Thread:3cooldog92/@comment-3180503-20120618155642/@comment-3247345-20120917044317

The thing is there's not enough people that care about shipping to influence it either way. Even all the Seddie and Creddie shipper combined probably wouldn't make a noticable difference in the ratings. At least the ones who care enough about it to come online. Even if Dan went with Creddie and all us Seddiers boycotted it wouldn't make enough difference for Dan to change course. There's maybe a few thousand of us compared to the million of casual viewers who don't care about shipping. Between higher ratings in general (ratings for all shows have declined over the past 2 years), iCarly being at its prime and Nick actually bothering to promote it, iSYL was a perfect storm for high ratings. I think the prospect of Freddie finally going out with Carly after having that creepy crush drew a lot of people in. That doesn't mean they're Creddie shippers. iQiC had the 2nd highest ratings under the same circumstances a month earlier. Anyone who thinks the extra 3.6 million people watching were all Creddie shippers is beyond delusional.