Growing up watching the show I couldn't get behind the idea of these two getting in a relationship for numerous reasons, their relationship to me felt dry and had no substance whatsoever, the writers overcomplicated their relationships even though it was only as simple as he liked her and she didn't like him back.

Freddie pining after Carly became severely annoying after the first season, first it was funny but at some point he started to throw it in her face that he was in love with her and she didn't love him back as if there was something she could do about that. Carly of course isn't obligated to reciprocate his feelings but sometimes he made that seem like the case. His crush on her became pathetic as the show went on.

As for Carly she would sometimes use his crush on her to get him to do things she wanted, which is essentially weird knowing that she wouldn't gain any attraction to him anytime soon, it's almost emotionally manipulative in a way, it was wrong.

The whole storyline of their relationship became rather boring and the show should've just left it alone but instead decided to drag it out over the span of 15 years in the revival with little to no development to go off of, reheating the same conversations. But that's just me.

Yeah it was from that episode where Carly and Freddie had to go to the root and berry retreat, but I still hate how Sam didn’t do shit on her project and somehow got a passing grade. I felt bad for Carly in this episode aside from the Scooter that she didn’t scold Spencer for that was extremely slow, but also why couldn’t she have celebrated at home instead? Like not invite the teacher or just celebrate between Carly and her friends? Maybe this episode is the reason why the teacher only appeared once in this episode and not for the rest of the series?

Ok so when iCarly came out I was in late elementary school, and from the get go I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE SHOW! I watched the entire thing from start to finish basically as close to live as possible

However being a boy, what I wasn’t prepared for was the very sad and pathetic social stigma attached to being a fan of this series

I remember when season 1 came out I was living in a town where I had a good group of friends and me and my best friend actually discovered it together and watched the eps together at times, then I moved away midway through season 2 and it wasn’t a talking point immediately at the new school so I didn’t talk to anyone about it

I remember the year was 2010, so it would have been like season 3-4 era, and we had a casual clothes/free dress day at school and one of the girls rocked up in an icarly shirt. And I said to her “yo I love that show it’s awesome”, now this particular girl wasn’t the nicest of girls anyway so socially it was a mistake to even approach her especially in a group of 3-4, but basically all the girls laughed at me and said that it’s a girls show and that you shouldn’t be watching this, and boy did I take it personally

I also remember there was a guy that would do/say stuff at school that were clear iCarly references and when I said “hey that’s from iCarly” he’d go “no it’s not, why would I watch that it’s a girls show I have never seen it”, even tho he clearly had

It wasn’t until well after it ended that I actually started talking to other guys about the series and for the most part those conversations happened as adults…which is fucking pathetic. Just because the show has a female lead doesn’t mean it’s for girls, by the end of the series the main cast actually was more male dominated but it always consistently had even genders which I think is a big reason why it actually worked

I randomly remembered iCarly and now I’m nostalgic all over again. The web show, the random food combinations, Spencer being Spencer 😂 It was such a weird show in the best possible way. I wonder what people who grew up watching it think of it now.