I have to tell you, I must have been living under a rock or something for the last few months. I kept hearing about this Canadian Justin Bieber kid, and had no idea why. Okay, so he’s a young musical phenomenon with a skater-cut hairdo, and all the little girls love him. The fact that I’m over thirteen probably had a lot to do with my not knowing who he was. Does that make me a bad person? Nah.

I still don’t get it, even after finding out who he was, but then I’ve never been a big fan of boy bands or Disney one-shot wonder stars. For those who do get it, and think “The Bieb” is the bomb, you’ll be happy to know he stopped on the red carpet on his way into the Kids Choice Awards this past Saturday for a little Q & A.

There he talked about not wanting to get slimed, but come on kid. It’s Nickelodeon.

After his performance, Bieber nearly drowned in a puddle of famous Nickelodeon slime, after his performance at the awards. He slipped and fell into the puddle, which the network says they didn’t believe was deep enough for anyone to get seriously injured. Bieber practically drowned, or so they say, but what do you expect. The kid weighs less than my 5-year-old niece, and Nick slime is thicker than the La Brea Tar Pits.

A lot of people are calling the “sliming” of guests cruel, especially Disney, but Nickelodeon admits they won’t give up on their twenty-eight-year-old tradition anytime soon. “It’s the primary thing that’s differentiated us from the Disney Channel over the years,” said Jeff Dunkirk, CEO of Nickelodeon.

Don’t worry about “The Bieb” though. Apparently he’s resting and recovering at Cedars-Sinai (Seriously? For getting slimed? What a wuss.)