Nickelodeon (2009-present)

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Nickelodeon is an American pay television channel and television show and film studio that was first formed in 1977. While it was good before 2009, it went downhill in 2009 due to the sixth season of SpongeBob SquarePants and the release of Fanboy & Chum Chum.

Why It's Not Our Nick Anymore

 * 1) Since 2009 they started using the NickToons (formerly NickToons Network) as punishment for shows that didn't get the same audience as SpongeBob SquarePants, The Loud House and The Casagrandes, resulting in their unfair cancellation.
 * 2) *mh:besttvshows:Back at the Barnyard, Oggy and the Cockroaches, mh:besttvshows:Robot and Monster, mh:besttvshows:T.U.F.F. Puppy, mh:besttvshows:Harvey Beaks (the most infamous example), mh:besttvshows:Welcome to the Wayne, Rise of the TMNT and It's Pony! are some examples of shows that got this punishment.
 * 3) *When it's not moved to NickToons, it might be moved to Netflix like mh:besttvshows:Pinky Malinky and mh:besttvshows:Glitch Techs or it's shown exclusively on the Nickelodeon website like the last episodes of mh:besttvshows:The Legend of Korra.
 * 4) *This doesn't make sense because you can't compete with a cultural phenomenon on your own network when it comes to something like SpongeBob, and obviously a show on the schedule will have less audience than SpongeBob (and currently even The Loud House and The Casagrandes), even when Rugrats (the first cash cow of the network) was still on the schedule.
 * 5) *They recently rejected a cartoon based on a book series called Phoebe and Her Unicorn due to not appealing to boys, which is not only sexist but hypocritical because Nickelodeon still have some shows featuring girls as main characters.
 * 6) They milk every franchise they own until one dies out, such as SpongeBob SquarePants.
 * 7) Even when it's not SpongeBob or The Loud House, it could be one of the nickcoms.
 * 8) The Kids' Choice Awards from 2009 onward weren't that well received by fans and some kids (including teens) due to snubs and awards that are well-winning.
 * 9) They turned some of their good shows bad:
 * 10) They ruined SpongeBob SquarePants, as mentioned before, with the sixth season episode "The Splinter", and the downfall sped up with the seventh season and would continue in the eighth season. Some even say that the fourth or fifth seasons started the downfall of SpongeBob. Thankfully the show redeemed itself in Season 9.
 * 11) Winx Club experience downfall due to co-production with Nickelodeon:
 * 12) *This included: reverting the main characters back to Alfea when they had just graduated in Secret of the Lost Kingdom, important continuity plots being retconned, Stella and Tecna’s characters being flanderized, lame villains such as Tritannus, aborting several arcs such as the return of Nabu and the search "seven” in season 5, Bloom‘s engagement being ignored and forgotten, and having too many Ass Pull instances and having childish plots in season 8. The promotion for the show got worse once the sixth season roll-around and they ended up releasing the final few episodes on the Nick website similar to the Legend of Korra. These got a ton of backlash from the fandom’s older audience who grew up watching the original series and they happen to much prefer the classic series, as there is a good reason why the 2011 and 2019 revivals are still hated to this day.
 * 13) The Fairly OddParents also experienced a downfall:
 * 14) Season 9 introduced Sparky, a completely USELESS character. He's basically a hard copy of Dukey from Johnny Test and even to a lesser extent, Jake from mh:besttvshows:Adventure Time.
 * 15) 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. It resulted in the show getting canceled after that.
 * 16) Other criticisms also focus on the Flanderization of the characters, lack of original writers, characters being down to extras, etc.
 * 17) The Loud House would later go downhill in Season 4's "A Grave Mistake", and even more with the fifth season premiere "Schooled!". Despite many people from the fandom having said that the show would go on to improve itself over time and in fact, it did improve a bit in season 6, there has not been any major improvement.
 * 18) In addition, they also made a lot of bad shows around this time, such as:
 * 19) Fanboy & Chum Chum, which is essentially a ripoff of SpongeBob SquarePants, also overuses toilet humor and is credited as the show that began the downfall of the network.
 * 20) mh:terribletvshows:Planet Sheen, which is a bad spin-off of mh:besttvshows:The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.
 * 21) Sam & Cat, which is a bad spin-off of iCarly and Victorious.
 * 22) mh:terribletvshows:Breadwinners, which has lazy animation and heavily relies on gross-out and toilet humor.
 * 23) mh:terribletvshows:Pig Goat Banana Cricket, which has a failed interwoven stories concept and much like Fanboy & Chum Chum, it overuses toilet humor.
 * 24) Shows like mh:besttvshows:Victorious (despite being good), mh:terribletvshows:Planet Sheen, mh:terribletvshows:Sam & Cat, mh:terribletvshows:Game Shakers, the 2022 reboot of Monster High, and Side Hustle have either have gotten bad finales or have ended on cliffhangers, which are not good examples to end a show.
 * 25) Due to running for at least 40 years, as previously mentioned, Nickelodeon will often jump the shark, both in the dark age and out of the dark age.
 * 26) Occasionally, the channel would produce a show that's actually good or has great potential... only for the show to get screwed over by the network and canceled 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 canceled in favor of another programming.
 * 27) 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 channel's cash-cow, as it continues to take up almost the entire time-slot, with other shows get little to no airtime.
 * 28) *Aside from that, the channel 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.
 * 29) They try at all times to be cool, modern, and hip for kids, whether it's to get a cheap laugh from the audience or to earn reviews and money with it. This results in moments that let the joke or the episode itself date after years or even months. Here are some examples of this:
 * 30) Adding references to current affairs and dead memes in shows and episodes such as:
 * 31) The Loud House episode "Grub Snub" (which is a GrubHub reference)
 * 32) The Fortnite dances in mh:terribletvshows:Cousins For Life
 * 33) The walrus dance scene in the mh:terribletvshows:Side Hustle episode "Yard Sale."
 * 34) The jokes in Season 10 of The Fairly OddParents.
 * 35) The cringy K-Pop gag and four episodes of mh:terribletvshows:Danger Force featuring Among Us in the title.
 * 36) Putting celebrities and YouTubers in special roles, using them in various pointless scenes, and then being thrown to sergeant or neglect in the middle of an episode, with that being common in nickcoms such as:
 * 37) mh:terribletvshows:Game Shakers
 * 38) mh:terribletvshows:Unfiltered
 * 39) mh:terribletvshows:Cousins For Life
 * 40) The spin-off networks have also gone downhill:
 * 41) Since 2014, Nick Jr. has become a graveyard for the main network block "Low rating shows", the dependency on CGI toyettitic pre-school shows, mainly from Canada, rip-offs of other preschool shows, the NickMom block (thankfully it ended in 2015), and the Peppa Pig and mh:besttvshows:Paw Patrol's ultra saturation on schedule.
 * 42) As discussed in WIS #1, NickToons also became a graveyard for "low-rating" NickToons, but it has also became dependent on reruns (loop repeat reruns), in addition to airing live-action shows and NickSports content in 2014. Does it even make sense for the channel to be called NickToons anymore?
 * 43) TeenNick decayed almost as such as it was released, kind to dependence on Dan Schneider productions, but the decline came in 2021, when shows such as mh:besttvshows:Drake & Josh and Zoey 101 left the network, and iCarly, mh:besttvshows:Victorious, and the post-2010 nickcoms gaining more prominence in the schedule. However, this got even worse in 2022 when the network began playing Henry Danger, America's Funniest Home Videos, as well as NFL Slimetime, The Loud House, and The Fairly OddParents non-stop. TeenNick was even called out on Twitter for having a horrible schedule.
 * 44) NickRewind (formerly known as the 90's Are All That, the Splat, and NickSplat) was a block focused on transmitting old Nick content, alternate between old live-action shows and old NickToons, however NickToons along with Doug, Rugrats, Rocko's Modern Life, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters and CatDog'' practically dominate the block.
 * 45) *In the last days of its life the block was reduced to iCarly and Rugrats, and the block was discontinued on January 31, 2022.
 * 46) *Some Nicktoons such as The X's and Catscratch either didn't get a block display or when they did it didn't last for very long, usually for less than 1 or 2 months.
 * 47) Nick at Nite started out as a block of old series such as mh:besttvshows:I Love Lucy and Bewitched however it lately has been a rerun farm for more modern/contemporaneous sitcoms like mh:besttvshows:Young Sheldon, Mom, mh:besttvshows:Friends, mh:besttvshows:The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The George Lopez Show and Mike & Molly.
 * 48) During 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!
 * 49) The female leads in the sitcoms are all stereotypical and cliché. This is a huge step down as Nickelodeon in the past used to have a handful of influential and rememberable female protagonists in sitcoms.
 * 50) They have recently been airing films constantly, as they are airing a film or two every single day, and even airing the same film in one week. Heck, even competitors like Cartoon Network and Disney Channel can air movies several times a week and not get backlash. The film marathons have gotten so bad, that in August 2022, airings of The Loud House and the current live-action shows were temporarily removed from the schedule in favor of films.
 * 51) Several programming blocks were unfairly removed, such as:
 * 52) SNICK
 * 53) Games and Sports for Kids
 * 54) Noggin
 * 55) TeeNick
 * 56) SLAM!
 * 57) Some of their international feeds have been rebranded and merged with the CEE feed, which has ugly-looking bumpers and bad shows, such as Side Hustle, The Thundermans, etc.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It used to be good before 2009.
 * 2) The 2009 logo is decent. See the image above.
 * 3) There are still a handful of good shows in the dark age, such as:
 * 4) The 2012 reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * 5) The first three seasons of The Loud House and its spin-off mh:besttvshows:The Casagrandes
 * 6) The 2021 reboot of The Smurfs
 * 7) Big Nate
 * 8) mh:besttvshows:Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * 9) mh:besttvshows:Victorious
 * 10) mh:besttvshows:Harvey Beaks
 * 11) mh:besttvshows:T.U.F.F. Puppy
 * 12) mh:besttvshows:Glitch Techs
 * 13) mh:besttvshows:I Am Frankie
 * 14) SpongeBob SquarePants improved in season 9.
 * 15) Fanboy & Chum Chum also started to improve in season 2, although it wasn't enough.
 * 16) It's Pony
 * 17) Middlemost Post
 * 18) Transformers: EarthSpark
 * 19) By 2019, Nickelodeon's parent company, Paramount, acquired Paws, Inc. Besides that, mh:besttvshows:Nickelodeon Animation Studio is currently developing a new Garfield series, alongside Paws, Inc.
 * 20) The nickcoms were good before 2011.
 * 21) Their international versions are still good, with some exceptions such as Nickelodeon India.
 * 22) 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).
 * 23) The bumpers are still nice to watch.
 * 24) The 2023 new logo and rebrand are pretty cool and it reintroduces the splat that made the logo so recognizable and iconic.

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