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Now here's the part NOBODY is talking about...


Part 1: Nobody is saying a word about who was enabling Dan Schneider and his sick friends to get away with the shit they did. They say that the fish rots from the head down, and chances are, the CEO of Nickelodeon was just as much of a sick fuck as Dan and his pedophile buddies. Wikipedia says here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Nickelodeon that the CEO of Nickelodeon was Herb Scannell, who was president of the studio between 1996–2006, when "All That," "The Amanda Show," and a number of other shows that Dan Schneider ran at the time.

Part 2: Studio CEO's in Hollywood are notorious for letting everything go on under their roof so long as a.) their favorite employees remain discreet, and b.) the favored employees rake in money for the studio. Often the CEO's themselves are as sick as the people they employ, particularly the higher up ones. Chances are, either Mr. Scannell knew nothing about Dan's behavior on purpose, or he ignored it and let the guy get away with it because of all the money coming in. But the point is, a lot of child actors and writers suffered under Dan's tyranny while this asshole Scannell sat there up in his office and did nothing. It's possible he was getting some child sex action himself and was more than happy to defend his fellow pedos.

Part 3: Usually things only drastically change in a large company when leadership changes. The #MeToo movement started in 2017, and I took a look at who was in charge of Nickelodeon during that time period. My theory was, the only reason Dan Schneider got #MeToo'd was because a woman very high up in rank finally kicked his fat ass to the curb. The link shows that a woman named Cyma Zarghami 2006–2018 was in charge during that time period. Though that does beg the question: where was SHE when Dan and his buddies were pulling their shennanigans between 2006 and 2017? Was she "ignorant" of him too? Did she finally do something to look good for her fellow women in Tinseltown that she had ignored until that time?

Why isn't anyone calling Dan Schneider's bosses out for all of this?!

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