The Dark Side of Nickelodeon

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Published 2023-11-07
Nickelodeon is a channel that an absolute ton of people grew up on and still continue to grow up on. But despite all the memories of Spongebob, The Fairly Odd Parents, Drake and Josh, Victorious, iCarly, and many, many others, the channel has had a dark side hidden below the surface. A lot has come to life with the release of Jeanette McCurdy's book. So let's peel back the layers and see what was kept out of view.

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││Sources (including for some stuff that ended up being cut from the script):
www.looper.com/618303/the-dan-schneider-controvers…
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/dan-schneider…
www.eviemagazine.com/post/the-dark-depressing-side…
www.cracked.com/article_35134_grooming-and-gak-the…
www.vulture.com/2016/10/nickelodeon-got-america-ho…
www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/…
www.buzzfeed.com/hannahmarder/problematic-nick-mom…
www.vox.com/culture/23306836/jennette-mccurdy-book…
pagesix.com/2022/01/18/jamie-lynn-spears-ignores-d…
www.yahoo.com/entertainment/alexa-nikolas-dan-schn…
www.buzzfeednews.com/article/arianelange/john-kric…

All Comments (21)
  • @winterburden
    Dan Schneider ruined everything for everyone, forever.
  • @simsgirlgem
    Jeanette is the same age as my younger sister and my heart broke reading her book and made me grateful my parents never put us in acting
  • @karlitatv
    Good vid! I had no idea about the weird animator dating a minor, and yeah I think your last point is very important, we all should not only point fingers at the abusers but also at the parents letting their kids being abused while present, those money hungry parents are the root of the reason their kids got abused bc they LET IT happen just for a quick buck.
  • @truthteller7283
    Speaking of feet stuff. I vividly remember, there was a scene in Zoey101 where a little boy was stuck laying in bed and his feet were trapped in foot stocks. Then a girl removed his shoes and socks and tickled his feet for like a good 30 seconds and the camera stayed focus on his feet the whole time. Like… most of the other feet stuff can be secretly hidden as “whacky humor” for a kid to not notice but that is just RIGHT on the nose pure fetish shit. Not even hidden as a joke in any way. 🤢
  • @jbcatz5
    Dan wasn’t the only person who bullied Alexa, by her account Jamie Lynn Spears was a bully to her and other actors did similar.
  • I think it has to be mentioned that Schneider couldn't have been keeping these secrets from everyone at the company. People like Dan are able to get into and stay in power because other people around him would condone it for the sake of profit.
  • @mayflower7811
    On March 17th, there is going to be a documentary on Dan Schinder and Nickelodeon. This will air on the ID channel and then streamed on HBO Max. Hopefully, this put the network in check. But more importantly, Dan can finally go to prison
  • @antoniopatru8123
    rewatching victorious, it's really fucking weird, creepy and in the case of the brain squeezers episode (where the teen gang go on opposing teams on a game show and get beat with objects that get more dangerous over time, receiving terrible injuries when they get answers wrong, ending with a 200 lb man sitting on Tori while she tries to grab a plate of $10,000 that's just out of reach right in front of her) and the many episodes where minors are sexualized, especially Beck, Jade, and Tori, ILLEGAL. And I didn't forget to mention all the weird foot things and how they infantilize Cat and force her to put on a childish high voice.
  • @mehlover
    I'm glad that some people are able to come out and talk about this now with less repercussions.
  • There’s no doubt about it that Dan Schneider, Chris Savino, and John K who created Ren and Stimpy are all in the same level as Harvey Weinstein, R Kelly, Bill Cosby, Victor Salva, Roman Polanski, Louis CK, Cameron Thor, Kevin Spacey, Andy Signore, Mark Berndt, Kyle Joe aka Deadzilla, and JewWario
  • @jordansweet8054
    I hate the topic but love your videos. This is rough honesty as someone with lots of good memories from the shows.
  • @trueblade3636
    I disagree about your take on Gen Z. They are not superheroes who never forget. In my opinion they have good qualities, but also bad qualities. They do forget a lot. PS: of course not everyone is the same in each generation
  • @SweetyMiki
    Nick has always kind of had a bad history of hiring sickos. One of their animators, Ezel "Ethan" Channel, is a pretty notorious child mo??estor who got placed in prison twice, second time he got caught was 7 years, but got out around 2012 for some dumb reason. When they hired him he was already busted for trying to teach his underage neighbor how to rub one out shortly after his work on Eight Crazy Nights, which he tried on the second arrest too. A lot of them in the studio knew also he was into kids, they also were weirdos who also joked about popping wood by just sitting inside a cool looking car. I actually had the displeasure of working with him in my early 20s a decade ago, let's just say he tried a lot of sick stuff on me while working for him and also was like "being trans is bad, being a man should be your most prideful thing!". Irony for all the homo er0tic stuff he kept trying was, he said he wasn't gay! Luckily after I told my mom about it, she sent him a text message threatening to cut off his c*ck. He tried to stalk me several years ago on FB after the event, but I have kind of managed to evade him. Tbh, I was kind of a coward back in the day because of the situation to report him, because I was a guy and my father told me not to report it. Idk, feel guilty for not doing so ngl. ,=,
  • yeesh, i'd heard about this topic a bit before but not just how bad it actually was, mostly cause i prefer steering away from looking into it, i don't like hearing about such things, but i feel bad for those actors and what they had to deal with
  • @icecreamhero2375
    12:38 The first 2 clips from the Victorious Website the Slap. The last Clip is from the normal Victorious show. None of those clips came from Sam and Cat.
  • @eerieeric834
    How do you feel about the newest season of Bob’s Burgers?
  • @philliplomeo6654
    My nickname for Dan Schneider, the Emperor Palpatine of Nickelodeon.