Nickelodeon Creates Official YouTube Channels for Their Most Popular Shows
Foreword:
This was originally written on Thursday June 8, 2023. Similar to the reviews I wrote of Armageddon ☄️, Godzilla (1998), and the Michael Bay Transformers movies (besides the first one), this is an excerpt that I had taken from a description that I wrote for a re-edit of a video that I downloaded off of YouTube. It was called “The Loud House”—Lynn Loud Jr.’s Sportiest and Most Competitive Moments (Version 2) Forward and Inverted, it was a forward/inverted edit of a video compilation that I saw on YouTube of The Loud House. I've already taken a lot about The Loud House on here. I wrote about my ideas on how to do a video game based on The Loud House, I wrote about my reaction on the then upcoming Casagrandes movie, The Casagrandes Movie, I wrote my ideas on how to do a sequel to The Loud House Movie, I wrote about my reaction to the first teaser promo to No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie, and I wrote a full review of that movie. All of which you can go read for yourself by clicking on the links that I have provided.
Well, this thing that I wrote that you're about to read isn't so much about The Loud House (at least the main part isn't) and it's more about Nickelodeon, and how they've created official YouTube channels for some of their most popular shows. Obviously, you got the Loud House YouTube channel which is where I sourced many of the videos that I used for my forward/inverted re-edits, none of which I will post here on the blog or on YouTube. Mostly because the files are too big for Blogger, and also because I don't want my channel on YouTube to get copyright struck. YouTube has gotten pretty strict about copyright over the years, flagging videos and removing videos, striking YouTube channels that post videos with copyrighted material, even if it does often fall under fair use.
You got the SpongeBob 🧽 YouTube channel, a channel dedicated to Nickelodeon's true golden goose. I've done a few forward/inverted edits of clips and video compilations of that show too, which you also never see due to the reasons I gave for why you won't see any of the Loud House forward/inverted re-edits I've done. If you ever meet me in person maybe I'll show it to you if you ask nicely.
In all honesty, Nickelodeon does more new clips on the SpongeBob 🧽 YouTube channel more consistently than they do on the Loud House YouTube channel. Like, they'll upload more clips from newer episodes on the SpongeBob 🧽 channel, while on the Loud House YouTube channel, it's mostly just recycled stuff ♻️. The same clips that they've already uploaded years ago over and over again. This is despite the fact that The Loud House is not only the #2 show on Nickelodeon, but is also still running. They're still producing out new episodes. The show's on it's eighth season now, and I'm sure there are plans on making a ninth.
This issue of recycled clips ♻️ is especially a problem when it comes video compilations centered around certain characters like Lynn Jr. for instance. All of her video compilations have virtually the same clips every single time, and they're all from Seasons 1-5. No clips from Season 6 or 7. The same goes for Lucy, who's arguably the most popular character in the show. All of her video compilations also use recycled clips ♻️ from the older seasons that we've seen before. And don't even get me started on Lisa, the video output for her on the Loud House channel is abysmal.
The Lisa content they put out on there is scraps by comparison to other video compilation videos centered around other characters. I mean, I guess it does make some sort of messed up sense because Lisa is one of the least popular characters in the show. I still like her though, she's still one of my favorite characters. Leni also has this problem too, where all of the video compilations of her only feature old recycled clips ♻️ and no clips from any of the newer episodes from the newer seasons. Even though is plenty of new Leni material to draw from in Season 6, 7, and now 8, although Season 8 just barely started.
But enough about The Loud House, at least for now. I do still talk about The Loud House in the update I wrote underneath the main text. There's also the Avatar: The Last Airbender 💨 YouTube channel, a channel dedicated to a show that Nickelodeon really didn't care that much about until it developed a strong cult following that they realized they could make money 💵 off of 🤑. That's why we got that live action series on Netflix earlier this year that no body really liked all that much. It wouldn't have gotten made at all if Nickelodeon and Netflix didn't believe that it would be profitable for them.
That's in complete contrast to the 2010 Last Airbender 💨 movie that M. Night Shamalyan directed that everyone hates, or the Legend of Korra spin-off series that people are sort of mixed on, where Nickelodeon had to be convinced to greenlight them. It was M. Night that wanted to make The Last Airbender 💨, and it was Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino that wanted to make The Legend of Korra. Not Nickelodeon.
Nickelodeon didn't care at all about the Avatar IP, and they'd rather just sweep it under the rug and move on from it, in favor of more SpongeBob 🧽 and more SpongeBob 🧽-lite shows. Until years later, when it became even more popular and more critically acclaimed than when it originally aired. Now they care a lot. It's a gold mine that they still haven't fully tapped. As for me, I've expressed my feelings about Avatar (the cartoon show, not the stupid James Cameron movies) in the text itself, so you can read that to get a sense how I feel about the Avatar franchise these days.
There's also The Fairly OddParents YouTube channel, a channel dedicated to a show that was canceled in 2017, and has two reboots. A live action series that I mentioned in the main text called The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, which tried to turn The Fairly OddParents into a sitcom. You know, the kind of live action sitcoms that Nickelodeon is best known for at this point for better or for worse. I guess it made sort of sense why they went in that direction considering that The Fairly OddParents already had sitcom-level humor. But, no body liked it, no body liked Fairly Odder, in fact most people hated it. So, it was quickly canceled, and no body except NICKtendo spoke of it ever again.
So, Nickelodeon decided to reboot the franchise yet again two years after Fairly Odder was canceled, but you know, do it animated this time, and that's how we got the latest show, The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish. I've actually heard some pretty positive things about this show, much more positive than Fairly Odder, and not just from NICKtendo, but from other people as well. And in the world of television reboots, especially cartoon reboots, that's pretty good 👍. I've seen some clips from it myself, and it looks fine, it looks decent. I'd watch it. Maybe not religiously, but I'd still watch it every now and then. I'm glad that it exists. Even if The Fairly OddParents never regains its lost glory and never becomes as big and influential as it once was, I'm still what glad that it still exists in some form or another, and I'm that glad that form is actually good and not utterly horrendous and embarassing for everyone involved.
Part of the reason why people say that A New Wish turned out so good is that it was made by some of the same creative team that worked on both Infinity Train ∞ and Craig of the Creek, two well received cartoon shows that aired on Cartoon Network. So, when people heard that the show had people who worked on Infinity Train ∞ and Craig of the Creek working on it, they felt that it was good hands 🤲, and they were right. Part of it also was that Butch Hartman had no involvement in the show whatsoever. He was just an executive producer, and if you know anything about how the industry works, you'll know that executive producers really don't do shit.
Butch Hartman kind of became a disgraced figure in the years after the original Fairly OddParents was canceled and he left Nickelodeon, and started a "new career" on YouTube. Especially when he scammed a bunch of people out of their money 💵 to fund a Christian streaming service ✝️ which he didn't disclose was Christian ✝️. Or when he made light of a voice actress's death by suicide, making a joke about it during a podcast in front of Tara Strong's face. Oh, and also plagiarizing and tracing other people's work without crediting them, that too. All while refusing to take any criticism no matter how constructive, and insisting that everyone who was criticizing him were just a bunch of haters and were just being mean to him.
He didn't even admit that his fake streaming service was Christian ✝️ and apologize for not disclosing that it was Christian ✝️ and was meant to convert kids to Christianity ✝️. Even after he was caught red-handed by a leaked video where he was giving a PowerPoint presentation at some secretive Christian conference ✝️ where he was pitching his streaming service idea and talking about how corrupt children's television has become, how kids are being exposed to bad stuff like violence and sexuality (which wasn't true at all), and how he's going to "save civilization" with his streaming service which never ended up happening.
All those people who donated money 💵 to his Kickstarter campaign or IndieGoGo or whatever it was, lost it because it pretty much went no where. Might as well have just thrown away their money 💵 in the trash 🗑️ because that's basically what happened to all the money 💵 that was donated to Oaxis, Butch Hartman's Christian streaming service ✝️ that never was and never will be. I wouldn't be surprised if Butch pocketed the money 💵 to enrich himself 🤑. A lot of so-called "Christians ✝️" have been exposed in recent years as being greedy and selfish people 🤑 with evil intentions 😈. Doing things that completely go against the tenets of their Bible, and of their messiah, Jesus Christ, like the hypocrites that they are.
He also singlehandedly screwed up Season 3 of Danny Phantom. He's the reason why Danny Phantom's third season and final episode were so bad, when he gained more creative control over the series. One of the most asinine decisions he made with that creative control was making the ghosts 👻 in Danny Phantom not the souls or spirits of dead people, but creatures from another dimension. Completely missing the point of what a ghost 👻 even is. The reason why he did that of course is that he didn't want the ghosts 👻 to be dead people since that would go against his own beliefs, and he so desperately wanted to be a "good Christian ✝️." Whatever that means. So, he altered them to where they aren't really ghosts 👻 anymore. Not in the traditional sense. So, the Danny Phantom fans hate him for that, for ruining a show that they loved so much 😠🖕.
People also started disliking Butch for his humor, and all the tired tropes that he would constantly insert into all of his shows. It's gotten the point where Butch is one of the most hated cartoon creators of all time. The only other cartoon creator who's hated more than Butch Hartman is John K.. At least Butch isn't a pedophile like John K. is. So, when people heard that Butch wasn't going to have any creative involvement in The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish, or found out that he had none, they were relieved and they rejoiced 😄👏. It's weird for people think that way about the guy who created The Fairly OddParents in the first place, but they do because Butch is just that uniquely awful. Maybe Danny Phantom should get this same treatment too with a reboot without Butch Hartman's involvement whatsoever 🫥.
But, I also think that A New Wish turned out better than Fairly Odder or those live action movies starring Drake Bell (yes, that Drake Bell) as Timmy Turner is the lack of Timmy Turner. You might think that taking the focus away from the main character of the original and focusing on a new character would be a bad thing, but in this case, it wasn't. Taking the focus off of Timmy Turner, and shifting it to a new character is a big reason why A New Wish works so well. The franchise tried so hard to keep the focus on Timmy Turner and still have him be the main character even though it no longer made any sense for him to.
It made him seem like the center of the universe and seem like the most important character in the entire franchise, when that goes against everything the show was about originally when it first started. The point was that Timmy was an average kid who no one understood, and his life was so miserable that he needed fairy godparents 🧚♀️🧚♂️ who could grant his every wish to bring some joy into his life. But, when you make him so significant to the universe to the point that he's almost like the Chosen One, you lose all that. Timmy stops being a relatable character who you could sympathize and empathize with and would want to root for. I mean, the fact that they left him keep his fairies 🧚♀️🧚♂️ when he's a fully grown adult in all of the live action adaptations is a crime in and of itself.
And because the franchise couldn't move past Timmy Turner, and kept on insisting on keeping him in that it never really grew and expanded the way it should have after the original show ended. But now, it has, and it has a new main character, Hazel Wells, and it's all the better for it. Timmy Turner and Butch Hartman were the two things that were holding this franchise back that A New Wish finally and thankfully did away with. Some racists online took issue with Hazel being the main character of this new series because she's black 👧🏾. But they didn't want to say that they hate her because she's black 👧🏾 out loud otherwise they'll be exposed as racists and people will hate them, so they say that they hate her because she makes the show "woke," or the show's woke because they added "forced diversity."
Anti-SJWs man, they're just closet bigots. That's a truth that I've only come to accept in recent years, about five years ago. Luckily, their influence and reach on the Internet has significantly diminished in the years since Donald Trump was voted out of office and attempted a coup to illegally stay in power. Trump being the president really emboldened right-wing lunatics like never before in American history 🇺🇸, and in world history since the far-right was on the rise all over the world during the mid-to-late 2010s, not just in America 🇺🇸.
In some places, they still are even in the 2020s unfortunately, like Argentina 🇦🇷, El Salvador 🇸🇻, Turkey 🇹🇷, Slovakia 🇸🇰, Hungary 🇭🇺, and of course, India 🇮🇳, with Narendra Modi winning an unprecedented third term and basically being a dictator in all but name. But for the most part, the far-right has been on the decline in the 2020s, as more people vote in more moderate, liberal, or left-wing politicians to power over these extremists. The far-right is no longer at the peak of their powers, and are thankfully going away now, slowly but surely.
Mostly thanks to people finally realizing that these people are a bunch of extremists with retrograde views and who only care about themselves and not their constituents. A lot of them are authoritarians, who want to turn these democratic governments into authoritarian governments, and the people in these countries don't want that. The countries that have voted far-right people into power are people who haven't experienced it yet, and don't know what it's like to have such a destructive demagogue in power, such as is the case with Argentina 🇦🇷 and Slovakia 🇸🇰. But, they'll learn.
Others are too entrenched to where it's difficult to get of them even if the people don't like these leaders and do want them out, such as is the case with El Salvador 🇸🇻, Turkey 🇹🇷, Hungary 🇭🇺, and India 🇮🇳. But, even in India 🇮🇳's case, although Modi still got re-elected, his party lost big in the parliamentary elections, and he now has to run a coalition government for the first time during his 10 year long prime minstership. El Salvador 🇸🇻's dictator, Nayib Bukele is still fairly new, and so far, the Salvadorian 🇸🇻 seem to like his policies for now, such his "tough on crime" policies even if they do violate human rights and have been criticized by human rights organizations.
But, once he becomes even more authoritarian than he already is, and once he starts implementing more and more policies that make the country worse rather than better, then the Salvadorian people 🇸🇻 will wake up and realize that Bukele is bad and doesn't truly have their best interests at heart. He's already considered a dictator by outside observers as well as opposition groups inside El Salvador 🇸🇻, but he's still somewhat popular with the people because he got rid of criminal gangs. So, it will only be a matter of time until the majority of Salvadorians 🇸🇻 see that man ♂︎ for who he truly is, and how much of a mistake they made electing an autocrat to power for the sake of safety.
Anyway, speaking of wannabe autocrats, once Trump was voted out, and attempted an insurrection, the right-wing lunatics in the real world and online lost a lot of their power and influence, and went more underground, becoming a bit more fringe like they used to be before Trump got elected. More and more people started seeing them for who they truly are. The mask came off, and we now see them for the malignant white supremacists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, xenophobes, and grifters that they are. That’s why they all want Trump to be re-elected so that they can free reign to do whatever they want, and be as awful as they want, while spreading right-wing propaganda to brainwash more gullible people and impressionable kids to their evil cause.
Speaking of misogynists, I think it also helps that A New Wish has a lot of female writers ♀︎✍️. Having female writers ♀︎✍️ on a show with a female main character ♀︎ and a lot of other female characters ♀︎ is really helpful because who knows women and girls ♀︎ better than women ♀︎? Some shows and movies fail at writing female characters ♀︎ because the writers ✍️ are usually men ♂︎, and men ♂︎ don't fully understand women ♀︎. They don't like to admit that they don't, but they don't. In fact women ♀︎ understand men ♂︎ better than men ♂︎ understand women ♀︎. There are exceptions of course, but that's generally the rule. I mean, I'll admit, I don't fully understand women ♀︎ sometimes. I try my hardest to understand them, but sometimes I fall short, and even I get thrown for a loop. I still have a lot to learn about the female half of our species ♀︎.
So, having female writers ♀︎✍️ is helpful in writing female characters ♀︎ as authentically as you can. You can more insight and get a perspective that you as a man ♂︎ who's identified as a man ♂︎ his entire life never considered because you don't have that lived experience of being a woman ♀︎ in our modern world, or in any time period really. But, on A New Wish, the fact that they do have so many female writers ♀︎✍️, and at least two of the two creators are women ♀︎ also, means that the show manages to avoid a lot of the more overt misogynistic humor and plots that the original had due to having an all male writing team ♂︎ at a time when misogyny was more excused and tolerated, the 2000s. One of the more shameful aspects of that decade, along with the overt and covert racism and homophobia 😔.
No more nagging wife jokes, no more jokes about women and girls ♀︎ being overly obsessed with their looks and being obsessed with male attention ♂︎, and no more other negative woman and girl stereotypes ♀︎. It also manages to avoid the over reliance on stupidity as a source of humor like the original became infamous for in its later seasons. But, I'm mostly just focused on the misogyny that was present in original Fairly OddParents and is absent in A New Wish due to the presence of female writers ♀︎✍️.
However, despite A New Wish having a new main character, they have apparently said that Timmy Turner will return at some point in some capacity. I don't know if it'll just be a cameo role, or if it'll be a major role, and I don't know if he'll be a recurring character or just a one-off character just to see him again one last time and then bid him farewell. But, he will be back. It's kind of not hard to figure that out since they kept teasing him throughout the first seasons, having characters and things that look like him. Like, the school mascot of the school that Hazel attends is a squirrel 🐿️ that looks exactly like Timmy Turner if he were a squirrel 🐿️ instead of a bucktoothed kid with a pink hat.
Moving on, I also talked about how Rugrats doesn't have its own YouTube channel, despite it being one of the three original Nicktoons along with Ren & Stimpy and Doug, and despite it being the most popular show on Nickelodeon until SpongeBob 🧽 came along and stole all of its thunder. Maybe that's why my older sister hates SpongeBob 🧽. She likes Rugrats, but hates SpongeBob 🧽. Maybe part of her resents SpongeBob 🧽 for replacing Rugrats as the #1 show on Nickelodeon, and Nickelodeon prioritizing SpongeBob 🧽 over all other Nicktoons, including one of the three originals that started it all. But, by the time SpongeBob 🧽 came along and was at the arguable peak of its popularity in 2004, Rugrats had its run. It had gone on for 13 years, it had 9 seasons and 172 episodes, and it was clearly running of steam. It was time to call a quits, and end it.
Of course, it wasn't the last that we would ever see of Rugrats, since we got the spin-off, All Grown Up!, a couple of direct-to-DVD movies 📀 (the Tales From the Crib films), and a CGI reboot in 2021, which may or not be continuing. They released the second season on Paramount+ in 2022, and we've heard or seen nothing about it since. I think it might be canceled. The Rugrats reboot is dead. I could be wrong though, I've been wrong before. If there is a Rugrats reboot Season 3, I'll be sure to let you know.
Speaking of which, I just posted a new post about All Grown Up! that I wrote a couple of days ago. I didn't mean for that to be my Fourth of July 🇺🇸 post, but I had to get it out there because that episode description on Paramount+ really bothered me because of how inaccurate it was. I was hoping that I would be able to watch and review of Piranha 3D, even if that isn't a Fourth of July movie 🇺🇸 in the same way Jaws was, and would really be more suited for Spring Break since it takes place on Spring Break.
Although, Piranha 3D was released in August and August is usually considered to be the last month of the summer movie season, so it's still technically a summer movie even if the plot takes place in the spring and not the summer. But then again, Jaws came out in June, despite it being set around and on Fourth of July 🇺🇸. So, even the movie that started the whole killer fish movie 🐟 craze didn't actually release on the holiday it takes place on. Why should I be concerned about not reviewing Piranha 3D during the vacation period that it actually takes place on?
Piranha 3D is a Jaws inspired movie, it is a Jaws adjacent movie since it's a movie that is a remake of a movie that many people consider to be a Jaws ripoff or a Jaws copycat or Jaws knock off, whatever you want to call it. I also didn't really feel like reviewing Jaws itself since I really don't have that much to say about it, other than it's good and that it's important and influential in pop culture, and also may or may not have contributed to shark culling 🦈. Maybe, I might review that movie at some point, along with the sequels, but at this point in time, I don't really know what to say about it.
Plus, I did toss around the idea of a Piranha vs. Jaws movie in my post about Rick Worley's transphobia, so reviewing Piranha 3D seemed perfect. But alas, it didn't pan out that way. I will review Piranha 3D as well as Piranha 3DD at some point, but not right now. Not until I can get my hands on the Blu-Rays 💿 of those movies since neither of those two movies are available anywhere on streaming. Not even the original 1978 movie and its sequel, Piranha II: The Spawning are available on streaming.
I've said everything that I possibly could say about All Grown Up! in that post, as well as complain about an inaccurate episode description, so if you want to read what I had to say, you can click on that the link that I provided.
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Nickelodeon only creates YouTube channels dedicated to one show if that show is really popular. So, they obviously made one for SpongeBob 🧽, their most popular and longest-running show. They made one for The Fairly OddParents which used to be their second most popular and second longest-running show. But, it was canceled back in 2017, which makes it surprising that they still kept the channel up even after the show ended. But, they have been trying to keep the franchise alive by doing a live action series called The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, which hasn’t really caught on with fans unsurprisingly.
They made one for Avatar: The Last Airbender 💨, which is a show that also ended, and is no longer on the air, but Nickelodeon still keeps the channel up, and still uploads regularly on there. The fact that they made a dedicated YouTube channel to it makes them keeping one up for Fairly OddParents a little less strange. And to be fair, Avatar is a show that, in my opinion, has become more popular since its ending than it ever was back when it was still on the air. It used to be this sort of obscure and niche thing, which is how I wished it stayed.
The show gaining mainstream popularity retroactively kind of sapped the fun out of it, and I think the show’s kind of become overhyped and overrated. It’s no masterpiece people, give it a break. And of course, they made a YouTube channel for The Loud House, which pretty much took Fairly OddParents’s place as Nickelodeon’s second most popular show. And given how many episodes and seasons it has now, I think the show is now their third longest-running show, at the very least, fourth. I don’t know if has surpassed Rugrats (the original) or not yet in terms how many episodes and seasons it has.
Speaking of Rugrats though, I’m surprised they haven’t made a dedicated YouTube channel to it yet. That show used to be one of their flagship shows, their golden boy before SpongeBob 🧽 came along. There’s certainly enough episodes of the show to sustain a YouTube channel, a lot of potential for 5 minute condensed versions of episodes and clip compilation videos. Plus, you got the two spin-offs, Rugrats Pre-School Daze and All Grown-Up!, which is my personal favorite.
The lack of an official Rugrats YouTube channel is all the more surprising considering that there’s a CGI reboot series that’s currently running on Paramount+, which Nickelodeon obviously made to resurrect the Rugrats franchise, which had effectively been dead since All Grown-Up! was canceled, and also so that they could have more content on their streaming platform, Paramount+. And what better than something with name recognition? So, even if they didn’t want to use clips from the original Rugrats series, or either of its two spin-offs, they could always just use clips from the reboot if that’s all they want to acknowledge. It is just too puzzling.
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Update (Tuesday June 20, 2023):
Yes, The Loud House did surpass Rugrats in terms of episodes, but not seasons yet. Rugrats had 9 seasons, whereas The Loud House currently has 7 seasons at the time of this writing. So, it does have a way to go before it surpasses Rugrats’s season number. However, despite having less seasons (so far) than Rugrats, The Loud House does have way more episodes. The Loud House currently has 241 episodes whereas Rugrats only had 172. And it’s the number of episodes that really counts. But, Rugrats did go long for more years than The Loud House has. Rugrats lasted for 13 years from 1991 to 2004, whereas The Loud House has only lasted 7 years from 2016 to present day. But, the fact that it has more episodes than Rugrats despite only going for less years than Rugrats kind of says something.
Speaking of Rugrats though, I think a crossover between The Loud House and Rugrats would actually work pretty well. At least with All Grown-Up!, because then they’d be preteens who the Loud family can actually talk to and interact with, instead of being babies that can’t talk. The baby characters in Rugrats couldn’t actually talk to the adult, teenage, or preteen characters in the show, only amongst themselves and toddlers.
That’s why in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, it was such a big deal when Chuckie actually talked to his dad, Chas in the wedding scene at the end. We’re supposed to assume that’s Chuckie’s first ever spoken word, when he says “No!” to the wedding between Chas and Coco LaBouche (the main villain of the movie). Every other time Chuckie spoke in the series or in the movie before that moment was just baby-talk that the adults couldn’t actually understand.
I would love to see what the Loud siblings would make of preteen Dil or teenage Angelica. Yeah, yeah, I know, Angelica was 13 years old in most of All Grown-Up! (from Season 1 Episode 15 onwards), but 13 is usually considered the minimum age when someone’s considered a teenager. I bet Lincoln would get along pretty well with Tommy, and likewise, I bet Clyde would get along well with Chuckie. I’m sure Lana would hit off with Phil since they both like gross stuff.
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