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Reaction to Hearing Stranger Things Season 4 Intro After Long Wait

The meme has text at the top paired with an edited cartoon panel. The top text reads 'me hearing the stranger things intro after years of waiting for season 4'. The image below shows a flattened, blissed-out SpongeBob SquarePants floating upwards through a rainbow-hued cloudy sky, as if ascending to heaven. An edit adds wired earbuds in SpongeBob's ears connected to a dangling MP3 player, implying he is listening to the Stranger Things intro. The joke expresses the extreme euphoria and relief long-time Stranger Things fans felt when the highly anticipated 4th season finally released, to the point of feeling transcendence from hearing the show's iconic intro music.
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Overview

The meme has text at the top paired with an edited cartoon panel. The top text reads 'me hearing the stranger things intro after years of waiting for season 4'. The image below shows a flattened, blissed-out SpongeBob SquarePants floating upwards through a rainbow-hued cloudy sky, as if ascending to heaven. An edit adds wired earbuds in SpongeBob's ears connected to a dangling MP3 player, implying he is listening to the Stranger Things intro. The joke expresses the extreme euphoria and relief long-time Stranger Things fans felt when the highly anticipated 4th season finally released, to the point of feeling transcendence from hearing the show's iconic intro music.

Origin notes

This meme is a derivative of the popular 'ascending SpongeBob' reaction meme template originating from the SpongeBob SquarePants animated series. It was widely circulated online around the May 2022 release of Stranger Things Season 4 on Netflix. This specific instance is sourced from X.com (formerly Twitter) account meme.jpg, distributed via an RSS feed.

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