4-Year-Old Buys $2,600 Worth Of SpongeBob Popsicles Off Amazon

BROOKLYN — Four-year-old Noah, an adorable SpongeBob Squarepants superfan from Brooklyn, New York, captured the hearts of frozen-treat fans around the world after he somehow ordered more than $2,600 worth of SpongeBob popsicles off Amazon.

In case you were wondering, that’s 51 cases and 918 total Popsicles.

Little Noah was as pleased as a pineapple under the sea after the Popsicles were delivered to his auntie’s house. His mom didn’t miss it and was quick to capture his brilliant grin as he stood perched atop the shipping boxes, proudly clutching a sample of his haul.

Noah was undoubtedly elated.

His mom? Not so much.

“As (truly!) adorable as this story is, Jennifer Bryant, Noah’s mom, is a social work student at NYU and simply can’t afford this,” family friend Katie Schloss wrote on a GoFundMe page for Bryant. “Amazon will not take back the popsicles, and Ms. Bryant, mom to 3 boys, doesn’t know how she’s going to pay this off, in addition to student loans and all of her family’s other expenses.”

The fundraiser, created four days ago, set a goal to raise $2,619 — the total cost of the Popsicles.

By Friday, supporters had donated more than $12,000.

With the cost of the Popsicles now covered, Schloss said the Bryant family will use the rest of the money toward Noah’s education.

Bryant’s hope is to enroll the little boy in the Learning Spring School, a school for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder to “learn, grow and belong,” Schloss said in an email sent through GoFundMe.

“Thank you so much for your mind-blowing support,” Schloss wrote. “We can’t thank you enough. Truly.”

Noah certainly isn’t the first kid to go nuts with an online shopping cart and their parent’s credit card.

In 2019, a toddler from San Diego, California, bought a $430 couch from Amazon while playing with her mother's phone.

"I was just so shocked," Isabella McNeil told NBC 7. "I thought, 'Did I buy a couch in my sleep?'"

In this case, McNeil had left the Amazon app open on her phone. While her 2-year-old daughter was playing with the phone, she unknowingly pressed the "Buy Now With 1-Click" button.

A year later, 6-year-old George Johnson in Connecticut spent more than $16,000 on his mother's credit card to buy rings in Sonic Forces, a mobile game on her iPad.

Mother Jennifer Johnson told "Good Morning America" that her iPad settings were likely set for a one-time password entry, which allowed her son to keep charging her credit card.

"I didn't realize there was a setting where the child could continue to buy without the password after a certain amount of time," she told the show. "There are various settings that now I'm learning about."

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