History YMMV / ICarly2021

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The original series was intended for young children, otherwise it wouldn't have been on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, however, the revival series is meant to appeal to adult audiences who grew up with the show. With the characters now being adults, the show allows for more mild swearing, consumption of alcohol, and more explicit talk about sex, making it more for the older adolescent crowd.

* SalvagedStory: The revival addresses many issues with Carly being a DesignatedHero in the previous series. Despite being the polar opposite of Sam, Carly can be overly mean at times when dealing with people who wronged her or she doesn't like or manipulating Freddie's feelings for her. Assuming that it was Carly who thought of them, some of the webshow sketches that involves pranking Lewbert and Gibby can be downright abusive at times. Yet, not only Carly is still treated as being in the right, she does not feel guilty for those things. Here, Carly has to face the consequences of her actions and is often called out how bad of a person she can be. In "iObject, Lewbert!", Lewbert sues her for the pranks she pulled on him (with Gibby's abuse even being mentioned by Guppy during his testimony) and Carly ends up losing the case, albeit with a lighter punishment than Lewbert demanded, despite successfully ousting Lewbert for faking his distress. Freddie even acknowledges that they did a lot of messed up things as kids and that they'll probably be getting more lawsuits.

* MemeticMutation: The show was surprisingly cancelled before it could get a Season 4, and the final episode ended on a cliffhanger, teasing the reveal of Carly's mom but never showing her. This led to a tweet saying that Creator/SandraOh was going to play Carly's mom going viral. It's pretty common to joke now that Season 4 would've revealed that Carly is half-Asian. Even though Creator/MirandaCosgrove is of white and remote Mexican descent, as far as the public knows, ''plenty'' of people think she looks at least partially East Asian. The lookalike for Carly in "[=iLook=] Alike," an episode from [[Series/ICarly the original series]], is even played by Creator/MaleseJow who is of Chinese, white, and Cherokee heritage.

* MemeticMutation: The show was surprisingly cancelled before it could get a Season 4, and the final episode ended on a cliffhanger, teasing the reveal of Carly's mom but never showing her. This led to a tweet saying that Creator/SandraOh was going to play Carly's mom going viral. It's pretty common to joke now that Season 4 would've revealed that Carly is half-Asian. Even though Creator/MirandaCosgrove is of white and remote Mexican descent, as far as the public knows, ''plenty'' of people think she looks at least partially East Asian. The lookalike for Carly in "[=iLook] Alike," an episode from original series, is even played by Creator/MaleseJow, who is of Chinese, white, and Cherokee heritage.

* Salvaged Story: The revival addresses many issues with Carly being a DesignatedHero in the previous series. Despite being the polar opposite of Sam, Carly can be overly mean at times when dealing with people who wronged her or she doesn't like or manipulating Freddie's feelings for her. Assuming that it was Carly who thought of them, some of the webshow sketches that involves pranking Lewbert and Gibby can be downright abusive at times. Yet, not only Carly is still treated as being in the right, she does not feel guilty for those things. Here, Carly has to face the consequences of her actions and is often called out how bad of a person she can be. In "iObject, Lewbert!", Lewbert sues her for the pranks she pulled on him (with Gibby's abuse even being mentioned by Guppy during his testimony) and Carly ends up losing the case, albeit with a lighter punishment than Lewbert demanded, despite successfully ousting Lewbert for faking his distress. Freddie even acknowledges that they did a lot of messed up things as kids and that they'll probably be getting more lawsuits.

** Because nothing has been mentioned about the character before, the revelation that Carly and Spencer's mother returning, albeit off-screen, in the third season's finale was quite a curveball, especially because much of the Season's arc was about developing Carly and Freddie's relationship.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Harper. Given that she replaced Sam (although Franchesca Ramsey, one of the writers of the show, said that she’s not replacing Sam) -- who is a divisive character herself -- as Carly's best friend, this reaction was inevitable. Some like her more than Sam, while others see her as a ReplacementScrappy for Sam. Then there are those who either like or dislike Harper based on her own merits.