The 'Guys In 2020 SpongeBob Might Look Like' meme is a staple of surreal internet humor and ironic shitposting. It satirizes the early 2010s era of clickbait articles and YouTube videos that made wild, often poorly rendered predictions about what animated characters would look like in the 'future' of 2020. Usually featuring a hyper-realistic, distorted, or low-poly 3D model of SpongeBob SquarePants, the meme captures the absurdity of nostalgic futurism. It became widely popular on platforms like Reddit and Twitter as a way to mock outdated graphic expectations or simply to share 'cursed' imagery that defies logic.