Hacker Cinema
iCarly
2007 · TV series · 6 seasons
Created by Dan Schneider
Watch Carly, Sam, and Freddie, as they try to balance their everyday 8th grade lives with their newfound fame managing and starring in the most awesome show on the web.
1 negative2 neutralfrom 3 commenters
Where to watch
No streaming data for this title.
4 comments on Hacker News
I wind up in jail for ten years if I download an episode of iCarly; Sam Altman inhales every last byte on the internet and gets a ticker tape parade. Make it make sense.
I think it was aimed at adults who grew up on Howdy Doody and Mr. Rogers.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sesame-street-for-adults-only/
First season of Sesame Street got rated R. Back when Oscar was orange.
iCarly cuses in the reboot: https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/icarly-reboot-cursing-fans-react-new-episodes/
Sort of like Adult Swim it was meant for grown ups but the kids watch it too. Too young to get the jokes, the kids love it.
they're not convincing anyone and are just making themselves look sleazy
I beg to differ. It's astoundingly effective propaganda, because it's unexpected.
Down in Puerto Rico, there's an incredibly ham-handed, telenovela-like RIAA anti-piracy ad played before every movie in the theater (or was, for a couple of years). People laugh out loud at it, it's so bad, and since it's clear that the RIAA isn't Puerto Rican anyway, everybody feels free to ignore it.
But when you have police coming to pick somebody up for filesharing (!) on iCarly as part of a plot point, you slip that propaganda right past people's internal censors. I had to explain to the kids that this part of the plot was a blatant lie, and my wife still doesn't buy it.
It doesn't matter how sleazy Disney looks to you and me - the question is how pervasive that belief becomes in the populace at large. It's money well spent by Disney for their own bottom line, but I hadn't thought of the larger consequences for society, and that's pretty frightening.
I'd be willing to bet that this attitude in young people is greatly influenced by the constant hammering of media produced for young people on the point that IP violation is a crime that will get you put in prison.
Disney makes a lot of the entertainment for young people in America. They harp a lot on piracy being a crime that gets you arrested immediately, regardless of the truth - I don't watch a lot of Disney, but I can think of two instances right off the top of my head, one being an episode of iCarly, and the other being Minute Men, a made-for-TV movie my kids and I watched last night on Netflix.