This Is Why Nickelodeon Failed 🌟 The brief History of Nick, the first cable channel for Children 

In my opinion, Nickelodeon started to fall off in the 2010s rather than the 2000s.

I always preferred Nicktoons over Nickelodeon's live action shows in the 90s. I did like "Cousin Skeeter" and "The Amanda Show", and I didn't mind "Kenan and Kel", but "Rugrats", "Hey Arnold", "Doug", "The Wild Thornberrys", etc were at the top of the list for me.

In my opinion Nickelodeon didn't start going downhill until around 2010 I think 1990s-2008 were their golden years there were tons of good shows Nick had in the 2000s Invader Zim, Jimmy Nuetron, Fairly Odd Parents, Avatar The Last Airbender, Catscratch, My Life As A Teenage Robot, All Grown Up, El Tigre, Kappa Mikey, The X's, The Mighty B sadly a bunch of them were cancelled so soon and barely had a chance to shine.

2009 was the true death of Nickelodeon's greatness, 2008 was the last good year of Nickelodeon.

Like most late 90s to early 2000s kids, I don't think Nickelodeon started going downhill until 2009 or so, when shows like Jimmy Neutron were replaced with Fanboy & Chum Chum. (Well to be fair, JN was cancelled in 2006, and actually ended before it had the chance to become truly awful like Fairly Oddparents later seasons, Planet Sheen not withstanding.) The mid 2000s were actually some of my fondest memories with Nickelodeon, and I was one of the cool kids who had Nicktoons Network, so those classic 90s shows never truly went away.

Geraldine LayBourne was truly a legend for Pathing the way of Nickelodeon’s legacy since the start of 90’s when it comes to Animated program especially when it comes to SNICK. Even though I never grew up in the 90’s I still remember experiencing Nickelodeon studios on television since I was just 4 yrs old.

We all liked the old Nickelodeon shows from the 90’s and 2000’s and 2010’s. If Nickelodeon had not made them all canceled, Nickelodeon would’ve been a real blast

Well it’s a good thing that Nickelodeon made a deal to make paramount +

I think when Disney Channel and Cartoon Network started to become actual competition , Nick felt the heat and conformed

When I first heard that Nick would get around to making NFTs I was like. "Are you kidding me???!!! They are making NFT's???!!!"

WOW. Very amazing production quality, I thought I was watching Yesterworld or a similar channel. Can't wait to see you skyrocket!

My Favorite Nick Shows Are SpongeBob (Seasons 1-4), Rocko’s Modern Life, All Grown Up!, Hey Arnold!, Fairy OddParents (Seasons 1-5 & Wishology), Avatar, Korra, Danny Phantom, Invader Zim, Jimmy Neutron, Teenage Robot, Rocket Power, El Tigre, Catscratch & ChalkZone.

R.I.P. Dr. Vivian Horner (1934-2022) who is Founder of Nickelodeon (Even tough Nickelodeon Fandom mever making tribute art to Dr. Horner and and keep tribute to Walt Disney who is Founder and Disney) Also, R.I.P. Stephen Hillenburg (1961-2018) who is Creator of SpongeBob SquarePants

well done :) that was a lovely trip down memory lane Clarissa explains it all and hey Arnold were my favorite shows in the 90s Kenan and Kel fantastic sitcom

My favorite shows were TFOP, SBSP, TAOJNBG, Danny Phantom, ChalkZone, MLAATR and Invader Zim I’m currently watching catdog

90s and early 2000s nickelodeon was definitely the best era and i wish i could go back

The back story of "Sailor Mouth" was extremely hilarious as Derek Drymon (the show runner for SpongeBob) told the writers a story of how as a kid he got into a lot of trouble for saying the F word in front of his mother. Which is extremely ironic considering the fact that Derek's mother has quite the sailor mouth herself.

It started going down in the 2010s when they removed invader zim from reruns

Very informative video. I appreciate it. I'm a 00's kid (born in 1996) so I completely missed out on Nick's golden age, but I'm thankful that I caught the silver age just in time. The early 00's was the best time for the nicktoons imo, cuz you still had 90's debuting nicktoons on like Rugrats, Hey Arnold, Rocket Power, CatDog, Wild Thornberrys, etc. on airing at the same time as the early seasons of 00's nicktoons like Spongebob Squarepants, Fairly Odd Parents, Invader Zim, My Life As A Teenage Robot, Jimmy Neutron, Chalk Zone, etc. So that early 00's era of nicktoons for me was the greatest being about 4 to 8 years old at the time, plus, I was still young enough to enjoy Nick Jr. in its face era of amazing shows like Little Bill, Little Bear, Franklin, Maggie and the Ferocious Beast, Blue Clues, Dora the Explorer, etc. I agree that 2004 up to the first half 2005 was the major shift. That was the beginning of the end for the debuting nicktoons and it hasn't been the same ever since. It's crazy how all those nicktoons from the 90's ended in 2004, combined with the classic era of Spongebob ending in 2004 as well. Hell, even Cartoon Network and Toon Disney made drastic changes in 2004 (that's a whole another conversation). But back to Nick... Danny Phantom from 2004 and Avatar from 2005 were the tail end of the good nicktoons coming out. While you still had nicktoons from the earlier 00's on at the same time. Catscratch from 2005 was underrated, it really felt like the next Angry Beavers or CatDog... too bad it was short lived. Same with El Tigre from 2007 as well. But the vast majority of the nicktoons from late 2005 & onwards have either been cancelled too soon, huge failures or were just spinoffs of already existing properties. Loud House is the only iconic original nicktoon created after Avatar. That's why so many Paramount Plus shows are just remakes of already existing properties because so many of the nicktoons created in recent years have failed miserably. As far as the sitcoms go, Drake & Josh, Zoey 101, Ned's Declassified, iCarly, etc. were the highlights for me, when I was roughly 8 to 12 years old. I actually think the sitcoms from the mid to late 00's were an improvement from the late 90's to early 00's ones like Cousin Skeeter, Tiana, 2nd wave All That, Amanda Show, etc (which might be an unpopular opinion). I feel like only Kenan & Kel was the mount rushmore of that era. This was a time the nicktoons were going downhill (while there were still some good ones like Danny Phantom or Avatar) although the sitcoms were strong for me. Once Avatar ended in 2008 combined with the logo change in 2009, the network's been totally dead to me. iCarly and The Legend of Korra were all that was left for me past the logo change in 2009, while everything else has been trash ever since. But that's my perspective on Nickelodeon from me growing up in the 00's!

My only gripe with Nickelodeon is that the company wouldn't let SpongeBob go!

Pretty sure those orange VHS are really collectable now. I only ever watched Kenan and Kel and Rugrats on Nick.

Salute your shorts. Pete and Pete.

I miss Action League Now. That show was ridiculous and I love it.

Sadly, I quit watching Nickelodeon around 2005 or 2006 after some 19-20 years. By 2009 came in, everything came to a crashing halt when the beloved Nickelodeon logo replaced with a new one that is still in use as of this writing.

Bruh, what do you MEAN this channel only has 300 subscribers??? The among of time and quality that went into just this video alone is mind blowing.

I did watch a live taping of Double Dare 2000 I think it was, being the 7 year old me going on 8 that was quite the experience. My sister and I did get slimed from the slime fountain right outside the studio, that was rather funny.

So you're not even going to mention the Dan Schneider scandal

I've never seen or heard of Pinwheel before.

Rip old friend

I feel like Dan Schneider was the reason why Nickelodeon started failing because the shows were good but the fact that he sexualized kids was weird Edit: I forgot to add this in but it was amazing that they came out that Dan did so much things to them Btw I loved the video

Spongebob is also one of my favorite show from Nickelodeon and the Legend of Korra is last good Nickelodeon Show while Loud House is my least favorite Nickelodeon Show

It's funny how you don't talk about mention that Dan Schnider scandal

When you brought up the thing about post-terrorism social awareness, I got to thinking the problem is, we're TOO aware. Maybe for the medium altogether. We've made 'awareness' into the very measure of who isn't sexist-racist-terrorist and who is and it's taken so seriously it's where we don't feel we need to weigh any part of it. So pre-occupied with preventing the mistakes of the past. "Never his mind on _where he was_ ! Hmm! _What_ he was _doing_ !"

They even didn't care on how Stephen Hillenburg died and made knock off spinoffs that were terrible. Paul Tibbitt and many spongebob fans were so outraged that Nickelodeon treat their people like this.

I just read Fandom and there is only less than 30 remaining shows on nick

I grew up in the 2000’s. All I watched was Zoey101, Drake and Josh, ICarly, Big Time Rush, and Victorious. It might have declined for you but they were great to me.

The Family Channel still airs "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"(as well as "Goosebumps") in Canada.

No Cousin Skeeter, My Brother And Me, Tiena or however you say it, The Brothers Garcia?

Save Nickelodeon forever

I came back to the Nickelodeon Fandom recently due to the direction of Indie animation (god I fucking hate content farms) because of Rock Paper Scissors and the new FOP reboot

that double dare is the 2018 version not the 1987 version

The kid show I love to see again is aaaaaa real monster

Failed? Isn't it still going after like almost 50 years?

It failed due to cooperate greed

I even remember the live action shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark, The secret life of Alex Mack, Figure It Out, All That, The Amanda Show, Kenan and Kel, U Pick Live 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

Who remembers Brainsurge?

my favorite old show is Seinfeld

Noobees? That's actually a telenovela from the 2010s and it never aired in English speaking countries. You actually meant Noozles, the 80s anime.

So it’s what is going bad in the 2004

I'm expecting this channel to blow up in a year, just like another video essayist RU-vidr "Just an Observation " 😁😂😁😂😂😁😂 Yeah I Started to tune out Nickelodeon around the same time as that charted decline in 2004 just like I did the Disney Channel in 2002. I was introduced to Nick in 1996 as a kindergarten watching Nick Jr. enjoying Blue's Clues, Gullah Gullah Island,and Little Bear. As for Nicktoons Rugrats was my favorite, Ahh... Real Monsters, Kablaam (yes I rembember Action Leugue Now, Life with Loopy and Prometheus and Bob, ohh and Sniz and Fondue segments) Hey Arnold and of course Spongebob. Thank goodness Nick launch their sister channel Nicktoons TV which became Nicktoons Network in the mid 2000s and now just Nicktoons. 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

I haven’t watched Nick on a regular basis since iCarly ended.

Stick Stickley is voiced by Moose A Moose

Sooo...did Nick at Nite START the 50s nostalgia era of the mid-late 80s or was it in RESPONSE to 50s nostalgia? Interestingly, the first Back to the Future movie went back to 1955 for that reason...AND correctly predicted in the second movie that by 2015, 80s nostalgia would be just as if not more popular.

I remember in second and third grade when Doug and thorn berry’s use to come on in the morning time😭. My personal favorites will always be Hey Arnold, Rocket Power, As told by ginger, Invader Zim, Jimmy neutron, My life as Teenage robot, Danny Phantom and Avatar.

The old Nickelodeon logo to me was nostalgic. I miss it very much. I don't like the new logo. The only reason why I love nickelodeon is really because of SpongeBob.

Dead Squairrel = Sandy NOOOOOOOO!

No, I think it’s from the starter to fall in the 2000s

What did beat Nickelodeon was Disney.

25:54 Loud House did a whole epsiode about cursing and it was censored the whole episode.

Nick at night's my favorite network now whenever full House or Young Sheldon's on I will always stick back and watch it because after that SpongeBob would come on

It's surprising that very few clips of Nickelodeon's early shows exist online

Nick had the best kids based commercial’s also.

Nick was made in april fools? Now I know why it's so S-H-I-T!

You can't do that on television wasn't a gameshow.

90s and 2000s were the golden age the 2010s fell off completely cause of shows ending like I Carly and victorious and Nickelodeon animation has gotten lazier because of SpongeBob being there biggest money maker. Nickelodeon made super great cartoons when growing up. Cartoon Network is my #1 childhood but also Nickelodeon too both my #1.

they treated fairly oddparents like shit and canceled the show 5 times, shame on them thats why Butch Hartman left their asses.

My favorite nicktoons is ren and stimpy

I feel like he was teaching a lesson

No, I think it started to fall in the 90s

This guy speaks the truth louder than anyone I've ever known. You are quite the enthusiast when it comes to the history of Nickelodeon. So many things has been covered that I remember as a kid growing up but I didn't stop watching Nick till I was in the middle of or was about to graduate high school in between 2006 to 2009. I never went to the hotel or studios of Nickelodeon but I think it was for the best because me and my family had a lot going on in our lives so we weren't able to go on vacation like that. But going down memory lane with you on this feels like we got to travel back through time without a time machine.

And now with quiet on set. Nickelodeon is OVER,over.

Nick was good 2006 2000 90s I remember

A few things really did it in mostly massive blocks of that freaking yellow sponge, shuttering its studio in Orlando and with that killing off a massive amount of merchandise, and trying to follow the Disney formula with sitcoms and branching off its biggest stars into musicians. It just rang hallow after a while.

Good video!

You Can't Do That on Television was the origin of the green slime, but it wasn't a game show. It was comedy sketch series from Canada.

Nothing could be said about nick Jr they've gone downhill as well like have you seen the shows they have on now so that means they've seen better days

As a Millennial,(Born in '87) I watched Nickelodeon religiously from the early 90s 'til somewhere in the mid 2010s. Another problem is the network has severely lacked variety for YEARS. Something it had plenty of in the 90s and 2000s. Although TV is slowly dying, it's sad this once great network is shell of what it once was.

I grew up on Nickelodeon from about the 80s to the early '90s. After the mid-'90s, I got too old to watch it and thought the '90s were a mess and I prefer the '80s rather than the '90s then, again, I'm in my mid-40s.

I,VE HEARD OF PINWHEEL AND NOW IT NICKELODEON

I don't even watch Nick anymore. I hardly see any of the cartoons on there, all I see are those crappy sitcoms that are incredibly unfunny and unappealing to me. And I'm so pissed that some of my favorite cartoons have been canceled and have just plain DISAPPEARED from the channel. I remember a show called 'Dorg Van Dango' or something like that, I really liked the show and its art style. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, it completely disappeared. Same thing happened with Ollie's Backpack. I was so happy to see these new cartoons on a channel infested by unfunny sitcoms but soon disappeared without warning. Oh and my favorite retro cartoons are Danny Phantom, Jimmy Neutron, SpongeBob (earlier seasons) and Fairly Oddparents (earlier seasons)

We all know it's not the popularity of SpongeBob's fault.

Nicklodeon should've obey the creator's suggestion to not make Spin off 3D Spongebob and continue the series, previous seasons were better when mr. Hellenburd were still alive, current seasons are so disgusting, and scary.😔

I predicted that Paramount would bring back the rights to SuperMan from Warner Bros. Discovery. Well while it isn't accurate, it may became true now that Warner Bros having talks to Paramount about merging together. There could be one thing, we're saved! I hope that Superman would save Nickelodeon from it's downfall. But it would be a little too late. As within a few years, Nickelodeon as a network would closed down and Superman would go into the public domain. So in this case, this might be the last chance for Superman to save Nickelodeon. Because I still have faith in the channel and my answer has been pled.

is this an Ai ran channel?

And other

SpongeBob went to complete poop after the SpongeBob movie in 2004. After that, the animation style changed and the episodes were just weird

I wonder how much time nick has until their collapse? Maybe 2 or 3 years more

1 word. SpongeBob.

🎵On de low hop Nick, On de low hop Nick Nick, On rikki tikki tow low no #1 Nickelodeon!"🎵. YTV was the only channel I had when I was a kid that played Nickelodeon. My favorite NickToons were Ren and Stimpy, Rugrats, Rocko's modern life, the angry beavers, Catscratch, Guts, Danny Phantom, Spongebob & Doug (honorable mention to the 2012 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series).

I was born in 2006 so I definitely remember the nick sitcoms and cartoons fairly OddParents SpongeBob iCarly Drake and Josh Danny phantom invader Zim and much more I had so much memories with all the shows especially SpongeBob SpongeBob was my favorite 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯⛽⛽⛽⛽⛽

Spongebob

5:22 Giggity Giggity Giggity Goo!!!

you also said the same thing twice

I told you😀😀😀

Nickelodeon did not fail. It didn't reach Disney levels, hit that doesn't mean it failed. Nickelodeon did well and made a lot of money.

The rebrands of the big 3 kids channels from 2009-10 is what made them drop off. I think Nickelodeon never tanked, but our childhood did. Some people could make the same video on how The Thundermans, Sam & Cat, and Henry Danger was peak Nick or iCarly, Victorious, The Troop was peak Nick the same how you could say the same on All That, Ren & Stimpy, and Clarissa Explains It All. It’s just based on what we grew up on.

Catdog

0:14 should be spongebob new intro

Nick At Nights not the same anymore, now it shows like George Lopez, and some other modern day shows

I still love nickelodeon