Dan Schneider and the Downfall of Nickelodeon 

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I feel so dirty watching Nickelodeon. The way they treat their properties and actors, hiring creeps and knowingly letting them hurt people, it's awful

It's so messed up that Dan Schneider was able to get away with so much abuse for so long. Drake Bell and so many others were brave to speak out about the harassment and abuse that they'd experienced while on the set.

“The world could’ve survived without the Amanda show if it meant these kids didn’t have to be emotionally abused on set.” That is the perfect take. No project that makes any amount of money should come at the expense of decency. The crew members AND parents need to seriously be looked at.

Butch Hartman is no longer the most hated man in Nickelodeon.

It's crazy that it's been many years now and that the topics of Dan Schneider of being a creep are brought up again, I'm surprised Dan Schneider lasted so long against the allegations.

Yea....seeing all the reactions all over the internet is like....kinda insane considering I thought we all knew about his allegations?

To make matters even worse, there’s an actress named Amber Frank who played in the sitcom “The Haunted Hathaways” who’s gone out and said that during her time at Nickelodeon, they would bring out these computers for production and in those computers, there was literally “cp” in those computers.

I’ll always be pissed about Nick cancelling Rise of the TMNT. That show NEVER got the fair shot it deserved with its nonexistent marketing, and the animation community did it no favors.

wishing healing for drake, alexa, jennette, all the kids on these shows including the kids who probably got hurt and didn’t even make it in the industry. the fact that they essentially gave up their own childhood for ours at the cost of their protection, self esteem and mental health makes me incredibly devastated. i REALLY hope this finally makes some change

It's depressing that Nickelodeon knew about this for years and only throw him under when those accusations started gaining traction. They only stepped in when they could benefit from it.

14:55 "and cartoon Network is a story for another day" Honestly I'm really interested to see a video on that story

I watched the documentary, I really like the ending where Drake Bell and his father are walking off set: Drake's Dad: "Better days are ahead of us" Drake: "I hear that alot" Drake's Dad: "Keep listening to it"

I love how Mark always refers The Loud House as “The Lincoln Loud Show”.

Both millennials and gen z seeing their childhoods collapse and having collective grief over it has been interesting to say the least

If anything’s to go by QuietOnSet then Nickelodeon’s either losing a lot of money or just going to quit live-action all together. I doubt they’ll shut down because that’s pretty unfair to the animation department who had nothing to do with Danny-boy’s scandals.

Don't diss Boomerang, their old bumpers were bangers

Hypothetically speaking Imagine if all of this drama with Schneider and "Quiet On Set" were to lead to Nickelodean permanently closing it's doors and or shutting down, Which of course would mean all of their current running shows would be cancelled never to be aired again. And that would honestly be a small price to pay for everything that they let Schneider get away with. And in case anyone ask's, The reason I say "Hypothetically speaking" is because while it is true that Nickelodean has been facing hard times because of everything with "Quiet On Set" I doubt that it would actually cause the network to go bankrupt and permanently shut down.

“what makes you think you can be dirty dan?” “I’m dirty” That one liner makes more sense now.

Me as a kid: Finally, shows that treat children like adults! Me as an adult: Oh god, he treated those children like adults!

Me knowing Schneider is a Monster is One Thing, the Company Neglecting this Situation is Another, what does surprise me the most from all of this is that this Rabbit Hole goes way beyond deeper, disturbing, disgusting, maddening, and Deranged than I originally thought having these Creeps and Monsters taking something just as valuable as Life Itself, they Ruined Children’s Hopes, Dreams, Innocence, and Future, this Type of Crap should never Happen Again.

Whenever that Spongebob episode that has the line "Dirty Dan" from now on, I'll immediately think of the scandals and abuse

The fact that Dan Scneider isn't in jail is insane

Dan Schneider is so horrible the old adage "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself as the villain" doesn't even apply to him because that apology he gave was faker than Hulk Hogan's leg drop. I hope Nickelodeon bounces back from Quiet on Set but I don't think they ever will.

It’s really sad to see Nickelodeon in a depressing. Not only because of the horrible treatment of Dan Schneider and the streaming services, but also they’re downsizing some of their brands. They just layoff their Noggin, meaning that the brand will no longer be around, it just made me really sad.

I know creeps like these exist everywhere, but it’s scary and surprising the staggering amount in the entertainment industry as a whole. You wouldn’t think they’d have this much power over others.

Even without Dan "El Inspector De Patas" Schneider around, Nick has done no shit lately but being the punching bag of the big three of cartoon media. It's quite sad but at the same time they did this to themselves.

For anyone who wants even more insight I highly recommend reading Jennette McCurdys book "I'm glad my mom died" which delves into her time on nickelodeon which was of course awful

Even as a kid, I hated most of the live action shows on Nick besides Ned's Declassified or maybe Drake and Josh. And unfortunately growing up in the 2000s, I couldn't get away from them. It wasn't until I stumbled on the then called NickToons Network around 2007/2008 and it was WAY more appealing because in the 2000s, it was trying to stand out from the other networks with it's bumpers, ads and shows. Many of which had older shows I discovered for the first time like Ren and Stimpy, My Life As A Teenage Robot, Mr Meaty and especially Invader Zim, and original shows like The Secret Show, Kappa Mikey, El Tigre, Edgar & Ellen, Making Friends. That era of NickToons is extremely underrated when it comes to animation.

I was a pure cartoon kid, so I didn't watch most of Nickelodeon's live-action shows all that much. When the Dan Schneider allegations became public around 2018, while I was disturbed and disgusted, I can't say my childhood was ruined in any way. I've since gone back and watched Drake and Josh and iCarly and enjoyed them a lot, but there's still a sense of dread with certain scenes now knowing all this. Still, It's strange to see people acting as if this is a brand new revelation, when we've known about this for like half a decade now. Where the heck have you all been?

It is just very sad that even after Dan was finally fired from Nick, there are still some nasty dark secrets from his time working there we are still learning about, & Nick deserves the Irrelevency for cover this up for so long

can we stop only using Dan Schneider specifically as like the face for this??? Ive seen so many people just talk about Dan like he was the only person doing any wrong… he abused his power in sick ways but compared to the other two people mentioned on the quiet on set documentary can we please hold those people accountable and as the face of dark nick…. You guys really need one face to point at…. PLEASE EXPOSE EVERY SICK INDIVIDUAL THAT WAS INVOLVED LIKE BRIAN PECK

Nickelodeon did nothing to help. The only true reason Nickelodeon finally intervened because they were losing money in Dan's shows.

I literally got an ad for Quiet on the Set.

I think my biggest gripe with this so far, is all the people going "omg thank God I was a Cartoon Network or Disney girlie!" Mf please. Don't act like you didn't watch Nickelodeon with the rest of us. Also don't act like those other networks are clean cause no tf they aren't. No one is clean in Hollywood. Literally no one. Nada. You're lying to yourself if you think ANYONE'S trustworthy over there. ...MAYBE Jerry Trainor is okay. That's a big maybe. We all thought Drake Bell or Shane Dawson were cool too look what happened.

What I find baffling is how as time passes more and more comes out about him which really makes you question how he got away with this for so long

Sad part is Rock Paper Scissors is probably the best thing that's happened to Nick in the last few years and that's saying something

The fact that my parents can remember and enjoyed parts of Dan Schneider shows speaks to how effective and creative they were. Disney shows always felt more childish to me after a certain point and looking back it’s because they were so sanitized. Nickelodeon made me feel much more happy and grown up, as weird as that is to say now. R.I.P. to my fellow Gen-z’ers growing up and coming to realize everything they once loved and trusted was incredibly dark behind the scenes

Honestly I feel like the only 3 Things that Nickelodeon care about nowadays are cringy Nickelodeon sitcoms,SpongeBob & loud house with the occasional original show that barely gets promoted And I can’t help but feel bad for the poor child actors That stared in Dans shows

The fact I knew about the allegations and abuse that Dan Schneider had put the child star actors through behind the scenes and the jokes that went over my head in years before the quiet on set documentary came out is just wild.

Nickelodeon has become such a shell of their former selves that the most this Quiet on Set Documentary managed to do was only drag their reputation further below. All their current programming ranges from bland to mid and the Paramount+ service has been lackluster.

12:14 “he had lost his touch” Yeah, he better have lost his TOUCH if you know what I mean.

honestly you know your network isn’t well-loved in the public eye anymore when the world eyes your old animation studio sign and treats it as a conspiracy

Ever since I saw Quiet on Set, I've had mixed feelings over these old shows. I can't completely shake my nostalgia filter and STOP laughing at the shows and enjoying them... and at the same time, my heart goes out to all those people who suffered, and I hope they get the closure and healing they deserve. I just... don't know how to feel anymore

10:48 Because agencies that deal with child actors have deep ties to the record label industry. Remember that Miley Cyrus and Arianna Grande both got a start to their careers with Hannah Montana and VicTORIous respectively, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Why do you think FRED had a music album after the first movie came out? Why do you think they attempted to make Miranda Cosgrove into a popstar at one point? Why do you think Kidz Bop exists? It’s the music industry with all of these connections, and they put these kids into sitcoms as a marketing avenue for their music careers.

Nickelodeon just became Mr Krabs milking only aring SpongeBob dry every day just to be a cash grab

I think the reason networks wanna make musical kids shows is so they can sell albums, upload music videos, sell those little microphones with the actors faces plastered onto it and if those actors get famous its just more publicity for nick

I watched the entire documentary series Quiet on Set, and it honestly hit really hard, especially with me growing up in the 90s. So much of it made me laugh, and now It hurts watching them now. I knew Dan Schneider was bad, but seeing Drake Bell talk about Brian Peck hurt so much. The fact Brian got away with so much and nothing was done is disgusting.

I feel Disney Channel is in that same spot and nick in terms of relevance. Their cartoons are really all they have now and most people aren't going to Disney Channel itself to watch them. This is evident if you look at the Chibi anniversary short that they released last year to celebrate the channel "Happy Birthday, Disney Channel", and no joke, they didn't even reference any of their live action series made after Wizards of Waverly Place...from 2007. The only exception were any of their movies that got popular enough to franchise (Descendants & Zombies) and KC Undercover so they could include Zendaya in it because she herself is popular. But it really illustrates how much things have shifted from how things were 15 years ago.

With Drake Bell I hope people are mature enough to understand that you can be a victim and a still an abuser as well. I'm fact most abusers started off as victims, it's a dreadful cycle that I hope he'll be able to leave now that he has spoken out.

I wonder if this will be the end of Nickelodeon’s live action sitcoms, I mean i heard a rumor of the actor playing Lincoln Loud in Really Loud House having lost his hair due to the white dye.

I've long held reservations about Dan Schneider's work, save for a few exceptions like The Amanda Show and Good Burger. Recent revelations have only confirmed my unease, prompting me to disengage from his productions. Nickelodeon urgently needs to overhaul its management practices, implementing stringent protocols to prevent individuals like Schneider from exerting unchecked influence. Regarding Rugrats 2021, it's release amid the SpongeBob spinoff discourse was ill-timed, even though that wasn't the intent. Being CGI (even if executive mandated) and the overblown controversy of Betty being a lesbian (Which mainly started because of that AV Club article) didn't help. Despite this, the reboot manages to honor the original while incorporating modern elements. While it doesn't surpass its predecessor, it offers some solid episodes, sometimes coming close to reaching the highs of the original Rugrats, though you would be willing to have to overlook the CGI and certain changes. I hope Nickelodeon heeds these concerns and redirects its focus accordingly.

Dan Schneider was poised to be the Norman Lear of Nickelodeon, but ended up being the Harvey Weinstein.

Being a 90s child, i grew up with classic Nickelodeon. Rugrats, Doug, are you afraid of the dark. I was againg out of nick around the time as told by ginger started. A couple years later i was staying with a family who had children and they were often watching Nickelodeon. I remembered being grossed out a lot and feeling uncomfortable, but I kinda thought thats just how childrens entertainment looks to an adult, the way dirty jokes got put into cartoons that we shouldn't catch till adulthood. To find out it actually was uncomfortable and gross makes my heart hurt

It's sad that Nickelodeon throughout the 2010's never had an actual renaissance like Disney and Cartoon Network did, with a bunch of their shows getting canned way too soon for arbitrary reasons while putting out subpar or low quality shows, with exception of The Loud House (which that show is already getting stale by the first couple of episodes). Nickelodeon barely innovates and push the animation medium during that time and plays it way too safe while multiple bad actors in that studio doing all the heavy lifting .

MediaMementos made not one but two great videos on how Nickelodeon has screwed themselves over the years with their shows. Basically, if the new show isn’t a hit, then it gets canned immediately. If it is a big hit, then it overstays its welcome and loses what made it special. The only thing keeping them alive right now is SpongeBob and the Loud House, with those they will die, and they have no one to blame but themselves. So if you got a show and you really what to put on the screen, go ANYWHERE but Nickelodeon.

One thing i have to say now after watching this documentary and going back watching some episodes of iCarly in particular, is how much i have got to give Jerry Trainor massive respect for basically shielding the kids while also telling Dan (through "jokingly" emphasis) off and really going far as to show he was a genuine good guy for the kids, he would even show up for the kids even on days when he didn't have any lines and was just there behind the camera watching and seeing if they were alright, when Jenette brought out her biography he congratulated her and told her he was proud of her speaking up, plus when this documentary came out he straight up unfollowed Nickelodeon off all platforms and said he was done with them entirely. Like the dude really showed that he was genuinely caring and a brotherly figure to them

people nowadays get so tired of all the negativity on the net. For this guy Dan is the exception and he deserves all the karma for his actions.

Thing is, even as a kid, some parts of shows were just- creepy to me, like the things he’d have some characters do. But I always figured, you know “if something weird and creepy was going on then surely Nickelodeon would put a stop to it”. … APPARENTLY NOT.

Really sad what happened to a once beloved network, real damn shame. At least their NFL broadcast's are pretty fire.

9:44 I think that's true to everything now, not just Nick, it's like every show needs to be an immediate hit to get more than one season, like companies can't let a show moderately successful build a fanbase nowadays ong

My mom was watching the Quiet On Set documentary earlier today and she said it was really sad Also Drake Bell’s Timmy Turner being an adult in 5th grade has agreed absolutely HORRIBLY

6:04 You are the only content creator I’ve seen address the fact that Nickelodeon treats new nicktoons terribly Thank you for that

If/when I ever watch the "Quiet on Set" doc, I will likely feel guilty and in need of a shower because...Nickelodeon was practically my childhood. It was probably in large part to my cable company not having Cartoon Network and I not quite being a Disney kid beyond some of the movies, but I loved Nickelodeon. Unfortunately, like other cable networks...it seems to have lost what made it special and is going through the motions simply for ad revenue. I think if not for live sports, my family would've completely dropped live TV for streaming.

13:32 Finally, someone who actually remembers Austin and Ally!

The one who shall not be named

I've been aware of how bad Nickelodeon is for years now, but this week really rubbed salt in the wound. Makes me feel horrible that I actively supported these programs, that the actors suffered for my entertainment. I wish nothing but the best for Alexis, Jennette, Drake, Amanda and anyone else who has suffered under Brian and Dan. I applaud the coworkers also taking action to show their distain against the network too. Zoey101 hurts the most for me. It was the one I grew up with, and that I have the most nostalgia for. It's quite known now that most of the cast are genuine scum, or enablers at the very least. Watching the show fills me with dread now. Hearing Alexis' story the first time was so heartbreaking. It's one thing that Jamie, Sean, Matthew, Erin, Christopher, Kristin, Victoria and much more bullied and isolated the poor girl (and whom haven't apologized for it as adults 🤨), but even more that Dan himself participated in this too. Fuck this industry. There's a special place in hell for people who hurt children.

I agree but I also think that we should point out that all this shit has been known FOR YEARS! It's good that it's being talked about now but it honestly should've been way more known several years earlier.

For how much Nick was a part of many of our childhoods, it's impossible to fathom bothering to even turn on the channel now. And it's more than the rise of streaming services or anything else. It's telling that the abuse from back then is way more resonant than anything they're doing now. And it's not like their competitors didn't have their own failures along the way - but somehow Nick has managed to outdo them through sheer shittiness.

Dan Schneider is so creepy he’d fit in a horror movie (with a death metal soundtrack!)

Nick’s Biggest Mistake: Cancelling Invader Zim or not giving it to MTV

In my restless dreams I hear that name Nickelodeon You promised me we'd have good times again....but you never did. Nick....you made me....happy 😢

14:50 AMPHIBIA GOD STILL BEING RELEVANT, they're releasing an artbook in November, after how good Marcy's Journal sold (and keep selling). Matt deidad te amo.

I love how Nickelodeon has basically speedrun through every checkbox on the "everything wrong with both the animation industry and the entertainment industry in general" a hundred times over oh sorry, did I say "love" my mistake, I meant "want to do what The Gang did to Frank in that once Christmas Stop Motion sequence to the guys in charge for"

You know, as much as I agree about your rant on the state of Nickelodeon nowadays, I don't think it really matters in the long run. Kids still watch Nickelodeon in their masses (including my 11 year old brother), and probably ten years from now youtubers will say how great Nick was during their childhood with Loud House and Patrick Star's show or whatever and will complain on how bad it is in current time. It's a neverending cycle.

What intrigues me the most is if the rumored buyout of Paramount/Viacom by Warner Bros./Discovery ends up going through. While I doubt they'd get rid of Nickelodeon outright, I imagine it'll end up undergoing a massive overhaul so as not to end up with too much overlap with Cartoon Network. I can't help but wonder if Cartoon Network ends up being completely absorbed by Adult Swim (seeing how AS has been taking over more and more of CN's time with every passing year), with the more GA animation migrating over to Nickelodeon. Imagine a world where Spongebob and Teen Titans Go share a network - just _yeesh._

The Pink Guy song, Nickelodeon Girls came to mind. Pretty screwed up that Dan got away with a lot of it. I actually watched Nicktoons more than the main channel.

One could even say Dan Schneider went on a…… downward, spiral downward spiral downward spiral downward spiral downward spiral!!!

I find it sad because Nickelodeon was a HUGE part of my childhood. SpongeBob Squarepants was my favorite show growing up, until around the time I was 12 or 13 where I started to lose interest in it, but even then Sponge continued to be one of my favorites until I turned 17. At the same time as SpongeBob I also loved Jimmy Nuetron, Fairly Odd Parents, Back at the Barnyard, Paw Patrol, the 2012 TMNT. Granted I did watch a fair share of Cartoon Network shows, as well as Phineas & Ferb and Gravity Falls on Disney, but Nick was my go-to. I never really watched the sitcoms on any of the channels with the only Nick one I cared about being iCarly and Disney being Suite Life on Deck (never watched the original), so it's sad hearing about all of this now. What makes it worse is that my favorite show when I was 13 was replaced by another Nick show, The Loud House, which was then replaced by My Little Pony not soon after. Now, I don't really care about Nickelodeon much and prefer some of the cooler, lore filled shows on Cartoon Network, but there are still 3 shows I like from Nick: Avatar, iCarly, and I want to check out Invader Zim. Never seen it. Oh and maybe Jimmy Neutron and Robot and Monster. It hurts that Nick had all of this shady stuff behind the scenes, especially with one of my favorite shows right now being created by Dan. I like to separate the art from the artist but I really don't know how my veiwpoint on iCarly will be, since... Hello! Live action! Watching and seeing Dan's victims while they are there! And my brain will most likely see all the creepy things that I never saw before, and that scares me. Screw Dan Schneider.

The only way to watch Nickelodeon shows without cable at the time in the 2000’s is to get the shows on video & DVD 📀

LS Mark Dan Schideder basically made Nickelodeon into a hot spot for traumatic experiences and memories. Hopefully Nickelodeon well learn from their mistakes and make their environment much more friendly, safe and positive.

*John K,Dan Schneider and Chris Savino.* The most evil trio in the world of animation.💀

I'm Glad my Mom Died made me not want to watch Dan Schneider shows for a long, long time. And now Quiet on a set makes me want to not watch any nick shows now. I can't even finish my Avatar: The Last Airbender re-watch right now. All Dan Schneider show aged worse than milk with I'm Glad my Mom Died & Quiet on a Set. If Nick had to rely on creeps like Dan Schneider then they don't deserve to stay in business.

13:27 Jessie has to be up there. Bertram is a peak character

Ya know because most of the shows I consume nowadays are through streaming I kind of forget that the big three like Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Disney still have TV channels… I can’t remember the last time I legitimately watch TV on a channel

Fanboy & Chum Chum looks better than Megamind Rules. EDIT: 186 LIKES!? 😧😮

10:45 Nickelodeon just silently canceled that show alongside That Girl Lay Lay after the Quiet on Set Documentary

Something I find strange is that a show on Netflix right now called School Spirits used to be a paramount + original. It even says so at the beginning of the episodes. So if not even paramount + originals have to remain on paramount + I can see it going under very soon and moving everything back to Netflix

It feels so weird that Disney Channel is honestly doing the best of the big 3 kids networks. Their sitcoms aren't relevant much either but their cartoon output has been better; they have huge devoted fanbases, they get promotion and reruns, and even shows that got cancelled like The Owl House and The Ghost and Molly McGee didn't get screwed as badly as Nickleodeon would screw over shows (they weren't shoved onto Disney XD, they still got promotion, and, more importantly, their creators got plenty of time to give their shows a proper finale).

Watching the documentary, it’s hard to look at Schneider’s shows now.

I'm grateful I was more of a Cartoon Network guy growing up. Ned's Declassified was the best Nick live action show, and it isn't even close.

I feel awkward watching anything Dan Schneider created. Not Nickelodeon entirely, I can watch "Thundermans" perfectly fine, but something like "Drake & Josh", "Zoey 101", "iCarly", "Sam & Cat", "Henry Danger", "Game Shakers", and even my fav show ever "Victorious", I get this bad feeling that I shouldn't watch them, which sucks bc all of those shows meant something to my childhood.

I’m honestly amazed that saberspark isn’t making a cameo in this video, since he really likes talk about the downfall of stuff.🐱

It's so surreal because for years all this stuff unfold. I've been aware of the Dan Schneider rumors for years, but it seems to have just been confined to speculation by internet detectives. Now it's been confirmed and the public at large is aware of what's been going on. Hell, the other day I heard my coworkers talking about the documentary.

Love the shade thrown at projared even after everything about him was disproved. Real nice dude

I'm sure this is going to be one of our childhood channels getting canceled for the dark history. It's sad but the truth

But Mark he had a totally real interview where he apologized

🎵 Oh Danny boy, the cops, the cops are coming 🎵

Did we all simultaneously forget that Drake Bell went to jail for interacting with minors?

Lets not forget the main reason why Dan Schneider left Nickelodeon. Well... actually got fired from Nickelodeon due inappropriate behavior and abuse allegations pressed against him.