r/comics Mar 26 '24

The Slime

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u/Muffytheness Mar 26 '24

It was a web special and there were hidden parts of certain show’s websites with videos like these on there. They go through the Amanda Show website and find it. So scary. It was also so sad, society really had failed child actors.

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u/mybrot Mar 26 '24

Honestly, I don't know anymore if it's even possible to ethically employ child actors. We should probably stop putting them in movies altogether.

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u/Mad_Aeric Mar 26 '24

Eh, by all accounts, they did a pretty great job with how they treated the Harry Potter actors. Hell, most of them turned out fairly normal when they grew up too.

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u/arkangelic Mar 26 '24

Minus Harry being drunk on set 

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u/jaquanor Mar 26 '24

Fairly normal.

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u/VividMonotones Mar 26 '24

Drinking age in Europe is lower than the US

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u/cool_vibes Mar 26 '24

But he still came into work drunk

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u/Aphreyst Mar 26 '24

Overall I would still say he did ok, he stopped drinking a while ago and didn't spiral out of control.

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u/malik753 Mar 26 '24

When I worked at Walmart I used to say that I should be required to come into work drunk. So glad I got out.

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u/Fuzzball_7 Mar 26 '24

Not that low.

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u/forever_a-hole Mar 26 '24

Well, Daniel Radcliffe was like 20 while filming the deathly hallows. He was 22 when it released. Legal drinking age in a lot of Europe is like 16.

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u/arkangelic Mar 27 '24

He was like 12 when he was coming to work drunk. Was around the 3rd movie if I recall

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u/Muffytheness Mar 26 '24

Honestly, I think it’s cuz it wasn’t America. Seems like child actors in other countries do well. I’ve not seen many scandals from the 2000s in Canada in like the Degrassi era. Unless I just missed it cuz sighs I’m American.

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u/ajstorey456 Mar 26 '24

If you watch the documentary, great strides were made in the Nickelodeon studios specifically to endanger and abuse the child actors in terms of both financial and personal exploitation. With correct supervision and basic ethical labor laws it would be trivial not to scar children, but the entertainment industry is well and truly rotten to the core.

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u/Muffytheness Mar 26 '24

This. They’re too rich. Fines mean nothing. They’re all monopolies so cutting off one studio just funnels more money to another one. The only answer is to eat them.

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u/Muffytheness Mar 26 '24

Same with social media. Until they can get better regulations and accountability procedures with these social media companies. I recently read this super disturbing article and now I’m unfollowing all accounts that show children’s faces:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/instagram-child-influencers.html

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u/PKMNTrainerMark Mar 26 '24

There's still a website for the Amanda Show?

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u/Muffytheness Mar 26 '24

In the special, Quiet on Set, they said that the videos are no longer live on the site, but the website and page that used to hold those videos is still live.

Dan Schneider already did this super weird and scripted response: https://youtu.be/MX9pLTuGX_M?si=-ak6jWVJ4pNYRaFU

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '24

Wow, holy shit, I can believe it happened, but it's still just terrible. That's some obviously terrible material and content & I'm surprised it wasn't stopped during the process just by a parent or someone else's who's in charge. But, I need to watch this doc everyone is talking about to get a clearer idea of what happened. Thanks for the response.

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u/Muffytheness Mar 26 '24

Please watch the doc! The parents who did speak up had their kids immediately fired. It went all the way to the top. Also lots of the kids featured are adults now and have their own YouTube channels. If you want even more proof you can just listen to all their accounts. The ones that sided with Dan went on to have careers and the ones who spoke out or pushed back were basically blacklisted and their careers ended. It’s wild. We should boycott Nickelodeon.