iCarly: The History of Nora Dershlit | Horror History

LEAVE IT ALL TO ME. For too long, the dark story of Nora Dershlit has existed in the shadows, a chilling cautionary tale about the dangers of idolizing celebrities a little too much. Today, I pull back the curtain on this deeply disturbed individual. It started innocently enough - just a young girl who really, really loved the web show iCarly -- but Nora's adoration mutated into something much more sinister.

Nora is a chilling embodiment of what can happen when fandom devolves into dangerous, uncontrolled mania. Her cautionary story of obsession, mental illness and depravity must serve as a stark warning about the potential horrors that could be unleashed when someone loses their grip on reality. I'll also talk about how she may have been inspired by another crazed fan character: Annie Wilkes from Stephen King's Misery, and how iCarly predicted future staples of the internet video industry. For internet creators, Nora is just one of many fears we hope to NEVER see come to fruition...

Chapters
0:00 Nora Derschlit's Background and Birthday
1:32 Intro
3:38 Cultural Phenomenon of iCarly
4:46 Sponsored by Audible
5:58 Symptoms of Celebrity Worship Syndrome
7:46 Webicon vs VidCon (i)
8:59 The Birthday Invite
11:54 Potential Psychological Disorders of Nora
14:06 Kidnapping the iCarlys
16:36 Similarities to Annie Wilkes
18:13 Gibby Saves the Day
20:44 Webicon vs VidCon (ii)
22:00 Nora's Family Revenge Plan
28:36 Nora's Return on Sam and Cat
32:13 Release From Prison
35:52 The Prophetic Moments of iCarly

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[rue...whenwasthis]

people in the comments being like "now this is a good April fool's joke" this is the most serious video ever, Nora Derschlit was TERRIFYING

[Jai]

The fact that he managed to get out 40 minutes of information is just so darn impressive

[iamfabulousfaaab]

People say "April Fools" but this girl literally kidnapped the iCarly crew twice and even put Spencer on a wheel of death. Shes a crazy B!

[fournierman]

The soundproof booth having both a deadbolt lock on the door, as well as a small sliding door opening, makes me think her parents were always psycho as well.

[antizoom]

I love how gibby just spawns into existence. He never could stick that server spawn landing.

[Kaastengels]

Jokes aside, mad props to the actress for her eye acting! Nora is all smiles while her eyes are always vacant, which makes her look terrifying even in first glance

[comicalcosmonaut]

Honestly, it's nice Nora is doing better mentally in the reboot. Def a weirdo still but not a full-on criminal anymore

[kodileigh]

Thank you for addressing Jannette in a very kind way. She is a sweet woman who had to grow up because almost every grown person around her failed to protect her

[Kaastengels]

The part about nora being blindfolded instead of icarly crews who put donkey tails on her just feels like a typical dan schneider freaky stuff

[TheJinx]

Not going to lie, the butter-sock can be a real life weapon. Frozen butter can be as hard as concrete, same as long-frozen milk, and if thrown or hit hard enough, can do some MASSIVE damage.

Sam knew what she was doing, and knew how to throw down.

[bradleyharris]

you know what's truly terrifying about Nora is that her behavior isn't even that much of an exaggeration. People in real life take their parasocial relationships to psychotic extremes.

[cadenedens]

In the birthday part when the grandpa has a aneurism and he says, “he fucking dies” got me on the floor💀

[taylorsisk]

It’s really sad that stuff like this happens outside of tv too.

[RecklessInternetting]

"My family are all doctors"

As someone with an Asian parent, I can feel their disappointment radiating off you

[phantom-crow]

Now this is how you do an April fool's joke

[killerbeanmachine]

the stunt double that did gibby's iconic fall broke ALL his ribs doing it????

[myownheroisonlyme]

Thanks! This helped start my April 1st off well. Glad you included the scenes about the Butter Sock.

[jackhageman]

Love this episode tbh also it’s hilarious he points out Stephen King references in the first two Nora episodes but completely overlooked the Silence of the Lambs references in the Sam and Cat episode

[theshenpartei]

Fun fact: Sam and cat did a whole silence of the lambs parody.

[SeMPlayzk]

Gibby fighting her and guppy being there was my most favorite moment ever 😂