09/13/2026
Imagine being an archaeologist in the year 3025 and pulling this thing out of the Mediterranean.
In late 2025, a Seattle-based artist and YouTuber who goes by the name Sunday Nobody did something that only makes sense if you spend too much time online. He commissioned a three-meter-tall bronze statue that merged the hyper-chiseled face of Handsome Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants with the pose of the ancient Greek Discobolus, a famous sculpture from the fifth century BC that was lost to history. Then he shipped it to Greece and sank it in the Mediterranean Sea.
The project cost him around twenty-five thousand dollars. He had two full-size statues cast in China, along with hundreds of miniature versions. The larger-than-life bronze weighed about five hundred pounds. He and a small crew hauled it to the Halkidiki Peninsula, floated it offshore on inflatable rafts and an air mattress, and cut the lines. The statue dropped about nine meters to the seafloor and, by sheer luck, landed upright.
His stated reason was simple and absurd. He wanted to confuse future archaeologists. In his documentary about the project, he said he wanted to create something that could outlast us all without hurting the ocean. He even consulted a university archaeologist to make sure bronze would survive saltwater for a thousand years and checked with an ocean sciences professor to confirm it would not damage the marine environment.
The internet immediately pointed out the obvious flaw in his plan. We now document everything. One commenter wrote that nothing will confuse archaeologists of the future because we are literally in the most well-documented era of humankind. Another added that even if the internet vanished, people already know what kind of stupid things other people are capable of.
Sunday Nobody is not a stranger to this kind of high-effort absurdity. He has buried a massive Flamin Hot Cheetos sarcophagus, programmed a machine to hand-write the entire Shrek script, and built a giant Bee Movie maze. His guiding philosophy is simple. When people ask why, he asks why not. He does not expect to actually fool scientists. He just wants to make people laugh and think about what parts of our culture will endure.
He sold the duplicate statue and the miniatures, and every piece sold. The footage of the sinking went viral, racking up millions of views. Some people called it trolling. He calls it fun. Either way, there is now a bronze Handsome Squidward sitting at the bottom of the Aegean Sea, waiting for someone to find it and wonder what on earth was wrong with us.
