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#lol #spongebob

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teathattast

#spongebob #lol

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figmentjedi

NHL does what NFL doesn’t

#spongebob #YES!!!!

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mamoru

superbowl casually lied so they could get extra views from MOURNERS. they knew damn well what people wanted, a tribute to an amazing man who died recently, then said nudge nudge hint hint something might happen knowing DAMN well what people would expect. I know I only watched because I wanted to see the tribute, because I assumed that anyone with half an ounce of empathy would not lead on over a million mourners who signed petitions and made it explicitly clear that they wanted to see sweet victory performed and then give them a 2 second spongebob clip introducing an entirely unrelated performance in an extremely self-congratulatory fashion instead of the respectful tribute everyone begged for and expected

fuck everyone involved

mamoru

I want to make this perfectly clear: these petitions were not because everyone suddenly thought spongebob would be cool for a halftime show. these petitions were because stephen hillenburg, an incredibly beloved man, died a painful death from ALS and millions of people wanted to honor his memory. to honor his work. to honor him. petitions to have sweet victory performed at the halftime show were written in grief and hope that he could be respected, honored, and remembered. then the superbowl advertised they were going to have spongebob in the halftime show, knowing that the MOURNERS were desperate to see stephen get recognition for being wonderful. the organizers and advertisers knew EXACTLY what we wanted and expected, and knew damn well they were never going to fulfill those expectations. you know what they did instead? they used a tiny clip of spongebob to introduce their own shitty show

I watched to see sweet victory. because they advertised sweet victory and stephen was an amazing person. so many other people who love and miss stephen tuned in just to see it too. the people who do the halftime show manipulated the love and grief of millions of people to trick them into watching the organizers just pat themselves on the back for doing jack shit while managing to trick grievers into watching their shit show for easy extra $$$

redlanternavengerelf42

Like, the NFL didn’t even have to play the whole song. They didn’t play entire performances of most of the other songs, from what I saw, so I wasn’t excepting the entirety of “Sweet Victory.” I was thinking it would probably only be part of it to work with the rest of the show.

I know that the Superbowl half-time show couldn’t suddenly become all about Spongebob, “Sweet Victory,” and Stephen Hillenburg, but I can’t help but feel that if they couldn’t do it justice, they shouldn’t done it at all. It felt like a cheap grab to try to capture the viewership of the million people who signed the petition.

I mean, I feel like a copyright issue is unlikely, because they obviously did get permission to use Squidward and some “Spongebob” imagery and animation, but they could have at least worked in more than one clip to compensate if that was the case.

They could have at least been upfront with what fans could expect. If they had said some the get-go that it would be something small and quick for time reasons and because they had to work it in with the other acts, it wouldn’t have felt like such a low bait and switch.

#spongebob #super bowl 2019