Later on, Hillenburg vehemently denied the suggestion. Most of the people started concluding that SpongeBob was asexual. This brought in the topic of whether Spongebob is really a homosexual. They condemned the video and accused the makers of spreading homosexuality to the public.

In a promotional video that was released in 2005, the people who followed Christian evangelical believed that it showed Spongebob as a homosexual. A post shared by SpongeBob SquarePants Is Spongebob Gay?