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[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

GenX who act like this get kicked out of the generation and are forced to join the boomers.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The first half of Generation X sucked, the latter half are more like millennials

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Which one gave us MTV and which one made MTV suck?

[–] qfe0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

Actually both of those were boomers. The original format was created by a baby boomer and the Real World was too. Gen X just watched MTV growing up.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

We also watched it fall apart while we were growing up.

I remember when M2 debuted with the idea that it would just play music videos, you know ... like MTV used to.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago)

I didn't mind when MTV stopped playing music; Rob & Big, Viva la Bam, and Pimp my Ride were very entertaining and helped define my latter teenage years. The day MTV2 just became just MTV with rearranged timeslots was the beginning of the end. And now MTV is just The Ridiculousness Network now. It's practically the only thing they air these days.

collapsed inline mediascreenshot of the MTV schedule, depicting a near-endless lineup of Ridiculousness episodes back-to-back, with the only other content being a few other reality shows and a handful of movies.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

To be clear, MTV/VH1 were created by one ot the Beatles. Definitely boomer gen.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Boomers and probably gen x, ironically enough. All the founders with given DoBs are either the silent gen or boomers and the guy who was head of programming during the sixteen and pregnant era is either gen x or aging very differently from the rest of us