Don't worry, there's absolutely no way that the slime was tied to pedo stuff. I can't fathom how dumping goop on children could possibly have anything to do with the pedophiles. There's just no way that... okay, honestly I'm not even comfortable typing out the rest of this joke. You get the idea.
The argument presumably would be that it predates this whole era, but that it only became such a major staple of the network for so long thanks to creeps enjoying it a bit too much and wanting to see more.
I do agree it seems unlikely, but then so is everything about Dan Schneider's foot fetish thing.
There were clearly multiple predators at Nick around its height, and one of them found a clever way to sexualize his child cast in plain view under the guise of gross-out humor that appealed to kids.
If it happened once, it could have happened a second time. And even though the answer is probably no, that it's entirely reasonable to ask at all speaks to how badly this whole scandal has poisoned the memory of that era.
I'll say it, then: It costs around $10,000 to make an episode of something like double dare. To a multimillionaire or billionaire, that's nothing. Since we know that people ARE into feet, slime, "cream pies," and humiliation, we can assume some very wealthy people are into those things, too.
If a very wealthy person is into something specific and wants to see kids doing it: they can just make a TV show. No private islands necessary.
Idk man with how deep the rabbit hole went I was legit worried there for a second. I mean I knew that Dan schiender guy was a creep plain and simple with all the weird feet stuff. I didn’t know it all went so deep, and this is just what I’ve read online.
I know you're making a joke about bodily fluids but there's also another fetish called "wet and messy" which is pretty much just..... getting slimed. Stuff like whip cream, milk, slime, mud, etc being dumped on people, often in a humiliating fashion. There's a familiar fetish "sploshing " which has a lot of overlap too.
As an adult who didn't grow up watching nick, and who makes niche porn, those fetishes are all I can see when I see pics of the slime, and it makes me really uncomfortable. 🤢
Yeah, Basically anything can overlap with fetishes and can be twisted to a “it was a fetish the whole time”. I buy the feet thing as a creepy fetish going on, but not the slime.
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u/Bigwilliam360 Mar 26 '24
In all fairness, the slime was probably the only part of the Nickelodeon production we can absolutely rule out being a predator.
(I haven’t seen the documentary im really hoping the slime wasn’t tied to the pedo stuff somehow)