User blog comment:Cartoonprincess/Because Our Opinions Totally Count For Something ;3/@comment-3503487-20150402015145

Jennette: I never really followed any of the iCarly cast members prior to the announcement of Sam & Cat. However I felt that she seemed very nice and down to earth in the past and her acting talent stands out in the show. I think she has the talents to make it in comedy demonstrated by her acting, music, and writing and deserves to have her work acknowledged, but I did not approve of her behaviors on social media as she seemed to take a turn in behavior with the types of selfies and posts she would make around the time I started following her. I do not believe the posting of selfies itself is wrong, but the reasoning behind her behavior always felt misguided. I think Epic already wrote most of what I would say about Jennette's dramas. How she dealt with anything just left a bitter taste in my mouth and even if she had a noble cause, there's no proof of it, and she just went with insults about Dickelodeon and Gloriana that really carried no weight. She alienated many of her supporters with that and only left people who believed in a cause that was not ever explained. I feel that she has personal issues that she needs to sort out and the resulting public image she puts out, is for me, extremely confusing and off-putting. She suggests that she is being herself, doing what she wants to do, but I feel no particular sense of personality or purpose from anything she does other than someone just trying to appeal to some sort of audience without taking responsibility for what she is doing. I am glad that she seems to be moving on in her life and trying to behave more professionally (I'll take that over the unexplained mudslinging), but I hope she is able to put herself together and have positive people around her to support her.

Nathan: He seems like a dorky, likable guy in general, and it's clear he cares about his fans and is a nice guy. However, his naivete is a problem, especially as it possibly pertains to relationships. When Jennette is not acknowledging him and Madisen is showing him no respect, he should not be mudslinging back but he does not need to keep displaying his immense love and respect for them either as it does nobody any good. I haven't followed him much though and I don't really have much to say about his career except that I hope he gets better roles and opens himself to more opportunities.

Madisen: Never bothered to learn much about her; couldn't care less.

Ariana: I think she is immensely talented vocally and deserves the fame and accomplishments she has gathered. I don't think her acting is particularly outstanding (to be fair, Cat is a limited role), but it's good that she's pursuing music since that's what she loves and what she's good at. When I first started following what the Victorious cast did on YT and stuff back in the day, I found her vocal talents amazing but I did not like the vibe and overall personality she seemed to display, seemed to have an edge of fakeness and self-absorbedness. I also didn't like the way she issued the drama with Victoria, but she has clearly learned from the experience and has handled her drama gracefully since. I think she means well and is a nice and sweet girl. I feel that with her vocal potentials, she should be playing more to her strengths and own personality rather than going so much in for the sake of going big and playing to the mainstream; for example, she should explore her own style rather than dressing and dancing and doing so many collaborations for the sake of it, but I get that that is what she/her team thinks she needs to do to make it in the industry. I just don't fully agree with the decisions when I feel that she could create so much better. I listen to her music and like most of it though and see great potential in what she can do in the future.

Dan: Everything he does seems to scream businessman to me. He wrote and produced well once upon a time, but he is now out of ideas and milking the same gimmicks to try to continue making money off his old reputation. Even back in the day, I thought some of the things he did like write fun facts were great and interesting, but he got himself in too far into the fandom when he tried to explain behaviors of the characters and try to sway how fans thought, like with the whole implication with the end of iSpeed Date. A good writer should let his work speak through itself and not need to clean up messes online later and attempt to explain the writing to his fans. And it seemed clear that everything he did was just trying to set up and promote himself with the whole cross promoting between his different shows regardless of whether or not it made sense for the show. There's also the issue where he just tried to please fans of different ships with cheap moments once he knew the popularity was there rather than write genuine character development to further explore these ships. I also think he isn't a good advocate for his own stars. He only seems to promote people because they made him money and not genuinely speak out for their good, as some people explained with allowing his stars to be overworked and his silence on the issues of his shows' cancellations. It seemed that he was too busy trying to savor his own reputation to speak out on anything that could potentially help out his own actors or offer his fans what they deserve, which is continuously clear with each Q&A he holds.

Nick in general; possibly Cyma: Their programming is laughable now. I honestly haven't looked too much into how they run but it's ridiculous based on the results.