Eating Disorders
<\/span>Sexual Harassment<\/p>\n
In 1977, in Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Vivian Horner created the first Nickelodeon series: Pinwheel. The creation of this pre-school show jumpstarted the massive TV network that we know today, and at the hands of corrupt directors and producers, it was all downhill from there.<\/p>\n
At the ripe old age of 14 years old, actress Jennette McCurdy was signed to a lead role in Nickelodeon\u2019s upcoming show: iCarly. The majority of Nickelodeon shows run for a limited span of four seasons, but iCarly stayed along for an extra two seasons. According to ScreenRant, it contains 97 episodes \u2013 32 more than their rival network Disney Channel\u2019s maximum.<\/p>\n
Jennette played the role of Sam Puckett, whose most prominent traits are aggressiveness, loyalty, and a love for food. Her character\u2019s tendency to eat and overeat is shown throughout the entirety of the show, manifesting itself as an obsession with fat cakes, fried chicken, bacon, smoothies, root beer, and tater tots. This doesn\u2019t seem like such an egregious trait \u2013 especially for such an eccentric character, but when inspected a little bit further, it brings a necessary microscope onto iCarly\u2019s producer: Dan Schneider.<\/p>\n
Schneider worked for Nickelodeon for 24 years, before parting ways in 2018. He was fired \u201cat a natural time,\u201d but coincidentally, soon after coming under fire for sexualizing the feet of teenage girls, specifically those who were under his lead in television. Amanda Bynes, for example, who was recruited by Schneider at the age of 9. She joined the cast of \u201cAll That\u201d \u2013 a comedy sketch for children. Amanda Bynes is thought to be one of the first subjects of Schneider\u2019s perversion and abuse in 1996, and Jennette McCurdy is supposedly one of the last, parting from Nickelodeon in 2014 at the abrupt conclusion of iCarly\u2019s spinoff Sam and Cat.<\/p>\n
Aside from the sexual harassment and abuse, Nickelodeon took a toll on Jennette and her self-image. She disclosed in an article written for HuffPost that she knew she would get more roles if she maintained a child-like figure. In a moment of realization in the car with her mom, who assisted in Jennette\u2019s disordered eating, the actress knew she was too far in to stop. She had booked 6 roles in the year, all younger than her real age.<\/p>\n
After being cast to iCarly, Jennette\u2019s habits began to spiral more and more. The constant pressure of always being in the public eye, either by social media or by the growing popularity of her TV show, really took a toll on her. There\u2019s a gap in the HuffPost timeline, but rumors circulate that iCarly and Dan Schneider\u2019s direction only exacerbated Jennette\u2019s disorder. As previously mentioned, Sam Puckett\u2019s most identifiable trait is her love for food. It\u2019s not a stretch to assume that Schneider was aware of Jennette\u2019s struggles and chose to ignore them. A source cited by many as proof of Schneider\u2019s abuse is the following picture of Miranda Cosgrove, visibly distraught by the presence of Schneider near her.<\/p>\n
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His role in Nickelodeon’s network, and the length of time he was allowed to remain employed there speaks volumes about the industry and its priorities. Schneider was never held accountable for his actions, and it’s paving the way for past, current, and future abusers to get away with it.\u00a0 Hollywood does not take care of its people, and it’s up to the public to hold the industry accountable for the way its children are treated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sources:www.huffpost.com\/entry\/jennette-mccurdy-eating-disorder_n_5c812d61e4b0e62f69ea8363https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_Nickelodeonhttps:\/\/screenrant.com\/nickelodeon-shows-most-episodes\/https:\/\/www.distractify.com\/p\/is-jennette-mccurdy-in-icarly-reboothttps:\/\/adri.substack.com\/p\/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk Content Warning:Eating DisordersSexual Harassment In 1977, in Columbus, Ohio, Dr. Vivian Horner created the first Nickelodeon series: Pinwheel. The creation of this pre-school show jumpstarted the massive TV network that we know today, and at the hands of corrupt directors and producers, it was all downhill from there. At the ripe old age of … Continue reading “Bones of Hollywood”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11577,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11558\/revisions\/11577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}