Drake Bell: A lot has happened since "Drake and Josh," including some gay videos

  

You probably remember Drake Bell from Drake and Josh (2004-2007), the Nickelodeon teencom about mismatched stepbrothers, with Drake the schemer ("let's break into the school and stack all the desks upside down) and Josh (Josh Peck) the stick-in-the-mud ("but we have to study for our math test").   It was loaded down with gay subtexts, including an nearly-out gay couple, Craig and Eric.  (Dudes even hold hands during a crisis).

You may have gone to his first post-Drake movie, College (2008), where he and his three friends head for a "college weekend" (a weekend of fun activities to convince high schoolers to apply).  Theirs involves nonstop shenanigans, all intensely heteronormative. At least Drake is taped to a statue of the founder with his backside exposed to the world. I think it's supposed to be humiliating.

You may have watched A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner (2011), to see how Nickelodeon would handle the gay-subtext classic.  They flubbed it.  Timmy is absurdly heteros*xual. 

And then you probably relegated Drake to nostalgic memories, not paying a lot of attention to what he's been doing for the last few years.

I checked.  Brace yourself.  It's a lot.

More Fairly Oddparents movies.

A lot of stuff with former coster Josh Peck 

A lot of voice work, especially Spider-Man in various cartoons, even Phineas and Ferb, and a video game.

An Elf named Snowflake

Ben the Wizard in Bad Students of Crestview Academy

The reality series Splash, where celebrities dive for charity.

The paranormal series Silverwood

Damian in American Satan

A career in music, with six studio albums, eighteen singles, twelve music videos, and sold-out concerts.  Some songs in Spanish that top the Mexican charts. 

Drake's personal life after the break.  Warning: it gets rocky. 

In 2001, when he was working on The Amanda Show,  Drake was a victim of a s*xual assault.  He tried to report, but no one at Nickelodeon listened.  The offender received 16 months in prison.  Drake didn't come out as a victim until 2024.

Continuing to Drake's adult life:

A severe auto accident in 2005.

A bankruptcy in 2014.

Two DUIs, in 2009 and 2015

A former girlfriend accuses him of committing s*xual assault.

An conviction in 2021 for sending inappropriate messages to someone, resulting in two years of probation.

I can't research Drake's attitude toward LGBT people, since all of the googling ends up with the offender in his s*exual assault, who was gay.  But after being victimized by a gay guy, I imagine that Drake is rather homophobic.

I'm also surprised that he posted two videos, knowing that gay men would be watching. 

Don't worry, this isn't teenate Drake.  He posted videos in in 2017, when he was 30, and 2021, when he was 35.

Another session, maybe from 2023.  Not bad, buddy.

See also:

Devon Werkheiser: Ned's declassified gay panic, gay friends, bare bottoms and a nude Nolan or Devon

"How do I know that I'm g___?"  A young Gideon story

Zach Garcia: Searching tearjerkers, podcasts, cowboys,  Alistair Patton, and Tab Hunter

Wait -- according to Wikipedia, the photo from College is actually Zach Cregger, playing an obnoxious frat boy getting his comeuppance.  They wrote  "F U" on his cheeks.  

But I'm leaving it up,   It's either that, or more Drake Bell