It's very new to me. I'd heard about stuff like this from Disney and many other studios in Hollyweird (it truly is a terrible place to be a kid), but I had never heard anything about what was going on at Nickelodeon in the 90s and early 2000s. The truth is, many of the shows they listed came after I stopped watching in 1999 (my family got Disney Channel back by then, and I was also entering teen-hood, so I didn't need Nickelodeon to entertain me anymore by then), so I don't know much about them, nor can I empathize with most of the characters or actors because they are strangers to me. The only people familiar to me in any part of this documentary were Amanda Bynes, Keenan, and Kel. I was actually surprised to find out Ariana Grande was on "All That" at one point, so now her rise to fame makes sense.
It also creeped me out how much sexual innuendo was hidden in plain sight on shows like "All That," because the asshole producer knew that the kids wouldn't know what they were doing. If anyone deserved to be MeToo'd it was Dan Schneider. Obviously he was on a power trip and loved wielding it over people, particularly women because he never could get any girls while growing up (not due to be fat, you understand, though that probably played a part, but probably because he was a shitty human being and hid it better as he got older).
The story involving the guy from Drake and Josh made me sad...until I found out that same guy was privately abusing girls once he got free of that horrible producer guy who had been feeding off him for years. It's not unusual for victims of sexual abuse during the formative years to carry on the abuse themselves later on in life, despite the efforts of others to help them. It made me less sympathetic towards him once I heard about that. I mean, he goes through so much, fights to get free of that monster, only to become a monster himself and act like it "doesn't count" or "isn't the same."
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