does anyone else remember that episode of iCarly that tried to warn the audiences of how invasive shipping irl people can be. my memory is kinda fuzzy but sam, carly, and freddie went to their version of comic con and when they went to meet all their fans they were really unsettled to find out that the audience had been split into two sides of shippers, seddie and creddie shippers. the seddie shippers shipped sam and freddie, and the creddie shippers shipped carly and freddie. and they were all really aggressive and wouldn’t stop harassing them over the ships. they were overanalyzing everything the kids did to try and make it work for their ships, they were getting in ship wars with each other, and they blatantly ignored the kids asking them to stop it.
and it made sam, carly, and freddie really uncomfortable bc not only did they feel like their fanbase was divided but they also felt really weird about how the fans couldn’t just let them be friends with each other. and they were annoyed bc it felt like the fans were taking away their right to choose if any of them actually had romantic feelings for each other and instead made it feel forced, because if i remember right sam and freddie were actually crushing on each other but they didn’t like being shipped like that bc it felt really invasive especially bc they weren’t even sure if they wanted to date yet. and all 3 of them became wary of even behaving like friends at all because they didn’t wanna give the shippers anymore ammo.
lmao anyways i think we should all just remember that episode of iCarly. an episode from a fucking children’s show.