| TheSlap.com | |
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Name: |
TheSlap |
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Slogan: |
What's HOT @Hollywood Arts |
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Launched: |
March 27, 2010 |
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Shut Down: |
April 4, 2018 |
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Affiliates: |
icarly.com |
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Website: |
theslap.com (link now redirects to nick.com) |
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Type of Website: |
Social network site for Hollywood Arts students |
TheSlap.com is the Hollywood Arts social networking website where the students post statuses, photos, videos, and news at the school. Other students comment on what they do and follow them. It is similar to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networking sites. The site used to be an active website where there were games and posts by the Victorious characters, but the site now redirects to nick.com.
Info
In the show, TheSlap is a website that the students at Hollywood Arts use. The characters' posts to TheSlap are often used in episodes to transition between scenes. On the real website, the main characters post updates, photos, videos, and blogs.
Characters that are on TheSlap include:
- Tori Vega
- Beck Oliver
- André Harris
- Cat Valentine
- Jade West
- Trina Vega
- Robbie Shapiro
- Sinjin Van Cleef
- Rex Powers
- Erwin Sikowitz
- Lane Alexander
- Festus
Much like in the show, you can comment on the stars' posts, watch videos, and look at pictures put up by the characters. The site has extras from the show, games, and music. It was rumored that Helen may get an account, though it never happened. TheSlap is also a bookmark in the iCarly theme, like DanWarp, Zaplook, or SplashFace.
The website completely shut down in April 4, 2018 after Dan Schneider left Nickelodeon. The website now redirects to Nick.com, as does iCarly.com and SamandCat.com.
Features
Once you have an account, you can add favorite videos pictures or games and comment on people's statuses. You most importantly can create an avatar, as there is a spot on the home page spot that is called Avatar of the Week. As seen in the Pilot, when tweeting, you can choose a text font, size and style, attach links to text, write your mood and choose an emoji, though only the characters can use this feature, as TheSlap is only for Hollywood Arts students.
Segments
By Cat
- Cat Interviews Cute Boys
- Cat's Random Thoughts
- Cat's Blog
- Tweet Time With Cat
- Cat Makes the Elderly Laugh
- Cat Teaches the Elderly
By Jade
By Beck and Jade
By Tori
By André
By Sinjin
By Rex
By Robbie
By Trina
By Beck
By Tori and Cat
By Everyone
Background
Depending on the holiday or season coming up, the background on TheSlap changes. After the holiday is over, it changes back to the original background.
Goofs
- As a series wide goof, the show was very inconsistent on whether TheSlap used "followers" or "friends" to determine status. In "The Breakfast Bunch," Tori threatened to unfriend Jade on TheSlap, as the two were shown to be Slap friends in "Wi-Fi in the Sky," but several other episodes, most notably "The Slap Fight" judge popularity by followers. Although TheSlap could also be just like Facebook, where you can both friend and follow someone.
Trivia
- Despite the site being run by, and for, Hollywood Arts students and personnel, it can easily be accessed by anyone as shown in "iParty with Victorious" when Carly was quickly linked to Tori's TheSlap page, which would be a security risk in real life.
- After Victorious premiered, the link to TheSlap.com became an easter egg in iCarly's opening sequence.
- All of the main characters but Trina and Jade had their Slap posts used as scene transitions.
- At the end of some episodes, an advert for TheSlap is seen.
- Due to licensing and language issues, the actual website for TheSlap was only available in the United States with others simply redirecting to their own Nickelodeon website, though the site was briefly available worldwide. This means that in dubs, the characters were merely describing the fictional TheSlap. In the UK, the credits were remade in several episodes to remove mentions of it.[1]
- In the first few weeks of the show airing in the US, the credits were intact, to promote the show's tie-in website. However, like other Nickelodeon shows, they began being cut later on.
- In most dubs of the series, the characters' posts on TheSlap are narrated as they write them, either by their respective voice actors or by a generic narrator.
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