Tom Kenny 'Dead' Tweet Not True

Relax, your childhood memories are safe: Tom Kenny, the actor who voices SpongeBob Squarepants in the eponymous television series, is not dead after all. He's simply the latest celebrity to fall victim to the ridiculous Twitter death-hoax machine, ccording to a story by Eric Brown at ibtimes.com.

Twitter lit up with rumors about Kenny's death Sunday when a picture supposedly paying tribute to the voice actor popped up on the social network.

The much-shared photo showed Kenny standing next to a statue of SpongeBob SquarePants with the caption: "RIP Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob. Retweet to say thanks for making your childhood happier."

 The photo was most often shared with the poster writing, "This picture deserves endless retweets." Because of this, it appears the whole campaign was simply a hoax designed to earn a select few Twitter users thousands of followers.

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