doctorcrimson,

The Gold Diggers and Gold-Diggers caught me off guard, that’s funny.

WholeEnchilada,

I’m an expat American who has lived outside of the US for 17 years. Last time I went back there was 8 years ago. 2 years ago I got a pen pal from the US who just LOVES talking about these trashy cable shows. I’m also kinda 48 years old. So, I remember when cable became a new thingy. People said cable programming was trash since cable programming came into existence. Sure, the programming wasn’t all realities. MTV had music on it. You know what the adults said about MTV (including my parents?) They said, “All that sex in the music videos. So perverted.” Just imagine the scandal of playing Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” every hour on the hour on MTV in its heyday. I remember telling my mother, “It’s a great song! I like it!” before being shuffled off to Sunday catechism, which I escaped from to smoke cigs in the woods behind the church/convent. I’d ride home from catechism in the car reciting the words to “Like a Prayer” and any other Madonna song that came to mind. Plus I’d recite some Prince at my parents, another nice rebel on the MTV cable tube played constantly back then. Maybe following reality TV is a new form of subversion. Maybe it exposes the meta of celebrity. People are hip to this, especially very young people. Very young people are so aware of the meta everything and know how to use it for subversion.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Young people don’t tend to have cable.

WholeEnchilada, (edited )

Their parents or grandparents might, like I’m talking about. I’m middle aged and I don’t have cable. I wouldn’t have cable if I lived back home in the USA. I’m not talking about young people who are old enough and employed enough to live on their own. You totally overlooked the point I’m making (which, ummm, also connects with Netflix having reality shows, too?). Also, my point about cable being considered trash since it was invented went over your head. That’s an undeniable historical fact you can look up. Cable programming has always been considered trash since its inception.

TheEighthDoctor,

imagine the scandal of playing Madonna’s “Like a Prayer”

Is it because she kisses a black guy? It seems like a very non problematic music video, I don’t get the scandal.

Kase,

The weather is pretty trash, but it’s not the weather channel’s fault :/

droans,

And when they’re not showing weather reports, they’re showing off dope tornadoes and hurricanes and shit.

crackajack,

So disappointed to hear about what happened to Discovery channel. Though their Youtube channel is still amazing!

Cowbee,

✨️enshitification✨️

GutsBerserk,

This is the best use of this emoji, ever.

mathterdark,

Cartoon Network then: cartoons

Cartoon Network now: Teen Titans Go! on repeat

starman2112,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Jesus Christ, I just looked at their schedule there’s a total of 7 hours of TTG per day. Where’s the Adventure Time? Where’s the Billy and Mandy? Where’s Ed, Edd, n’ Eddy!?

littlecolt,

It’s seriously infuriating, the catalog they have at their disposal and they just rerun TTG, a show that at the time caused TT fans to be legitimately upset. No one wanted TTG.

Ledivin, (edited )

there’s a total of 7 hours of TTG per day

Holy shit, I’ve seen the memes but I just naturally assumed they were exaggerated… That’s actually ridiculous

doctorcrimson, (edited )

There is actually a lot of nuance to this.

  1. If TTG stops producing content then their rights to the IP can expire, same reason Sony had to make new Spiderman and X-Men films every other year last decade.
  2. Changes in leadership and management to Cartoon Network are frequent and often produce a more straight-cut and less innovative direction for the network, the sort of people that institutional stock holders and WarnerMedia management think are the safe options: data analysts, cost minimizers, tough negotiators.
  3. For the above reason and more, many artists stopped wanting to work with the corporation, and new artists are aware of the issues plaguing the company so they also don’t want to touch it. For example, Rebecca Sugar faced a struggle just to continue Steven Universe, one of their more successful titles, but eventually she was forced to wrap it up and leave. Twice.
Banzai51,
@Banzai51@midwest.social avatar

You know it is targeted to preteens because EVERYBODY YELLS EVERYTHING!!!

catfish,

Gold-diggers have it real good, two areas of influence

GaMEChld,

No they don’t. There is an ever increasing amount of gold diggers, and not a lot of gold havers to go around. So a few gold diggers are happy, and many are endlessly searching and wondering why they aren’t getting a proposal or commitment.

catfish,

You make valid points

prettydarknwild,
@prettydarknwild@lemmy.world avatar

TLC is the 21st century version of the freak shows

flatplutosociety,
@flatplutosociety@lemmy.world avatar

Say what you will about the entertainment merits of Real Housewives and Kardashian shows, at least the stars of those shows signed up to have their drama exploited for ratings. The producers of shows like Hoarders and Intervention are morally bankrupt. TLC is basically an entire network devoted to turning people’s mental health and addiction crises into spectacle for cheap entertainment, and it’s absolutely disgusting.

books,

In all fairness reality shows are pretty much what we watch on YouTube too

I_Fart_Glitter, (edited )

The history channel also has Nazi documentaries.

Edit: I just checked their line up, as I haven’t been anywhere cable was playing for years. They’re doing one show per day now, it’s an all day marathon of either Ancient Aliens, Pawn Stars, The UnXplained (bigfoot, etc.), American Pickers (literally a reality show about trash) or Mountain Men (seems to be a reality show about some dudes in Alaska).

CaptDust, (edited )

“trash reality show that feature trash pickers sorting through trash”

Lmao. That’s painful.

linearchaos,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

No, that’s the new American dream… Oh wait You said painful yeah…

Banzai51,
@Banzai51@midwest.social avatar

I remember when the criticism of the History channel was it was the “Hitler channel.” I’m old.

I_Fart_Glitter,

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking of before I went over and checked their line up. In the wee hours of the morning they have something called “paid documentaries” without any further detail. I’m very curious what that is. Is it an infomercial? Some unholy cross between an infomercial and a documentary? Are they selling imitation Nazi gold?

aniki,

re-run documentaries.

MrJukes, (edited )
@MrJukes@lemmy.today avatar

They’re just interested in that period of history, okay?

Ghyste,

This is incorrect. There is also reality tv on the weather channel.

Patches, (edited )

Coming up next “See which wildly underpaid intern meteorologists bite the dust this time. Coming at you live from inside the storm”

Unforeseen,
1984,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Reality shows have people I never want to meet, mostly.

mdd,

Reality TV is cheaper to produce than scripted shows. Profit is the reason all they show is reality shows.

KevonLooney,

No one has mentioned that MTV invented the reality show in 1992 with The Real World.

Ledivin,

I don’t have a problem with the concept of reality shows, I have a problem with reality shows being like 90% of all content.

HobbitFoot,

Yeah, but it is really funny how many people are putting out documentary quality output on YouTube.

Meron35,

It’s also really funny how many people are putting out trash reality show quality output on YouYube

Imgonnatrythis,

This is unfortunately not hyperbole but incredibly and sadly accurate because but neglects to mention aliens on history channel and that it’s hard to find weather on weather channel due to insane amount of ads. TV has gone the way of AM radio.

sagrotan, (edited )
@sagrotan@lemmy.world avatar

We don’t have tv anymore since around 2000, before we just watched VH-1’n’stuff, not because “it’s all so bad for the kids” - it is, but that wasn’t the main reason, it’s just shit) we watched SpongeBob over Internet with our (at that time) little daughter in English, not our native tongue german, she had an easy entry into studying internationally because she just spoke English almost better than German. She told me once she even dreams in English most of the time, so we speak our own little germish/engleutsch mix during the day here, it’s partially more efficient to communicate that way (including some family neologisms)

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