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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why do I associate TLC with, like, Trading Spaces and other domestic not-quite-a-game shows like that? Am I conflating it with something else? Also I haven't had "television" in decades now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

It used to be PBS for adults. I remember turning it on and there would be a documentary about like piano players and the connection to the brain.

Went down hill thanks to reality TV.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Because that’s the slop it turned into. It was a place for documentaries and educational content, just like MTV used to have music. But watching Kate torment her brood of children or Honey BooBoo eat sketti makes the kind of money airing a college lecture doesn’t.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This kind of content taking off and the popularity of the Kardashians were the proverbial canary in the coal mine for the intellectual apocalypse we're dealing with now. We are what we eat, and what you watch absolutely influences how you think and act.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

I used to watch Trading Spaces back in the day, and I remember when they started off and they'd actually do a good job, then I think there was an episode where the couple didn't like what they'd done, that got more engagement, then it became a show about neighbors ruining each other's homes, and thus was born reality television.