# Barnacle Boy's Sulfur Vision Barnacle Boy's Sulfur Vision shows the SpongeBob SquarePants hero squinting at a conch shell as yellow eye beams fail to destroy it, a 2001 cartoon still that iFunny editors turned into an image macro template nearly two decades later. Posts crop the frame to Barnacle Boy's gloved hand and reduce the caption to the single phrase 'The [object],' with no further words. By January 2021, Twitter accounts had edited QR codes onto the conch to share pirated software and games. ## Origin The scene comes from 'Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II,' which aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on March 3, 2001[10]. In the episode, SpongeBob keeps summoning the retired superheroes with a conch signal from a cereal box, and a fed-up Barnacle Boy takes the shell and tries to melt it with Sulfur Vision, only for the conch to come out of the beam unharmed. Still frames of the failed zapping saw moderate meme use well before the 'The' caption arrived. iFunny user 12ozmouse photoshopped marijuana into the shell on July 19, 2016, which Know Your Meme logs as the earliest known edit of the scene[2]. Twitter user @craftosaur100 posted a Delet This reaction based on the frame on October 1, 2017[3]. - **Platform:** iFunny (viral spread on Twitter and Instagram) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2019 ## Overview A Barnacle Boy's Sulfur Vision post keeps the cartoon still intact and photoshops a new target into the hero's gloved hand while his yellow sulfur beams flare down toward it. Captions use the article alone, with no verb or follow-up noun, which is the joke by itself; viewers supply the hatred that the character's crumpled face already projects[4]. Targets have included marijuana nugs, deli sandwiches, Nintendo products, and abstract concepts like 'The Monday.' A video variant from iFunny user JohnnyTesticles, posted on November 20, 2020, loops the beam animation over the chosen object and earned over 2,000 smiles in five months[8]. By early 2021, QRposting accounts on Twitter adopted the template as a container for QR codes linking to pirated software, games, and movies[4]. ## How to Use Keep the still frame of Barnacle Boy aiming his sulfur beams unchanged, photoshop a new object into his hand where the conch sits, and write a caption that reads only 'The [object].' Common targets include food, pop culture items, and abstract concepts like days of the week. A video variant exists for editors who want the eye beams to animate over the target[8]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Barnacle Boy's Sulfur Vision? An iFunny-born image macro that crops a 2001 SpongeBob SquarePants still of Barnacle Boy aiming his eye beams at a conch, with captions that use only the word 'The' and a new object photoshopped into his hand[4]. ### Where did Barnacle Boy's Sulfur Vision come from? The still comes from the Nickelodeon episode 'Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy II,' which aired on March 3, 2001[10]. A 'The' caption variant turned up on iFunny around August 2019, when user Kowl reposted an edit that stripped an earlier caption down to the article alone[5]. ### What does Barnacle Boy's Sulfur Vision mean? Each post works through deadpan contradiction: the superhero's rage at the item never gets explained, so a caption like 'The Tuna Melt' makes viewers supply their own reason that Barnacle Boy hates the sandwich[6]. ### How do you use Barnacle Boy's Sulfur Vision? Keep the still intact, photoshop a new object into Barnacle Boy's hand, and reduce the caption to the article followed by the object's name. Posts often show absurd targets such as marijuana edits[2] or random deli food[6]. ### Is Barnacle Boy's Sulfur Vision still popular? The template saw its biggest run from late 2019 through early 2021, when QRposting accounts on Twitter used it to hide links to pirated software and media[4]. ## References 1. [https://twitter.com/Lunarnarwhal/status/1265409700637491200]() 2. [https://ifunny.co/picture/LwqCqke24]() 3. [https://twitter.com/craftosaur100/status/914609516746084353]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/barnacle-boys-sulfur-vision]() 5. [https://ifunny.co/picture/8Q8hQ71y6]() 6. [https://ifunny.co/picture/iNdPToc87]() 7. [https://www.instagram.com/p/B5JBPvphhOonANPtiUZdgpR-HIYNIl6rh2Zdc00/]() 8. [https://ifunny.co/video/Queu8nkC7]() 9. [https://twitter.com/Lunarnarwhal/status/1265473836557860867]() 10. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we7-LcrDVCs]() 11. [https://ifunny.co/picture/nsrLluz87]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/barnacle-boys-sulfur-vision Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library