Lets be honest. MTV network was a big mistake

[Pazzy]

If we are being honest. What good has ever came from that channel? They started off on some bigotry racist shyt refusing to play black music artists when they started. As time progressed, they pretty much just helped usher in a new level of sorry with its programming. Its flagship show which used to be the real world pretty much helped normalize this big brother is watching you, truman show shyt. It wasnt the first reality tv show but it popularized it. They tried to further influence gen y and the younger generations to be on some airhead, loving watered down music and bullshyt until they became irrelevant. Would not be surprised if the CIA was behind the scenes of MTV.

 

[7th Letter Specialist]

They were.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

MTV’s approach to music programming was GOAT

 

[Canada Goose]

MTV was harmless IMO. During the periods I had cable growing up I enjoyed watching that channel I'd loved watching the dating show Next



It was funny as hell when someone got Next'd as soon as they got off the bus




Before Pop The Balloon there was Next

 

[Dr. Acula]

It’s 2025 bro. The only thing MTV is giving us now is back to back ridiculousness episodes.

Though their mtv production joints are decent. I think all of those Taylor Sheridan shows are all mtv production.

 

[King Poetic]

It was social media before social media in the late 80s and 90s when u wanted to know about what was going on in other places

Fab 5 freddy, dre and ed lover was goat content

 

[315]

Yo MTV Raps was very good

 

[Luke Cage]

Feel off hard af regardless

 

[Devilinurear]

You just a born hater.

Lol you hate music videos now?

 

[O.T.I.S.]

MTV was fine.

I wasn’t a huge watcher, but as a network, I have no idea how you came to this conclusion

Yes in the beginning, it didn’t play black music because of every other racist decision rich people made back then. Everything was harder for black people back then, improved with every generation (usually).

But then, the likes of Run DMC with Aerosmith and Michael Jackson video premiers came through and crushed the buildings and black people were a part of MTV’s legacy ever since.

I preferred BET or even The Box, but MTV was harmless. I was more annoyed when they stopped playing music videos for more shows at first, but the shows were original and hilarious that eventually became a part of American culture regardless of race or nationality, although despite still being white american music heavy.

 

[parallax]

Spring break and summer myv viewing was peak. As was their animation division. Now though.... its a fukking mess and they need to change the name of the channel. Still makes me laugh that they use a snippet of a song that calls a dude a fakkit because it says mtv for a second

 

[ItsPeople]

As a tangent if they weren’t the first to bring something like TRL mainstream, someone else would.

I feel we are exactly where we should be as a society. There would have been the Facebook concept with or without Marcus and by extension something like social media would have been a natural part of the timeline.

Man is never satisfied and one thing about the human is the insatiable thirst for more, better, faster.

 

[Pegasus Jackson]

I can't imagine how you young bucks envision the channel now that it's on life support. MTV in the 80s and early 90s truly captured the zeitgeist. You had to be there. It's beyond worthless in it's current state.

 

[folasade]

Fox News, The View, Oprah, and the local news channels are all more valuable to the CIA than MTV.

 

[TL15]

No MTV means no BET so