https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/worst-tv-network-decisions-1234796350/mtv-gives-up-and-becomes-the-ridiculousness-channel-1234796785/

In the classic 2006 Mike Judge movie Idiocracy, an average guy wakes up from suspended animation 500 years into the future and finds that he�s the smartest
guy on the planet. The most popular show on television is Ow My Balls!, which is nothing more than quick clips of morons getting pummeled in the nuts by
angry dogs, blocks of wood, and even a giant wrecking ball. Turns out that Judge was about 495 years off, because Ridiculousness, which is basically just Ow
My Balls! under a different name, premiered on MTV in 2011. To be fair, the real-life people on the show don�t always get hit in the balls. They sometimes
get popped with various means of destruction in their face, back, or side. It makes America�s Funniest Home Videos look like Masterpiece Theatre. In some
ways, the show is a metaphor for MTV throwing up its hands and giving up on the idea of making watchable TV at all. The network hasn�t had a genuine new hit
since the days of Jersey Shore, mainly because its target audience of 18-24-year-olds spends all day either playing video games or scrolling through TikTok
and Instagram, and doesn�t need TV at all. So, MTV basically just runs Ridiculousness reruns on a loop 24/7. There are occasional pauses for blocks of
Catfish or even a new episode of The Challenge (which is still the best reality show on television), but most days it�s just 48 consecutive episodes of
Ridiculousness. We know it�s tough out there in cable land, but surely anything is better than surrendering to an infinite loop of Ridiculousness. MTV, it�s
not too late to fix this. Make a new season of Road Rules. Air these great new episodes of Beavis and Butt-head that are on Paramount+. Hell, you could even
do something totally insane and out of the box and start playing music videos again! Anything is better than what�s happening right now.

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Terrence Clay did not post this. It's a forgery by Ubi the shithead, and
continuing abuse of Usenet given that Ubi the shithead preloaded all
those headers as part of the forgery.

The root article was posted only to alt.tv.mtv. The genuine Terrence
Clay does not crosspost.