Talk:Cam Relationship/@comment-3123594-20101016153517/@comment-2161253-20101017072525

You ever notice when people, girls in the case, on this page comment on their distasteful feelings for this ship, they often cite their own relationships with their best friend, as if we're challenging the nature of their relationship? There's no reason to be insecure (that is, if you are), frankly no one here cares how you or anyone else interprets your friendships, and it has absolutely relevance to the dynamic and depth to Sam and Carly's relationship. It's their specific characterization and interpretation of their motivations and interactions, so like I said, no reason to feel threatened by this page, no one's implying you're a lesbian and no one has called Sam and Carly as such.

These two being simply just "best" friends and close to each other isn't why people see possible subtext - that's kind of insulting. To give you example, take a look at Wizards of Waverly Place. Alex and Harper have been best friends since they were six, they're close, and now even Harper lives at the Russo's house - no subtext between them whatsoever and no followers in its fandom. The fandom's most popular pairing is an incest one between Alex and Justin, and there's no way they have been explicitly stated to have feelings for each other.

Also, don't presume to know the motivations of the writers and in some cases, there's completely accidental subtext due to fumbles in the writing of their relationship (goes back to that whole WOWP thing) - it happens to characters of opposite genders, too. Not sure if it's unintentional or intentional in Cam's case, but obviously they're each other's most important persons, Carly's able to invoke various emotions in Sam no other character can (not even her own mom), they have had break up episodes, they usually play as foils to each other (especially in iQuit iCarly), and so forth, right? Romantic friendships resemble romantic relationships, hence the name.