Hello Internet!
And welcome to Behind The Meme!
Where we take a look at the meaning and the origin of your favorite memes and trends!
Today We have a look at ”OH yeah Mr. Krabs!”
Oh yeah Mr Krabs has seen a crazy amount of comments suggesting a video on the topic from
many of my viewers.
Now I know there are many spongebob memes and even a handful of Mr Krabs memes but this
one has been the most popular of the bunch by far so I knew I had to take a trip to bikini
bottom.
When I got there I was Shocked and really Confused.
But you guys wanted it so now you have it!
Here!
We GO!
So what exactly is “Oh Yeah Mr Krabs?”
Well before I explain that I must first try explain who Mr.Krabs is for those people who
are unaware, although I’m sure most of you know, so I’ll keep it short.
Sponge bob square pants is a popular cartoon that has been on the air since 1999 on the
nickelodeon channel.
Mr Krabs, who’s real name is Eugene H. Krabs, is the owner of the fast-food restaurant in
which sponge bob works called the Krusty Krab.
Which is famous for their tasty krabby patty burgers.
Ok so now that we understand who mr krabs is, where does the oh yeah come from?
Well, it comes from this 5 second video!
“Oh Yeah Mr. Krabs!
AHHHHHHHH!”
Ok, if this is your first exposure to that video you may feel a bit strange and confused,but
don’t worry you aren’t alone.
In the video a guy is heard uttering the words “Oh yeah mr. krabs.” as he holds a mr.krabs
board game piece, from the spongebob game of life board game,and believe it or not I
actually searched through dozens of photos to figure out just what game he was playing
and to the best of my ability I narrowed it down to this game, which as you can see the
events in the video take place in this corner of the board.
After he says “Oh yeah mr krabs” He then places mr.krabs face down on the board on
top of sandy who is a female character on the show.
Now believe it or not there are two theories as to why he then screams following these
events.
Some believe he screams to imitate mr krabs drowning because he places him face down in
the water, although that doesn’t make sense because mr krabs is…a crab.
The other theory suggests that because of the suggestive nature of the way he says “OH
Yeah mr krabs” And the placement of mr krabs on top of sandy the scream is sexual in nature
. Either way I think we’re looking a little too deep into it, after all this is a 5 second
video.
That video was uploaded to youtube by the channel NKassad on March 4th, 2009. and Since
then it has gained nearly 3 million views!!!!
Yes I said Million!
Aside from gaining an incredible amount of views it also spawned the creation of various
video edits that utilize the sound clips from the video.
The trend got particularly popular on the website YTMND.com where users would often
photoshop random heads of mr krabs into various videos to which they would then add the sound
clips, usually to accompany some type of song
and due to the popularity of the examples created for YTMND the trend eventually spread
beyond the website and into other corners of the internet
One of the more popular examples of this type of edit on Youtube is from the user Ellie
Rage who uploaded a mr krabs edit which has gained over 2 million views since September
of 2014!!
Oh but it doesn’t end there,NKassad isn’t a one hit wonder, he uploaded a couple more
mr.
Krabs videos to his channel earlier this year making oh yeah mr. krabs a trilogy!
Its gonna be hard to match the success he achieved from the original mr. krabs but who
knows, the internet is obviously a weird ass place!
Cause After all the internet is the only place where a weird video can become a meme.
So there you have it!
Mr. Krabs has gone from a character on a popular cartoon to one of the strangest memes I have
ever seen!
But hey!
That’s the internet for you!
And on the internet memes are keeng!
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