Normally I wouldn't rant about something so stupid, but considering this is the grand daddy of all stupidity that's been happening for decades, I thought this would be the place to talk about it.

As you know I'm 32, meaning I was born and raised in the 90s to the mid 2000s. Much like everyone else in that era I bore witness to many channels changing over the years while still keeping their own names.

Now I'm not talking about channels that got changed over the years due to different companies taking over. Such as Canadian Channels like Comedy Network and Space being changed to CTV (Canadian Television) Comedy and Sci-Fi Respectively. With Teletoon most likely gonna be changed to CTV Cartoons. That's a piss off for another rant. Besides they still kept their content and only changed the name under the new ownership.

I am talking about channels both Canadian and American that would have been apt then, but are grossly misleading now.

The biggest offenders being:

MTV

It's Canadian Equivalent Much.

And especially TLC.

I'll keep these short and sweet.

MTV was able to get away with still being called Music Television, because while their main channel had changed over the years, the company was smart enough to keep other channels specifically for those that want their old MTV. One channel dedicated to nothing but music videos old and new. However there is just one problem. Not everyone can afford all the channels or at the very least go so far as using bootlegging devices to access them. Costing MTV millions of dollars when they could have just kept one channel for old fans, and the other for the fans of the shell MTV was before. By that I mean when MTV started out it really was Music Television. The Channel had music videos, concerts, behind the scenes stuff as well as even had a big enough impact on the music industry and music in general. That was the 80s alone. Then come the 90s when to further increase relevance, cartoons were created, but each and every one of them was related to MTV in one way or another. Cartoons like Beavis and Butt-Head, two dimwitted heavy metal fans who riff on music videos and cause property damage every where they go. It's Spin-off Daria, which did for the 90s what John Hughes, did in the 80s, defined a generation of kids and teenagers and their struggles through life to meet or defy the expectations of the adults before them only to find out that they're not so different from each other. Then the 2000s came with reality shows. Now to their credit they did try to stick to the MTV format. Shows like Cribs and Pimp My Ride, by at least having a host or guest be music related. Such as famous Rapper Xzibit hosting the latter. But then shows like Jersey Shore, which I will not link, destroyed MTV by pandering to the lowest common denominator. Rather than appeal to Beavis and Butt-Head fans, they try to appeal to the Beavis and Butt-heads of the world instead. Which even Beavis and Butt-Head wouldn't find cool. Still if you're like Dire Straits and want your MTV, there are other channels or if you're really desperate just look up Youtube's Best of 80s, 90s, 2000s music and make your own music video line up. If these people should be charged with anything, it'd be minor misleading as they still have their music and cartoons, just on a different channel or streaming service.

Much has the same problem, only they made up for it by Marathoning South Park.

But TLC. What the fuck? I thought just being called The Learning Channel and not showing anything learning was the problem, but it stems further than that. When I was a kid it really was called The Learning Channel and it had a balance for things for both kids and adults. It's one of the channels that The MAGIC FUCKING SCHOOLBUS debuted on. As Scholastic was one of their backers at the time. Whereas adults would be learning about the simple life of an expecting family through Baby Story, learning how much we pissed the planet off today with Earth's Fury or even learn why you cannot easily get away with murder with shows like Forensic Files. Even shit like that whether you learn right or wrong from that, at least lives up to TLC's name. But then you have a show like Toddler's and Tiara's and it's spin-off Here Come's Honey Boo-Boo. Oh my fucking god. Two things.

1. I am not gonna get into how sick and wrong child pageants are, but I will tell you this. When a show produced by The Learning Channel, knows full well that Child Exploitation and Pedophilia are wrong, but also actively partakes in it for nothing more than money and ratings, they cease to be called The Learning Channel. Even keeping the initials is grossly fraudulent. This channel is supposed to be teaching children, not exploiting them.
2. Even that pales in comparison to it's spin-off. Now before I get into this, I have nothing against overweight people save for the fact that they are purposefully endangering their health in a futile effort to battle fat shaming. But if you want the biggest example of fat people who should be ashamed of themselves. It's the Thompson Family from 2012 to 2014. These people on top of endangering their own health and wellbeing endangered the life of their child just so they could get fame and money. What the fuck does that have to do with being The Learning Channel.

Honey Boo Boo had since been cancelled, but the damage it did caused so many people to watch it in both awe and disgust that TLC became a haven for stupid and disgusting shit. Shows like my 600 pound life and 90 Day Fiancée. Instead of The Learning Channel, it really should be changed to TSC The Stupid Channel. The whole thing comes across as some supervillain's evil plan. Get people smart with learning programs then destroy their brains with stupidity inducing shit. But the thing that pisses me off most about it is where it got started.

TLC originally started in 1972 with the formation of the Appalachian Educational Satellite Project. One of the first North American Distance Education Programs. It was founded by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), in participation with the Education Satellite Communication Demonstration (ESCD), a partnership with the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare and NASA. That's right. Literally Nasa's best and brightest at the time, just barely recovering from the Apollo 13 disaster, helped contribute to this thing. So what I want to know my fellow fans as well as any TLC fans out there old and new is one simple question.

"What the fuck happened?!"

How did we as a species over the years sink so low that we took a revolutionary piece of technology, Flew it up into space so that it could help reach TV stations that couldn't be reached at the time and watch it slowly rot in a period of exactly 51 fucking years?

If you could charge a TV Station, this one should be the following:

Charged for Fraud, Manipulation and the possible participation of damaging many people's brains physically and mentally. So assault as well.

I used to think the Internet was a place where the worst could happen, where the easily offended rule and where you can get in trouble due to poor communication alone, as I myself had suffered from many times. I was wrong. This place is officially better than The Fucking Learning Channel. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to go have a harmless yet still scary insanity episode over this.

It should look something like this: