Moar Krabs / Morbid Krabs

About

Moar Krabs, aka Morbid Krabs refers to a still image of Mr. Krabs from the SpongeBob SquarePants "Jellyfish Hunter" in which Krabs looks hyper-detailed and horrific. The still has been used in numerous formats, including YouTube Poops and exploitables. The song "Gentle Breeze" from the Nintendo DS game Trauma Center is often paired with video parodies of the scene, while others have made numerous photoshops of the drawing. .

Origin

The detailed image of Krabs that is used in these videos appears for less than a second during a montage in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Jellyfish Hunter," aired September 28th, 2001,^[4] during which SpongeBob catches jellyfish for Mr. Krabs, who constantly demands "more."

The first instance of Moar Krabs on YouTube has since been removed. The oldest version still on YouTube was posted on December 4th, 2008, titled "MOAR KRABS RETURNS." It has since accumulated over 135,000 views, but has had mostly negative response with more than 250 dislikes and only a little more than 100 likes.^[1]

Spread

Other videos posted in the following months were better received, with the most popular Moar Krabs video on YouTube sticking to the original format being posted in February, 2009 titled "MOAR KRABS!!!" It has received over 245,000 since its upload (shown below).^[2]

The most popular video still on YouTube to come out of the Moar Krabs fad was "WHAT IS MOAR KRABS V3" and contained a remix of What is Love set to a video of high-definition images Krabs, Spongebob, and Squidward, in the same style as the original Morbid Krabs image. The video has since accumulated over a million views.^[3]

In addition to the YouTube remixes surrounding Moar Krabs, multiple exploitable variations of the image have been made online (examples shown below).

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References