Former Nickelodeon star confronts Dan Schneider in viral video

A video of actor Jerry Trainor confronting Dan Schneider on the established of iCarly has gone viral on the internet.

The clip is carrying out the rounds on social media in the wake of the docuseries Silent on Set: The Dark Side of Youngsters Television, which aired on the Investigation Discovery channel in March and uncovered the “harmful tradition” and alleged abuse on the set of some of Nickelodeon’s greatest exhibits.

The docuseries paperwork the kid sexual abuse dedicated by assistant Jason Helpful, dialogue coach Brian Peck, and studio freelancer Ezel Channel, as properly as the alleged abusive and misogynistic conduct of showrunner Schneider. Various former youngster stars have spoken out, declaring sexual assault and harassment when doing the job for the channel.

Even though some of these statements have been circulating for years because Schneider’s abrupt departure from Nickelodeon in 2018, the release of the docuseries has prompted fans to acquire a closer glimpse at guiding-the-scenes images and video clip clips.

1 movie that has folks conversing on the web was posted to X, previously Twitter, by the account @historyinmemes on Wednesday.

“Jerry Trainor on the set of iCarly, talking in opposition to Dan Schneider. ‘Let us go residence!’ the crew’s reaction and what Dan does..” the caption reads. At the time of composing, the put up had been seen 14.5 million occasions.

Newsweek has emailed spokespeople for Schneider and Trainor for remark Friday.

Schneider took the video amongst usually takes on the set of iCarly, which starred actors Miranda Cosgrove, Jennette McCurdy, Nathan Kress, and Trainor. In it, he is talking to McCurdy, Kress and Trainor about the scene they just filmed.

The showrunner starts off by complimenting Trainor, telling him it was a “excellent get” just before asking Kress and McCurdy for their views.

When McCurdy basically responds with an “Eh” and seems awkward, Trainor techniques in, indicating: “She won’t be able to help it she’s a perfectionist.”

Kress says, “This is what transpires when it gets late.”

Trainor then, relatively jokingly, asks for Schneider to ship all people residence.

“Yeah critically, enable us go home Dan,” he states as the solid and crew snicker in the qualifications.

“We would be property if you got some of your lines right before in the working day, proper?” Schneider responds as he pans the camera to the crew.

“Am I appropriate?” he asks as the crew claps and cheers. “Who’s embarrassed now?”

People today have taken to the feedback to exhibit their assistance for Trainor, with numerous believing he was becoming protecting of the young actors on established.

“Immediately after looking at Quiet on Set, Jerry Trainor🙏was the one handful of grownups protected the children from the predators,” X consumer @sauceyfeni wrote.

“I can explain to he tried out to defend them as perfectly as he could be directing his awareness away from them as effectively as building jokes to make his co stars chuckle so they can experience a little bit better all over that freak,” @MyCatWantsFries commented.

“he was surely getting serious but experienced to transform it into a joke because its dan,” X user freexpurp theorized.

Person TheVGAfanatic added: “Jerry Trainor remaining a real hero and guardian to his more youthful cast mates.”

Other people shared their disdain for Schneider, with X person @Te_Mr_Clutch creating: “Dan strikes me as what you connect with a ‘man-baby’. Gets ashamed only right after absolutely everyone is obviously pleading to go household, literally has to think of a rebuttal, then blame his actor, he then shines the digital camera to crew to exert power and drive compliance, then suckerpunches his actor,WTF.”

“they often get so not comfortable when his individual digital camera arrives all-around,” posted @sofia_michellee.

@christinarakaki added: “Holy f*** you can sense the stress like Jerry is stepping on glass and the complete crew is familiar with it with that extensive ass silence.”

“This seems to be like an natural environment with compelled, phony laughter and complacency. Not healthy!” X consumer @BGSFoxTail commented.

After Peaceful on Established aired, Schneider sat down with actor BooG!e, who played T-Bo on iCarly, to discuss the documentary. The video clip was then uploaded to Schneider’s YouTube channel.

“Viewing more than the previous two evenings was extremely tricky. Facing my past behaviors, some of which are uncomfortable and that I regret. I surely owe some folks a fairly strong apology,” Schneider explained around the start out of the online video.

He also expressed his regret for his past behavior and stated he under no circumstances meant any of his jokes to be anything at all other than humorous for little ones. He also apologized for his intense and misogynistic actions in the workplace but denied other allegations.