Today we passed over 3 MILLION views on the movie on YouTube! Just ahead of our 6 month anniversary this Tuesday too!
Thank you guys for everything, we have an amazing community!💛
Watch the full movie on YouTube here:
Four years ago today, the world lost Stephen Hillenburg. The impact he left is enormous and is seen throughout the multiple generations impacted by his work on SpongeBob and Rocko's Modern Life.
Rest easy, Ocean Man.
We are roughly 18 hours away from the premiere of the SpongeBob SquarePants Rehydrated project, TWO YEARS in the making!
We hope to see you all at the premiere at 6PM!!
Quote retweet with what you're most excited for, or use the hashtag
#sbrehydrated
!!
Perch Perkins here with an incredible news flash!
YouTube has lifted the “for kids” setting on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Rehydrated!
Let’s all give a big thank you to
@TeamYouTube
!!
For those who do not know, being restricted to “made for kids” means that several features are unavailable, but most of all the video will not be recommended as widely as it would be otherwise. With our goals to get our artists recognized, hired, etc., this poses a big problem.
Let's all say our ABCs, according to Plankton!
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
The SpongeBob Movie Rehydrated Project premieres on YouTube at 6:00PM EST on May 1st!
Here is our full post credits scene! Hope everyone who stuck around to the end enjoyed it!
The audio at the end is archival audio of Tom Kenny and Stephen Hillenburg from 1996.
FULL MOVIE:
Three years ago today, the world lost one of the most influential minds of recent generations, Mr. Stephen Hillenburg. At its core, this project is a tribute to the characters and world that he created. Thank you for everything, Stephen.
Good morning world and all who inhabit it. Today is FINALLY the day the world will see The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Rehydrated.
Join us in 8 HOURS, at 6PM EST for the premiere on our YouTube channel. Link to the channel in our bio. A premiere for the film will be set up soon.
#justiceforspongebob
Let these artists get the recognition and attention they deserve! We're sick of playing games: Movie up, down, "made for kids", back down.
WE HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE!
WE HAVE OFFICIALLY HIT 1 MILLION VIEWS ON YOUTUBE!!
Thank you so much to our entire community! This wouldn't have been possible without you!
We have a big celebration in store! Stay tuned in the next week or so!!
Today marks 5 years since we lost Stephen Hillenburg. His influence on television animation, aspiring animators and marine biologists is immeasurable. This project is a tribute to the care and fun that him and his team brought to the show from the start. Rest easy, Ocean Man❤️
On this day two years ago, we lost an amazing man. The creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, Stephen Hillenburg
This whole project is a way to pay tribute to him and all of his accomplishments that have impacted so many people
Rest in peace, big guy
<3
Since we're on our final week of active animation development we're doing a couple of Weekly Showcases early this week! Today we have
@noodlii1029
's progress on their scene!
We will get this sorted and put it up on the Newgrounds soon. For now, don't refresh the stream, try and find somewhere to watch it and don't worry because you WILL see the full thing at some point!
This is the winning thumbnail for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Rehydrated! Thank you all for voting and thank you
@cello_us
for creating it!
Join us tonight at 6PM EST for the movie! Channel link in our bio!
#spongebobmovierehydrated
Close to tears thinking about how the SpongeBob community rounded together to let all this hard work and dedication be shown. Y'all are amazing and every single one of you is responsible for it being back up on Youtube! We can't thank you enough for your support. ❤️
Hey
@MoistCr1TiKaL
!
400+ fans of SpongeBob just created a complete re-animation and redubbing of the first SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, and it got a copyright strike halfway through premiering. We're hoping you could help us out! Yeah baby!!!
I don't know if this is permanent or not, but thank you SO much to everyone who made this possible. The sad thing is, if this project didn't already have a big following we're unsure this would've happened so the situation still needs awareness for smaller projects. But thanks!!!
Did you know as a promotional event in 2004, select Burger Kings displayed a giant SpongeBob inflatable on top of their restaurant to advertise for the first movie. Some of these were stolen and sold on eBay for a lot of money. The stealers were known as "Spongenappers"
When you think of youtube kids specific animation, I bet the first thing that comes to your mind is billion surprise toys-type content, which is made cheaply and quickly to make a quick profit. Therefore, it is not taken seriously. That’s not what we want for our amazing artists
Letterboxd deleted our project’s page and redirected all reviews of it to the original movie’s page…
It’s kinda dumb considering shrek retold is allowed on there, but we’re not looking to start any more beef, so it’s fine.
Does this mean we’re canon-adjacent? 🤔🤔
Thank you guys so much for your support with
#JusticeForSpongeBob
. At this moment, the movie is BACK UP on YouTube, but please remember that this can change at any moment. You guys are the best and we can't do this without you.
Film link:
The restrictions forced upon a video marked “safe for kids” fail to recognize that it could still potentially appeal to all ages, and blocks many features that make viewing the video easier and more accessible, such as disabling miniplayer or adding it to collections.
This is because, if you look at these requirements here, we fit under both categories. Yes, SpongeBob is typically associated with children. But there is frightening and controversial imagery as well, such as the scene that implies Neptune abuses his daughter.
Since the winner of the SpongeBob Movie Rehydrated thumbnail was a close contest, we thought it'd be fair to showcase the runner up, which was only a couple of votes behind. Thank you
@McKnackus
!
Gary, I had that dream again! And it’s finally gonna come true! Tomorrow!
Tomorrow at 5 PM EST, the new Rehydrated trailer will premiere on the YouTube channel. Be there or be square!
#spongebob
#reanimation
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Rehydrated: Free Chum Bucket Bucket Helmet with every viewing!
See the YouTube premiere on Sunday, May 1st, 6:00PM EST!
It also ensures that it will be recommended more likely alongside youtube kids content exclusively, which is why you don’t typically see kids’ videos recommended often.
At the end of the day, we understand why they flagged us as “made for kids”, but we also believe it’s unfair
Unfortunately
@PitiYindee
had to step down from the project due to other commitments but we would be remiss not to share the awesome WIPs they'd made so far!
All the best with your future endeavours!! :)
Check out more of their work on Twitter!
As you can see by this graph, our movie's main audience isn't kids at all.
According to Youtube's OWN DATA, the 13-17 aged audience falls under 18-24, 25-34, and even 35-44 year olds!
@TeamYouTube
want to help a goober out and reconsider our video being flagged as 'for kids?'
We just want our creators to be able to have the widespread voice they deserve, and we also want to be taken seriously as many of us consider this a focal point in our resumes. Please consider all of this before commenting about how obvious the reasoning seems.
@YouTube
Today in honor of Stephen Hillenburg's 60th birthday, we decided to showcase some amazing art our community has made in honor of him. (All artist social media links in replies)
Happy birthday Stephen Hillenburg, this project and our hard work is all for you. Thank you!💛
You’re the best community we could have ever hoped to have. We’re so proud of our film, the artists who made it, and the impact it’s had. We had hopes during production, but they never got this high!! Thank you for making this experience better than we had ever dreamed possible!
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Hi everybody, we're so excited for you all to see The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Rehydrated, however we will be delaying the movie for a short amount of time, still set for a 2021 release. This is to ensure the collab is as great as can be to honor Mr. Hillenburg's legacy.
Since we're on our final week of active animation development we're doing a couple of Weekly Showcases early this week! Today we have one of
@PitiYindee
's scenes!
Happy 25 years since the premiere of "SpongeBob SquarePants!"
And, of course, today is also the 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF THIS PROJECT'S PREMIERE!
We can't thank you all enough for your support! Be on the lookout for some exciting announcements coming soon!
Merry Christmas!
The no-longer secret project we’ve been working on and needed musicians for is finally ready!
Our Christmas Who? table read premieres at 12PM EST TODAY!! Be there or be square!
as funny as it would be, this is not the reason it's blocked. the claim is an audio claim, citing that a whopping 40 minutes of our project uses the original's audio! Anyone who watched the project would recognize that as something untrue.
In honor of the 2021 Kid's Choice Awards today, here's a promo for the original 'The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie' that aired during the 2004 Kid's Choice Awards!
EXCITING NEWS EVERYONE!!
We're going to be hosting an art contest!
3 winners will be picked to draw a promotional poster for the SpongeBob Movie Rehydrated.
To enter:
RT this tweet.
Re-create this image.
Tweet out your drawing with the hashtag
#MMBBArtContest
GOOD LUCK!!
Another project got wrongfully tagged as "Made for Kids". We were able to successfully appeal ours, hope you guys are able to have this appealed too.
@TeamYouTube
please help.