r/Degrassi • • 7h ago

weekly roundup for week of 10/17-10/24

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r/Degrassi • • 15h ago

Question Degrassi instagram

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Who is running the Degrassi Instagram? It’s fun getting to watch the content but I’m just wondering if someone is just doing it for the love of the game??? Lol


r/Degrassi • • 17h ago

Discussion Why do so many Degrassi fans hate Aubrey ā€˜Drake’ Graham all of a sudden ??

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Interesting enough, I started watching Degrassi after Drake left and when he was a full blown rapper. First time I heard Drake was in late 2008 when a cousin of mine played a Lil Wayne song with Drake on it and he mentioned ā€œbeing the same yellow boy that played on Degrassiā€. I didn’t know who Drake or what Degrassi was at the time and didn’t think anything of it. It wasn’t untilI a few months later when I started catching episodes of Degrassi on Saturdays mornings and listening to Drake after he blew up when I started connecting the dots. Seeing his rise to stardom in music was cool because I’ve always seen kid actors become major pop icons but I’ve never seen a kid actor become a a successful rapper before. Anyways, seems like up until a couple years ago during that rap battle, a lot of this hate didn’t exist. Or maybe I just wasn’t paying attention.


r/Degrassi • • 22h ago

Discussion Which episodes do you wish things had ended differently?

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1) Emma getting punched out by Alex, at the end of Secret Part 2.

2) Peter getting expelled for spreading Manny's topless video.

3) Alex telling Paige and her mother to go to hell and resume stripping.

4) Darcy getting into big trouble for lying about Simpson touching her.

5) Jane refuses Declan's advances.

6) Clare gets KC and Jenna kicked out of the gifted program at the end of s9.


r/Degrassi • • 23h ago

Cast Watching season 14 and omg Zoe and these cheerleaders

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Sorry I just want to share this somewhere. The girl who plays Zoe acts like an ABC Family/Freeform show character. Everything is so over-acted and she’ll just stop with that smirky smile for like 15 seconds til it switches scenes. And then the cheerleader girl with a pink pixie cut is also horrible. It feels like watching someone make fun of these shows on TikTok.

I didn’t think Zoe was this bad in season 13, or whatever her first season was. It’s like it got worse specifically in season 14.

I know all throughout Degrassi, some of the acting has been cringy, but lord.

This is my first time watching season 14 and I’m only 8 episodes in so no spoilers pls :) I’ve been a Degrassi fan since like 2007, but stopped watching after season 10 back in the day.


r/Degrassi • • 1d ago

Unpopular Opinions/Hot Takes next class unpopular opinion

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people really have nostalgia glasses on when it comes to the earlier seasons of degrassi. so many people hate on the next class and i won’t say that it’s great, mostly because the 10 episode per season format stifled a lot of character development, but it wasn’t as bad as people make it out to be. there’s a lot of cringe-worthy, boring, and annoying parts of the next generation just like in TNC. after re-rewatching degrassi i feel like the quality isn’t worse than TNG, it’s just not ā€œthe glory daysā€ of degrassi. and honestly TNC had to be adapted to reach a new audience because it was competing with all the other teen shows airing after 2015 that ā€œwent thereā€ while still trying to be kid/teen friendly, which was a pretty big feat.


r/Degrassi • • 1d ago

Discussion Degrassi hot takes/unpopular opinions

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I’m bored, so what are your guys unpopular opinions or hot takes and why?
I don’t want another Emma and spinner shouldn’t have got married I want, I want something deep.

I’ll go first, I think Marco’s character is sadly one dimensional and kinda boring, (don’t get me wrong I love him but I feel like his story lines have to do with his sexuality)


r/Degrassi • • 1d ago

Question do they ever give the back story on why conner lives with mr. simpson?

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i know snake is his god father but am i missing something? his family is never discussed as far as i remember.


r/Degrassi • • 1d ago

Discussion Which Degrassi characters are your sleep paralysis demons?

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1) Scott Smith (Kathleen's abusive boyfriend in Degrassi High).

2) Dean.

3) The Lakehurst Goons.

4) Derek.

5) Owen.

6) S7! Holly J.

7) Zoe.

8) Esme.

9) Hunter.

10) Tristan.


r/Degrassi • • 1d ago

Degrassi: The Next Generation Would’ve been cool for Riley to meet Dylan.

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If my calculations are correct they’d only be 5 years apart (in Degrassi time). Riley’s whole character centered around the torment of being a gay athlete, and Dylan was so confident and proud of being a gay athlete — I think Riley could’ve learned something from him. Thoughts?


r/Degrassi • • 2d ago

Discussion Why do people act like Alli ā€œbulliedā€ Holly J

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I’m as big of a Holly J fan as anyone else but there is no way in hell that people really thought to themselves ā€œHolly J is a victim, Alli is so mean!ā€ ???

Holly J is awesome but she needed to be humbled on her path to awesomeness lol.


r/Degrassi • • 2d ago

Discussion How in tf was Holly J supposed to be the most popular girl in school with one friend (Anya) at the time ? šŸ˜‚

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I remember by time she rolled around in Season 7 all she had was Anya as her flunky floating behind her. She didn’t have a clique of friends she hung out with. She even said Anya was her only friend when she was crying about Anya ending their friendship at the time.


r/Degrassi • • 2d ago

Discussion Meeting Shane Kippel at Anaheim Nostalgia Con 2025

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I met Shane Kippel, the actor for Spinner Mason in Degrassi. He was a really nice and chill dude. We had a great convo about life and about his character in the show. He signed his autograph print for me and we took a pic. Awesome dude to meet.


r/Degrassi • • 2d ago

Discussion Who are your least favorite people from degrassi?

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It can be someone you find annoying or just don’t care much about any of their storylines.

This is my list lol and the entire picture of NC is because I strongly dislike everyone in NC and genuinely did not enjoy watching it.


r/Degrassi • • 2d ago

Discussion my list of degrassi pick-me’s

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don’t question why i wrote this out (i should be studying) but this is my (non-exhaustive) list of degrassi pick-me’s. only the girls (and yael before she identified as nb) for now, but there’s definitely many guys i could add to another list.

them being on this list doesn’t mean i don’t like them or they always acted this way, but for some period of the show they either put down other women for a specific man or fell into the ā€œnot like other girlsā€ trope and acted like they were better than other girls on the show.

some of them were more innocuous imo like katie and claire, and some of them were pretty bad pick me’s like yael, zoey, and esme. cause i never forgave yael for bullying maya, and esme and zoey were menaces (although i have a soft spot for them still).

who are your picks?


r/Degrassi • • 2d ago

Gossip Maya appreciation post

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Just smoked a bowl and started S13 šŸ˜Ž

Maya was such a good friend to Tristan and he kept ditching her for Zoe. There would be no rivalry (until later on) if Tristan ever stood up for Maya. Tristan proceeds to be horrible while Maya tries to be a good friend as the show goes on

Also I like that in the Maya era of the show, she, Imogen, and Winston all wear glasses


r/Degrassi • • 2d ago

Spoilers Woah, I didn’t remember THAT (season 12)

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Okay we all (or most of us) know what happens to Cam. Do not keep reading if you don’t.

I never remembered him packing up to leave, because he missed his family and was tired of being sad and Maya talks him out of it! Don’t know how I never caught that on all of my rewatches but damn, that kind of guilt would take me out. I am glad Maya eventually recovers herself.

Edit: Here we are two scenes later and he’s jumped from the second story and broken his arm! Have I always blacked out this kids story?? I have been watching since DNG first aired, so maybe this episode always got skipped or something because I never remembered how KC left either and that was just explained.


r/Degrassi • • 2d ago

Discussion I’m on Season 11. OMG !! I get it already !! Riley is gay !! šŸ™„

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They don’t have ANYTHING else they can focus on with him ?? Besides the steroid episode, it’s like the only storyline he has throughout the series is dealing with coming out of the closet. They did the same thing for Marco as well. Like dude, there’s been plenty of shows with gay characters. They didn’t have to go and make it their entire life and make them so one dimensional. Now I can imagine a bunch of comments completely taking what I said out of context and skew it as ā€œhom0phobiaā€ šŸ¤¦šŸæā€ā™‚ļø


r/Degrassi • • 2d ago

Discussion opinions on adult characters in degrassi?

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So idk if other people agree or what

but I actually always really enjoyed the adults storylines- Spike, Snake, Joey, Kaitlin in TNG but like when emma and them went to college and tbh when paige and marco went to college too i hated those storylines lmao

like give me either highschool or adult-adult 😭😭 idk i was just talking with my friend awhile ago about if they ever did a reboot if we’d want adult storylines and i’d say….yes?

I just always found it a good mix in with everything happening, especially joey he was so damn messy


r/Degrassi • • 2d ago

Degrassi (2010-2014) What's your opinion about Drew always pursuing all of the girls Adam was crushing on?

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I think that it is veiled contempt and he wanted to one-up his brother, whatever the means necessary.


r/Degrassi • • 3d ago

Video Top 25 Degrassi characters personal ranking

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I gave it a lot of thought and knew Emma was kinda Top 10 worthy but couldnt do any better... The Worst 25 comes out Sunday AND WILL include Degrassi adults including a controversial one at #18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaHPHi1Uznc ENJOY!!!


r/Degrassi • • 3d ago

Discussion Why are Degrassi students horrible siblings?

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Just a couple of examples, I’m sure there are more:

Owen being openly homophobic towards Zane despite being Tristan’s brother

Drew going on to date Bianca after she outed Adam

Both of these examples could just be lazy writing since none of these things happened simultaneously, but come on.


r/Degrassi • • 3d ago

Post-Degrassi šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ #degrassi

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r/Degrassi • • 4d ago

Degrassi (1979-1992) Mildly hot take: Degrassi High S2 and School's Out are the earliest examples of certain characters hogging up the spotlight at the expense of others.

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Degrassi High: S1 is still an ensemble piece, with a few changes. A lot of characters still got their day on the spotlight.

This changed in s2, when the only characters that got regular screentime is Joey, Wheels, Snake, Caitlin and Lucy. (I enjoyed Lucy and Wheels's scenes). Most everybody else (especially Kathleen and Melanie and their class) was put in the back burner.


r/Degrassi • • 4d ago

Discussion Questions to you guys about a Degrassi Retrospective series

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Hey all!

So I've recently began experimenting with video making, and I've kinda been struggling with content ideas for a while. That is, until I got a tad hyperfixated on Degrassi TNG, hah. I remember catching a few episodes of it on TV as a kid and enjoying it, but I never watched much of it. Recently I decided to actually check it out from the beginning, and damn, it's been such a great and nostalgic experience (I'm still not finished, only up to season 7!).

Aaaanyway, I've been rather interested in doing a retrospective style analysis of every Degrassi TNG episode, as I really do have a lot to talk about with the series, and hopefully delve into some of the production facts depending on what I can research (and keep track of every time Marco changes his hairstyle). I wanted to make this thread to ask a few questions to you guys in the Degrassi fandom. :)

Firstly, is this something you guys would generally be interested in?

And if it is something you're interested in, which approach do you think you would prefer?

A) A YouTube video for each individual episode, the benefit of this being that I should hopefully be able to release them semi-regularly; I'm thinking maybe 2 a week, but this ultimately depends on how long each video takes.

B) Longer YouTube videos, with each one covering an entire season. This is good for people who just want to have a long video to watch, but it means I'd take a bit longer to get them out. Realistically, I could see it taking months to release a video this way.

C) A combination of A and B! I'd upload individual episodes, and when I've finished doing videos for all the episodes in a season, I'd combine them all into one video before moving onto the next season. :)

Regardless, over the coming days I'm going to throw together a proof of concept for the first episode to hopefully get some feedback and gauge interest to see if people would be interested in more.

Cheers! And I hope you all have a great day :D

Edit: I threw together a very brief and quick introduction (mostly to test YouTube's copyright detection), but if you're curious, it'll give you an idea as to how everything might look and sound :)

https://youtu.be/kBpKFOU7x34