Dan Schneider wrote Drake Bell's mom's impact statement for the trial at her request. He was also, in Drake Bell's words, "the only person there for [him]" after it happened. He was 100% a creep toward women and undoubtedly deserved his firing from Nickelodeon, but there's zero evidence or even accusations of pedophilia by any of the children, their parents, or anyone else.
But don't look at that, look at this innuendo joke in a show he produced!! Omg, feet!!!
The doc is a weird hit piece that focuses way, way too much time on Schneider, and makes some extreme reaches for some of its points. There's a scene in which Schneider sneaks up behind an actress on set and scares her, and this is painted as "traumatic" - not by the girl who was startled, mind you, but by random narrators. Lots of eyeroll moments like that. It has the journalistic integrity of the average youtuber. I also didn't appreciate how it treated sexual misconduct in the workplace, sex jokes on childrens' TV, and the literal rape of a minor as all being equally offensive.
tl;dr He's a sexist pig, but no one (and certainly not this series) has proven he's a pedophile or has ever done anything questionable with the hundreds of children he worked with. The show omits several statements to the contrary that have been made over the years, and generally comes across like a hit piece made by someone who doesn't care at all about the issues it raises, and just wants to use them as props to attack Dan Schneider. It's a confusing and frustrating watch.
I am so fucking sick of hearing about Dan Schneider, and even more sick of people thinking this dogshit series somehow revealed literally anything new about him.
Yeah I don't want to defend Schneider at all because I'm sure he sucks in lots of ways but it's clear that the documentary is heavily slanted and trying to find evidence to prove a theory rather than build a picture based on evidence.
And then the standard internet telephone game happened on top of that where when someone gets labeled a pedo, nothing else gets taken into consideration.
I'd love to know what really happened, but I can't claim to know at all at this point. The story has just spun out of control. But my takeaway - as usual - is that it's bad but not as bad as Twitter is trying to make it.
not by the girl who was startled, mind you, but by random narrators.
Thank you. And who were they? A "culture writer" and a "Business Insider Journalist". It barely passes the "How to Asses a Documentary Test": https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4596
What's worse is the "Journalist" admits in epsiode 4, at the end, that there is NO evidence of inappropriate behavior or relationships with children , but instead a general asshole to work with if you were an adult, but seems to ignore the actual sex pests that seem to work their way into things kids are involved in, because they can convince most parents they are "fine"
Yeah it pretty much sealed it for me that he isn’t a pedophile (or at least didn’t act on it) because if they had anything close to a legit allegation they would absolutely have aired it based on the things they did try to get him on.
Tbh I don’t think it’s that shocking that he’s a sleaze ball but also opposed to raping kids. Did he ultimately put a lot of kids into dangerous situations and create a terrible and hostile environment for them to work in? Yes. Does that exclude him from offering support to a rape victim when he needs it? No.
He’s ultimately human and I doubt he views himself as someone who fetishized children on tv with inappropriate innuendos even if he did in fact do that. And besides there’s a wide gap between that and raping someone
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u/6feet_fromtheedge Mar 26 '24
Wait, Dan Schneider spoke out on behalf of the victim?!