One user's odd nickname for Spongebob's Patrick Star has taken the internet by storm. Here's why everyone is calling Patrick "Subaru."
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00:00Everyone knows this is Spongebob, and this is Subaru.
00:03No, this is Patrick.
00:04Wait, it says here this is Subaru.
00:06No!
00:07This is Patrick!
00:08Then what's with all the memes calling you Subaru?
00:11Spongebob memes have always been a staple online,
00:13but the most recent one seemed to have renamed
00:15our beloved big dumb starfish.
00:17So why are people calling Patrick Subaru?
00:19The new nickname is derived from a comment
00:21made to the Spongebob fandom site back in 2021,
00:24but it only started going viral recently
00:26after being posted to Reddit and X.
00:28On March 5th, 2021, Spongebob fandom members
00:30KMH1481 and IDoodle247 exchanged comments
00:34on the page for the episode, Gone.
00:36One wrote,
00:37I hate that even Subaru took part in No Spongebob Day.
00:39What kind of best friend is he?
00:41The other replied, Who's Subaru?
00:43To which the first responded, I call Patrick Subaru.
00:45We don't get an explanation here.
00:47They just decided to call him that.
00:48In August of 2024, the same user,
00:51purportedly called GrantPantWhyCan't on Reddit,
00:53posted to the r slash Spongebob subreddit,
00:55again claiming their nickname for Patrick is Subaru,
00:58and that they even asked the voice actor
00:59who plays Patrick to say the word Subaru.
01:01On February 17th, 2025, X user PunishedVIA
01:05posted a screenshot of the initial 2021 exchange,
01:08and it started garnering viral attention pretty immediately.
01:10In the following days, reposts of it started appearing
01:13on places like iFunny and various subreddits.
01:15On March 3rd, TikToker WaltJrOfficial
01:18posted the screenshot in a video
01:19with a Lil Yachty laptop meme attached to the end,
01:22garnering over 5 million views in just a day.
01:24Immediately after, users would start sharing memes
01:26featuring scenes from Spongebob
01:28that just refer to Patrick as Subaru.
01:30Like, for example, that same day,
01:32TikToker BSTCopperPlayer1 posted one of these,
01:35garnering nearly 2 million views in a day.
01:37More and more creators would jump in on the trend,
01:39leaving many out-of-the-loop Spongebob fans rather confused.
01:42So did I miss a chapter of Spongebob?
01:45Because who the flippin' heck is Subaru?
01:48Users would even post videos reenacting
01:50the initial exchange or referring to the odd nickname
01:53in other ways, like renaming the other Spongebob characters
01:56with car-related nicknames.