Fred on I-Carly tomorrow

I guess it had to happen sooner or later. Fred's made it big-time.

My 13-year-old's going to watch Fred on Nickelodeon tomorrow, but I can tell it all feels a little bittersweet for her. After all, she has been watching 15-year-old Lucas Cruikshank on Youtube even before there was a Fred. Back in those old, pre-subscriber days, he was "retainer boy" and a kid hamming it up in a sequined jumpsuit to Miley Cyrus's "Nobody's Perfect." My daughter had received the "Nobody's Perfect" video as an email attachment from a friend. She'd done her part, virally, by sending it all her friends.

If she feels a little Svengalian sadness about Fred's celebrity, it's understandable. After all, she helped make him.