Nickelodeon (2009-present)

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Nickelodeon is a kids TV network and TV show and film studio that was first formed in 1977. While it was originally good, it has been going downhill since 2009, especially due to the sixth season of SpongeBob SquarePants and mh:terribletvshows:Fanboy & Chum Chum.

Why It's Not the Same Now

 * 1) Nowadays, Nickelodeon has lost all care for anything other than SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House, or mh:besttvshows:The Casagrandes, and moved anything that didn’t get as many viewers as those three shows to die in the NickToons channel.
 * 2) Even when it's not SpongeBob or The Loud House, it could be one of the nickcoms.
 * 3) The Kids' Choice Awards from 2009 onward wasn't that well received from fans and some kids (including teens) due to snubs and awards that are well-winning.
 * 4) In mid 2009 they changed their famous unique and iconic Splat logo to a boring bland typical Workmark logo many old time fans stating that it was too stagnant and doesn’t reflect the fun nature of the channel. The reasoning for the change is rumored to be because Cyma Zarghami didn’t liked how it looked on a business card and making the excuse that the splat was dated
 * 5) They turned some of their good shows bad:
 * 6) They ruined SpongeBob SquarePants, as mentioned before, with the sixth season, and the seventh season was also bad. Some even say that the fourth or fifth season started the downfall of SpongeBob. Thankfully the show would redeem itself since Season 8.
 * 7) The Fairly OddParents also experienced a downfall:
 * 8) Season 9 introduced Sparky, a completely USELESS character. He's basically a hard copy of Dukey from Johnny Test.
 * 9) Season 10 was even worse. Sparky received so much hate that he was removed completely with no explanation. His replacement was Chloe Carmichael, an even worse character. She's a flawless Mary Sue, and Timmy has to share with her. And this season was after the dark age.
 * 10) Other criticisms also focus on flanderization of the characters, lack of original writers, characters being down to extras, etc.
 * 11) The Loud House would later go downhill in Season 4's "A Grave Mistake", and even more with the fifth season premiere "Schooled!".
 * 12) In addition, they also made a lot of bad shows around this time, such as:
 * 13) mh:terribletvshows:Fanboy & Chum Chum, which is essentially a ripoff of SpongeBob SquarePants and also overuses toilet humor.
 * 14) mh:terribletvshows:Planet Sheen, which is a bad spin-off of mh:besttvshows:The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
 * 15) mh:terribletvshows:Sam & Cat, which is a bad spin-off of iCarly.
 * 16) mh:terribletvshows:Breadwinners, which has lazy animation and heavily relies on gross out and toilet humor.
 * 17) mh:terribletvshows:Pig Goat Banana Cricket, which has a failed interwoven stories concept and much like Fanboy & Chum Chum, it overuses toilet humor.
 * 18) Shows like mh:besttvshows:Victorious, mh:terribletvshows:Planet Sheen, mh:terribletvshows:Sam & Cat and mh:terribletvshows:Game Shakers (despite the former being good) either have gotten bad finales or have ended on cliffhangers, which are not good examples to end a show.
 * 19) Due to running for at least 40 years, previously mentioned, Nickelodeon will often jump the shark, both in the dark age and out of the dark age.
 * 20) Occasionally, the network would produce a show that's actually good or has great potential... only for the show to get screwed over by the network and cancelled before it gets a proper finale or conclusion (with a few exceptions). mh:besttvshows:Victorious and mh:besttvshows:I Am Frankie are two infamous examples of good shows that were cancelled in favor of other programming.
 * 21) Nickelodeon lately has been milking SpongeBob SquarePants, along with The Loud House to death without taking a break from it for a while, due to those show being the network's cash-cow, as it continues to take up almost the entire time-slot, with other shows get little to no airtime.
 * 22) *Aside from that, the network is also obsessed with mh:besttvshows:Paw Patrol and mh:terribletvshows:Peppa Pig (via Nick Jr.) as they also air frequently during the Nick Jr. block in the main channel, although at least Nick Jr. still gives a few other shows some airtime in their channel unlike the main channel.
 * 23) During the recent years, they've also been the suspects for unauthorized uses of fan content being used in their ads without the permission of/nor crediting the original creators, most infamously the SpongeBob SquarePants + LEGO City Adventures promo where it uses a copyrighted background from a fan-artist named Matt S. (a.k.a Lolwutburger), but with his name cropped out!
 * 24) They even went far as greenlighting Kamp Koral, despite mh:besttvshows:Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants, not being in fond of spin-offs involving his characters being aged-down. The announcement received massive backlash from fans, who thought of it being a disgrace to Hillenburg’s legacy by breaking their promise to him, and claimed that they deliberately waited for him to die in order to make the spin-off happen, despite apparently being in development before his death, according to mh:besttvshows:Vincent Waller.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) They used to be good before 2009.
 * 2) The modern logo despite being a work mark is decent.
 * 3) There are some good shows in the dark age, such as:
 * 4) The 2021 reboot of Rugrats
 * 5) The 2012 reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * 6) The first three seasons of The Loud House and its spin-off mh:besttvshows:The Casagrandes
 * 7) The 2021 reboot of The Smurfs
 * 8) mh:besttvshows:Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * 9) mh:besttvshows:Victorious
 * 10) mh:besttvshows:Harvey Beaks
 * 11) mh:besttvshows:Glitch Techs
 * 12) mh:besttvshows:I Am Frankie
 * 13) SpongeBob SquarePants has started to improve since Season 8, and got even better in Season 9.
 * 14) Fanboy & Chum Chum also started to improve in Season 2, although it wasn't enough.
 * 15) By 2019, Nickelodeon's parent company, ViacomCBS, proudly acquired Paws, Inc. Since then, many Nickelodeon fans began hoping that Garfield will become the next possible official mascot of Nickelodeon.
 * 16) *Likewise, mh:besttvshows:Nickelodeon Animation Studio is currently developing a new Garfield series, alongside Paws, Inc.
 * 17) The nickcoms were good before 2011.
 * 18) Their international versions are still good.
 * 19) Their in-house animation studio, the one mentioned in RQ#4, is still great, and has spawned a title referring to shows that were produced by them, the Nicktoons (not to be confused with the TV channel).