When I was little I shipped a lot of characters, usually because they visually looked nice together. I was shipping from the age of four, even for shows I didn't actually watch (like The Nanny, Living Single, etc.). But, often I really hated when shows, especially kid shows, automatically paired characters together just because they were friends of the opposite gender, regardless of how much chemistry they actually had, or without taking into account the type of relationship the show had established for them. For instance, when they tried to ship Eddie and Raven on That's So Raven, I thought Eddie and Chelsea would've been a much more interesting dynamic. And I was really ticked when Gordo and Lizzie got together on Lizzie McGuire. Don't even get me started on Ned and Moze on Ned's Declassified; when that happened it felt so rushed and forced, like Nickelodeon was forcing the writers to put that in, and judging by the Seddie arc in iCarly, that probably is what was going on
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