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Cursed Plankton.
Also known as Plenkton.
A photoshop of Plankton from SpongeBob SquarePants with a pitch black mouth and eyes, originally uploaded to DeviantArt on April 22nd, 2010 by a user named Moopintot. Fourteen years later, it learned how to moan.
◊ pump.fun · contract address
$PLENKTON is live.
He moaned it into existence. Contract pinned below and in the X community. Beware of impostor tickers — there is only one Plenkton.
I. ABOUT
Cursed Plankton, Ugly Plankton, Plenkton, Moaning Plankton.
A single photoshopped frame of Plenkton with the eyes and mouth blacked out, the skin wrinkled, the image darkened and grained until it looks less like a cartoon and more like a stranger caught on a security camera at the bottom of the sea.
For over a decade it floated in obscurity, mostly attached to SpongeBob creepypastas. Then in late 2024, paired with a ghostly moaning sound effect on TikTok, it became the universal reaction image for the small, ugly indignities of being alive.
II. GENESIS
April 22nd, 2010. A DeviantArt edit titled "Plenkton."
DeviantArt user Moopintot uploaded a photoshop of Plankton designed to be as creepy as possible: the image darkened, grain added, eyes and mouth blacked out, wrinkles and other features grafted onto his face.
It sat there. Quietly. Over fourteen years it gathered more than 29,000 views and the title Plenkton — half nickname, half typo — stuck.
Plenkton
by Moopintot · published April 22, 2010
Original upload. The receipt. Fourteen years of quiet drift in the Cursed Image gallery before the rest of the internet found it.
Variants
Same face, different decay. Plenkton has more than one canonical form.
III. Dispatches from the timeline
Tweets that feel like the image looks.
Posts that drift past in the same key as Plenkton — flat, dim, vaguely haunted, accidentally viral.
never better
@wiremxther · 24 Jun 2026
sent $300 to a girl for mutual aid to help her stay in her apartment and she killed herself the next day
Eren 💋
@erenfromtargets · 19 Jun 2026
elon only gave me $18 for this hit tweet
Eren 💋
@erenfromtargets · 5 Jun 2026
the way hantavirus saw nobody giving af and just left
IV. Spread
A slow, quiet decade in the cursed corners.
Through the 2010s and early 2020s, Cursed Plankton lived mostly in horror YTPs and creepypasta thumbnails. On December 15th, 2013, YouTuber Thatguypoops used it in a horror YouTube Poop that has since racked up over 430,000 views.
On July 15th, 2022, YouTuber Snanps put it on the thumbnail of a "Plankton Got Served" creepypasta video, passing 305,000 views and cementing the association in a new generation's memory.
YouTube · 15 Dec 2013 · 430,000+ views
Thatguypoops — horror YTP
The horror-themed YouTube Poop where Plenkton first crawls out of obscurity and into the algorithm.
YouTube · 15 Jul 2022 · 305,000+ views
Snanps — Plankton Got Served
Used as the thumbnail for a creepypasta retelling — the moment the image fuses with the pasta in a new generation's memory.
IV. The 2024 TikTok Trend
"me when I accidentally answer someone who wasn't talking to me"
@ammaryasser___1 · 2 Dec 2024 · 5M+ views in three days
account banned
@planktongemendo
No videos available from OP. The 45-day moaning archive was taken offline when TikTok removed the account.
embed unavailable · profile removed
◊ day 45 · the moan heard around the world
@planktongemendo · the low-res post that detonated the trend.
On 2 October 2024, the 45th daily upload — a grainy, low-res Plenkton paired with the ghostly moan — passed 900,000 views in three days and unlocked the sound for the rest of TikTok. Captions followed. Then everything did.
The account has since been banned. No videos from OP are available — the original 45-day archive only survives as reuploads and stitches.