Drake Bell: A lot has happened since "Drake and Josh," including some gay videos posted when he was a 35/37 year old adult

   

Link to the n*de photos of Drake at the adult ages of 24, 35, and 37

Ok, this post has been deleted and reinstated, and then deleted again, and I can't figure out what is triggering the censors.  Dozens of other posts are much more *xplicit, and the censors don't care. I removed every word that could possibly be construed as referring to someone who is y*ung, and anything that refers to s*x,  Let's see what happens:
    

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.

Drake was 24 years old when he filmed the scene. 

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 hetero-horny. 

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 Kids 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 became a crime victim.  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

An accusation of a crime by former girlfriend in 2020.

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 criminal offender, who was gay.  But after being assaulted by a gay guy, I imagine that Drake is rather homophobic.

I'm also surprised that he posted two gay videos, knowing that gay men would be watching. But he did, and we have his permission to view them.  

The videos are from 2021 and 2023, when Drake is 35 and 37 years old, an adult.

See also:

Devon Werkheiser: Ned's declassified gay panic, gay friends, backsides and  Nolan Gould

Teenage Bounty Hunters: Two girls at a Christian academy get a side gig. With some guys

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

   Searching for Zach Garcia through 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 backside  Shouldn't that be "F Me"? 

But I'm leaving it up,   It's either that, or another Drake Bell picture.

Zach Cregger was 27 years old when he filmed the scene.