So here's this.

Emperor_Zar · 8 months

So Britney Spears seems to be whacked out on some drug and is apparently upset that BP shit caught fire. She is sitting on an oil soaked beach in Louisiana holding an obviously tripping cyclopian SpongeBob who just loves his hallucinogenic oil and is quite literally thinking everyone in the world should try it. All the while King crane back there is more than happy to have all those toxic fish to himself?

Is that how this should be interpreted? Or do I just deserve a captain obvious hat?

FlutterShy- · 8 months

This is just my interpretation with no knowledge of the artist.

In the distance you can see the explosion of what I'm assuming is the BP oil rig. There may be symbolism in that but it makes more sense as a literal point of reference to our current time.

In the foreground, a young girl with twelve orbs around her head sits. Very similar to depictions of Christ with the twelve disciples or the sun with the twelve zodiacs. The youthful girl or simply youth itself is depicted as a savior.

The pelican covered in oil wears a crown suggesting that he is king. Oil is king but he stands behind the youth. It is up to the new generation to abandon fossil fuels and to make alternatives. We have to if we want to save our species.

To the left, oil covers the earth. Oil or simply fossil fuels force out the color of the earth as depicted by the rainbow flowing into the dying Spongebob. As we fill the skies with smog and the oceans with oil, life and color dies.

philmoskowitz · 8 months

I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIST!

Sheepie91 · 8 months

Original Artist is here. And mental.

foddershock · 8 months

Do you happen to know who the artist is?

Whybanme · 8 months

Next Stephen King movie poster.

roswellthatendswell · 8 months

I know this girl! Her name is Rachel Harris and this is an artist's rendition of her. The artist's name is Erik Alos and his work can be found hither: http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/4893-erik-alos

40_watt_range · 8 months

Wait, Spongebob has as many eyes as Sally the camel has humps?

Which is to say, variable?

emalik25 · 8 months

Illuminati imagery FTW

Obi_Kwiet · 8 months

Someone wishes they were Dali.

alexmonstar · 8 months

What am I doing with my life?

KindredSubreddit · 8 months

/r/WTFart

SisterHeidi · 8 months

Leela + Spongebob = This?

Undead_outlaw · 8 months

what a powerful message.

carrotsandwich · 8 months

Midas guy in the back taking a dump? Just sayin.

SquidsAhoy · 8 months

If this wants to be relevant in today's political commentary, its going to replace the Crane with Hedonism bot.

Bethurz · 8 months

The other day I saw a painting of Spongebob stealing The Little Mermaid's top. That was fairly weird.

[deleted] · 8 months

I'm going to frame that and put it in my guest bathroom.

double_bass0rz · 8 months

It's an environmental piece. The destruction of the ocean is leading to the death of countless sea creatures, but she has an affection for creatures of the sea (Spongebob is a likeable fictional sea creature). She holds its likely dead body with deep anguish over its suffering and the travesty of the global situation. What the pelican wearing a crown means maybe someone else can decipher.

Grifty_ · 8 months

fake, that can of oil is just floating there

dubious_advice · 8 months

I successfully fapped to this. Next?

kstub · 8 months

anyone else immediately google spongebob to make sure that they weren't crazy and spongebob isn't usually a cyclops?

Armadillo19 · 8 months

It's like Salvador Dali met Norman Rockwell met Nickelodeon.

bellab413 · 8 months

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants! Who does in an oil spill 'cause of BP? Spongebob Squarepants!

apullin · 8 months

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/hwybd/no_idea_if_this_is_a_repost_but_im_posting_it/

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/gn0c7/death_of_spongebob/

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/gm1u7/i_believe_this_belongs_here/

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/go0no/based_on_a_true_story/

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/jwl2l/spongebob_nooooo/

packetfire · 8 months

Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? Sponge-Bob Squarepants!
Who died in an oilspill caused by BP? Sponge-Bob Squarepants!

brojectile · 8 months

i didnt realize BP created goo lagoon

nagatron84 · 8 months

Immediately thought of the song, these eyes, by guess who

No_Warhawkz · 8 months

Oh! Good, thank you. I've been looking for it. Where did you find it? I always lose that!

sporkafunk · 8 months

I actually did a very thematically similar symbolic painting in high school where I crucified the statue of liberty.

HazelHankMurphy · 8 months

Original artist narwhal 3rd pic.

habitualbastard · 8 months

Clarissa, you have some explaining to do young lady.

Skatinbrad · 8 months

BP destroyed Bikini Bottom and crowned all the birds?

SirBenjamin · 8 months

I see nothing wrong with this.

[deleted] · 8 months

She needs braces

Aihwa · 8 months

I'm just going to put this out here, half of r/WTF could easily work on r/Art.

I don't get Art either.

PunkWaffle · 8 months

Spongebob! NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

mxlplx101 · 8 months

12 ioun stones

Sachem81 · 8 months

A pelican is on the state seal of Louisiana. In that case, the pelican is feeding its children from its own breast, as a symbol of the Christ. Why this pelican is crowned, I don't know.

destinyland · 8 months

Salvador Bobby?

Con_Artist · 8 months

ohmygod FINALLY.

Krankenflegel · 8 months

No more steppin' on the beach, i guess...

[deleted] · 8 months

salvador dali if he was watching T.V in the 21st century.

bronkudo · 8 months

LOL

i3ui3i3a · 8 months

I believe that this painting is supposed to show how oil is ruining the world. It's killing the wildlife that should be the royalty of this world and even going so far as to kill spongebob who may represent our childhood. Interesting about spongebob is that the the world is hovering over his head with a rainbow attaching it to him. I believe this is supposed to represent his imagination which is being covered over with oil. Not really sure about the girl.

Detroit_All_Of_It · 8 months

Similar style to Brandon Bird.

optimusbudweiser · 8 months

I would have sex with all dat white gurl.

floaton1001 · 8 months

Looks like a poor attempt at aping Dali?

TosTosT · 8 months

holy television and acid Dali!

91Jacob · 8 months

I want that girl, you can have the one-eyed spongebob.

HashRunningRapist · 8 months

I have you now, Mr. Triceratops.

gsfgf · 8 months

See, this is good old fashioned wtf. It's definitely wtf, not the "ATT Charged me $18 to upgrade my phone WTF?!?!?" crap that we're trying to get away from, but it's not /r/spacedicks material that makes me want to move to a cave in Montana and never hear of this internet thing ever again.

Identity_disorder · 8 months

Oil. Definitely oil.

apmihal · 8 months

If you hadn't figured out from the oil covered bird, oil washing up on the shore with dead fish, and an undersea cartoon character drowned in oil, that this image is about the environmental devastation that oil spills have caused, the artist went ahead and painted a picture of an oil barrel spilling oil onto the earth.

SirMinisterIVEsq · 8 months

Is that Anna Faris?

wristdirect · 8 months

Oil tanker exploded releasing its oil which made the water all oily which killed three fish and soaked the pelican king in oil while our heroine saves a Sponge Bob that has been mutated by rainbow rays emanating from a paper-mâché Earth with oil being split upon it from an oil can, both of which are hovering from the magic within the heroine's water-droplet halo.

That is what is the fuck.

what-s_in_a_username · 8 months

Ohhhh, I get it.

Factsthatareuntrue · 8 months

Did you know that sponge bob was the highest rated cartoon in 1999.

drood420 · 8 months

The style of art reminds me of the folding last page of a Mad Magazine.

SnowBane · 8 months

Spongecy Clopspants?

denselight · 8 months

damn you, this pic froze on my screen when i tried to press the back button, i started panicking, people noticed, and now everyone thinks im weird

kivarenn82 · 8 months

Finally, a "WTF" that won't make me have terrifying nightmares.

Sarabi05 · 8 months

Along with showing the destructive nature of our dependence on oil, I believe there's another political criticism behind this- Spongebob lives in Bikini Bottom, which is supposedly where the Bikini Atolls are; there was a bunch of nuclear testing done in the Bikini Atolls during WWII, many bombs were dropped into the water to observe the effects. That might explain the explosion behind her and Spongebob's mutation.

duckduckwill · 8 months

Whos the artist?

daht_com · 8 months

oil spill and anti-consumer symbolism? gotta be adbusters.

DivinusVox · 8 months

She looks a lot like mememolly from Youtube and Rocketboom.

[deleted] · 8 months

Sponge Bob died trying to soak up all the oil for us :(

gravion17 · 8 months

Hmmm...yes...I see what he/she was going for here...

DaneTroll-ie · 8 months

The inner workings of my mind are an enigma...

Anticitizen-Zero · 8 months

I love how everyone tries to make sense of this. The author probably said "I'll just do this LSD and illustrate how I feel."

MoridinZero · 8 months

reminds me of a tarot card but really twisted

C1in · 8 months

Thats a really bloody good painting.

cieltsd · 8 months

That oozing Cyclo-Sponge is creepy as fuck.

cwalkerz3r0 · 8 months

Looks like you need to teach these two the "sock on the door handle" rule.

bigotkillerx · 8 months

"OOOOOOOOOO, Who lives in a pineapple under the-FUCK!"

Tigeroovy · 8 months

I mourn for Sponge-Clops.

silveradocoa · 8 months

tara reid?

Raeman91 · 8 months

Salvador Dali anyone?

NDMagoo · 8 months

I would totally buy a poster of this...

rothchildkiller · 8 months

I think this picture is representative of the illuminati or mystery babylon

Sarahmint · 8 months

I think I get this. The picture is a modern rendition of the Virgin Mary with baby Jesus. The world is polluted by oil, and we worship pop-culture as we destroy the earth. The explosion in the background is the Gulf Coast Oil Leak occurance.

linkstoanimals · 8 months

Oh Nooooo!

klaq · 8 months

this almost has a discernible meaning, so not that wtf.

consumethc · 8 months

everything makes sense except the oil spilling everywhere. that literally never happens

WTF

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