go into a hospice facility because the complete lack of privacy towards the end would be too much for me.

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>>90703847
I don't want to think about it.

But after reading this stuff it's toying with my mind and my body feels fidgety and I have slight headache feelings because it made me uncomfortable.

>>90703847
Nick's still going to continue the show

>>90702251

>le 2016 was the worst

Fuck off lib shit

>people making quips and joke references about it
I know where I am, I know it's par for the course, and I'm normally used to it, but this is fucking depressing. Hardly anyone is talking about it or gives a fuck and the majority who are talking about it are just trying to be dicks.

This is one of the rare instances where any joke is already considered too far.

>>90704074
Don't you start with your fucking /pol/ shit. 2016 wasn't that great of a year politics aside, especially in terms of celebrity deaths.

>>90704074
Give it a fucking rest. Not everything is about politics.

Anyways, this is horrible, horrible news to hear.

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>>90704074

How about that. Catching ALS is the funniest thing Steven Hillenburg has done in years.

>>90704102
I mean there's only like 2 of those comments in this thread? so

>>90702081
>neurodegenerative disease that fucks up the pathways between your brain and your muscles. you gradually lose most if not all muscle function and usually die from respiratory failure, that is if you don't die from something that your now-shitty immune system can't fight off.
How is Hawkings alive for so long?

>>90704280
If only the people from Steven Universe could get it.

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>>90704239
lolwut

>>90704295
lol

Anyway, I'm gonna miss the dude behind the Sponge. I'd be lying if I said I didn't love his animated series and its impact upon the world.

>>90704293
No one knows, it's literally a freak occurrence. Typically the only people who live past 5+ years are those who go on artificial ventilators and even then they usually only keep you alive for about 10 years, max.

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>>90703978
I hope at the very least they won't renew the series anymore after the 11th season but that probably won't be the case.

>>90703403
Not even trying to bait but I seriously doubt the mods actually care.
We will get a sticky only when the guy dies.

>>90703510
It's 3:20 AM, actually.

>>90703510
>>90704495
456:00 AM where I am

>>90702174
No, they forgot to do a Facebook campaign. No upvotes = no cure.

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>>90700291
As an unashamed fan since I was 8 in 2003 (though not to extreme otaku levels of buying merch because I'm too poor for that)...I'd rather be happy that Mr Hillenburg has managed to make a mark on people from his blood, sweat and tears; that he managed to see that explosive success (>10 seasons and two movies!) before his time is up.

If I were in his shoes finding out about the diagnosis, I'd smile anyway because "I did it". It's better than having your life be so lousy, useless and in vain until the end (God forbid that would happen to me).

With that, I say good luck to him...and may he sail smooth.

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>>90704556
Get out of here, Venusian filth.
This is an Earth board.

>>90700291
Just thinking about ALS gives me shivers, seeing yourself losing all your functions, becoming jailed in your own body, must be horrible(at least for me.) I wouldn't even wish it on my worst enemy.

If i was to be diagnosed with ALS, i would just ask for someone to shoot me some powerful drug that kills me almost instantly, instead of becoming an invalid and a burden for my family and close friends.

Best of luck to him and his family, fuck ALS.

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>>90704970
Aw... I never get to have fun!

>the creator of Spongebob will die before you do
I don't want to live in this timeline

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>Good man dies before bad people who deserve such a disease more, do.

where's the sticky

>>90705193
>I wouldn't even wish it on my worst enemy.
Real talk though. I think we can all agree barneyfag deserves it.

>>90704102
>I know where I am, I know it's par for the course, and I'm normally used to it
So fuck off then.

>>90705456
Just cutting his internet is fine

>>90704651
Even though every famous person ever has said that this isn't the case, I can only imagine what it's like to think about something you've created having such a lasting effect on pop culture. Knowing that when you die there will be obituaries on the evening news referring to you as the creator of...

I'm sure in real life a well rounded person would be thinking about how it will affect their families and loved ones but it's something I'm thinking about from the outside.

>>90702314
>start dying of muscle failure
>insurance either doesn't cover it or takes their sweet time providing you with any help
>have to pay hundreds of dollars in fines if you dont have insurance
Thanks Obama

>>90705518
No, he deserves a painful suffering death because he's a terrible crazy person that wants to kill and murder people and he makes fun of cripples and retarded people. I'm pretty sure he's also a pedo and does a bunch of other nasty shit.

>>90705866
Honestly the one thing that would destroy him is the repeal of Global Rule 15. We all know he'd hate that above all else. And, at this point, he's like the only person that cares about it.

>>90705892
He said he'll stop doing what he's doing if GR15 got removed because he'll think that 4chan will be nothing but a degenerates without the pony rule. He has severe mental problems and I think GR15 getting removed wouldn't stop him.

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I'm not ready to grow up, stop trying to force me.

>>90701730
you know the ice bucket challenge becoming a meme was THE ENTIRE POINT, right? it was to raise awareness and funds for research, which it did massively.

>>90702464
there's worse diseases, but it is definitely one of the worst that isn't ridiculously rare(like that one prion disease that gradually destroys your body's ability to go into REM sleep)

>>90707368
Most horribly obnoxious teens didn't know what it was for at all, they just did it to be in on a current craze, to get attention, and just if they were dared by a friend.

GOOD! SPONGEBOB IS ONE OF THE SHOWS THAT RUINED ANIMATION AND MADE NICKELODEON INTO THE SHITSHOW IT IS TODAY! FUCK HIM I HOPE HE DIES HORRIBLY!

>>90707508
Who cares as long as it worked?

>>90707640
Except my point was that all those teens not knowing the origins or what it stood for didn't accomplish anything but a game for them.

>>90707625
I know this is 4chan and all, but even this was just heartless. Fuck off.

>>90700291
>Spongebob creator, Steven Hillenburg was diagnosed with ALS
gosh, Why couldn't it be cancer or something treatable? Why does it have to be a sickness that kills you in a slow, painful manner.

>>90707664
Oh no! Some teenage girls had fun! Meanwhile celebrities raised millions of dollars for research as well as awareness to an all time high!

WHAT A DISASTER!

>>90707625
Whoa, cool your jets, champ! We all hate what Spongebob has become but he wasn't there when Nick got all those shitty episodes made. He's as much of a victim as we are, even more since it was originally his idea!

>>90707780
He created the monster that's made children and adults into idiots.

>>90707774
>Oh no! Some teenage girls had fun!
Excluding your retarded reaction formatting, it wasn't just girls idiot, and I wasn't saying that was the bad part, the bad part was it became a huge craze for the wrong reason which lost its cause on many people. It got millions of bucks? That's good, the bad part which I was directly talking about was all the clouded fad shit it turned into and it became just a game that wasn't helping.

Don't be a dickhead with the condescending over the top rebuttal.

>>90707841
who cares

>>90707774
Oh cool, they got a few million for research on ALS from attenion seeking celebs. In exhange for turning ALS into something people do for fun? You tell a random person on the street about you having ALS, they won't understand the gravity of it or feel sorry for you, they'd just mention the ice bucket challenge and how they did it and how it was cool or something. Most won't know or really care what the illness does to people. Here's a brief explaination of what ALS is >>90704293

>>90707868
Well my post wasn't even supposed to have any weight to it until a faggot gave it a chain.

>>90707819
t. soccermom with braindead child

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>>90700291
F

I live with a constant paranoia that I'm in the early stages of ALS. It's stupid but after watching a few films/docs on it I think it's without a doubt one of the worst ways to die.

Not sure if I'd just kill myself if I found out I actually did have it before I became fully paralysed.

It bothers me how whenever someone well known dies / is confirmed to die soon everyone takes it as their childhood dying to the core of why they feel bad instead of the fact the persons just fucking dying.

>>90708052
Hate to break it to you, but thousands of people died in the middle of me typing this sentence. A lot of them were really really sad. Oh man, this one story one of them had... but anyway, turns out maybe concern with one's personal experience is both more healthy and more practical than wondering how much the world weighs.

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>>90708052
I think it hurts especially if they were legitimately good people, like Robin Williams. If people entirely ignore their life outside the screen and just go straight for the "RIGHT IN THE CHILDHOOD", they might as well be spitting on their grave.

>>90707819
t. Hunter.

>>90700291
>ALS
fuck a friend of my family was diagnosed with the same disease..
he die like 2 years later

>>90708088
>>90707774
Dude, shit

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>>90700291
Honestly it's because of stories like this that if I ever got a genie's wish, it would be to remove all forms of neurological diseases and disorders from humanity permanently.
Seeing someone slowly losing who they are is painful no matter the cause.

>>90708088
It's different, if you're in the situation to say MUH CHILDHOOD MAN! then you're obviously more familiar with the person than some no name. 9/10 that means you single them out when the death bell tolls and instead of taking it self centered as your childhood, you'll likely know just enough to feel bad for them directly, but rarely does anyone care about their own life, just theirs. Not a shocker but it's shit.

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>>90708052
read this

What a horrible way to go. Degrading little by little until you're basically trapped in your own body, and knowing full well there's nothing you can do to stop it. Only 2-4 years left for the majority of cases and you can't even live your final days to the fullest.

>>90707841
>>90707900

When has promoting a cause that has needed donations EVER worked through using the 'proper' means or doing things the 'right way'?
People, unfortunately, often don't just fucking donate to shit, they see starving or disabled kids on TV and think "wow, that's so sad :( " and a few might donate. BUT if they see something promoted by celebrities and done in a chain like that (the whole "I did it now 5 people have to do it" thing, also it makes people look like dicks if they don't do it) then they'll donate and raise awareness. Literally NOTHING, no matter how noble the cause in the history of our Earth has caught on as massively, through giving people facts and just telling them in a serious manner to do something, as a cause did that had some sort of entertainment factor attached to it. Live Aid, celebrities adopting African kids and supporting World Vision, the ice bucket challenge, sad documentaries about animal poaching, fuck, even superheroes and TV shows with a moral behind them work so much better at getting people not to be assholes than just telling them not to be. The bucket challenge worked well and that's all that matters, yeah, people SHOULD just donate to things they know are good causes but they fucking don't and this 'game' or 'fad' or whatever you want to call it helped the cause a lot more than any other means would've or have in the past and that's that.

>>90708052
Are we supposed to pretend we knew them personally? Of course we acknowledge that they are real people with lives and families but we don't know that private side of their lives, we know them through their work and are sad that someone who created something we loved has died.

If anything, I think creative people appreciate the outpouring of support from fans. Wouldn't it be nice to know that something you made affected so many peoples lives?

>>90708538
>Wouldn't it be nice to know that something you made affected so many peoples lives?
Yea but I wouldn't want to die and see a bunch of dumbasses post online that their childhood was dying because of my passing.

>>90707900
>a few million
On August 29, the ALS Association announced that their total donations since July 29 had exceeded $100 million.
On July 25, 2016, the ALS Association announced that, thanks in part to donations from the Ice Bucket Challenge, the University of Massachusetts Medical School has identified a third gene that is a cause for the disease.

Bitch about celebrities if you want but 100 mil in new donations resulting in discovering a new gene that causes the disease sounds like a pretty great outcome to me in exchange for a little harmless fun.

Get the fuck outta here moralfags

>>90703165
it being a genetic disease makes it a hundred times more harder to cure wtf are u talking about lol

>>90707819
What are you talking about? He made spongebob, not sonic

>>90704293
He's the exception to the norm - no one has any goddamn idea how he's lived this long.

He may have a condition that mimics ALS, but isn't actually the disease, or a weird version of ALS.

>>90707900
People that whine about the Ice Bucket Challenge are ridiculous. I work with a local ALS organization that raises money for patients and families through a yearly walk and we normally only raise about $15,000 with 30 teams total. The year of the Ice Bucket Challenge? Our little local walk raised $2 million. Two. Million. It was fucking insane. And all because of the hype around the challenge. We were able to purchase so much equipment that improves quality of life. 100 laptops outfitted with communication and eye technology that can be loaned out for free to patients (insurances rarely, if ever, will cover these types of equipment even though they improve quality of life 100000x); electric wheelchairs that can be loaned to patients until the person's insurance will give them one; bi-pap machines (did you know it's a pain and a half for many ALS patients to get these, even though they can prolong your life, because they're not traditionally used for ALS?) humidifiers, hospital beds, leg and arm braces, even in-home assistance for people who are waiting for insurance to approve paying for help or for people who need additional help but insurance won't cover it.

>>90703165
It's not genetic most of the time, though they did discover a few years back that it's caused by misfolded proteins.

>>90705797
I know I shouldn't try to talk politics here, but my family had insurance try to weasel their way out when dad got ALS. Shit's not even acceptable in ancap land, but fuckers tried to drop a post-existing condition.

>>90708016
The sad thing is, your paranoia makes sense.

>dad drove me around in middle school
>not frequently but more than once or twice he'd drop the keys right after taking them out of the ignition
>I joked that something might be wrong with him
>he actually did have ALS, mom told me after the fact that they knew something was up with him medically when I was in 7th grade
>I wasn't actually aware of anything until 10th grade when he had clear difficulty walking, by the end of that he was firmly wheelchair-bound with breathing assistance, and he died shortly after I graduated

Stan Lee is gonna outlive him too

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>>90700291
At least he won't suffer completely right? He's made enough money from spongebob right?

Either way F

This is your fault, /co/.

>>90708687
Do us a favor and kys

>>90708016
Are you me? I also have fears of having ALS sometimes during the year(because hypochondria.) I try to tell myself that an 18 year old guy can't get this since it's only people who are older who get it but even then it's haard to not think about it.

>>90710744
Ugh I'm sorry that happened to you. Something similar happened to me, where my dad was told what was wrong wasn't ALS and we had all these lighthearted jokes about it being off the table, then bam! Different doctor diagnosed it and he died about a year later.

>>90708016
It runs in my family and there's this crazy tension anytime anyone drops anything or their hands feel weak

like

Just a clumsy moment or brain fart? Or... ALS weakness in hands?

>>90712312
>it's only people who are older who get it

my brother got it at 23, cousin got it at 26

It's usually familial ALS that shows up in younger people, though.

>>90707900

So you'd rather they didn't get funding just so you can garner sympathy for your death sentence?

I mean, if you do have it, I am legitimately sorry for you, I think its one of the most terrifying ways to go. But pragmatism over all is most important.

If anything, just call it Lou Gehrigs disease. People still associate that name with a terrible disease even if they don't associate the name ALS, despite Lou Gehrigs disease BEING ALS.

>>90707900
>You tell a random person on the street about you having ALS, they won't understand the gravity of it or feel sorry for you, they'd just mention the ice bucket challenge and how they did it and how it was cool or something. Most won't know or really care what the illness does to people.

That's true for any disease. People are stupid. There are medical professionals who will go "huh?" when you tell them you have ALS. It doesn't mean that the millions and millions raised for research and assistance should be downplayed or ignored.

>>90711454
>At least he won't suffer completely right? He's made enough money from spongebob right?

With his money he can afford to hire round the clock nursing care, which to be fair is more for his family than for him, in addition to ensuring he has the latest technology to make his last months or years comofrtable.

http://www.alsa.org/donate/

I have the day off because of the huge storm. Now I have this to think about whilst doing nothing

fuck

>>90703720
Suicide should be a legal option if you get diagnosed with this kind of shit.

Serious question: is there any way to cure this disease or at the very least slow the progression?

>>90715272
It is in a growing number of places.

>>90715336
Right now? No cure. 100% fatal, eventually. There5s one approved drug that might, and this is MIGHT, give you like 3-5 more months but there's no guarantee you will have motor function in those extra months. Lots of drug trials and studies, some promising, some not.

>>90701570
Expected this gif, still laughed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ko9TpduOhE

>Can als be prevented?
>Eating bright-colored fruits and vegetables may prevent or delay amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Summary: New research suggests that increased consumption of foods containing colorful carotenoids, particularly beta-carotene and lutein, may prevent or delay the onset of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
brb I'm gonna go buy some fruit

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>tfw they produce a very special "Chum Bucket Challenge" episode after he passes

>>90701997
Lou Gehrig had it.

Stephen Hawking has it too.

>>90715592
Oh duh, I've heard of it as "Lou Gehrig's disease", but never ALS.

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This is sad. Hopefully he lived with no regrets and has accepted his fate, he did make one of the most successful children's television shows to date.

Season 1-4 SB will always have a place in my heart. I hope the next few years will be with little suffering for him.

how the FUCK is Stan lee still alive?

>>90715676
he is a robot anon

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>>90706500
Why grow up when you can drown your sorrows in cartoons and sugary foods?

>>90715830
but he was around in the good seasons, that's why we care. The good seasons of spongebob had 10/10 humor.

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>>90701948

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>>90702181
>The person dies usually 2 to 5 years after diagnosis

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>>90715592
You ever think what a coincidence it is that Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's Disease?

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>Spongebob is going to be 18 this year
>Stephen might not live to see the 20th anniversary
Fuck this shit man

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>>90700291
I'm devastaded....


Guess what day is today.

>>90716149
Please stop.

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>>90715875
>>90715830
And he's also back for the new episodes which already had a good start

>>90716197
holy shit

>>90707841
>and it became just a game that wasn't helping.
but the whole point was it being a game, and it DID help

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This scene already makes me sad, now after he dies i'll probably melt into tears.

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>>90716197
>Stephen hillenburg gets diagnosticated with ASL same day Spongebob saves Bikini bottom

>>90712965
So far my dad is still in a good shape at 58(except for arthritis) and is a bike adept, my mom is 51 and is in good shape too and my brother is pumped up and shows no sign of slowing down.

I don't think anyone in my family tree had ALS so for me that's good.

>>90712949
>Just a clumsy moment or brain fart? Or... ALS weakness in hands?
Got the same bullshit, like i was walking and i felt something weird on my knee, probably caused by the fact i read about ALS, again... Fucking hypochondria.

>>90716216
He's an executive producer which doesn't really mean a whole lot.

It's a shame we've got away from the years where if someone passes away we get a "Very Special Episode" out of it, or there's a tribute on the network in some way.p

It kinda sucks they'll just tack on a "in memorial" message maybe at the end of an episode way down the line. It worked for Borgine because he wasn't the show maker. They should've marathoned Mermain Man eps though.

>Stan Lee reportedly has health problems
>a few days latter Stephen Hillenburg is diagnosed with Als
Will he be FAST enough?

I hope that the knowledge that he created the greatest cartoon of all time and made millions of people smile, laugh, and connect with others, and continuing to work on the show, will make the rest of his (hopefully long) life as happy and joyful as it can possibly be.

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>>90700291

>>90703165
>gene that caused it, which means they're much closer to curing it
in what sense?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ5tWMdoQdg

Everything that you are,
That you'd like to be
Will come in three, my friend

Times thine inequity
The flutes of the chi
Will sound again, my friend

Wrap yourself up in gold,
The fruits of the old,
Are ripe to be told, my friend

For, it's not what you are,
How you've come to be
All this will will end and begin again

Everything that you are,
That you'd like to be
Will come in three, my friend

Times thine inequity,
The flutes of the chi
Will sound again, my friend

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>>90719043

>>90719043
I'll never understand why my video became this popular

>>90704102
>I know where I am, I know it's par for the course, and I'm normally used to it, but this is fucking depressing. Hardly anyone is talking about it or gives a fuck and the majority who are talking about it are just trying to be dicks.
Remember that on the internet, there are 50% chance that the dickhead is a child. And that 25% chance that he is a mentally disabled adult. You can't expect these people to act normal.

>>90719211
It's got nostalgic clips of early Spongebob, set to nostalgic Ween music

Nostalgia sells in this day and age

>>90719255
Well that was the frame of mind I was in back then, only in a more depressed context.

I suppose that makes sense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RSUuu_FqHo

Best wishes

>>90719292
Is this how you get your sick kicks?

>>90716216
>which already had a good start
In what way?

>>90719043
This video will never fail to make me sad

I bought the song on iTunes because of it

https://youtu.be/n-wypay6lcA
https://youtu.be/lUAUdG8QhSc

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>>90716216
>tfw the gif syncs up with >>90715491 at 1:45
I shouldn't be laughing

>>90715674
Amytrolateral sclerosis.

>>90715272
>legal option

Like nigga just shoot yourself who is stopping you?

But yeah, it really should be, especially for purposes of insurance and whatnot and legal coverage for your survivors.

Yeah, this really sucks. Now the question becomes can he save Spongebob before he kicks the Bucket? Or should he just try and drag it down with him to death?

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>>90703978
>>90704437
They're going to continue the show and add "In loving memory of Steven Hillenburg" to the end of each and every garbage episode they shit out.

>>90711454
The man has made a fortune to nick(and it would be really bad press if he really suffer his last days)

>>90701997
It's what Stephen Hawking has, if Hillenburg doesn't die in 3 years hell look like him for the rest of his life.

>>90719043
I honestly thought this was a VHS ad for a bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55udG0zrEr4

>>90719715
the team is almost totally new, the animation is now storyboard based, so there's a lot more expressions, it feels like a 90's cartoon. Watch Mimic Madness, it's a fucking great episode and it feels like classic spongebob, it's the first episode of the 10th season

>>90721255
the guys who made that episode isn't in the team anymore, they changed the show for season 10 >>90721855 the quality is getting better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMYdwEPqKKs

>>90721832
anybody else remember these promos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tktuUZRIGY
i swear they did a couple for tea at the treedome but i can't find them anywhere

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>>90703847
>>90703978
>>90721255
>>90721896
atleast he won't have to see post-movie Spongebob anymore

>>90722278
What part of "i'm gonna keep working on spongebob" did you not understand

>>90721855
>the team is almost totally new, the animation is now storyboard based
Actually ironically, the show has always been storyboard based up until now. It's a script driven show now.

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>>90722534
i mean the animation seems to take a lot more from the storyboards, instead of keeping it more on-model. It reminds me a lot of the movies, spongebob is more clean, patrick doesn't have that one tooth he had post-movie, and he's more calm and "smart".

>>90722737
>patrick doesn't have that one tooth he had post-movie
that chin, tho

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>>90722949
it doesn't happen everytime, just when they exagerate him too much, anyway, it's way better than that baby looking tooth and his torturing of squidward

>>90722526
>not knowing post-movie =/= Later seasons
post-movie episodes (especially RIGHT after the movie) were shit to average most of the time

the later seasons had its fair share of dogshit, but it's mostly average

>>90722737
that too

>>90723036
oh thank you for clarifying, i'm trying to get people to notice how the show is evolving, sadly no popular youtuber has talked about it

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>nickelodeon humor

>>90723144
delet this

>>90722278
Current Spongebob/Spongebob movie 2 is all pre-movie 2004.
It is confirmed cannon by S.H that the movie's ending was the definitive ending of the show.

>>90723929

I want to believe that, but it still has a lot of flaws to it

>>90724029
Blame post-1st-movie Spongebob.
S.H worked on the first season after the movie aiding Paul Tibbitt with the show but later on he left and the show declined in quality.
Now he is making the show better.

>>90702422
I had a neighbor who found out he had that disease and killed himself in his driveway. That house had grass up to the top of the windows for about a year before someone bought it. I honestly don't blame anyone who ends up killing themselves why they're still themselves with that kind of prognosis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF8D5KVWKIM

Give you an idea what Stephen is going to go through for the next few years.

>>90721230
>Like nigga just shoot yourself who is stopping you?

Your body, if you physically aren't able to kill yourself.

>>90724206
i agree, but even with the help of Tibbut and Hillenburg, it's PAINFULLY average most of the time (which is not a problem at all)

>>90724208
>killed himself in his driveway
Why in view? That's just negative for bystanders/neighbors

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>>90715676
season 4

>>90718115
What would you have them do? Spongebob rarely, if ever, breaks the fourth wall

>>90702079
No, American Language Sign.

>>90702174
They found out that weed cured it, but the government assassinated the guy who proved it.

Weed also cures cancer, AIDS, heart disease, brain tumors, poverty, starvation, and car crashes, but every time they prove it, the government assassinates them.

>>90721896
That episode wasn't funny

>>90715676
Season 4 sucked except for the first few episodes

>>90721855
I just watched it, it wasn't bad.

It felt like a low tier early season episode.

>>90723031
>>90722737
>his torturing of squidward
>and he's more calm and "smart".

That has more to do with the writing and less to do with storyboards

>>90725673
not him but season 4 was okay. The show didn't immediately nose dive into shit when season 4 premiered.

>>90724249
I ain't clicking that shit.

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>>90701997
ALS is when you...
ALS is...
It's like...
It's kinda...
Sorta like a...

What is ALS?

Let me spell it out for ya!

A is for amytrophic, muscles rot away
L is for Lat-er-al~~~
S is for sclerosis your tissues start getting hard inside your bod-y~~~

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>>90716328

>>90726601
There were a handful of episodes that were semi-ok. Skill Crane and Enemy in Law comes to mind.

But then there was the likes of
>All that Glitters
>Karate Island
>Once Bitten
>Dunces and Dragons
>Squidbob Tentaclepants
>Patrick Smartpants

I could go on

>>90727475
>Dunces and Dragons
But why?

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>>90726882

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>>90700291

>create cartoon about a sponge
>become a sponge

>>90727754
anon that's terrible

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What Sponge needs to do to be itself again, or as close as it needs to be
>more bubbles and more bubble sounds during movement
>slow focus on scenery, water glare waves sometimes in the sky
>fade the colors some, but not muted as if they were in the dark partially
>get back to realizing they're underwater instead of having an episode play out as the same as it could be if it were anywhere else in existence
>stop being dicks to characters for no reason, and if it's for a joke make it short and not extended
>early sponge wasn't without it's non-aquatic themed episodes (grandma's kisses) but it still had atmosphere, use it
>use hawaiian comfy music more, use comfy settings more (like the beach)
I'll continue to talk about this until it happens

>>90727777

God has a terrible sense of humor.

>>90727636
My explanation is simple but subjective: it wasn't funny. After the movie Spongebob started doing more 'adventure' episodes where SB and the gang 'saves the day'.

There was no comedy in the premise. It's just a medieval themed episode. They just go along and meet all the other characters who fill different medieval archetypes.

>King Krabs
>Princess Pearl
>Squidward the Jester
>Sandy the Knight
>Plankton the evil wizard

They did the same thing in 'Pest of the West' except the characters were Western characters. Or what about 'Atlantis Squarepantis'? No comedy, just going on an adventure, each character having a song about their one defining trait. I thought it was really lame.

>>90727823
oh, and
>make the backgrounds have hardpaint appearance

>>90727823
I thought about this the other day. In early episodes when characters would talk without music in the background there was this subtle underwater ambience. Little bubble noises and whatnot.

Do they still do that? Most of the new episodes I see are pretty frantic and non stop movement and music.

>>90727898
It needs to be less KEEP THE KIDS ATTENTION but it never will be. The best we get is episode starts with the narrator saying "Ah, [location/setting]" before something happens, and again the narrator has been put off a lot.

>>90727898
>>90727935
Budget/not caring anymore
RS used to do the same idea with Benson moving and his gumballs rattling a bit.

after awhile they start focusing on direct sound effects instead of extras

Stephen's seasons focused on the underwater atmosphere because he was into that stuff and wanted the setting hard. After the movie Paul or whoever didn't have the same heart, that wasn't the main aspect of the show so it was forgotten while they focused on other things.

>>90727935
The original show had the right combo of relaxed and cartoon action. I wonder what Steve honestly thinks of the direction the show has taken. He seems like he prefers the more relaxed pace of the first season. As much as I love seasons 2 and 3, they feel like somebody elses show, namely the writers.

Personally, I think Spongebob is beyond saving. Once you start having to think in terms of 'how do we get the show back to the way it was', you've already lost.

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>>90707508
The ice bucket challenge raised 115,000,000 dollars for the ALS Association. Researchers used those funds to identify genes tied to the disease.

But sure stay on your high horse sneering down at the 'memes'.

>>90727898
Here's an example of what I mean. Listen to it with headphones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfFWXN59Yl4
The bubbles. The little swish sound effect when mr Krabs turns quickly. I love that.

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>final episode
>spongebob starts to notice random bouts of clumsiness while flipping burgers but brushes it off
>then suddenly his legs give out and he falls down a flight of stairs
>taken to a hospital and diagnosed with Lou Garfish disease
>final ten minutes of episode are a time lapse of spongebob slowly wasting away while Journey's Don't Stop Believin' plays in the background until the music suddenly stops and the screen cuts to black

>>90727823
>>90727860
Voices need less push behind them, talk calm and low unless needed.

Even normal "Patrick that's not really necessary" lines have force behind them to stay at this specific not-yelling not-calm level.

and SB's voice pitch needs to be like the earlier seasons

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>>90728140
1/10 dedbort tier

>>90728015
I liked how in the early days you learned tidbits about underwater life without ever trying to feel 'educational'. It was still meant to be funny.

I learnt what a crustacean, bivalve and cephalopod was through SB. And let's not forget filter feeding!

And I liked episodes that reminded you the show took place underwater. The once where a glacier falling into the ocean and drifting into warmer climates causes a snow day underwater. Or the one where the artist at sea drops his pencil into the ocean.

>>90701997
Go read Tuesdays with Morrie

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>>90726882
F-fuck

"Pity Viewership" is going be the latest "in" thing, and soon we'll be seeing more creators diagnosed with terminal illnesses and their works rise in popularity because of it.

>>90719736
who did the song?

>>90729196
Ween - Flutes of Chi
they also did the song that teaches spengbab to tie his shoes

NO PLEASE

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>>90726882
Stop it. I shouldn't be laughing this hard. Or at all

>>90726882
I could feel my muscles forming a pre-smirk/smile, but I still didn't crack one or laugh under my breath.

You're the closest to make it happen though, so fuck you the most, over all the other "funny" quips.

What you had going for it was creativity and a good reference.

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>>90728819
>Hillenberg's death brings Spongebob to eternity
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if Nick respected his wishes and ended the show after the first movie

>>90730072
People would've been upset but it would've ended the show on a great note and set a precident shows like Fairly Odd Parents would've probably followed, being to end on a good movie.

>>90716149
If it makes you feel any better, Help Wanted was completed in 1997, so the character is indeed 20 years old.

>>90730258
The idea of SpongeBob dates back even further. Stephen made a comic with a "Bob the Sponge" character back in the 80s to teach students in his lectures.

>>90728176
Tom Kenny can still do the season 1 voice and he's the new voice director iirc

>>90700291
Ok this bad dreams gone on long enough, I'm ready to wake up now.

>>90729232
Don't forget Ocean Man in the credits of the first movie
The whole album "The Mollusk" has some pretty spongebobby vibes desu

>>90728284
Yea, it was casual. Very great way of getting kids to learn stuff like that in an almost subliminal way.

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>>90701570
I feel so fucking shitty laughing at this. Goddammit /co/

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So is it a 100% chance he will die? Maybe he might live a longer life. Magic Johnson has had HIV since the early 90s and he's still alive and doing great. HIV/Aids is basically a death sentence but he's managed to live with it for over 20 years. Stephen might live too. P-Please God let him live

>>90737026
If he did live longer he would just be like Stephen Hawking and I'd rather die desu

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>>90737067
Meh, I spent the vast majority of 2 and half years unable to sit up or control most of my upper body due to some shit.

It's legitimately not that bad. I learned to appreciate music.

I'm just shitting you. It was fucking horrifying. It was a torture I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. I only got through it by being completely devoid of fucks to give.

It is conversion disorder mimicking hemispheric paroxysmal nonkinesigenic dyskinesia if you really want to know.

>>90737026
ALS is 100% fatal and it's extremely rare for people to live more than 5 years. Most people who live past 5 years are on artificial ventilation and are completely paralyzed except perhaps some facial movement. It's not like HIV where you can live a normal life if you do happen to live longer than most.

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>all these normalfags crying over a meme show creator dying

>>90737198
>meme show
gotta be a teen to think that

bait and anime

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>>90726882
S-STOP IT, ANON

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>>90737198

>>90728284
There was a modern episode that said that starfish could regenerate their limbs. It's true

>>90737162
For one moment I thought that was SpongeBob. Shoopers, if you please...

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Damn son...that's really awful and I feel for him

>His show will outlive him

>>90739147
Yea, it's just a shame the rest of the episode was shit

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>>90704495
>We will get a sticky only when the guy dies.
You know damn well we don't get stickies for cartoonest, VA's or, anything cartoon related deaths. Only time /co/ gets stickies are for cape shit announcements. It was a miracle we even got one got one for Samurai Jack.

>>90737162
What's your thought on physiotherapy?

I recently started training and I'm wondering if patients prefer "just the facts, this is serious shit" or therapists that are more bro like.

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>>90742443

>>90725978
Uh, I guess I'm immortal then

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>>90737178

Hawking wasn't killed by ALS. He got it when he was like 20 and he's 75 now. If he dies at this point it's just old age.

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Monetarily wise, how badly did Nick shaft Stephen?

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>>90702536

So you're saying this is a scam?

>>90742443
YA GOTTA BE THE MARBEL.

>>90742443
Did they pay Nick?

>>90730170
Agreed. But , we need to March to nick HQ.

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>>90701948

>>90727754
anon you sick fuck

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>>90740162
anon stop making this worse

I've heard the show is being produced separate from the upcoming movie this time. Don't know if that means the creative team is just splitting up, or if entirely new people are doing the movie, but I really hope that, if he wants to, he's able to put his all into the movie, and hopefully Nick will allow the show to end the show on that exclamation point - just like he wanted it to end over ten years ago. That is, of course, if that's what Stephen still wants. Maybe he want the show to continue for a long time. Maybe he wants to work on the show for as long as possible, even if that takes it beyond the third movie. All I'm really saying is, I hope his remaining years with Spongebob go the way he wants them to.

spange

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>>90703720

No but just before everything goes to shit. This is no way to live when you cant control your body

>>90707819

but he didnt create the internet you idiot

>>90703165
Not really. Long long way to go and it's just a candidate gene that could be a false lead from linkage and even if it actually contributes there are likely dozens of other genes that contribute to it.

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>>90740162
>tfw even if Stephen didn't get ALS, his show would've outlived him

>>90728284
I'm retarded, why was the pencil so huge again?

>>90741962
Bigger what? We had a cartoonist die recently and had a sticky

>>90727475
>All that Glitters
>bad

I knew this board had shit taste but I had no clue it was THIS bad.

>>90704293
Physics.

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>>90700291
All this shit reminded me that about a year ago i saw on tv about a singer from Quebec who had been diagnosed with ALS. So i went to see if there was any news about it, and i found out he died from complications about a week ago.

http://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2017/03/08/luc-cousineau-est-decede

Seriously, fuck ALS.

>>90746817
This is sad because I remember hearing that he was developing a new show

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I come to /co/ to enjoy my life not worry about it and be sad for others.
I pray to god that my death is fast and painless for everyone. I would hate the idea that my death would be slow and painful for everyone around me.
>>90741962
We had a sticky for Steve Dillion when he passed.
But that was only because of the board being spammed about threads relating to his passing.

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>1095 days until Hillenburg's death

>>90748425
Because a sea sponge and starfish are significantly smaller than humans and so human pencils are larger too

>>90704293
Because he was #1!

>>90728110
oh god lol all those fucking retards that thought anyone ever said "please tell me that's your nose"

>>90727475
Squidbob tentacle pants was a decent episode except for the much-maligned final scene

>>90748649
>Spongebob breaks his spatula trying to flip a giant pile of meat
>Spongebob screams at random people
>Spatula goes to hospital
>On the way home Spongebob is tempted into buying a fancy new spatula with an enormously thick unwieldy handle that makes it totally impractical
>Spongebob sells his clothes to afford it and spends the rest of the episode naked
>Tries to flip patties but fancy spatual won't touch the meat and begins speaking and says it's leaving
>Spongebob goes to hospital and now sentient spatula won't look at him
>Spongebob rolls around on the floor crying
>Another Spongebob pops up and quotes a proverb
>Spongebob goes back to work and spatula has changed it's mind

I mean, can you defend this?

>>90748935
But anon, he did
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA7SGd5-jhk

>>90749082
Already saw this, but I appreciate the gesture anon.

>>90749021
Nah dude, not funny at all. Just a bad 'what if' premise. Nothing really memorable about it.

>What if Spongebob and Squidward got joined together? Like 'The Fly'
>Ok, what happens next?
>Uuh, they have trouble working together? Nothing you don't see coming a million miles away

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>>90749031
>>90749180
>Caring this much about Spongebob episodes you 'dislike.'
Is that you Mr. Enter? Don't you have a stolen idea to shill as a kid's book?

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>>90701948

>>90743476
>it's extremely rare for people to live more than 5 years.

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>>90726882

>>90750105
So by "100% lethality" you meant, "Everyone who has ALS will die at some point in their lives"? Thank you anon. Without you I would have thought that people with ALS lived forever instead of dying like everyone else.

>>90750397
No, I mean that the disease is 100% fatal. If Stephen Hawking dies because his body can no longer support breathing even on a ventilator, it means he has died from complications related to ALS, which is what caused his body to be unable to breathe on its own and then unable to breathe even with artificial support. Stephen Hawking is an extremely unusual case because the motor neurons which control his diaphragm (allowing him to even benefit from the ventilator) are still intact enough to keep him alive even after decades. For 70% of people with ALS, those neurons die off within 5 years, resulting in respiratory failure. Respiratory failure is the most common way that ALS patients die.

About 50% of people with ALS will die within 3 years; about 20% will die within 5 years; about 10% will die within 10 years; and about 5% will die within 20 years or more.

The scientific community, researchers who have spent decades studying this disease, describe it as 100% fatal because there is no cure for its progression which causes symptoms that will result in your death. You wouldn't say "oh this end stage renal cancer isn't fatal, because everyone dies, soooo...."

>>90749528
I just remember hating these episodes when they came out. So I dropped the show and haven't been back since.

Actually, I've seen a couple of the newest episodes because people tell me the show has gotten better and there's a new crew to prove it. The latest episodes aren't nearly as bad as season 5 but still not great either.

>>90749021
>except for the much-maligned final scene
But that's the best part.

>>90749528
>explain to me why it's bad
>M.mr. Enter!!!
stop defending shit, you lala homo fag

>>90737198
>over a good meme show
FTFY

>>90749528
>"try to defend this"
>"LOL MR EXIT LOL"

not an argument

>>90705273
I don't eat too healthy but I assumed I would outlive him anyway.
this really sucks. the early seasons of spongebob are even better than the early seasons of ren and stimpy or the good episodes of beavis and butthead. guy was super talented. you might say that doesn't mean he deserves to avoid this illness more than anyone else but, idk, i kind of feel he does.

>>90705319
>good man
How would you really know that? The pre-movie spongebob is the best cartoon ever (and I was 20 when it premiered, I don't have childhood nostalgia clouding my judgement), but talent has nothing to do with decency.

>>90715779
I actually ate pretty unhealthy in my youth, but I was energetic as hell and felt like I could take on the world. Nothing was comfier than watching cartoon marathons and eating all kinds of crap.
Now, whenever i have a small burger and a pop I feel like absolute garbage for the rest of the day. Haven't had any junk food for 17 days but I know I'm gonna lose sight of the pain and just indulge at some point, and then almost immediately regret it.
Growing up sucks.

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>>90702081
>>90702114
>>90702181
Holy shit that sounds awful, reminds me of the Closure virus from pic related.

>>90701570 fuck you, anon, I couldn't help but kek at this.

>>90700291
I had a bunch of stickers with faces like the OP pic when I was a kid

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>>90728103 fake fucking hp. so all we need to do is create the next ice bucket challenge to save this man's life? all the previous research uncovered was the genes associated with the cure, and don't expect anymore progress within the next 100 years.

>>90708594
get out of here with your rational approach. let everyone here be bitter neckbeards about all things popular.

>>90702081
>start a speed metal band as the guitarist
>right as your career finally takes off you develop ALS

I feel really bad for this guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Becker

>>90703009
>Don't ask for anymore miracles, because they aren't miracles, they're just strong monkey paws.

It may be too late for that because one of the ones I asked for just came true today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyO6hdw6IzU

>>90708096
>legitimately good people, like Robin Williams

Robin Williams was notorious for stealing other people's material.

>>90756610
>for stealing other people's material
For example?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRPep55zMCE

>that ending

>>90758312
look at that thumb trembling, he already had some problems

>>90758312
>stephen hillenburg went to Calarts

can we end this stupid meme now?

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>>90727754
wew, is this payback for this?

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>>90758312

>>90758312
what was with the ending? that was weird

>>90758367
That has to be very early-stage. I have a neurodegenerative disease that gives me tremors and it completely prevents me from drawing straight lines on paper and forget about digital drawing completely.

>>90758482
Troy Walker is having the last laugh from his wheelchair.

>>90758482
Why did this guy file a dispute ten years after Spongebob's inception? Maybe if he wasn't living under a rock, he could've stopped them back when the show wasn't so popular.

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See you Spongebob...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB1XYvnRvQ4

Has Doubleswee made a response yet?

>>90700291
wow, that fucking sucks
SpongeBob certainly isn't what it used to be but god damn the first few seasons were gold
maybe he'll end up like Stephen Hawking and stick around for a while