About
DEUUEAUGH is a descriptive noise from a blue fish in SpongeBob SquarePants that spawned many Youtube Poops due to the absurdity of the sound. Additionally, many Photoshop parodies were created with the fish’s face, which are often used as reaction images for disgust similar to Do Not Want.
Origin
The source of this footage can be seen in in the Spongebob Squarepants episode “Something Smells” first aired on October 28th, 2000. The scene with the distinctive noise was uploaded to Youtube on November 15th, 2010, gaining 220,000 views (shown below, left). On October 6th, 2007, a video was uploaded exclusively of the sound, gaining 1.3 million views (shown below, right).
Spread
In late 2011, a Facebook page[1] was created for the fish gaining 2,000 likes. On Tumblr searching[2] for the tag brings up several examples of the fish being used as a tag in disgust for a post. On December 9th, 2009, Youtuber SmashLuigi25 uploaded a Sonic The Hedgehog version of the scene, gaining 1.4 million views (shown below, left). On September 30th, 2011, Youtuber MrExctbhj uploaded a video showcasing the meme in 8 different languages, gaining 1.3 million views (shown below, right).
On March 4th, 2010, SmashLuigi25 uploaded another parody of the scene using Pikachu from Pokémon gaining 1 million views (shown below, left). On July 23rd, 2010, Youtuber Bros Before Giraffes 2 uploaded a 10 minute version of the scene gaining 1.2 million views (shown below, right).
Various Examples
Videos
On Youtube a search[3] for DEUUEAUGH brings up over 12,000 results of various parodies, YTPMVs, and reenactments.
Images
On DeviantArt a search[4] for DEUUEAUGH yields 200 results for fanart and other creations with the fish.
Search Interest
External References
[1]Facebook – The DEUUEAUGH Guy Page
[2]Tumblr – Search for DEUUEAUGH
[2]Youtube Search for DEUUEAUGH
[3]DeviantArt – Search for DEUUEAUGH