Don't worry, television will be dead soon anyway.
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Nah. This crap won't die. You could destroy every TV station in the world and the evil that it wrought, will just latch onto another platform. Had streaming existed the way it does now, Honey Boo Boo would have had her own Netflix series.
I'm definitely of two minds when it comes to this--
On one hand, I can definitely empathize with the decay of certain channels (the History Channel especially comes to mind, especially with how often it caters to conspiracy theories with its shows throughout the past couple of decades).
On the other hand-- I think the low-hanging fruit style of content has been an intrinsic part of Television since before its inception. The desire for gossipy, incipit stuff has been around for well over 100 years. Just looking at the Guilded Age or Victorian era, newspapers and just general town gossip were chock full of it. While I'm not the cynical sort, I think, in hindsight, it was inevitable that the corporate execs running TLC and MTV would abandon their roots in favor of the profitable rise of reality TV.
Even Disney, which started as a trailblazer in pushing animation forward, has dipped their toes into the low-cost sitcom and reality TV swamp.
Unfortunately, there's always going to be a market for it.
That being said, there's always going to be a market for less neuron-killing stuff.
It's the reason why Newgrounds is still around to this day.
It's the reason why wonderful folk like Adam Savage are able to run successful YouTube channels.
Of course, I wish I could change the market system so that "less profitable" shows weren't given the boot, despite their great ideas. Definitely a blight with our current economic system.
But that's my bias as an artist.
With me I got nothing against the market for it, but to destroy the very souls of what those companies originally stood for. That I can't stand. TLC still has the nerve to call themselves the Learning Channel, yet there's nothing to learn from it.
KhaosKitsune617
I do hope the Toddlers and Tiara’s creators were arrested and fed to the dogs. (Maybe not the last one but still)