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Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 22, 2018 14:38:10 GMT 10
I was just thinking back to the Late 2000s/Early 2010s and I don't know why, but I was reminded of Fred, a YouTuber who was popular at the time. Does anyone here remember Fred? Whatever happened to him and when did he become unpopular? It's strange, because I remember he was fairly popular between 2009-2011 and if my memory serves me correctly, there was even a movie adaption based on his YouTube series. Then, all of a sudden, he seemingly became an afterthought and disappeared from the spotlight.
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Post by #Infinity on Apr 22, 2018 14:49:33 GMT 10
Well, after 2009-2011, he was picked up by Nickelodeon...  The result was what many people consider the absolute worst series in Nickelodeon history. I don't think too many people honestly miss him.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 22, 2018 15:05:57 GMT 10
Well, after 2009-2011, he was picked up by Nickelodeon... The result was what many people consider the absolute worst series in Nickelodeon history. I don't think too many people honestly miss him. That's right, I forgot about that TV show. I've never actually watched it (I had stopped watching Nickelodeon a few years prior to it premiering on the network), but I can remember when the show was first announced and the criticism that it received shortly after. Anyway, I thought I would create a thread based on him and his YouTube series, because I remember he was quite popular at the time and I wasn't entirely sure when he suddenly became irrelevant. I never watched his YouTube series.
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Post by rainbow on Apr 22, 2018 15:17:57 GMT 10
I remember Fred from the old YouTube. I used to watch him sometimes back in 2009 and 2010. I haven't heard of him for a while until now. 
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Post by Telso on Apr 22, 2018 17:17:19 GMT 10
Kids back then just grew out of him, realizing his whole shtick is getting old, unfunny and uncool. Just like kids now will grow out of Jake/Logan Paul one day.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2018 18:00:33 GMT 10
Well, after 2009-2011, he was picked up by Nickelodeon... Nickelodeon were probably aware of Fred during that 2009-2011 era, because it was sometime around then that he made a guest appearance on an episode of iCarly: a distinctively Late 2000s/Early 2010s style program based on teenagers producing a live web show...or something like that. Although personally, I agree that not too many people miss Fred although a few millennials might.
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Post by SharksFan99 on May 1, 2018 17:43:39 GMT 10
Well, after 2009-2011, he was picked up by Nickelodeon... Nickelodeon were probably aware of Fred during that 2009-2011 era, because it was sometime around then that he made a guest appearance on an episode of iCarly: a distinctively Late 2000s/Early 2010s style program based on teenagers producing a live web show...or something like that. Although personally, I agree that not too many people miss Fred although a few millennials might. Yep. It's possible that Nickelodeon were aware of Fred even before that time period, because his YouTube series already had a sizable following as early as 2008. His earliest videos have between 5-20 million views. The executives at Nickelodeon most likely would have closely monitored his YouTube series for quite some time, before deciding to approach him for a television series.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2018 12:54:50 GMT 10
It's cringe.
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Post by Deleted on May 2, 2018 13:31:54 GMT 10
Before Jacob Sartorius, there was this guy.
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Post by SharksFan99 on May 2, 2018 15:37:15 GMT 10
Before Jacob Sartorius, there was this guy. I wonder what Fred must think of his YouTube series now? He probably thinks they're really cringeworthy. 
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