#response post

Jude: There was no way those pantaloons were staying still.

@ask-eden’s recent post made me laugh so hard that I felt like I had to make a quick picture showing Jude’s reaction to it as well lmao

That person made some serious accusations with no evidence.

What really hurts, the people who chose to believe those lies… I was genuinely and openly celebrating your talents: I sang praise to your art and recced your fics, I commented on your fics, I bookmarked your fics, I supported your comics and reblogged them to the community so that others can enjoy them, God I wrote a fic for one of you to make you happy on a very special day of your life… and you all stab me in the back like that.

To the person who made up those lies: I'm sorry but you gotta have some sick mind (and no life really) to hurt a real person with horrible accusations like that! And all of this because of some dumb argument we had about a cartoon character on Twitter. You chose to target and hurt a real person over a fictional character. Grow up! I NEVER talked about you behind your back and brought your name in such disgrace NEVER. I noticed the passive aggressive posts that are clearly about me and I'd bottle up the hurt and stay silent. I confronted you instead of going behind your back and talk ill about you to others – which you've been doing about me for months. I tried to reach out to you on discord and invited you to join the Maxley community I created. You don't want us to start fresh, that's fine. But, please, stop spreading lies about me. Forget my existence and move on.

Me: ...

Me: Looks back at the times i had to watch MCBTPIAS for "Research"

Me: Bet.

Might've alr got that covered pretty well there @cordiwinkswinsagain .. Don't ask how many times exactly- but it is a lot, mostly for lore purposes don't wanna get my infos mixed up, thank you for the reblogs tho i appreciate them! 💛

And although they gave the post a like, they left a comment saying that they disagreed with what I said, and what came my attention the most, that Nickelodeon is thriving.

And not to sound rude or mean, I think this guy might be delusional or in denial.

Literally anyone would tell you that Nickelodeon isn't thriving at all.

In fact, they haven't been thriving for YEARS..

Admittedly a huge reason for this is the unfortunate rise of streaming (making cable television pretty much irrelevant) and the ever-growing use of the Internet.

But there are several other factors for the channel's downfall.

As I'm sure all of you know, Nickelodeon is easily the most well-known and iconic of the big kids channels.

And for years, they ranked 1# in that regard!

Although getting its start back in 1979, it really didn't become the channel we knew it as until the late 1980s and the early 1990s.

Largely thanks to them starting to create their own original live-action series and their own original line-up of original animated shows known as The Nicktoons.

And they DOMINATED children's television during the 90s and the 2000s.

But then the 2010s rolled around and it was all downhill from there.

2010s Nickelodeon is notorious for the RIDICULOUS amount of shows it has that were either just average, mediocre, fine, or just straight-up ASS.

T.U.F.F. Puppy, Planet Sheen, Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures, FRED: The Show, How to Rock, Marvin Marvin, Robot & Monster, Wendell & Vinnie, Sanjay and Craig, Sam & Cat, The Haunted Hathaways, The Thundermans, Breadwinners, Henry Danger, Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, Max & Shred, 100 Things to Do Before High School, Bella and the Bulldogs, Pig, Goat, Banana, Cricket, Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks, Game Shakers, School of Rock, Bunsen is a Beast, Welcome to the Wayne, and The Adventures of Kid Danger.

But that's not to say that they didn't have any good shows.

Because they did.

Victorious, Winx Club, The Legend of Korra, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Harvey Beaks, The Loud House, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

As you can see, there's a massive gap between the shows that were good and the shows that.....weren't.

While yes, Nickelodeon has had bad shows prior to the 2010s....

They were very few and far between.

But during the 2010s, it felt like there was another bad or whatever show around every corner!

And these are all shows I could name off the top of my head!

But even then, nearly all these shows do share something in common.

They weren't treated all that well by the network.

Nickelodeon has become notorious for hardly giving many of their shows during the 2010s a chance.

Specifically with the Nicktoons.

They hardly got any sort of exposure or promotion, and usually only ran for two seasons.

And that's if you're lucky!

They were FAR more lenient with the live-action shows.

But there was a reason for that.

In fact, as I'm sure many of you noticed, live-action shows more or less DOMINATED Nickelodeon during the 2010s.

And there's a reason for that.

That being none other one of their two rivals: Disney Channel!

During the 2000s, Nickelodeon and Disney Channel were relatively tied in terms of popularity and viewership.

But when the 2010s rolled around, Disney Channel started to edge Nick out with ratings and viewership.

While Nick and Disney Channel were known for both live-action and animated programming, Disney Channel had more of the former than the latter.

And since they were now beating them in the ratings, Nickelodeon started rapid-firing so many sitcoms and other live-action projects in order to compete with Disney Channel.

As for why many of the Nicktoons released during the 2010s (and even to this day) haven't done so well, it was because of, ironically, the biggest one of them all....

It's pretty well-known that Nickelodeon has become incredibly over-reliant on SpongeBob SquarePants and how it takes up a ridiculous amount of the schedule.

Even to this day!

But the impact it's had on its fellow Nicktoons cannot be understated.

Not only did SpongeBob taking up nearly all of the schedule not allow any of these shows to truly shine (not helped by the lack of promotion and being given bad timeslots), but it also made Nickelodeon place WAY too high of a standard for their Nicktoons.

If a Nicktoon couldn't even come close to the ratings of Spongebob, it was game over.

Even when they got good ratings that any other channels would've been fine with, it still wasn't good enough for Nick.

The Loud House got INSANELY lucky due to it being one of the very few Nicktoons released post-2010 to run for more than two seasons (and it's the only one still running).

But as we all know, this would end up being a curse as the show has long gone downhill and has been more or less milked dry.

And it's become the channel second SpongeBob, taking up most of the schedule as well.

I wanna ask you guys a quick question.

When was the last time you heard anything about Nickelodeon?

Not from movies, or video games, or even the company itself.

But I mean the actual channel specifically.

I'm certain most of you can't answer that!

A major aspect many have pointed out is how shockingly irrelevant Nickelodeon has become over the past couple of years.

And it's not hard to see why.

-The overabundance of bad or mediocre shows that overtook the network during the 2010s and beyond.

-The actual good shows being few and far between.

-The fact that most of those shows hardly got to shine due to Nick not giving them a chance.

-And the two shows taking up most of the schedule being long past their glory days and haven overstayed their welcome.

As you would expect, this caused many people to lose interest in the channel.

However, I do know the last time Nickelodeon was relevant.

It was actually just last year!

For two reasons.

The first (and smaller) reason was because of the release of The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish, which was a delight and a much needed breath of fresh air for its incredibly troubled franchise.

And the second (and much bigger) reasons was....

At the time of this documentary's release, Nickelodeon's reputation was already in the dirt thanks to the reasons I just stated earlier.

But thanks to this documentary (plus more people who had previously worked with Nick coming forward about the company and channel's long and dark history of child exploitation), their reputation was dragged down to the fiery depths of HELL!

I genuinely don't know what @farmershire is on (most likely copium), but I have no clue how anyone could look at modern day Nickelodeon and unironically say that it's thriving, when the channel is in the worst state it's ever been in!

That would like seeing someone having their arm cut off and suffering from major blood loss....and saying they're perfectly FINE!

Nickelodeon's relevancy has been non-existent for YEARS due to the aforementioned reasons.

Along with how they more or less threw out the playful and edgy branding and identity that made them successful in the first place for the sake of their pissing contest with Disney Channel.

And what little cred the channel could've had left was pretty much destroyed by its long history of mistreating creatives, workplace harassment, and most importantly, child abuse now being known to the much wider general public.

Nickelodeon is basically the channel equivalent of an actor who was once one of the biggest stars in the world.

But now they're nothing more than a washed-up has-been long past their glory days, who gave up what made them so popular in the first place for the sake of competition, and are now constantly being faced with the shady things they've done in the past coming back to bite them.

In conclusion....Nickelodeon is COOKED!

They've been cooked for years, and will most likely continue to be so.

And it's only a matter of time for the channel eventually goes under.

Over the last few years, major countries like Russia, Japan and Canada have shut down their Nickelodeons.

Funnily enough, Canada is the most recent, shutting down just at the beginning of this September!

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if in the next 10.....fuck it, 5 years, no kids will even know what Nickelodeon really is!

And admittedly, while the copium line was largely a joke, I do think @farmershire is genuinely might be in some kind of denial, most likely because Nickelodeon means so much to them.

I recently checked their blog, and I saw a lot of posts relating to Nickelodeon.

So it's clear that they seem to have a fondness for the channel.

And while they may be denying this, I do think that even they know deep down that Nickelodeon hasn't been a good state for a LONG time.

And in all honesty....I kinda can't blame them.

Nickelodeon played a major role in many people's childhoods, including mine's!

So to see something that was once near and dear to the hearts of many become a shell of a its former self.....it's gonna hurt.

Especially knowing that kids these days will never get to experience that kind of magic for themselves thanks to, once again, how much streaming and the Internet has overtaken the world.

And even then, most of the programming.....or correctly, what little the channel has right now, probably won't appeal to them that much.

I mean, look at most of the shows from the 2010s.

You hardly see any sort of conservation about them online.

And if there is, it's either about how much they sucked or how just....whatever they were.

AHH THATS SO COOL!!!

i sadly wasn’t able to go to any liveshows, but i’ve enjoyed everything i’ve been told about them. I hope you had so much fun!

I posted it nonetheless, including the few screenshots DA allowed me to add from the original post, solely because I believe my friend was depicted as the bad person even though she isn't

@royalleblue sorry for the ping, it's really just because you're also Berry's friend, I thought you might wanna be filled in as well

That's all

Ribby, if you see this

I am disappointed

One, for the fact you didn't listen to your own friend over a user who actively hates on a group of people

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Unseal the scabs, to

Chew on the soft parts

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Dive where I find my light breakfast

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Way to escape, devour

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