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MTV Archives Pulled Offline As Their Website Goes Dark
- Thread starter BK The Great
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Artificial Intelligence
Not Allen Iverson
It would be easy as fukk for someone to archive these sites with a bot 
tremonthustler1
aka bx_representer
because 1. people still binge watch Ridiculousness. Ridiculousness is like Family Feud. Even if you may have seen an episode before, no way you've seen all of them, so on a lazy night, you'll just leave it on.I understand that airing music videos on TV is a dead medium post-YouTube, but I think MTV could've maintained mild credibility if it kept it at least music-adjacent (Making The Band/X-Factor/Dancing With The Stars type competition/reality shows, music docs, airing films known for their soundtracks/starring musicians/original movies, a 30 min/hour block of music news)
There's just too much history & things constantly going on in the music industry for them to have to rely on teen moms & a worse version of Tosh.0
Just saw they have over 40 seasons of Ridiculousness
2. the stuff you want, Paramount+ will just push to the streaming site.
Ol’Otis
The Picasso of the Ghetto
So where are the BET archives?
Possibly coming soon, but BET is looking like it will be in the hands of someone else instead of Viacom soon.
Damn. This is why we all have to download everything ourselves these days or everything will be lost.
Same thing happened when they killed flash. Think of all the 9/11 videos and just other works around the web that got scrubbed because they got rid of flash.
Same thing happened when they killed flash. Think of all the 9/11 videos and just other works around the web that got scrubbed because they got rid of flash.
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Piff Perkins
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I understand that airing music videos on TV is a dead medium post-YouTube, but I think MTV could've maintained mild credibility if it kept it at least music-adjacent (Making The Band/X-Factor/Dancing With The Stars type competition/reality shows, music docs, airing films known for their soundtracks/starring musicians/original movies, a 30 min/hour block of music news)
There's just too much history & things constantly going on in the music industry for them to have to rely on teen moms & a worse version of Tosh.0
Just saw they have over 40 seasons of Ridiculousness
Yup. There has to be a more lucrative and smart strategy than showing that show 100 times a day lol. They could just fukk it and have one VJ playing independent music videos and older shyt, to avoid costs. Or playing some of the content they own like the Unplugged concerts. Something...anything.
There's a generation of kids right now buying vinyl, collecting cassettes, and getting into instruments again. There's also a HUGE group of girls, young women, and gay dudes who are obsessed with retro shyt and love documentaries. When we were kids VH1/MTV were always running documentaries about Metallica/Nas/Britney Spears/etc. Docs aren't expensive either...no excuse not to be running Taylor Swift, Gaga, Beyonce, etc documentaries in between re-runs of old MTV reality shows and music videos.
Get it while u can
people need to start making their own websites again.The entire internet is being reinvented to cater to misinformation, revisionist history, and AI generated click bait.
I feel for my son's kids when they are trying to figure out what's a Ras Kass
the internet sucks because people are lazy. google and reddit and facebook ruined the internet
really did a number on forums. i used to host my own forum for my friend group. it was totally fun and it wasnt just people fighting all the time
i hate what the internet became. i blame smartphones.
Pull Up the Roots
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There are archivists who save things like this, but MTV gave no one a heads-up and just removed everything without giving anyone a chance.It would be easy as fukk for someone to archive these sites with a bot
A high school dropout finessed MTV.