
What Sin Do You Relish the Most
Published October 15, 2026
"What Sin Do You Relish the Most" is an exploitable macro drawn from a SpongeBob SquarePants scene where Squidward asks a Krusty Krab customer which deadly sin they prefer, then tells him his "death will be met with a tidal wave of total indifference." Facebook page Hello welcome to purgatory 2 posted the original on April 29, 2025, and by June 2025 X user fashionruinedmylife's repost brought the format to a wider audience with over 71,000 likes.
Overview
The exchange runs across four captioned panels1. Squidward opens with the title question, the fish answers with a deadly sin such as vanity, the fish follows with a mournful self-description like "this face and this name are all I truly possess," and Squidward closes with the "tidal wave of total indifference" put-down2. Edits keep Squidward's two lines verbatim and change the sin plus the self-description.
Fans responded to the clash between medieval confessional vocabulary and Squidward's weary cruelty. Many X and iFunny variants treat the setup as a mock priest-penitent dialogue, with the fish naming sloth, pride, wrath or envy and offering a self-pitying justification that Squidward then flattens3. The same still had earlier been used for the "Daring Today, Aren't We" meme back in 20188.
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Origin & Background
Facebook page Hello welcome to purgatory 2: why do we keep doing this uploaded the first known version on April 29, 20254. The image uses an edited still from SpongeBob SquarePants season one, episode 6B, which originally aired in 19995. That post collected around 1,100 reactions over the following two months before Instagram and X accounts began sharing it in June.
How It Spread
How to Use This Meme
Typical edits keep the four-panel order and Squidward's two lines, replacing only the fish's answer and the mournful self-description1. A common convention is to name one of the seven deadly sins, then write a confession line that sounds both proud and pathetic, letting Squidward's "tidal wave of total indifference" close deliver the punchline6.
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