Fun Fact: The energy collectibles from SpongeBob Saves the Princess are the sun sprites ripped straight from Plants vs. Zombies.

These “kid-friendly” games have been a thing for a reallyyyyy long time. I even remember when when I was a kid, around 10 years ago. And yeah, it’s very ElsaGate-y. Doesn’t help that these sorta things are also videos on KZfaq, and KZfaq has done nothing to stop it despite all the reports for it.

there's also that weird game where you throw knifes at spongebob and you can just kill him if you want lmao

I think people forget that edginess sells and that kids tend to like violent things because it's considered mature and funny. While some games are indeed suspect most of it is pretty obvious edge bait.

4:14 How do you clean a baby? Soap? NO! ****ING SOUP!

I actually remember a lot of these bootleg SpongeBob flash games including the baby ones and these definitely more of bootlegs than fanmade games and have no idea why they chose these dark themes, even as someone who remembers some of these

9:00 Dan Schneider Moment 💀

I slightly remember one of baby SpongeBob games and the foot doctor one. We discovered some weird stuff as kids.

The worst thing is... children say they grew up with this 💀💀💀💀

Fun Fact: “SpongeBob and the Balls” Is Essentially The Arcade Game “Pang!” But With SpongeBob. Pang , originally released in Japan as Pomping World and known in North America as Buster Bros., is a 1989 action game released by Mitchell Corporation for arcades in 1989. It was the tenth game released for Capcom's CP System arcade hardware. The basic gameplay is identical to a 1983 Japanese MSX computer game called Cannon Ball (also released in 1983 on the ZX Spectrum as Bubble Buster). Cannon Ball was made by Japanese publishers Hudson Soft, and it was licensed by Mitchell Corporation six years later to make Pang. In the game, players must finish a round-the-world quest to destroy bouncing balloons that are terrorising several of Earth's landmarks and cities. The fight to save the Earth begins on Mount Fuji, Japan, where the players must pass all three stages before moving on to the next location. Conversions, all titled Pang, were released across Europe by Ocean Software in 1990 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Amiga, and Atari ST.

4:35 It’s always needles in these weird internet things for kids. Specifically on the butt. Eslagate was full of stuff like that.

I remember these being inescapable. There were ads for these "online flash arcades" similar to old flash websites with games like Newgrounds. You were right in comparing this to Elsagate, because that's exactly what these games are. The reason there's so many doctor ones is the same reason there are so many youtube videos for kids featuring things like injections, cuts, surgery, dental work, pregnancy where they show you the baby still inside of the mother, and sometimes mashups of these themes like C-section or Tooth surgery games. Most of these games are most likely fetish fuel and fetish farms. Why are they marketed to children? Children are very easy to market to and won't understand what's being shown to them right away. Parents and site advertisers will be oblivious because they're going to hear "Children's games" and not think to double check the site itself for anything they don't want their brand to be attached to. There were so many of these websites they were advertising on other websites just like it, practically promoting each other. Basically, these games exist to market to different fetishes without the drawbacks of admitting they're fetish games, while also marketing to children to get the most money possible. Most people with fetishes like these aren't going to click on these games, because they're grown adults and either 1 don't want Google to know what they're into, and/or 2 find games like this to be too far/too much, so already it would be a minority of a minority of people they're making these games for. Most people would rather watch a video on a site that isn't full of malware than play a sketchy flash game. On top of that, advertisers wouldn't even touch a site that openly expresses that they host fetish games. However, if you claim they're just children's doctor games then advertisers and parents automatically assume it's an educational game and won't bat an eye at what's happening. Why would they do this? I don't know. Much like with how Elsagate actually started, nobody's really going to know why anyone thought this was a good idea. My best guess is some sicko made a fetish game marketed towards children because they got off to it, and just so happened to find success in it, thus cheap companies trying to make a quick buck off the growing Flash game market (which technically now the mobile game market) saw these games were easy to produce, and started making these shovelware fetish games because they were getting clicks and were extremely easy to make. This is not me saying people with fetishes are automatically bad people, because they're not. You could be asexual and still be a creep or a disgusting person. If your fetish isn't harming anyone and you aren't forcing it on others then it's completely fine. Whoever started this trend was a creep for marketing their fetishes toward children in the first place and hiding it behind being an educational doctor game. On a principle level it's no different than linking a child to a website claiming to have full episodes of Dora the Explorer, only for it to be videos of regular p*rn. The only difference is due to how niche and hard to define fetishes can be, it's easier for creeps to get away with using them to their advantage without facing consequences. There's a lot of gray area of what's meant to be a fetish and what's meant to be just innocent fun or gross-out humor. You basically have to be around things like this for a while to be able to spot what is and isn't fetishistic, and most people out there obviously wouldn't be. I feel like these games being so "popular" and abundant could be blamed on so many parents for not watching their kids online, however I think we should also call out the people who hosted and made these games for clearly seeing these kids weren't being watched and chose to capitalize on it anyway. Just because you see a vulnerable person, does not mean you get to take advantage of them, because you know better than to do that. Both parties should be at fault and equally called out for letting this rabbit hole even happen. Knowing my generation grew up with these kinds of games and knowing the next few ones are growing up with these games just on a different platform is something that should be addressed more often, and I'm glad this video exists to show that yes, these game did and still do exist when they shouldn't.

I think the Kirbys from the SpongeBob Save Princess game were ripped from a fanmade Kirby flash game too, could be wrong though.

Oh, whats that? Thats the sound of Stephen Hillenburg rolling in his grave!

GamesGrow really struck a hell of a stolen asset jackpot. -Spongebob. -Kirby. -Plants vs. Zombies (the energy pickups) -I'm fairly certain the princess is also stolen. -Jerry and the Angry Birds menu buttons in the other game.

Spongebob and the balls was a ripoff of a flash game called bubble trouble where you play as the devil. Still a weird concept either way

Those baby spongebob games look like some sort of cursed thing from youtube kids-

Thank goodness I didn’t play those SpongeBob flash games

Let’s be honest, we all discovered these games as children, and right now, we find these games very weird.

these are 100% elsagate style games. lots of these existed on popular flash game websites, i remember when i'd go on those sites as a kid and there were plenty of pregnancy, surgery, etc centered games. looking back at it, it was rlly weird and sinister

Spongebob doesn't have hair... _Or does he?_

back during the early 2010s these cheap flash games were made in excess based on what appealed to kids in terms of free games online. developers would reproduce the same content over and over again with different cartoon characters, and I imagine it was for money via ad revenue. they didnt tend to care about the quality and just whacked together a bunch of assets. definitely strange, though i have fond memories with games like these lol

When I was an kid I remember play this SpongeBob flash game where you have to help SpongeBob to work out

6:42 "now check out Spongebob Shave Time... you could probably shave time by playing another game... sorry about that" don't apologize for being you, lmao.

I love how you censored the insides with dogs LOL

Spongebob looked deformed in first baby spongebob game

9:50 what did they do to Diego

I feel genuinely sick after this video.

i’m familiar with these weird flash games, and the moment i heard you said you had to censor stuff i audibly said “oh oh” i think these kinds of games gave me a deeply hidden fear of seeing a professional, especially a foot doctor. elsa brain surgery lives rent free in my mind

you sound like a nice guy to go fishing with

Ik it’s bad when these type of games seem normal to me cuz it’s the type of games I’d play when I was younger 💀😭

5:36 Kirby

I remember watching videos of these games before.

This is some nasty shit

Sometimes I like to redesign and redraw strange characters from bootleg or otherwise obscure media from fandoms I'm in. Imagine if someone redesigned Princess from SpongeBob Save[s a] Princess as an actual SpongeBob character, I can see that being some cute fan art.

the kirbys in spongebob save princess are probably those fake kirbys from dreamland 3, idk just speculating since there's multiple of them

I'm not sure why people would make this slop

6:01 SpongeBob and the Balls

13:27 this gives me nightmares

i genuinely thought this would have shitpost games in it

Nice puppy

cursedbob

You is his sitter

But baby SpongeBob is cute tho😭

There's a clone of the "Spongebob save princess" game called "Spongebob kill terrorist." It's.... interesting.

In Romanian jocuri means games. I doubt it is a coincidence considering it is a gaming website.

5:13 SpongeBob Save Princess

when i was young i would always play games like that idk why you it was appealing and kept me concentrated

The worst part is that some kids have this as his sitter and the game take care kids. Innocent people who havent played really so sweet.

at least when i was a kid, the shady deviantart flash games i played weren't supposed to be for kids. these are worse, and they are for kids!

Freakbob is calling...

10:50 AYO 💀💀

I'm 14 years old from Indonesian and i really miss SpongeBob flash games😭

I made the mistake to open my eyes while he talked about "Spongebob Foot Doctor"

3:34 That feeling when SpongeBob is a baby 🧽👶😂 Bottom Text

*Kids are into that type of stuff today, but, however, why, in who's mind, did they think these games were appropriate for kids.*

Content farms in a nutshell...

Years ago I gave a try at writing a series finale episode for the show (I think that was 2017). I’ve never understood the medical flash trend😅

I feel like this is the 10th level of hell

6:24 IS THAT PANG?!?!?

SpongeBob and the balls is a Buster Bros clone

I used to play these kind of games when I was like 6 on the family computer 😭

i searched open wound in google and saved every most injuried image as "Delicious food" do not say i love human meat..

Confession i played those games like around the 2010s i remember there were a baby i think Baby Hazel or so

look at what theyre doing to the bob 😭 .... my bobby boy 😢

I think the pastry is for blood sugar

God.... these games are crazy

Haha romania mentioned, jocuri means "games", pretty sure the game was outsourced to romania (we have a large amount of coding)

Nope, nope I’ve seen this rabbit hole before I’m out

Peter Knetter would be proud

As a former young girl, these type of games were kinda up my alley but they are much grosser than what I actually played.

these games gave me this uncomfortable feeling, too graphic for a kids game let alone it felt like something out of Elsagate, i even want to know is who made these games, who owns them and for what purpose it's tingling my conspiracy part of the brain

my question is why did they make the enemies kirbys?

11:24 don’t give deviantart any ideas PLEASE

what are these 😭😭

0:03 Can someone please tell me if this game still exists? I have played it before but I want to play it again so badly.

What's a day with SpongeBob Squarepants about? I tried finding it so I can watch but I cant...

The people who make Elsagate spam aren’t real fans They’re creeps

these have been around since forever, but elsagate made it worse. ive seen some really gross surgery flash games as a kid and those are no better. i had nightmares about a game called save the bunny when i was like 7.

Is this Sponge Man games what drugs is like?

The answer is more straightforward than you think. Popular character + Gross-out humor = Money. All of these game publishing websites n' such make money off of ad revenue. Kids are morbidly curious and will go straight to anything that might seem 'Grotesque' (yknow, fart and poop jokes? In that vein.) (Why do you think Skibidi Toilet is popular.) So combining a character beloved character among kids with something that will catch their eye is just a money making tactic. Nothing dark going on here.

No way we got Patrick's mansion 2 Instead of Luigi's mansion 2

I remember Gahe I played Patrick the mailman on that it was fun

Oh no your trapped yourself into the disturbing and gory manipulative kids, content, rabbit hole noo! Awesome video but I’ve seen so many little kids download these games and play them on their tablets

Ah another girls go games review

Lucililium hates brutal injuries

9:01 EWWWW PUT THOSE GRIPPERS AWAY

0:50 what game is this called?

WHO ARE MAKING THESE RIPOFF-ASS FLASH GAMES??!!

ribbit

Can you get rid of the auto-generated chapters please?

This is apart of that god awful Elsa gate stuff.

N for nobody

THE THUMBNAIL GIVES ME NIGHTMARES!!!

What the heck do you mean by memory at the end? 🤨

content farm games that appeal to the lowest common denominators that children know of (illness, injury, pregnancy, etc) are the scum of the earth. its always low effort borderline fetish content and i feel bad kids that are playing those kinds of games